From Frederick Currey 5 July 1866
Summary
Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?
Author: | Frederick Currey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5146 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1866
Summary
Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.
"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."
Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.
Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].
Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.
Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.
Balfour Stewart on sunspots.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 114–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5294 |
To Linnean Society 7 December [1866]
Summary
Asks to have author’s spare copies of F. Müller’s article on climbing plants [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344] sent to him for forwarding to FM.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 7 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5297 |
From Fritz Müller 13 February 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for Journal of researches.
Insect genus Elater is an exception to the rule that all luminous organs give out a green light.
Gives some observations on climbing plants at Itajahy.
His study of orchids has convinced him of the value of CD’s book.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5004A |
To Henry Bence Jones 3 January [1866]
Summary
A report on his somewhat improved health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 3 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968A |
Matches: 3 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 12). CD reported …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 13 November [1858] ). CD began taking iron in 1864, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) recording ‘began iron’ on 12 …
- … 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] ); these symptoms were treated with antacids by William Jenner (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 …
To Fritz Müller [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867
Summary
Thanks for observations on dimorphic plants. Dimorphism prevalent in certain groups throughout the world.
Retarded fertilisation in certain orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 31 Dec 1866 and 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5331 |
From Asa Gray 7 May 1866
Summary
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5081 |
From Daniel Hanbury 1 December 1866
Author: | Daniel Hanbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5291 |
To Fritz Müller [before 10 December 1866]
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | [before 10 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5261 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 May [1866]
Summary
Has forwarded FH’s paper on Fumariaceae to horticultural congress. Comments on its findings.
Discusses forms of Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5092 |
From Ernst Haeckel 11 January 1866
Summary
Comments on CD’s health.
Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.
Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.
His lectures on CD’s theory.
Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4973 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] ; see also Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. 11 and 12); a protoplasmic …
- … 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 and n. 8, and Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
- … 12. See ibid. , letter to Ernst Haeckel, 19 July [1864] and n. 7. CD exchanged photographs with many of his correspondents during the 1860s (see Correspondence vols. 9–13, …
From A. R. Wallace 4 February 1866
Summary
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4997 |
To Fritz Müller 11 January 1866
Summary
Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.
Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.
CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4972 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 13, letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] and n. 12. On Agassiz’s …
- … 13)). For CD’s recent comments on Agassiz and his work, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
- … 13, letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 September [1865] and n. 4, and letters to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] and n. 12, …
To Asa Gray 16 April [1866]
Summary
AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].
Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.
New edition [4th] of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5057 |
Matches: 2 hits
From J. D. Hooker 25 December 1866
Summary
Analysis of New Zealand flora; proportion of indigenous annuals.
Uniform climates are poor in species.
Evergreen and deciduous vegetation: relationship to flora and fauna.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5324 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 December 1866
Summary
Scarlet seed is Adenanthera pavonina. JDH’s suggestion on how disseminated.
On Herbert Spencer, "all oil no bone – a thinking pump", but his paper on sap and wood [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 405–30] is good science. His refusal to bring a specimen for analysis when confronted by JDH.
Bentham and Martin disagreement.
Speculations on New Zealand flora.
Albert Günther’s paper on fishes on each side of Isthmus of Panama [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 600–4].
On the quantity (bulk and weight) of organic life [matter].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 121–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5305 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … to this letter (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1866] and nn. 5, 12, and 13). …
- … 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1864] ). Spencer’s paper ‘On circulation and the formation of wood in plants’ ( Spencer 1866 ) described the results of his experiments on the absorption of dyes by plants. Hooker refers to George Bentham and Maxwell Tylden Masters . Spencer had argued that the size and shape of individual umbelliferous flowers were related to the density and shape of the inflorescences ( Spencer 1864–7 , 2: 157; see Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
To B. D. Walsh [19] April [1866]
Summary
CD has followed Lyell’s advice and avoided controversy over Origin but encourages BDW to attack S. H. Scudder and others who argue foolishly or misquote him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | [19] Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5061 |
From George Henslow [13 or 14 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for criticism of proofs of his paper [see 5117].
Not sure whether CD believes in reversion and would like a positive statement as this is the one point C. V. Naudin especially observed. Naudin offers his remarks on ovules as a matter to be proved ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1 (1865): 25–176].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 14] June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5120 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] ), and for focusing exclusively on cultivated plants (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
- … 12 June [1866] and 15 [June 1866] . CD had commented on the proof pages for Henslow 1866b ; see letter to George Henslow, 12 June [1866] . In a brief discussion of reversion in Origin , pp. 13– …
To J. D. Hooker 16 May [1866]
Summary
Glad to see Asa Gray’s letter.
Asks whether he may insert a sentence about Cape Verde alpine plants in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Fears "twaddle" may also be the word for his two chapters on cultivated plants. Asks for Crawfurd’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 289, 289b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5091 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letters to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] and 12 July [1865] . …
- … letter of 13 May 1866 , Hooker had suggested that he meet CD in London at the International Horticultural Exhibition and Botanical Congress. Robert Caspary wished to meet CD; Hooker was to inform Caspary that he could visit CD at Down House (see letter from Robert Caspary, 7 May 1866 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 …
From J. D. Hooker 16 January 1866
Summary
Is in a mess with his correspondence and will get no assistance before 1 April.
Has agreed to give an address on the Darwinian theory at Nottingham [meeting of BAAS].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4978 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Henslow, George | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Caspary, Robert | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Müller, Fritz | (4) |
Caspary, Robert | (3) |