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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

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  • … DAR 166: 154 George Henslow London, South Crescent, 10 12 Mar 1866 Charles Robert Darwin …

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

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  • … B.  Tegetmeier, 22 January [1866] and nn.  1012. Tegetmeier refers to the library of the …

From J. D. Hooker   4 December 1866

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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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Zealand (see Correspondence vols.  5, 6, 1012). In the introductory essay to the Flora …
  • … vol.  13, letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  12, letter to Ernst Haeckel, [after 10] August – 8 October [1864] …

From W. E. Darwin   8 May [1866]

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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

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  • … camera lucida (see Correspondence vols.  1012). See enclosures 2, 3, and 4. See enclosure …
  • 10 May 1866]. William had taken a photograph of CD in spring 1864 (see Correspondence vol.  12, …

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

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  • … cleistogamic flowers, see Correspondence vols.  1012. Caspary refers to Caspary 1865c , a …

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

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  • … 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]

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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

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  • … Lyell sent proof pages of chapters 10 to 12 of the first volume of the tenth edition of …

From J. D. Hooker   [12 December 1866]

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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

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  • … In 1866, the first Wednesday after 10 December was 12 December. CD had sent the plant …

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

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  • … vol.  13 as the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). …

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

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  • … 1 "  1) 6 "  6 "  10 "  3 "  3 " 6 "  6 "  11 "  3 "  3 " 6 "  6 "  12 "  3 "  20 " 6 "  …
  • … 3 " 1 " 1) 6 " 6 " 10 " 3 " 3 " 6 " 6 " 11 " 3 " 3 " 6 " 6 " 12 " 3 " 20 " 6 " 6 " 12 " 3– …

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

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  • … the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . Much of Hanbury’s …

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

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  • … 13, letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n.  1); the …
  • … 13, letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n.  19). The …

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

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  • … 13, letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). CD’s letter to …

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

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  • … see Correspondence vol.  10, letter from Robert Swinhoe, 12 November 1862 ). No reply from …

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

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  • … as the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). See letter to …

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

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  • … see Correspondence vol.  12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864  and nn.  2 and 3), …

From Asa Gray   7 May 1866

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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

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  • … 13, letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . On the Fenian …

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

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  • … 13, letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). CD planned to …

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

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  • … one pea out of the packets marked 7. 10. 11. 12. 13. & the purple pea N o . 14. I never …

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … Correspondence vol.  12, letters from Ernst Haeckel , 9 [July 1864] , 10 August 1864 , and …
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