From Friedrich Hermann Gustav Hildebrand 14 July 1862
Summary
Offers to translate Orchids, since H. G. Bronn has died.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3658 |
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- … E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 and n. 2). Hildebrand 1861 . In this paper, Hildebrand stated that CD’s doctrine of common descent helped to explain the geographical distribution of the Coniferae ( Hildebrand 1861 , p. 381); it was one of the first botanical papers published in Germany to support CD’s theory. There is a copy of Hildebrand 1861 in the Darwin …
To Friedrich Hildebrand 17 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Hildebrand’s offer to translate Orchids into German, but H. G. Bronn had finished his translation before his death (Bronn trans. 1862). Has not yet received Hildebrand’s work on the distribution of coniferous trees (Hildebrand 1861). Asks that his compliments be presented to L. C. Treviranus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 17 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3660F |
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- … Darwin Library–Down (see Marginalia 1: 380). CD had approached Ludolph Christian Treviranus , professor of botany at the University of Bonn, suggesting that Treviranus translate Orchids into German (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 July 1862 and n. 1). No further reference to the supplementary notes apparently proposed by Treviranus has been found; however, Treviranus published comments on Orchids in two papers in Botanische Zeitung in 1863 ( Treviranus 1863a and 1863b; see also Correspondence vol. 10, letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 …
To Hugh Falconer 14 November [1862]
Summary
Comments on HF’s paper on Plagiaulax from the Purbeck beds. Paper "dreadfully severe" on Owen.
"I am worse than ever in bearing any excitement."
Glad HF attacked Australian Mastodon. Never did believe in him.
Mentions Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3806 |
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- … E. Darwin, 30 [October 1862] . At the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Cambridge in October 1862, Owen read a paper entitled ‘On a tooth of Mastodon from Tertiary marls, near Shanghai, China’, in which he made reference to Mastodon Australis , a species he had proposed in 1844 on the basis of a single fossil molar tooth. The report of the meeting in the Parthenon , 11 …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 [December 1862]
Summary
CD interested in hybrid sterility and encloses his preliminary MS. Outlines experiments to test for existence of sterility in breeds of poultry and pigeons.
Experiments on dimorphism have led him to change in part his opinion as given in Origin, and he is now asking pigeon and poultry fanciers for any examples of special selective sterility [i.e., a particular pair are sterile when crossed, but each individual is fertile with others] and hopes to investigate its inheritance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 27 [Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3877 |
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- … 11, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 19 February [1863] ). The list is probably that referred to in Variation 1: 192 n. , which CD did not think ‘worth publishing’. CD began keeping pigeons for experimental purposes in April 1855, and in August 1856 he began crossing all kinds, ‘to see whether crosses are fertile’ (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to W. E. Darwin, [ …
| letter | (24) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Butler, Mary | (1) |
| E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Claparède, Edouard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (9) |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
