To Albert Günther 21 September 1869
Summary
Sends a list of queries for AG.
Asks whether AG can supply specimens for illustrations [for Descent]. Hopes Mr Ford will do the drawings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library; DAR 82: B14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6903 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 July [1869]
Summary
Haeckel wants British specimens of calcareous sponges. Can THH tell him to whom he can apply?
Health not improving – cannot climb even a hill.
Has heard THH’s article on Comte ["Scientific aspects of Positivism", Lay sermons (1870)] is a splendid success.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 9 July [1869] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 271) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6823 |
To Fritz Müller 14 March 1869
Summary
Translation of Für Darwin has been published [Facts and arguments for Darwin (1869)].
Discusses dimorphic plants, commenting on FM’s observations on Oxalis.
Is greatly interested in Eschscholzia, which seems somewhat more self-sterile in Brazil than in England.
Thinks FM’s grass is "most wonderful".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 27) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6662 |
To John Traherne Moggridge 7 June 1869
Summary
Glad JTM intends to write a paper. Discusses JTM’s research on Arbutus.
CD’s riding accident.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Date: | 7 June 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 377 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6777 |
To George Cupples 20 November [1869]
Summary
Thanks GC for his assistance. "The data for all that I have to say about the Scotch deer-hound are, owing to you, almost sufficient; and much better data than I have got in many other cases." [See Descent 2: 260.]
Believes Dr Stirling would be compelled to admit some change in "the famous protoplasm in our domestic races, both in regard to the structure of the body & qualities of the mind".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Cupples |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1869] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4127 II, 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7000 |
To W. C. Tait 17 July [1869]
Summary
Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.
Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
| Date: | 17 July [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 545; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6833 |
To W. C. Tait 12 and 16 March 1869
Summary
Thanks for specimen of Drosophyllum.
Describes capacity of various plants to catch flies.
Cannot name fern specimen.
Laugher pigeon descended from Columba livia.
Discusses tailless dogs.
Believes astronomical phenomenon responsible for oscillation of level of earth’s crust.
Would WCT like copy of Orchids?
Expected plants [Drosophyllum] have arrived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
| Date: | 12 and 16 Mar 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 541; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6661 |
To J. J. Weir 1 July [1869]
Summary
"My health got so bad I could do nothing at Down".
Gives information about migration of male and female birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 1 July [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 324 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6810 |
To Asa Gray 1 June [1869]
Summary
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 June [1869] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6767 |
To F. M. Malven [after 12 February 1869]
Summary
Honoured to be mentioned with Alexander von Humboldt, who was an inspiration to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Maria Malven |
| Date: | [after 12 Feb 1869] |
| Classmark: | Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), 4 March 1869, p. 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6610F |
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- … 12 February 1869, pp. 1–2. This extract from CD’s letter was published in a later short note, with the comment that it gave the lie to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ’s famous dictum, ‘Nur die Lumpe sind bescheiden’ (Only nobodies are modest). On CD’s admiration for Humboldt, see Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 …
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| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
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| Cupples, George | (1) |
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