To Ernst Haeckel 1 February 1866
Summary
Thanks for photographs [of German scientists].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 1 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4990 |
To Friedrich Rolle 1 February [1866]
Summary
Thanks for all five numbers of Der Mensch [1866].
Had not known that Rütimeyer had written on modification of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
Date: | 1 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4992 |
To Jeffries Wyman 2 February 1866
Summary
Obliged for JW’s information on variability of size of bees’ cells. Hexagonal cells not always work of several insects. W. H. Miller found great variability in thickness of cell walls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 2 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | Jeffries Wyman Jr (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4994 |
To F. W. Farrar 3 February [1866]
Summary
Will be pleased to sign FWF’s certificate for the Royal Society if he can send it to CD, who does not have the strength to go to London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
Date: | 3 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Australia (MS 5907) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4995 |
To Charles Lyell 7 February [1866]
Summary
Discussion of Mrs Agassiz’s letter [to Mary Lyell, forwarded to CD] regarding S. American glacial action,
with comments on Bunbury’s letter on temperate plants.
Refers to opinions of Agassiz, David Forbes, Hooker, and CD on glacial period and glaciers.
Wishes he had published a long chapter on glacial period [Natural selection, pp. 535–66] written ten years ago.
Tells of death of his sister, Catherine, and other family matters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.312) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4999 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 10 February 1866]
Summary
Asks botanical readers to inform him "whether in those monoecious or dioecious plants, in which the flowers are widely different, it has ever been observed that half the flower, or only a segment of it, has been of one sex and the other half or segment of the opposite sex, in the same manner as so frequently occurs with insects?"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 10 Feb 1866] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 10 February 1866, p. 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5001 |
To Williams & Norgate 10 February [1866]
Summary
Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],
subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 10 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5002 |
To James Shaw 11 February [1866]
Summary
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 11 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii; |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5004 |
To James Shaw [23 April 1866]
Summary
Thanks for sending facts on birds admiring themselves; mentions use in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | [23 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.317) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5006 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1866]
Summary
Thanks CL for Hooker’s letter.
Discussion of Hooker’s views on glacial action and temperature with specific reference to S. America.
His squabbles with Hooker on transport of seeds via water currents,
temperate plants, and preservation of tropical plants during cooler period.
Expresses interest in seeing Agassiz’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.313) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5007 |
To Cuthbert Collingwood 16 February [1866]
Summary
Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Date: | 16 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5008B |
To Robert Caspary 21 February [1866]
Summary
Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Date: | 21 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5012 |
To Charles Lyell 22 February [1866]
Summary
Comments on errors [in Origin] pointed out in C. J. F. Bunbury’s letters.
Mentions CD’s notes on Drimys, Fuchsia, and fossil mammals of Brazilian caves.
Sorrowful that his work must be put aside because Murray wants a new [4th] edition of Origin. Remarks on changes to be made regarding Organ Mountains and Agassiz’s glacial markings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.314) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5015 |
To John Murray 22 February [1866]
Summary
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5016 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 February 1866]
Summary
Refers to part of JDH letter on glacial period sent on to Lyell. CD will not yield. Cannot think how JDH attaches so much attention to physicists. Has "come not to care at all for general beliefs without the special facts".
His health is improved but not so good as JDH supposes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Feb 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5020 |
To Charles Lyell [3 March 1866]
Summary
Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5025 |
To Robert Caspary 4 March 1866
Summary
Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Date: | 4 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5026 |
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
To Robert McLachlan 23 March [1866]
Summary
Thanks for the paper on Sterrha (McLachlan 1865).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
Date: | 23 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Raab Collection (dealer) (June 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5038F |
To Albert Müller 28 March [1866]
Summary
Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert Müller |
Date: | 28 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5040 |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (10) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |
Murray, John (b) | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (182) |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (10) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |