From E. A. Darwin [17 January 1825]
Summary
Proposes a dry place for the apparatus for their laboratory and draws a plan for CD’s criticism.
Price has found black sediment in his tea, which was attracted to a magnet.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Jan 1825] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10 |
Matches: 1 hit
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To Charles Edward and Mary Kingford Mudie 10 December [1842–5 or 1855–68]
Summary
Declines invitation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling; Mary Kingsford Mudie |
Date: | 10 Dec [1842-5 or 1855-68] |
Classmark: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13828 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … To Charles Edward and Mary Kingford Mudie 10 December [1842–5 or 1855–68] …
- … Down Bromley Kent Dec. 10 th . M r Darwin presents his compliments to M r & M rs . …
- … E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Dec …
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- … 1867 10 Dec 1868 Charles Edward Mudie Mary Kingsford Pawling/Mary Kingsford Mudie …
To G. R. Waterhouse 10 [June 1844 – March 1845]
Summary
Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13852 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To G. R. Waterhouse 10 [June 1844 – March 1845] …
- … Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 June …
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- … 1845 10 Mar 1845 George Robert Waterhouse …
- … Down Bromley Kent 10 th My dear Waterhouse We shall be truly glad to see M rs . …
From John Scott 10 June [1864]
Summary
Sends Passiflora paper [see 4485].
Sends seeds of peloric Antirrhinum crossed by normal form and sends results of his experiments [table of crosses].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 51: B22; DAR 177: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4526 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From John Scott 10 June [1864] …
- … DAR 51: B22; DAR 177: 109 John Scott Denholm 10 June [1864] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 897. by pollen of Peloric Anthirrhinum (P. No. 1) 3. Normal Anthirrhinum 10. …
- … 10. 1097. 110. 20. 2194. ” 867. …
- … by pollen of Peloric Anthirrhinum (P. No. 2) 4. Peloric Anthirrhinum 10. …
- … 10. 1334. 133. 20. 2668. ” 1055. ( …
- … P. No. 1) by pollen of Normal Anthirrhinum 5. Peloric Anthirrhinum 10. …
- … 10. 1362. 136. 20. 2724. ” 1077. (P. No. 2) by pollen of Normal Anthirrhinum 6. Peloric …
- … oxlip (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] ). Scott and CD often considered the …
- … Denholm June 10 th . Sir. I sent off by yesterday’s mail my papers of experiments on …
- … of seeds unions unions fertilised produced of seeds capsule 1. Normal Anthirrhinum 10. …
- … 10. 1264. 126. 20. …
- … 2528. 1000. ” by own pollen 2. Normal Anthirrhinum 10. 8. 908. 113. 20. 2270. ” …
- … and Tacsonia (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters from John Scott , [20 November – 2 …
From Michael Foster 30 January 1875
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 215/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9835F |
Matches: 13 hits
- … Newall, Esq. 10 0 0 Miss A. B. Balfour 50 0 0 Miss E. Balfour 5 0 0 G. …
- … W. Childs, Esq. 20 0 0 J. Young, Esq. 10 0 0 H. Darwin, Esq. 5 0 0 The Royal Society 100 0 …
- … s. d. £. C. Darwin, Esq. 100 0 0 W. E. Darwin, Esq. 20 0 0 G. Darwin, Esq. 10 0 0 F. …
- … Darwin, Esq. 10 0 0 F. M. Balfour, Esq. 50 0 0 A. G. Dew-Smith, Esq. …
- … 0 0 Marlborough R. Pryor, Esq. 50 0 0 Sir Charles Lyell 25 0 0 G. Busk, Esq. 10 0 0 E. A. …
- … Darwin, Esq. 10 0 0 Sir J. …
- … Whitworth 10 0 0 Francis Galton, Esq. 5 0 0 W. Spottiswoode, Esq. 5 0 0 …
- … Professor Newton 5 0 0 T. T. C. Jodrell, Esq. 10 0 0 …
- … Lord Rayleigh 10 0 0 Lord A. …
- … Russell 10 0 0 J. P. Gassiott, Esq. …
- … Jun. 20 0 0 John Evans, Esq. 10 0 0 P. L. Sclater, Esq. …
- … 5 0 0 Edward Backhouse, Esq. 5 0 0 Mrs Pryor 10 0 0 A. Balfour, Esq. 100 0 0 …
- … G. W. Balfour, Esq. 10 0 0 R. S. …
To W. W. Baxter? 10 November [1872–4]
Summary
Would greatly prefer an enema with a shorter nozzle but with a somewhat larger diameter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 10 Nov [1872-4] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13774 |
Matches: 5 hits
To J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
Summary
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3913 |
Matches: 23 hits
- … See also ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, [10–]12 November [1862] . Hooker and Bentham …
- … had been suffering from depression and ill-health (see Correspondence vols. 9 and 10). …
- … Huxley 1863a . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … 1761–6 ). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and Correspondence vol. …
- … 10, Appendix VI. T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 29–52. CD refers particularly to pages 39–41, …
- … 18 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 153–6. While …
- … 1862a and 1862b. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 18 …
- … letter and n. 7. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [ …
- … 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD enclosed a ‘memorandum of enquiry’ for …
- … of 3 November [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD enclosed a list of the seeds he wanted …
- … I see I can buy Pitcher plants for only 10 s . 6! But the job is whether we shall be able …
- … D. Hooker, [12 January 1863] , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 4. …
- … Gray, 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). In Asa Gray’s letter, CD marked some of …
- … in the bud (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 29 December 1862 ). In …
- … adding differences’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 November …
- … a homogeneous form. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [ …
- … 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), is incomplete; Gray’s statement concerning …
- … 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), is incomplete; the portion containing Gray’s …
- … trans. 1862). See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 December …
- … February 1849 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , …
- … and Mimosa in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). CD was keen to obtain fresh flowers of …
- … this orchid genus, see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , …
- … in medallions. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 or 28 …
To T. H. Farrer 10 April 1874
Summary
Delighted to hear about Coronilla. Urges publication ["Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers– Coronilla", Nature 10 (1874): 169–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 10 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9400 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To T. H. Farrer 10 April 1874 …
- … Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers– Coronilla ", Nature 10 (1874): 169–70]. …
- … LS Ms 299/22) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Apr 1874 Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and …
- … Down, | Beckenham, Kent. Ap. 10 1874 My dear Farrer I am delighted to hear about …
- … See letter from T. H. Farrer, [before 10 April 1874] and n. 2. Farrer published a short …
- … CD refers to Francis Darwin . See letter from T. H. Farrer, [before 10 April 1874] . …
From George Bentham 10 May 1869
Summary
Will have Fritz Müller’s letter ["On the modification of the stamens in a species of Begonia", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 11 (1871): 472–4] read at next Linnean Society meeting [read 3 June 1869].
Has given the seeds to Daniel Oliver.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6744 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From George Bentham 10 May 1869 …
- … DAR 160: 163 George Bentham London, Wilton Place, 25 10 May 1869 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to George Bentham, 10 May [1869] and n. 6. Bentham refers to …
- … Amazonicae ’ ( Spruce 1869 ). See letter to George Bentham, 10 May [1869] and n. 7. …
- … 25. Wilton Place. | S.W. May 10 /69 My dear M r Darwin Many thanks for Fritz Muller’s …
From John Scott 6 January 1863
Summary
Sends Primula scotica and P. farinosa.
So far cannot fertilise Gongora atropurpurea although it is similar to Acropera luteola.
Experimenting on intergeneric hybrids to test CD’s view that sterility is not a special endowment.
Scott’s personal history.
Acropera capsule grows.
Plans for experiments CD has suggested on Primula, peloric Antirrhinum, and Verbascum.
Asks about Gärtner’s experiments on maize.
Aware of Anderson-Henry’s failures.
Through kindness of J. H. Balfour and James McNab, enjoys facilities for research. JS is in charge of the propagating department. Balfour almost engaged him to be superintendent of the Madras Horticultural Garden.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 81, 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3904 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … of 17 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), Scott promised to send CD specimens of …
- … 9, letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 September [1861] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter from …
- … Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 ). …
- … See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 6 December [1862] . Primula scotica …
- … 11 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD wrote that despite his hard work at …
- … of 11 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), Scott informed CD of his own experiments …
- … me not a little’ (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] ). …
- … on Acropera (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 15 November [1862] ). …
- … See also Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] , letter from …
- … the stigmatic chamber (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November …
- … stigmatic cavity (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , …
- … of 11 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), Scott described his success in pollinating …
- … 3 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD suggested placing a pollen mass directly …
- … incidental on other acquired differences’. See also Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix VI. …
- … See Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 December [1862] , for CD’s interest …
- … for comparison (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters from John Scott, 15 November [1862] …
- … 19 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD had suggested that Scott might undertake …
- … 107). See letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] and nn. 10–11. With encouragement from …
- … CD (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 3 December [1862] ), Scott later …
- … 19 December [1862] (see Correspondence vol. 10), CD suggested that Scott experiment with …
- … and 19 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD suggested that Scott experiment with …
- … Scott 1863b ). See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, 17 December [1862] . …
- … Botanic Gardens, Kew (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December …
- … of 19 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD mentioned that his Begonia plant was …
- … of 19 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD offered ‘pecuniary assistance’ with …
From G. H. Darwin [c. 16 October 1873?]
Summary
Sends table showing relative force of impact of weight dropped on a plane inclined at different angles.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 16 Oct 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9078 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … give it for the other inclinations Inclination of plane to horizon Impact 0 o . 1 . 10 o . …
- … 9848 = 9 10 or 98 100 20 o . …
- … 9397 = 9 10 or 94 100 30 o . …
- … 8660 = 9 10 or 87 100 40 o . …
- … 7660 = 8 10 or 76 100 or 3 4 45 o . …
- … 7071 = 7 10 or 71 100 50 o . …
- … 6428 = 6 10 or 64 100 or 2 3 60 o . …
- … 5000 = 5 10 or 50 100 or 1 2 70 o . …
- … 3420 = 3 10 or 34 100 or 1 3 80 o . …
- … 1736 = 2 10 or 17 100 or 1 6 90 o 0 This may …
- … be epitomised thus, less to 40 o the impact is about 9 10 at 40 o it is 3 …
- … 4 , 45 o it is 7 10 , at 50 o = 2 3 , at 60 o = 1 2 , at 70 o = 1 3 at 80 o = 1 6 & at 90 …
To Asa Gray 2 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 2 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3897 |
Matches: 23 hits
- … 1862 and 9 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD reported feeling unwell in …
- … late December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 December …
- … him very uncomf—’. See Correspondence vol. 10, letters from Asa Gray , 24 November 1862 …
- … steamer Africa (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 , and …
- … of 15 July [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD’s experimental notes on M. repens , made …
- … the previous year (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). …
- … pp. 274–5. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 17 November 1862 , letter …
- … December 1861] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] ). His …
- … of the Rubiaceae (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to G. H. K. Thwaites, 15 June [ …
- … Dana, 4 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). In 1859, James Dwight Dana had suffered …
- … stamps for Leonard’s collection (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 10, letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , and letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). …
- … of 24 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10) had been sent using a ‘peculiar stamp … for …
- … in October 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II), he had twice asked Gray about …
- … been cultivated (see Correspondence vol. 10, letters to Asa Gray , 23 November [1862] and …
- … of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10), which CD received later in January. CD …
- … 25 November 1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), and the annotated articles on strawberries …
- … December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II), soliciting examples from several …
- … Falconer (see Correspondence vols. 9 and 10). Joseph Dalton Hooker had been working on …
- … 1861] and n. 4, and Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 August …
- … D. Hooker 1862d ). See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 December …
- … Francis Boott (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 ). …
- … at Down House (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] ). …
From Asa Gray 10 October 1866
Summary
Does not think he can persuade American publishers to reprint [4th English ed. of] Origin in U. S. Suggests Murray supply copies of it and the new book [Variation] to the American market.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5237 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Asa Gray 10 October 1866 …
- … DAR 165: 155 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 10 Oct 1866 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Cambridge Mass. Oct. 10. 66 My Dear Darwin Thanks …
- … for very interesting letter of Sept. 10— I am much pressed now, or would write a long …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] . CD had asked his publisher, John Murray , to …
- … copy by Murray (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 6). CD’s American …
- … fertilised plants (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and nn. 13 and 14). In a …
- … and additional material (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 7). Gray had …
- … from a nursery (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 9). CD had asked Gray …
- … European examples (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and n. 11). Acorus calamus …
To Fritz Müller 9 December [1865]
Summary
Has forwarded FM’s MS to Max Schultze, but did not read it.
Movement of stem apex in Linum.
Haeckel’s paper on reproduction in certain Medusae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4949 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Dec [1865] Johann …
- … received your interesting letter of Oct. 10 th . with its new facts on branch-tendrils. …
- … to Rosa Müller . See letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 and n. 12. Haeckel 1865b …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 . …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 and n. …
- … 10. CD added the information …
- … tendrils contained in Müller’s letter of 10 October 1865 to the paper he sent to the …
- … from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 1. Müller had sent CD …
- … 1866 ). See letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 and nn. 6 and 7. CD’s letter to …
- … to send a copy directly to CD (see letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 and n. 8). …
- … In his letter to CD of 10 October 1865 , Müller had discussed the problem of explaining, …
- … no mineral component. In his letter of 10 October 1865 , Müller had requested the original …
From John Wright to George Cupples 18 February 1874
Author: | unknown |
Addressee: | unknown |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 107–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9301 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … DAR 90: 107–10 …
To Daniel Oliver [c. 10 June 1864]
Summary
Asks DO to draw diagram of Lythrum on board at Linnean Society for reference during the reading of CD’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [c. 10 June 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4532 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Daniel Oliver [ c. 10 June 1864] …
- … DAR 261.10: 61 (EH 88206044) Charles Robert Darwin Down [c. 10 June 1864] Daniel Oliver …
- … 2–3 August 1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). The sketch is in DAR 185: 70. CD enclosed …
- … sketch in his letter to Asa Gray, [3–]4 September [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). …
- … good hand at Diagrams; & I believe in 5 or 10 minutes you could copy a diagram in chalk on …
- … enclosed with the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] . CD’s paper ‘Three forms of …
From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Sends a paper ["Über das Holz einiger um Desterro wachsender Kletterpflanzen", Botanische Zeitung 24 (1866): 57–60, 65–9].
Believes species of sponge with different mineral spiculae are descended from a form with organic spiculae.
Reports observations on motions of Linum stalks following the sun.
Regards Anelasma as a connecting form between cirripedes and Rhizocephala.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 74–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912A |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865 …
- … Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Desterro, Brazil 10 Oct 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and is a hyperparasite (parasite upon a parasite) of some Rhizocephala. See n. 10, above. …
- … its published source, see pp. 266–7. See letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] . Müller …
- … Müller 1864 (see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] , n. 2). CD had probably sent …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 10. October 1865. Verehrter …
- … empfing ich Ihren freundlichen Brief vom 10. August und fühle mich sehr geschmeichelt …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 10 October 1865 My dear Sir, Yesterday …
- … I received your kind letter of 10 August and I feel very complimented by the interest …
- … Müller, 20 September [1865] and nn. 9 and 10. The Swedish naturalist Wilhelm Lilljeborg …
- … Bronn trans. 1862) in his letter to Müller of 10 August [1865] . In his letter of 20 …
- … from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; see also letter from Fritz …
To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 [January 1863]
Summary
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3852 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 [January 1863] …
- … Archives (Huxley 5: 183) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 [Jan 1863] Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10; see nn. 3 and 7, below). …
- … CD wrote ‘Dec. ’ in error. Between 10 November and 15 December 1862, Huxley delivered six …
- … Down Bromley Kent Dec. 10 th My dear Huxley You will be weary of notes from me about the …
- … for April 1863. See Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Lubbock, 15 December 1862 , …
- … to CD of 2 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10); for CD’s comments, see Correspondence …
- … vol. 10, letters to T. H. Huxley, 7 December [1862] , 18 December [1862] , and 28 …
- … Marginalia 1: 425). See Correspondence vol. 10, letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [ …
- … Huxley 1863a , pp. 146–50, and Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix VI). Letter to T. H. …
- … Huxley, 28 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD and Huxley had been debating the …
- … since January 1860 (see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix VI). See also n. 6, above. …
- … 28 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10), CD wrote: ‘To get the degree of sterility …
- … January 1860 (see Correspondence vols. 8–10, Appendix II). The domestic breeds that CD …
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 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Fritz Müller [before 10 December 1866] …
- … The British Library (Loan MS 10 …
- … no 10) Charles Robert …
- … Darwin Down [before 10 Dec 1866] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] (see nn. 6 and 7, below). See …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). See letter to Linnean …
- … attractive pulp. I soaked one of the seeds for 10 hours, in warm water which became only …
- … pavonina ) with his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] . CD recorded the trial …
- … of the experiment in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1866] . CD had referred to …
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Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … with natural selection” ( letter from M. D. Conway, 10 September [1873] ). In the village …