From Emma Darwin to Alfred Newton 4 November [1863]
Summary
CD thanks AN for the note and remarks on the partridge’s leg. CD is too ill to write a note, but will send [for] the specimen as soon as he can. [See 4326.]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330F |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
From Hugh Falconer 24 August [1863]
Summary
Sends information about Pliocene fauna of the "Forest Bed" of the Norfolk coast.
A genus described as extinct by Owen is found by E. A. I. H. Lartet to exist in Russia.
Edouard Suess attributes to Oswald Heer and HF the generalisation "That the time during which a new species is formed, is (as a rule) very short in comparison with the time during which it persistently presents the same peculiar specific characters". [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math-naturw. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31.] [See 4277.]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273A |
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 |
To Asa Gray 31 May [1863]
Summary
AG’s review of Alphonse de Candolle’s paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 430–44] is excellent.
Does not AG consider that orchids oppose Oswald Heer’s view that species arise suddenly by monstrosities?
Infers that AG cannot explain the angles of phyllotaxy; has been looking at Carl Nägeli on the subject.
Reports Gaston de Saporta’s belief that natural selection will ultimately triumph in France.
Is working slowly at Variation.
Reports his observations on the imperfect flowers of Viola and Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 31 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4196 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10, and 29 May [1863] and n. 12, and letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 and nn. 24 and …
- … 12 April [1863] , and experimental notes in DAR 111: 46 and DAR 109: B6). CD initially believed the ‘perfect flowers’ of the species to be heterostyled and hence adapted to cross-pollination by insects, but later concluded that the species was homostyled (see Forms of flowers , p. 182). CD’s observations on Viola were published in Forms of flowers , pp. 315–21 and 336. CD had been experimenting on ‘imperfect’ (cleistogamic) flowers of Oxalis and Viola since 1862; he summarised his provisional conclusions on their function in the letter to Asa Gray, 26[– …
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 December [1860]
Summary
Analysing results of last spring’s Primula experiments, CD infers pollen of short-styled plants "suits" long-styled plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3024 |
From Arnold and Carolina Dodel-Port 8 December 1880
Summary
Have received Movement in plants. It will interest not only botanists but zoologists and biologists.
Ten years ago AD-P encountered great opposition when he started teaching Darwinism at Zurich. Now all except old Oswald Heer call themselves Darwinists.
Author: | Arnold Dodel-Port; Carolina Dodel-Port |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12898 |
To John Higgins 25 May [1847]
Summary
Discusses accounts.
Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 25 May [1847] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 March [1871]
Summary
Sends Hibiscus
and enclosure [Queries about expression?] on chance of "any point being observed" in Morocco.
Murray informs him edition of Descent will probably be 6500 copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 193–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7630 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
Prestwich, Joseph. 1864. On the Quaternary flint implements of Abbeville, Amiens, Hoxne, &c., their geological position and history. [Read February 26 1864.] Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 4 (1862–6): 213–22.
To Francis Darwin 22 [October 1881]
Summary
Thinks FD should review Julius von Wiesner’s book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. CD comforted that Wiesner’s experiments support their findings but finds it laughable how differently he has interpreted them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 22 [Oct 1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13422 |
To John Murray 27 May [1871]
Summary
Asks JM for final decision about a cheap edition of Origin. Would like to begin soon to revise and answer recent objections.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 27 May [1871] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 287–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7772 |
From A. C. Ramsay 18 June [1880]
Summary
Further details of pavement that sank from action of earthworms. There were plenty of castings, which first led him to think worms were involved.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June [1880] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13210 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … after 12 June was 15 June. Hooker first mentioned Tylor 1865 in his letter of [26 May …
- … see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n. 18. …
- … 26 th . the Benthams going with us. —sleeping at York the first night. Ever Yrs affec | J D Hooker Jermyn S t . June 12 …
To John William Salter 28 February [1862]
Summary
CD returns a paper he has received through [G. B.?] Sowerby. He wishes he could persuade his correspondent to publish papers on such subjects. The series on brachiopods was very striking.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Salter |
Date: | 28 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5019 |
To John Denny 14 July [1872]
Summary
Discusses JD’s crossing experiments with Pelargonium; notes that his conclusions on male prepotence oppose those of Gärtner. Suggests that his observations on differences in fertility of certain varieties of Pelargonium crossed with certain other varieties be communicated to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Denny |
Date: | 14 July [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 114–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8410 |
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