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To John Scott   8 January [1863]

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CD’s respect for JS’s indomitable work and interesting experiments increases steadily.

His gratitude for the primulas and the astonishing Gongora specimen.

Asks JS’s opinion about crossing a primrose with the pollen of a wild cowslip and of a cultivated polyanthus.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  8 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3908F

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  • … of CD from 1862 (see Correspondence vols.  1012, and Scott 1864 ). Following publication …

To E. A. Darwin   12 December 1878

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Informs EAD of Anthony Rich’s proposal to bequeath his property to CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:  12 Dec 1878
Classmark:  DAR 153: 10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11789

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  • … DAR 153: 10 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Dec 1878 Erasmus Alvey Darwin …
  • 10 December 1878 . Horace Darwin and George Howard Darwin were two of CD’s sons. William Erasmus Darwin was CD’s eldest son; see letter to W. E. Darwin, 12

From E. W. Fithian   30 May 1878

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Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.

Author:  Edward William Fithian
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 May 1878
Classmark:  DAR 202: 101
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11535

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  • … Verso of last page : 3) 10 (3. 3.4 9 3 12 10 0 13.4 3 40 0 1 pencil crossed pencil ; £ 1- …

From Hermann Kindt   11 October 1864

Summary

Requests photograph.

Author:  Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Oct 1864
Classmark:  DAR 169: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4632

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  • … Magellanicus appeared in Zoology , pt 2, pp.  1012; he collected a specimen in the valley …

From Booth Bacon   10 June 1863

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On CD’s application to pay up at once his shares in the Penarth Harbour Dock and Railway; directors’ policy is to receive payment on only 50% of shares allotted.

Author:  Booth Bacon
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 June 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4211

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  • … DAR 160: 12 Booth Bacon Cardiff 10 June 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …

From Robert Caspary   25 February 1866

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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 John Phillips   14 March 1874

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Will be out of town, so he cannot vote for Henry Parker.

CD ought to come to see his Cetiosaurus, of which he draws a likeness.

Author:  John Phillips
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 174: 42
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9360

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  • … see my Cetiosaurus! 50–64 feet long. 10 or 12 ft high & broad. only the head wanting. not …

From John Tyndall   8 June [1872]

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Sends CD a copy of the memorial supporting Hooker’s case against A. S. Ayrton’s interference in the administration of Kew Gardens.

Author:  John Tyndall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 June [1872]
Classmark:  DAR 106: C9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8375

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  • … We propose confining the signatures to 10 or 12 good names. I hope you will think that we …

From J. D. Hooker   26 November 1862

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Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3831

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  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 November [1862] and [10–]12 November [1862] , and letters from J.  D. …

From Asa Gray   15 and 17 May 1865

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Reports Lincoln’s murder.

The end of Civil War is in sight.

Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 and 17 May 1865
Classmark:  DAR 165: 147
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4833

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  • … Gray on Lythrum , see Correspondence vols.  1012. Gray reviewed ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
  • 10. In his letter to Gray of 19 April [1865] , CD had asked for dimorphic species of Plantago. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ was read before the Linnean Society on 16 June 1864 and copies of the paper were issued to members of the society on 12  …

To C. I. F. Major   [c. 1 November 1872]

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Will let CIFM know [probably about John Murray’s terms for an Italian translation of Expression].

Thanks for information about hornless fossil Bos etruscus and Miocene fossils of genus Sus [see Descent, 2d ed., pp. 505, 521].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major
Date:  [c. 1 Nov 1872]
Classmark:  University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Crerar Manuscript 131)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8564F

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  • … As soon as I hear, which cannot be for 10 or 12 days, I will communicate with you. I am …

From E. A. Darwin   19 [December 1870]

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Has received a letter, and two packets of securities.

Comments on George’s escape.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [Dec 1870]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B69–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7066

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  • … I have 2 packets of Certificates both £12-10-0 shares and an awful heap they are. Please …

To Fritz Müller   20 September [1865]

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Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.

FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.

Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  20 Sept [1865]
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4895

Matches: 6 hits

  • … 1, and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . CD had not yet …
  • … and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n.  1; see also …
  • … see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and nn.  16–18). CD’ …
  • … 2 (see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n.  19). CD …
  • … from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 (see letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 ). Since …
  • … CD’s letter of 10 August [1865] when he wrote his own letter to CD on 12 August 1865 , it …

From Antonio Mendola   29 December 1879

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Reports from an Italian baron that a calf’s horn that was buried in a field set roots; mule’s hairs incubated in water come alive.

Author:  Antonio Mendola
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Dec 1879
Classmark:  DAR 171: 150
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12375

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  • … a questo sperimento oscillava da 10 a 12.  gr d . Reàmur— Questi peli senza perdere il …
  • … room assigned to this experiment varied from 10 to 12 degrees Réaumur— These hairs without …

To J. D. Hooker   3 November [1862]

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Requests reference to Jules Planchon’s monograph on Linum [Lond. J. Bot. 6 (1847): 588–603; 7 (1848): 165–86, 473–501, 507–28].

Sends list of seeds, including Oxalis, Boraginaceae especially Alkanna.

Asa Gray says JDH wrote reviews of Orchids in Gardeners’ Chronicle.

His experiments amuse him after dull day’s work on vegetables and fruit-trees.

Leschenaultia formosa has exterior stigma, thus eminently requiring insect aid, and thus ensuring crossing almost inevitably.

Asks whether Samuel Haughton at Dublin who made important medical discovery could be the same who reviewed Origin so hostilely [in Nat. Hist. Rev. 7 (1860): 23–32]; if so, he can sneer at and abuse CD to his heart’s content.

Asa Gray as rabid as ever [on Civil War].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  3 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 171
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3793

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  • … movement (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] and n.  19). The words ‘in …
  • 10, Appendix II)). CD began to experiment on the pollination mechanism of Leschenaultia in April 1860 (see Correspondence vol.  8, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 12  …

To John Scott   12 November [1862]

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Discusses whether or not "male" Acropera bear fruit. JS’s interpretation of Acropera pollination is ingenious. Pollen-tubes of some cleistogamous flowers germinate in the anthers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  12 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B7–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3805

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  • … DAR 93: B7–10 Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Nov [1862] John Scott …

From J. V. Carus   28 May 1871

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Sends corrections for Descent.

Author:  Julius Victor Carus
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 May 1871
Classmark:  DAR 88: 106–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7774

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  • … find for instance 13 10 26 11 13 26 15 10 30 12 16 32 and so forth I am sorry to say that …
  • … had only 60 branches. A stag with 12 branches to the right, 10 branches to left antler is …

From J. D. Hooker   [23 November 1864]

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JDH’s "shock" that CD was awarded the Copley Medal.

Oliver, Thomson and JDH independently concur mature tendrils of Dicentra are foliar, though JDH remembers they were axial in the spring. Expects he and CD were fooled, but will have to look again next spring.

Praises CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

JDH completing F. Boott’s work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex].

JDH now does suspect Mrs Boott is illegitimate daughter of Dr Erasmus Darwin [see 4389].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [23 Nov 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 254–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4667

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  • … 1863 (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] and n.  3). The fourth part …
  • … 442–50. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] and n.  5. CD had suggested …

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. …

From Fritz Müller   2 June 1867

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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

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  • … of the rest began to discolour after 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 days, and showed brown pollen, …
  • … pods; 12 flowers were self-fertilized, of which 7 being dissected within 10 days after …
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