To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
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. E. Darwin [April–May 1865]
Summary
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506F |
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 |
To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865]
Summary
Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.
Also mentions account of Heer’s work
and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.
Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4775 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
Summary
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
To Edward Walford 22 [January–April 1865?]
Summary
CD would be proud to be one of EW’s series [Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. If he goes to London in the summer he will call on Mr Edwards [the photographer].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Walford |
| Date: | 22 [Jan-Apr] 1865 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5508 |
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 |
From Eliza Meteyard 17 November 1865
Summary
Returns 19 of the letters CD lent her, so that he can choose one for the Autographic Mirror.
| Author: | Eliza Meteyard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4937 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin . Meteyard refers either to the second volume of her life of Josiah Wedgwood I ( Meteyard 1865–6 ), which was published in September 1866 ( Publishers’ Circular 1866), or to Meteyard 1871 (see n. 5, below). See also letter from Eliza Meteyard, 25 April 1865 . CD had sent the letters in November 1863 ( …
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1865]
Summary
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 269, 269b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4846 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Antirrhinum majus , the common snapdragon, usually bears irregular flowers, with five sepals, stamens, and petals. CD described the peloric Antirrhinum in Variation 2: 59–60. CD’s notes on the results of this artificial self-pollination, dated 20 May 1865, are in DAR 51: A23; he described the experiment in Variation 2: 70. CD’s notes on his experiments in 1863, …
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin . George Howard Darwin was an undergraduate at Cambridge. He matriculated at Trinity College in October 1864 ( Alum. Cantab. ). William Carpmael was a civil engineer who worked with Cresy and whose son, Ernest, was an undergraduate at Cambridge at this time. Ernest matriculated at St John’s College in October 1863 ( …
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 25 [November 1865]
Summary
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Nov 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B119–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4942 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD did not visit London again until 22 April 1866. The photographs of CD by Edwards appear to have been taken at two different sittings. It is likely that the portrait used in Edward Walford’s series was taken in 1866, during CD’s visit to London from 22 April to 1 May (see Reeve and Walford eds. 1863– …
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Summary
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
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- … 1863] ). CD received a revised version of the paper from Scott in January 1864, together with a set of queries regarding further corrections, but asked Scott to let him send the paper to the Linnean Society for publication without further alterations (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] , and letter from Emma Darwin …
To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
To John Chapman 16 May [1865]
Summary
Asks JC to pay him a professional visit at Down to consider whether the ice treatment would apply to his case. Describes his sickness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Chapman |
| Date: | 16 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4834 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), Chapman visited CD at Down House on 20 May 1865. Chapman’s treatment consisted in the application of ice, placed in a specially designed ice-bag, on the spine. For a discussion of this treatment, see Colp 1977 , pp. 82–4. CD’s Account book–cash account (Down House MS) records a payment of £10 10 s. to ‘D r Chapman’ on 20 May 1865. CD had been seriously ill with a stomach disorder for parts of 1863 …
From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
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 …
To J. D. Hooker 10 [April 1865]
Summary
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 [Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4809 |
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- … Emma Darwin’s diary, DAR 242). The reference is to John Lubbock (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] ). Hooker had mentioned the apparent illness of Ellen Frances Lubbock ; she was in fact pregnant (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 13). CD refers to three unsigned review articles in the April 1865 issue of the Natural History Review. Joseph Reay Greene reviewed the 1863– …
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