To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865]
Summary
Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.
Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4947 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865] …
- … Letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 . In his letter of 11 November 1865 , Haeckel …
- … died on 16 February 1864 (see letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 13). …
- … See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 7. On Haeckel’s …
- … 1865d . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. 9 and 11. Haeckel 1864 …
- … Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Dec [1865] …
- … 1865. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 21: 349–63. Haeckel, Ernst. …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 9 March 1864 and nn. 3 and 4. In a paper read to the Geological Society of London on 8 March 1865, …
From Ernst Haeckel 11 November 1865
Summary
Has heard from Huxley that CD has been ill.
Progress on his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] has been slow.
Has been named "ordentlicher Professor". Has 150 listeners in his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy [of "Climbing plants"].
Sends his book [Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen, 1. Heft: Die Familie der Rüsselquallen (Geryonidae) (1865)] and two articles.
Calls attention to a new rhizopod from Nice.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4934 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Ernst Haeckel 11 November 1865 …
- … DAR 166: 40 Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel Jena 11 Nov 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] ). On the reception of CD’s theory in Germany, see letter from T. H. Huxley, 29 May 1865 …
- … 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 1–118. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Haeckel, Ernst. …
- … Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 . CD’s annotated copy of Haeckel 1866 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 355–7). Haeckel succeeded Carl Gegenbaur as director of the Zoological Museum in Jena in 1862, and began a programme of improvement and acquisition. In the summer of 1865, …
To B. D. Walsh 19 December [1865]
Summary
Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,
male Daphnia laying eggs.
His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4952 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Haeckel 1865b ; see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 6 December [1865] and n. 9). See letter from …
- … 1865 ). In the concluding paragraph to his 1866 paper on willow-galls, Walsh cited subsequent research that confirmed Wagner’s description, adding: ‘Mr. Darwin writes me word that [Wagner’s observations] are believed by the distinguished English naturalist, Sir J. Lubbock’ ( Walsh 1866 , p. 288). In Variation 2: 384 n. , CD referred to a paper by Ernst Haeckel …
To Fritz Müller 9 December [1865]
Summary
Has forwarded FM’s MS to Max Schultze, but did not read it.
Movement of stem apex in Linum.
Haeckel’s paper on reproduction in certain Medusae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4949 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Summary
On FitzRoy’s suicide.
The Lyell–Ramsay disagreement [on formation of lakes?].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
From August Schleicher 9 February 1865
Summary
Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];
announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.
| Author: | August Schleicher |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4770 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Ernst Haeckel , 9 [July 1864] , 10 August 1864 , and 26 October 1864 ). For a discussion of Schleicher, Haeckel, and CD, see R. J. Richards 2001 . A general agricultural congress was held in Erfurt, Germany, between 9 and 17 September 1865 ( …
- … 1865. ] Origin : On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Richards, Robert J. 2001. The linguistic creation of man: Charles Darwin, August Schleicher, Ernst Haeckel, …
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Ernst Haeckel , 9 [July 1864] and n. 14, and 26 October 1864 ). CD refers to Maxwell Tylden Masters and to Caspary 1865 ( …
- … 1865 issue of Annals and Magazine of Natural History , pp. 437–44; CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL. In Variation 2: 384 n. 41, CD wrote: ‘Ernst Häckel has recently … observed the surprising case of a medusa, with its reproductive organs active, which produces by budding a widely different form of medusa; and this latter also has the power of sexual reproduction. ’ Haeckel …
- … 1865; no letter containing this information has been found. There is an annotated copy of Siebold 1857 ( On true parthenogenesis in moths and bees ) in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 756–7). CD marked a passage on page 107 where Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold refers to the work of a colleague: ‘From a particular gall, he always reared nothing but female individuals of the Hymenopterous insect Stomoctea , but was much astonished when he obtained nothing but males of this insect from the pupa of a Tenthredo. ’ CD refers to Haeckel …
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 Fritz Müller 10 August [1865]
Summary
Has read and admires FM’s work on species.
Observations on Crustacea are good and original; asks FM to dissect and check some of CD’s observations on cirripedes.
Has sent "Climbing plants" paper [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 10 Aug [1865] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881 |
Matches: 1 hit
From Edward Cresy 10 September 1865
Summary
Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].
Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4892 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] . Thomas Henry Huxley had expressed his enthusiastic support for CD in print on numerous occasions (see, for example, T. H. Huxley 1860b ) and had publicly defended CD’s theory against some of its critics (see A. Desmond 1994–7 , 1: 260–5, 276–81). In a letter to CD, Cresy had recently referred to Huxley’s ‘boldly proclaiming his faith in Darwinism’ in a lecture at the Royal Institution (see letter from Edward Cresy, 9 June 1865 …
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