To James Shaw 24 November [1866]
Summary
Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 24 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284A |
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- … 24 November [Saying he has seen the Athenæum & admires his article on beauty. ] …
- … Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on …
- … beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681]. …
- … in the 24 November 1866 issue of the Athenæum ( Shaw 1866b ). CD cited the article in …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1866]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?
Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 310, 310b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5326 |
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- … see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to Athenæum , 1 January 1867). …
- … they go to Oswald Heer? Has written to Athenæum [see 5308 ] about publishers cutting pages …
- … till I have a line from you. — The Athenæum has been admitting letters urging Publishers …
- … to John Murray, 15 July [1866] ). Two letters had already been printed in the Athenæum on …
- … the subject ( Athenæum , 15 December 1866, p. 803, and 22 December 1866, p. …
- … 848). CD’s letter was published in the Athenæum , 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 ( …
From T. H. Huxley 6 July 1866
Summary
Has taken memorial to G. H. Richards, the Hydrographer. He favours the proposal and will instruct Capt. Mayne. THH will communicate with Dr Cunningham, the naturalist for the expedition.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 311 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5149 |
To John Lubbock 2 August [1866]
Summary
Has read abstract of JL’s paper ["On the present state of archaeological science", Athenæum 21 July 1866, pp. 79–82] and praises it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 2 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5172 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1866]
Summary
Susan Darwin still lives, but is dying.
Requests an Erica massoni to compare with Drosera.
On L. Agassiz’s "astonishing" view that Amazon Valley was filled with gigantic glacier. Asa Gray says LA is determined to cover the globe with glaciers in order to destroy "Darwinian views".
Excellent review of A. Murray [The geographical distribution of mammals] in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 902].
Frankland’s Royal Institution lecture ["On the source of muscular power" Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1862–6): 661–85].
Wallace’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5217 |
To Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 March 1866]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5077 |
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- … at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham ( Athenæum , 17 March 1866, p. 349). The friend has not …
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 |
From F. T. Buckland 4 October [1866]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s patronage;
will pursue CD’s query about otter-hounds.
Remarks on continuing debate over CD’s views in BAAS.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 361 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5229 |
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- … held in Nottingham from 22 to 30 August 1866 ( Athenæum , 11 August 1866, p. 161). In his …
From Rudolf Suchsland 16 March 1866
Summary
Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.
Author: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5035 |
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- … 1988 , p. 91). In his letter to the Athenæum of 18 April [1863], CD mentioned Bronn as an …
To J. V. Carus 21 November 1866
Summary
Answers some question about species.
Sends biographical sketch.
Now considers that a note on Nägeli would have to be too long to include. Discusses his differences with Nägeli. Cannot believe in spontaneous generation. At present the principle of life seems to him beyond the confines of science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 Nov 1866 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 4–5a); DAR 143: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5282 |
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- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863] and n. 3. On the Victorian …
To William Ewart Gladstone 14 May 1866
Summary
Memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the fellows of the Royal, Linnean, Geological, and Zoological Societies of London, stating the importance of separating the administration of the national natural history collections of the British Museum from that of the library and art collections, and placing it in the hands of one officer, immediately responsible to one of the Queen’s ministers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | 14 May 1866 |
Classmark: | Gunther 1975, p. 238 (facsimile of printed copy of memorial) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5090F |
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- … The present memorial was printed in the Athenæum , 23 June 1866, p. 836; it may be the …
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1866
Summary
Drosera and Erica massoni have been sent.
Had heard of Agassiz’s theory but not that CD’s theory had raised it.
JDH wrote the article on A. Murray.
Frankland’s lecture too much for him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 106–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5222 |
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- … not Dundee Town Council, reported in the Athenæum (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 …
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
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- … DAR 242)). The event is described in the Athenæum , 5 May 1866, pp. 597–8. According to …
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Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Suchsland, Rudolf | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |