From John Scott 12 [February 1864]
Summary
Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.
Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.
Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Feb 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4386 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 May [1866]
Summary
Has forwarded FH’s paper on Fumariaceae to horticultural congress. Comments on its findings.
Discusses forms of Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5092 |
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
- … 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] ; see also Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. 11 and 12); a protoplasmic …
- … 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 and n. 8, and Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
- … 12. See ibid. , letter to Ernst Haeckel, 19 July [1864] and n. 7. CD exchanged photographs with many of his correspondents during the 1860s (see Correspondence vols. 9–13, …
From Asa Gray 17 September 1868
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 165 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6370 |
From A. R. Wallace [23 January 1863?]
Summary
Now recalls a Melastoma visited by some small Cetoniadae and bees (Xylocopa) in Malay Archipelago.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Jan 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 70 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4390 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3784 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 January 1873
Summary
Hopes Drosophyllum was all right.
Opinion of Council of Royal Society [on Presidency] is twelve for JDH, five for Duke of Devonshire, and G. B. Airy for William Spottiswoode.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8742 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 February 1866
Summary
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4997 |
From Emma Darwin to T. H. Farrer [16 October 1877]
Summary
CD desires her to say that the cream of THF’s letter of congratulations about William [Darwin]’s marriage [to Sara Sedgwick] lay in the P.S. about "the beloved worms, and not in any such trifles as marrying, &c".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [16 Oct 1877] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11268 |
To David J. Brown 18 April 1864
Summary
Discusses DJB’s MS concerning the origin of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David James Brown |
Date: | 18 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.299) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4464 |
To Ernst Krause 16 June [1879]
Summary
CD will attend to ELK’s suggestions, but there is plenty of time, because Dallas translates slowly and Murray will not publish the book before November.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 16 June [1879] |
Classmark: | New York Medical College |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12111G |
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4852 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … nn. 12 and 13). CD is referring to the note on page 11 of C. Lyell 1863c ; see letter …
- … 12. CD refers to George and Ellen Busk and their exclusion from social gatherings hosted by Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell ; Hooker claimed that the dispute that arose between Lubbock and Lyell was at least partly due to the resentment felt by Lubbock over this treatment of the Busks by the Lyells (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n. 16). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n. 13; see also letter …
From Julius von Haast 27 September 1865
Summary
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4900 |
Matches: 2 hits
From Asa Gray 21 July 1863
Summary
Gives some observations on Drosera.
Comments on Richard Owen’s "transmutation theory" in his aye-aye paper [Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 5 (1866): 33–101].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 128, 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4248 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 or 20 January 1873]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 20] Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 138–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8734 |
To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863]
Summary
Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".
Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [29? Sept 1863] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4310 |
From John Tyndall 9 October 1868
Summary
Gustavus Hinrichs is also a [not highly regarded] correspondent of JT’s; he will put GH’s papers on the table at Royal Institution to ease CD’s conscience.
Dined with the Asa Grays at Hooker’s. Told Mrs Gray that CD’s ill health was a benefit because it caused him to ponder a great deal.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6414 |
From Asa Gray 17 January 1865
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1864b (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). CD had …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] . CD was presented with the Copley Medal of the Royal Society on 30 November 1864 (see Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 13 (1863–4): 505, and Correspondence vol. 12, …
From J. D. Hooker [15 March 1863]
Summary
JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 117–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4040 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 2 [October 1842 – April 1882]
Summary
Requests some carbonate of ammonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
Date: | 2 [Oct 1842 - Mar 1882] |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants (QH 9.9 I59m)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8132 |
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