To Fritz Müller 11 January 1866
Summary
Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.
Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.
CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4972 |
Matches: 21 hits
- … Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest. Has also read …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13). No request by …
- … 13, letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] ; for Müller’s receipt of the book, see …
- … of Müller in his letter of 10 August [1865] ( Correspondence vol. 13), and Müller …
- … he had had one made ( ibid. , letter from Müller, 10 October 1865) . It is likely that the …
- … the letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13). Although the …
- … see plate opposite p. 185). Earlier in 1865, CD had sent a photograph of himself to …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 ). CD refers to F. …
- … 1865a . In his letter of 10 October 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13), Müller mentioned that …
- … 13, letter to Fritz Müller, 9 December [1865] . An offprint of F. Müller 1865a , with a …
- … Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In the summer of 1865, CD had been reading back issues from the …
- … vol. 13, letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 September [1865] and n. 4, and letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] and n. …
- … 12, and 22 and 28 [October 1865] ). …
- … Between 1857 and 1865, the journal published twelve translations of papers by Müller, all …
- … 13, letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 and n. 13). The river is in the north-east …
- … see Correspondence vol. 13, letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 and n. 14). …
- … The expedition, which left New York on 1 April 1865 and returned on 6 August 1866, was …
- … 13, letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] and n. 12. On Agassiz’s controversial …
- … and 44–65. In his letter to CD of 5 November 1865 , Müller referred to the landscape and …
- … to M. J. S. Schultze dated 11 March 1865 ( Möller 1915–21 , 2: 62), Müller described …
To W. B. Tegetmeier [7 April 1865]
Summary
Fowl MS has arrived safely.
Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.
Further instructions for Luke Wells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [7 Apr 1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4806 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier [7 April 1865] …
- … Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down [7 Apr 1865] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … had been reading and correcting (see letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 February [1865] and …
- … 28 March [1865] , and letter from W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 ). It is probable that Tegetmeier …
- … sent the manuscript with his letter of [29 March – 7 April 1865] . The reference is …
- … to the issue of the Field for 1 April 1865 (see letter from W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and nn. 1 and 2), containing an article, illustrated by …
- … from W. B. Tegetmeier, [29 March – 7 April 1865] . The note has not been found. See …
- … also letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 6 April [1865] and nn. 3 and 4. Chapter 7 of Variation …
- … his letter to CD of [29 March – 7 April 1865] ; CD had mentioned that he intended to have …
- … in his letter to Tegetmeier of 14 March [1865] . CD had begun writing the first chapter on …
From George Busk 28 April 1865
Summary
Has heard from Hooker that CD is very ill and asking for suggestion of a doctor to consult. Recommends A. B. Garrod as specialist in gouty complaints.
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 381 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4820 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From George Busk 28 April 1865 …
- … DAR 160: 381 George Busk London, Harley St, 15 28 Apr 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … could help. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 April [1865] and n. 3, and Appendix IV. …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 18; see also letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] . Busk refers to Alfred Baring Garrod . There is no record of …
- … his letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] , CD mentioned that ‘All Doctors’ thought …
- … 15 Harley S t April 28 1865 My dear Darwin Just as I was starting on a short trip to …
To John Murray 31 March [1865]
Summary
Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.
Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 31 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4801 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To John Murray 31 March [1865] …
- … Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135) Charles Robert Darwin Down 31 Mar [1865] John Murray …
- … letter and the letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . The enclosure has not been found; …
- … forthcoming book in the Reader , 15 April 1865, p. 427. The notice is under the heading ‘ …
- … Domestication’. See also letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] and n. 3. Variation was not …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] . CD refers to the drawings by Luke Wells. …
- … See letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and n. …
- … 6, and 28 March [1865] , and letter from W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and n. 5. See letter …
- … from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 . William Bernhard Tegetmeier edited the poultry …
- … B. Tegetmeier, [28 February – 5 March 1865] ). CD presumably refers to four illustrations …
- … memorandum from C. A. Royer, [April–June 1865]. When Variation was published in 1868, it …
- … volume, letter to Charles Lyell, 22 January [1865] and n. 18. CD refers to his draft of …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 22 January [1865] and nn. 16 and 17. Variation was published …
- … see letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 and n. 7). See also Correspondence vol. 10, …
To Henry Wentworth Acland 8 December [1865]
Summary
Acknowledges HWA’s oration.
Discusses design in nature, Asa Gray’s views, and his own confusion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Acland d. 81, fols. 63–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4948 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To Henry Wentworth Acland 8 December [1865] …
- … fols. 63–4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 Dec [1865] Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st baronet …
- … Bibliography Acland, Henry Wentworth. 1865. …
- … The Harveian oration, 1865. London: Macmillan and Co. Brooke, John Hedley. 1991. Science …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … year is established by the reference to Acland 1865 (see n. 4, below). The letter from …
- … The gift was probably a copy of Acland 1865 (see n. 4, below). In a letter to Jeffries …
- … Science (see Correspondence vol. 4). In 1865, Acland delivered the Harveian Oration, an …
- … Harvey and other benefactors of the Royal College of Physicians ( Acland 1865 ; DNB ). …
- … CD’s lightly annotated copy of Acland 1865 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … that we know to exclude Design’ ( Acland 1865 , p. 51). Acland also criticised at length …
- … of the eye by natural selection ( Acland 1865 , p. 25). He also quoted a passage from …
- … unlimited time at his disposal’ ( Acland 1865 , p. 40). On the relationship between CD’s …
From F. H. Hooker 22 September [1865]
Summary
J. D. Hooker is recovering from his ill health.
Author: | Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 237–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4898 |
Matches: 19 hits
- … From F. H. Hooker 22 September [1865] …
- … Frances Harriet Henslow/Frances Harriet Hooker Buxton 22 Sept [1865] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … and others]. 1826–. Geikie, Archibald. 1865. The scenery of Scotland viewed in connexion …
- … Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. Phillips, John. 1865. Address of the president. Report of the …
- … letter from F. H. Hooker, 13 September [1865] . The letter from CD has not been found. …
- … see letter from F. H. Hooker, 6 September [1865] and nn. 2 and 5. On the advice of his …
- … 1863a ), but made no reference to John Lubbock’s Pre-historic times ( Lubbock 1865 ; see …
- … Phillips 1865 , p. lxi). The reference is …
- … s The scenery of Scotland viewed in connexion with its physical geology ( Geikie 1865 ). …
- … well enough to travel to Buxton (see letters from F. H. Hooker, 6 September [1865] and …
- … 13 September [1865] ). John Tyndall was a …
- … Section A (mathematics and physics) at the 1865 meeting of the British Association for the …
- … held at Birmingham, from 6 to 13 September 1865 (see Report of the thirty-fifth meeting of …
- … Science; held at Birmingham in September 1865 , p. xxxi). Ellen Frances Lubbock had been …
- … letter from F. H. Hooker, 13 September [1865] and n. 6). Apart from the accident, there …
- … child, Rolfe Arthur Lubbock , on 19 September 1865 ( Burke’s peerage ). John Phillips …
- … delivered the presidential address to the British Association on 6 September 1865 ( …
- … Phillips 1865 ; the address was also printed …
- … in the Reader , 9 September 1865, pp. 293– 6). In his presidential address, Phillips …
To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1865]
Summary
Feels a little better, but sickness continues.
Wants to borrow Robert Caspary’s paper on the union of buds in Cytisus [see 5012].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4825 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1865] …
- … DAR 115: 267 Charles Robert Darwin Down [1 May 1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 April 1865, pp. 385–6 (see letter from M. …
- … T. Masters, 12 July 1865 ); the report was written by the principal editor of the …
- … established by the endorsement; the Monday preceding 2 May 1865 was 1 May. The reference …
- … s paper on Cytisus adami ( Caspary 1865 ), which was read at the Congrès International de …
- … held at Amsterdam from 7 to 12 April 1865 under the auspices of the Royal Horticultural …
- … Congress, the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 April 1865, p. 386, noted that ‘Professor Caspary …
- … is a lightly annotated copy of Caspary 1865 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. The …
- … Robert Caspary, 25 February 1866 . Caspary 1865 is cited in Variation 1: 388–9, but CD …
To J. D. Hooker 16 August [1865]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4884 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 16 August [1865] …
- … DAR 115: 274 Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Aug [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Condolences on W. J. Hooker’s death [12 Aug 1865]. His own health is bad. …
- … William Jackson Hooker , Hooker’s father, died on 12 August 1865. The notice of …
- … his death appeared in The Times , 15 August 1865, p. 1. Hooker had …
- … s health in a letter to CD of [26 May 1865] , when he wrote of his father: ‘he is much …
From Asa Gray 24 July 1865
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4877 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From Asa Gray 24 July 1865 …
- … DAR 165: 148 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 24 July 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Cambridge, Mass. July 24, 1865. My Dear Darwin I had heard, thro’ Hooker, that you had …
- … see letter from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 and nn. 12 and 13). Gray had sent CD seeds …
- … London: John Murray. 1877. Gray, Asa. 1865–6. On the movements and habits of climbing …
- … volume, letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] ). For CD’s opposition to slavery, see also …
- … General William Sherman’s campaign in early 1865 that only a token force was thought to be …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … Gray 1858 ; see letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] and n. 16). Gray refers to ‘Climbing …
- … s review of ‘Climbing plants’ ( A. Gray 1865–6 ) appeared in American Journal of Science …
- … and Arts 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82. The reference is to …
- … see letter from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 and n. 11). Charles Greely Loring , Gray’s …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 and n. 6. Over the course of the American …
To George Henslow [2–5 November 1865]
Summary
Reports the results of an experiment to compare the weight of seeds produced in plants of [Medicago sativa] by self-pollination and by insect pollination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | [2–5 Nov 1865] |
Classmark: | Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 328 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929F |
Matches: 10 hits
- … To George Henslow [2–5 November 1865] …
- … Botany ) 9 (1867): 328 n. Charles Robert Darwin Down [2–5 Nov 1865] George Henslow …
- … John Murray. 1876. Henslow, George. 1865. Note on the structure of Medicago sativa , as …
- … of distinct flowers. [Read 16 November 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) …
- … between this letter and the letters from George Henslow , 1 November 1865 and …
- … 6 November 1865 . CD reported these observations of Medicago lupulina in response to a …
- … cross-pollination by insects (see letter from George Henslow, 1 November 1865 and nn. 5– …
- … 9, and G. Henslow 1865 ). CD’s observations were also published in Cross and self …
- … see letter from George Henslow, 6 November 1865 and nn. 3 and 6). Observations made by ‘ …
- … c. ’, are cited in G. Henslow 1865 , p. 329. CD’s notes on cross-pollination by insects …
From J. D. Hooker [20 January 1865]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4749 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [20 January 1865] …
- … DAR 102: 6 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [20 Jan 1865] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [after 17 June 1865] and n. 6). Hooker was collaborating with …
- … this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ; see also letter from …
- … Frances Harriet Hooker, [27 January 1865] . …
- … In 1865, 20 January was a Friday. CD had invited Hooker to spend Sunday at Down …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] and n. 4). Visiting during the gooseberry …
From George Henslow 2 December 1865
Summary
Has been writing a review of CD’s "Climbing plants" for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 55–65].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 152, 152/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4944 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From George Henslow 2 December 1865 …
- … 166: 152, 152/1 George Henslow London, South Crescent, 10 2 Dec 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter from George Henslow, 1 November 1865 and nn. 6 and 8). No record has been found …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] ]Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) …
- … Archive–CUL. Sprengel 1793 . See letter from George Henslow, 6 November 1865 and n. 3. …
- … University Press. 1985–. Henslow, George. 1865. Note on the structure of Medicago sativa , …
- … of distinct flowers. [Read 16 November 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) …
- … G. Henslow 1865 . See …
- … letter from George Henslow, 6 November 1865 and n. 2. CD had sent Henslow his paper ‘On …
- … the crossing of kidney beans’. See letters from George Henslow , 1 November 1865 and n. …
- … 9, and 6 November 1865 . George Henslow’s father, John Stevens Henslow , had actively …
To Frederic William Farrar 11 October [1865]
Summary
Thanks for book on language [Chapters on language (1865)], which he hopes to read soon if his weak health permits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
Date: | 11 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4913 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … To Frederic William Farrar 11 October [1865] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 Oct [1865] Frederic William Farrar …
- … book on language [ Chapters on language (1865)], which he hopes to read soon if his weak …
- … John Murray. 1871. Farrar, Frederic William. 1865. Chapters on language. London: Longmans, …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter from F. W. Farrar, 6 November 1865 . The …
- … is to Chapters on language ( Farrar 1865 ). CD’s presentation copy is in the Darwin …
To John Chapman 7 June 1865
Summary
Reports on progress of ice treatment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Chapman |
Date: | 7 June 1865 |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4854 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To John Chapman 7 June 1865 …
- … Special Collections (3314 1: 44) Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 June 1865 John Chapman …
- … Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E. June 7. 1865 My dear Sir On the whole I can give a pretty …
- … CD had been undergoing Chapman’s ice treatment since 20 May 1865; Chapman had last visited …
- … CD on 28 May 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
- … See letter to John Chapman, 16 May [1865] and nn. 3 and 4, and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and n. 5. The entries …
- … the notes ‘sickness at night’ for 3 June 1865, ‘slight sick’ for 4 June, and ‘good day’ …
- … during the ice treatment, except for 10 June 1865, which includes the note ‘Very languid & …
From Henry Holland 25 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for "Climbing plants" [see 4861].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4865 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Henry Holland 25 June [1865] …
- … 166: 246 Henry Holland, 1st baronet London, Brook St 25 June [1865] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the Geological Society (Busk and Falconer 1865; see also Falconer 1868 , 2: 554–63). See …
- … 4 November [1864] and n. 6. Falconer died of heart-failure on 31 January 1865 ( DNB ). …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … plants’ , which was published in June 1865. No presentation list for the paper has been …
- … Exhibition of Arts and Industry’ opened in Oporto, Portugal, on 18 September 1865 (see The …
- … Times , 26 September 1865, p. 10). Holland, Hugh Falconer , and George Busk had visited …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 10 April 1865
Summary
MS [of CD’s pigeon chapter] arrived safely.
Pigeon and poultry engravings [for Variation].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4808 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From W. B. Tegetmeier 10 April 1865 …
- … DAR 178: 67 William Bernhard Tegetmeier Muswell Hill 10 Apr 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [7 April 1865] ). The reference is to drawings of pigeons by …
- … Field (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and n. 5, and letters to W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 28 March [1865] , and [ …
- … 7 April 1865] and n. 2). In his letter …
- … of his letter of [29 March – 7 April 1865] after reading CD’s manuscript on ‘Fowls’ (see …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [7 April 1865] and n. 1). …
- … to W. B. Tegetmeier of 6 April [1865] , CD asked that Wells send an estimate of the cost …
- … John Murray and R. F. Cooke, 17 April 1865. William Yarrell had helped CD buy equipment …
To Eliza Meteyard 16 November [1865]
Summary
Asks her to send some specimens of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s handwriting for the Autographic Mirror.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eliza Meteyard |
Date: | 16 Nov [1865] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4936 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Eliza Meteyard 16 November [1865] …
- … Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/7 Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Nov [1865] Eliza Meteyard …
- … Bibliography Meteyard, Eliza. 1865–6. The life of Josiah Wedgwood from his private …
- … See letter from Hermann Kindt, 13 November 1865 and n. 2. CD had sent Meteyard …
- … his maternal grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood I , for use in Meteyard 1865–6 (see letter from …
- … Eliza Meteyard, 25 April 1865 and n. 4, and Supplement, letter to Hurst and Blackett, …
- … Mirror ( L’Autograph Cosmopolite ); this letter is quoted in Meteyard 1865–6 , 1: 436. …
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865 …
- … 161: 244 Edward Cresy, Jr Metropolitan Board of Works 9 June 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] ]Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) …
- … 1864 . See letter from Edward Cresy, 30 May 1865 and n. 3. The reference is to Anon. …
- … of the Royal Society of London ( DNB ). See letter to George Maw, 4 June [1865] and n. …
- … 5, and letter to John Chapman, 7 June 1865 and n. 1. Cresy …
- … an abstract of the Bibliotheque Universelle 1865 Bulletin Scientifique, p 154— If I can be …
- … read before the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865. The publication that contained a brief …
- … lecture at the Royal Institution on 2 June 1865; he spoke on the methods and results of …
- … the Royal Institution of Great Britain 4 (1865): 461–3). The text of the lecture was later …
- … in the Fortnightly Review ( T. H. Huxley 1865 ). In the lecture, Huxley argued that the …
From Jeffries Wyman 22 September 1865
Summary
Discusses the climbing movements of plants and describes experiment to establish a mechanical explanation for double spiralling movements of tendrils.
Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4897 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Jeffries Wyman 22 September 1865 …
- … DAR 181: 190 Jeffries Wyman Cambridge Mass. 22 Sept 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see letter to Asa Gray 15 August [1865] and n. 4). CD did not alter this section in the …
- … Roberts & Green; Williams & Norgate. 1865. ‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … Cambridge [Massachusetts] Sept 22 1865 My Dear Sir Through the kindness of Dr Gray I have …
- … to Wyman (see letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] ). For Wyman’s views on contractility in …
- … necessity (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and n. 6); however, CD maintained that …
To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865]
Summary
Mentions Miss Buckley’s information on roosting in trees [see Variation 1: 181 n.].
Refers to Duke [of Argyll] and his Lamarckian view of change.
Roosting habits and behaviour of pigeons in Egypt.
Criticises Herbert Spencer’s works.
Has finished Elements; comments on Laurentian stages.
Remarks on his health
and forthcoming work [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.307) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4794 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 25 March [1865] …
- … Mss.B.D25.307) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Mar [1865] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … to the sixth edition of Lyell’s Elements of Geology ( C. Lyell 1865 ), which was …
- … published in January 1865 ( Publishers’ Circular 28: 60). See n. 10, below. The note from …
- … vols. Paris: Dentu; the author. Lyell, Charles. 1865. Elements of geology, or the ancient …
- … Campbell in a letter to Lyell dated 22 March 1865; a portion of the letter was published …
- … the letter from E. P. Wright, 24 March 1865 and nn. 6–8. The reference is to Herbert …
- … of biology , which was published in January 1865 ( Spencer 1864–7 , 2: 1–80). This number …
- … Down House between 4 and 6 March 1865. For Hooker’s opinion of earlier instalments, see …
- … 1864 and 26[–8] October 1864 . C. Lyell 1865 . There is an annotated copy of this work …
- … Marginalia 1: 524–5). For CD’s earlier comments on C. Lyell 1865 , see the letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 15 [February 1865] , and the letter to …
- … Charles Lyell, 21 February [1865] . C. …
- … Lyell 1865 , pp. 578–80. In his discussion of the Laurentian series of rocks, north of …
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The …
- … However, several smaller projects came to fruition in 1865, including the publication of his long …
- … of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family had had a …
- … the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). Darwin was ready to submit his …
- … letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin, 3 January 1865 ). Erasmus forwarded his letters …
- … laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] ). Sic transit gloria …
- … the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] ). However, Hooker, at the time …
- … are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 ). Darwin, now ‘haunted’ by …
- … with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). Continuing ill-health …
- … to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). He particularly hated being ill …
- … of life. He wrote to Charles Lyell on 22 January [1865] , ‘unfortunately reading makes my head …
- … it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] ). In July, he consulted …
- … bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] ). By October, Darwin thought he might be …
- … to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] ). It was not until December, …
- … hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). Delays and …
- … last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] ). In April he authorised …
- … press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In early June, he wrote to Murray …
- … when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was not until 25 December …
- … of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). After sending the manuscript to the …
- … like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ). An abstract of the paper …
- … for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; Darwin noted at the beginning of …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June [1865] ). The paper was published in a …
- … German, he had it translated, and wrote to Müller in August 1865 that he had just finished hearing …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; since it is impossible to …
- … clearly understand (l etter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] ). Darwin was particularly …
- … scientific work’ ( letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] ), he clearly read Müller’s letters …
- … from sea-sickness ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). This may have been unwise: Thomas …
- … & ability’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] ). Scott took these criticisms, no …
- … again when he had time ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ); at the time of writing, he had …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London …
- … Darwin wrote that he fell ill again on 22 April 1865 and was unable to ‘do anything.’ Emma Darwin’s …
- … hand). Darwin began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865. In his letter to Chapman of 7 June 1865 …
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865]). Darwin’s condition had been …
- … and George Busk (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [7 January 1865], and letter from George Busk, 28 April …
Prize possessions: To Henry Denny, 17 January [1865]
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Between 1980 and 2018, I was honorary curator of the Alfred Denny Museum of Zoology in the University of Sheffield. One of our prize possessions was a letter from Darwin to Henry Denny, then curator and assistant secretary of the Literary and Philosophical…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in …
- … basis of Lubbock’s book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865). By 1860, Lyell had begun work …
- … material available pertaining to the antiquity of humans. In 1865, he wrote that the section on …
- … not pursue any grievance against Lyell until the spring of 1865. 13 In the course of …
- … C. Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1861 (and consequently in Lubbock 1865), combined with the wording of …
- … between the end of February and the beginning of March 1865, Lubbock wrote the note which would …
- … received a copy of Lubbock’s book, published in mid-May 1865, he immediately wrote to express his …
- … Ramsay in a note to an article published in the April 1865 issue of the Philosophical Magazine . …
- … thought of the affair ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ). Hooker, for his part, could see …
- … for Lubbock’s book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week later he sent Lubbock a …
- … the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No correspondence with Lyell …
- … him for an opinion ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 ), Darwin wrote back ( letter to J. D …
- … and Lubbock had no direct communication after the end of May 1865, each appealing to friends to …
- … Thus, in print-runs after the end of June 1865, Lubbock had cancelled his note at the end of the …
- … of both interested parties. Only one known review of Lubbock 1865 draws attention to Lubbock’s note; …
- … situation was succinct. In his letter to Hooker of [4 June 1865] he warned that no one could do …
- … (C. Lyell 1863c; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] and n. 13). The third edition had …
- … vii–ix (revised version of last section, printed in August 1865, but dated 1863 on the title page) …
- … of the ‘ Elements of geology ’ 34 [C. Lyell 1865], and the printed proofs were transferred …
- … (see enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ). Later, Lubbock claimed that he had …
- … the note which appeared at the end of the preface to Lubbock 1865. He told Hooker, ‘I did not trust …
- … ours’ (letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, …
How to manage it: To J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865]
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Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just implied because the recipient would have known what Darwin was referring to. It is frustrating to spend hours looking but fail to identify something mentioned…
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- … found in a relatively short letter written by Darwin in June 1865 to his close friend Joseph …
- … this letter was a reply ( From J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ), but there was no mention of any …
- … Indian mutiny. At least three novels had been written around 1865. Suddenly, ‘How to’ made sense: …
- … a favourable review in the Athenæum in January 1865. It had all the criteria for a novel Darwin …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … regular attacks had occurred again in the last week of April 1865, and the third week of May, just …
- … threw up food. In his letter to Chapman of 16 May [1865] , Darwin stated that his sickness was …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness’ were …
- … difficulties reading, see letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and 27 [or 28 September 1865] …
George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … and Lady Lyell ( letter from J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865] ). …
3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'
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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of …
- … had been launched by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1863, but by 1865 Edward Walford had taken over as …
- … Darwin wrote to Walford, probably in the spring of 1865, to say, ‘I should of course be proud to be …
- … more than one sitting seems to have taken place, in November 1865 and April 1866. Darwin’s account …
- … true Philosopher’. The beard that Darwin had grown by 1865–1866 helped to enhance this …
- … public image – wrote to Emma, apparently in late November 1865, to say that he was waiting for a …
- … which derived from the three-quarter view photograph of 1865–1866 mentioned above (see separate …
- … of image Ernest Edwards date of creation 1865–1866 computer-readable date …
- … Letter from Darwin to Edward Walford, 22 [Jan. – April 1865?], (DCP-LETT-5508). Letter from Erasmus …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … Darwin to Hooker (on hearing of Robert FitzRoy’s suicide), 1865. As you are now so …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … started in January 1860, and advertised in the press since 1865 with the unwieldy title, …
- … apparently discussing it or showing it to anyone until 1865, when he sent a version of it to Huxley, …
- … a book based on a series of articles that had appeared in 1865. In it he challenged aspects of …
- … vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] and n. 4). Darwin’s wife and children also …
3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
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- … (DCP-LETT-4707); Naudin’s gushing acknowledgement, 18 June 1865 (DCP-LETT-4863). Letter from …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Letter 4940 - Cresy, E. to Darwin, E., [20 November 1865] Edward Cresy Jnr. seeks Darwin …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … precise measurement was bought to bear, a myth. In 1865, Darwin received a letter from Edward …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…