To John Scott 8 January [1863]
Summary
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 |
To E. A. Darwin 12 December 1878
Summary
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 |
From E. W. Fithian 30 May 1878
Summary
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 |
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 |
From Booth Bacon 10 June 1863
Summary
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 |
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 John Phillips 14 March 1874
Summary
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 |
From John Tyndall 8 June [1872]
Summary
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1862
Summary
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 |
From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865
Summary
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Gray on Lythrum , see Correspondence vols. 10–12. 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]
Summary
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 |
From E. A. Darwin 19 [December 1870]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [Dec 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7066 |
To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]
Summary
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
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 November [1862]
Summary
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 |
To John Scott 12 November [1862]
Summary
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 |
From J. V. Carus 28 May 1871
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 88: 106–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7774 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 November 1864]
Summary
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 |
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. …
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 |
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