From Emma and Charles Darwin 13 May 1865
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4832 |
From Fritz Müller 12 August 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his paper on climbing plants. Lists the many genera that he has found in his area in a short period since reading CD’s paper. [See 4881.]
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Aug 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 72–3. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881A |
From Fritz Müller [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865]
Summary
FM’s comments on Climbing Plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 and 31 Aug 1865 and 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Notes on some of the climbing-plants near Desterro, in South Brazil. By Herr Fritz Müller, in a letter to C. Darwin. [Read 7 December 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1866): 344–9. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881F |
From E. A. Darwin 24 August [1865]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4885 |
From Fritz Müller 31 August 1865
Summary
Hopes CD has received his letter of 12 August.
Sends some new observations on climbing plants. [The observations are part of "Notes on some of the climbing-plants, near Desterro, in South Brazil", J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9.]
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 73–4. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4885A |
From M. T. Masters September 1865
Summary
He will soon take over editorship of Gardeners’ Chronicle and hopes for CD’s continued support.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4886 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 September [1865]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4889 |
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 |
From A. R. Wallace 18 September 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for paper ["Climbing plants"].
Reports case of variation becoming at once hereditary – a crested blackbird with crested young.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4894 |
From Jeffries Wyman 22 September 1865
Summary
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4897 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 September 1865]
Summary
On his reading: George Eliot,
T. F. Jamieson on Scottish glaciation.
Glad Lyell–Lubbock affair is over.
His grief over loss of father and child.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Sept 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 34–6a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4899 |
From Julius von Haast 27 September 1865
Summary
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4900 |
From W. D. Fox [before 26 October 1865]
Summary
His second son [C. W. Fox] has a studentship at Christ Church, Oxford.
[Isolated fragments only.]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 26 Oct 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 204 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4903 |
From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865
Summary
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4904 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 October 1865
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4905 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
From Charles Shaw 3 October 1865
Summary
Admiral FitzRoy’s daughters by his first marriage have been left without means. The largest subscription to the fund has been £100.
Author: | Charles Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4908 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Sends a paper ["Über das Holz einiger um Desterro wachsender Kletterpflanzen", Botanische Zeitung 24 (1866): 57–60, 65–9].
Believes species of sponge with different mineral spiculae are descended from a form with organic spiculae.
Reports observations on motions of Linum stalks following the sun.
Regards Anelasma as a connecting form between cirripedes and Rhizocephala.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 74–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912A |
From J. T. Moggridge 14 October [1865]
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.2: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4915 |
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Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Henslow, F. H. | (6) |
Hooker, F. H. | (6) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (142) |
Hooker, J. D. | (22) |
Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
Henslow, F. H. | (6) |
Hooker, F. H. | (6) |