From George Henslow 12 March 1866
Summary
Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5033 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 2 August 1866
Summary
Encloses feathers from a diseased hen which has assumed cock plumage.
Forwards proofs of the engravings for Variation.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5171 |
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 |
From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1866]
Summary
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B52, 66–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3144 |
From Robert Caspary 25 February 1866
Summary
Sends papers on graft-hybrids ["Sur les hybrides obtenus par la greffe", Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80, and "Über Mischlinge, durch Pfropfen entstanden", Sitzungsber. K. Phys.-oekon. Ges. Königsberg 6 (1865): 11–21].
Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5018 |
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
- … Typen, Branches, Embranchemens) ungefähr 10 oder 12 im Ganzen an und werde diese Annahme …
- … organisms. I take it there are roughly 10 or 12 such main classes (types, branches, …
- … see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 ; see also ibid. , …
- … 10, letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 7 June 1862 and n. 5); it was taken by Maull & Polyblank , circa 1857. The photograph is reproduced as the frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 8. Haeckel refers to the first photograph of CD with a beard, taken in 1864 by his son William Erasmus Darwin . The photograph is reproduced as the frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 12. …
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1866]
Summary
Introduces Ernst Haeckel.
Lyell sent same chapters to CD, who thinks them very good but is not convinced that changes of land and water will do all he thinks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5257 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1866]
Summary
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 118–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5302 |
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 [2 November 1866]
Summary
Sends his observations on sterility of Eschscholzia,
on Oxalis,
and on recently found dimorphic plants.
Sends specimen of Hedyotis [see Forms of flowers, p. 133].
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Nov 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B59, DAR 142: 100, 101, 105, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 93–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5264 |
From Daniel Hanbury 1 December 1866
Summary
Wishes to consult Fritz Müller on pharmacological matters.
Author: | Daniel Hanbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5291 |
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 |
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 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 6 January [1866]
Summary
Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.
Notes improvement in health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 6 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4970 |
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 Ernst Haeckel 20 January [1866]
Summary
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4980 |
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 |
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 |
To Thomas Laxton 3 November [1866]
Summary
Has examined TL’s crossed peas. Observes that in several lots crossed peas are smooth, like paternal stock, not wrinkled like maternal stock. Is this a result of mere variation, peculiar culture, or pollen of the father?
Encloses queries [missing].
Intends planting peas at once if TL approves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Laxton |
Date: | 3 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5267 |
From Ernst Haeckel 28 January 1866
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with German scientists.
Comments on attitudes of German scientists toward CD’s theory.
Names several scientists who exchanged photographs: Braun, Virchow, Leydig, and Dohrn.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4985 |
letter | (48) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Müller, Fritz | (5) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (3) |