To Daniel Oliver 1 June [1867]
Summary
Asks DO to identify a plant grown from earth adhering to the foot of a woodcock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3587 |
To A. R. Wallace [24 June 1867]
Summary
CD now acknowledges that the sometimes very great sexual, i.e., ornamental, differences in fishes offer a difficulty to the view that females are not brightly coloured on account of the danger to propagation of the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [24 June 1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5404 |
From Frederick F. Geach June 1867
Summary
Encloses observations on Malays who have not had communication with Europeans [in answer to CD’s queries about expression].
Author: | Frederick F. Geach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5557 |
To Charles Lyell 1 June [1867]
Summary
Comments on a discussion of humming-birds by the Duke of Argyll [in The reign of law (1867)].
Encloses article by Henry Parker on the Duke’s book [Saturday Rev. 23 (1867): 82–4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.328) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5558 |
From Fritz Müller 2 June 1867
Summary
Discusses dimorphism in plants, especially the Rubiaceae.
Gives observations on orchids; notes varying degrees of self-sterility and a varying success at crossing distinct species.
Mentions local ferns he is collecting
and considers the phenomenon of apparently mimetic plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5559 |
From J. J. Moulinié 2 June 1867
Summary
Has received the first four sheets of Variation. Reinwald has received the stereotypes and is ready for printing.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5560 |
From G. H. Darwin [3 June 1867]
Summary
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5561 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 3 June [1867]
Summary
Sends a sheet of proofs. Will hold four others until he hears from VOK, because of expensive postage. Thinks illustrating Russian translation [of Variation] with woodcuts from A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben, 4 vols. (1864–7)] is an excellent idea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 3 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5562 |
From Edward Cresy 6 June 1867
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5564 |
From Charles Kingsley 6 June 1867
Summary
Criticises the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)], particularly on sexual selection.
But CD overlooks God’s intention to instruct man by nature’s beauty.
Criticism of anonymous article in North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin, 46 (1867): 277–318].
CK supports large sports in response to large environmental changes.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5565 |
To Charles Lyell 9 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5566 |
To Charles Kingsley 10 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 10 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5567 |
To T. H. Huxley 12 June [1867]
Summary
Asks THH to think about a better name for "Pangenesis"; suggests "Cytarrogenesis" or "Atomogenesis", but still prefers vaguer "Pangenesis".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 12 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 235) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5568 |
To Charles Lyell 12 June 1867
Summary
CD probably advised omitting mention of experiments suggesting that oxlips, cowslips, and primroses could be produced from the seed of a single plant
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5568F |
To J. D. Hooker [16 June 1867]
Summary
Leaves for London tomorrow. Hopes to see JDH there or perhaps at Kew, but doubts the latter. He is not strong and has a good deal to do.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [16 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5569 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1867
Summary
Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.
Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 167–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5570 |
From J. W. Salter 18 June 1867
Summary
Offers to send parts of J. Syme, English botany [1863–86] in appreciation of CD’s aid.
Comments on CD’s species theory.
Will exhibit Cambrian fossil at next meeting of Geological Society.
Author: | John William Salter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5571 |
To J. W. Salter 19 [June 1867]
Summary
CD is relieved that JWS’s circumstances have improved. He is pleased to accept Supplement to English Botany. He will try to attend Geological Society meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Salter |
Date: | 19 [June 1867] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5571F |
To J. D. Hooker [23 June 1867]
Summary
Disappointed at not seeing JDH in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5574 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 June [1867]
Summary
Thanks VOK for the present of A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–7].
The woodcuts will do admirably [for Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 24 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5575 |
letter | (23) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Geach, F. F. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Kingsley, Charles | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Salter, J. W. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Geach, F. F. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Wedgwood, L. C. | (1) |