From Edward Cresy 30 May 1865
Summary
Impressed by Fritz Müller’s argument for natural selection in air-breathing apparatus of crustaceans ["The Darwinian hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 15 (1865): 410–16].
Plans to visit CD.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4842 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD vomited or suffered nausea every day from 21 April to 1 May 1865; he also recorded in his journal that he became ill on 22 April 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix II). See also letter from George Busk, 28 April 1865 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 May 1865] . CD had been seriously ill for parts of 1863 …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
