From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865]
Summary
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 May 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4836 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [26 May 1865] …
- … DAR 102: 22–3 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [26 May 1865] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … E. B. Tylor’s book on man [ Early history of mankind (1865)], disappointed in Lubbock’ …
- … s [ Prehistoric times (1865)]. …
- … from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] , n. 3. See also Appendix V. Hooker’s …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] . …
- … The Friday before 1 June 1865 was 26 May. The last known correspondence between Hooker and …
- … CD was the letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 , and the letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] . William Jackson Hooker was nearly 80 years old; he had been …
- … Nelson and Sons. Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1865. Researches into the early history of mankind …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 and n. 7). The reference is to Alexander …
- … Gardens, Kew, until 1864 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] , n. 5). …
- … Alexander Smith died on 15 May 1865 ( R. Desmond 1995 , p. 429). Alexander Williamson …
- … department responsible for the gardens) in 1865, and the duties of this post were …
- … p. 212). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] . Hooker became director …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 1 November 1865; on the changes in organisation that were a …
- … On Hooker’s work as director from November 1865, see also Turrill 1963 , pp. 122–37. John …
- … 1995 and letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] , n. 5). Hooker refers to the plant …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 April 1865] and n. 14). Daniel Oliver was keeper of …
- … found. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] . Hooker refers to the ninth edition of …
- … Edward Burnett Tylor’s Researches into the early history of mankind ( Tylor 1865 ). There …
- … is a lightly annotated copy of Tylor 1865 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: …
- … to John Lubbock’s Prehistoric times ( Lubbock 1865 ), a series of essays derived from five …
- … 4). There is an annotated copy of Lubbock 1865 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
- … 13). In a note to the preface of Lubbock 1865 , p. x, Lubbock charged Lyell with having …
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865 …
- … 166: 306 Thomas Henry Huxley Museum of Practical Geology 1 May 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian …
- … George Henslow, [2–5 November 1865] , and the letter from …
- … George Henslow, 6 November 1865 and nn. 6–8. CD and Cohn apparently did not begin to …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … introduction (Huxley and Etheridge 1865). Huxley refers to Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of …
- … Museum of Practical Geology May 1 1865 My dear Darwin I send you, by this post, a booklet …
- … in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 April 1865, p. 386, as a participant in the Congrès …
- … he gave a paper on marine algae ( Cohn 1865 ). CD had read Cohn’s work on the contraction …
- … not mentioned in CD’s letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] ; see, however, the letter to …
- … Medicin 1 (1861): 1–48. Cohn, Ferdinand Julius. 1865. Sur la culture des algues marines. …
- … et d’Horticulture réuni à Amsterdam (1865): 116–29. Correspondence : The correspondence of …
- … The preface to T. H. Huxley and Etheridge 1865 was written before 1859, when Origin was …
- … the manuscript of Variation. See also letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] . CD wrote in …
- … his journal that he became ill on 22 April 1865 and did not resume work on the manuscript …
- … 1868 (see letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] and n. 3, and Freeman 1977 , p. 122). …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] and n. 10. The reference is to Maxwell Tylden …
- … Masters and to Robert Caspary (see letters to J. D. Hooker, [1 May 1865] and …
- … 4 May [1865] ). Probably a reference to Ferdinand Julius Cohn , a privat-dozent at the …
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1865]
Summary
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 269, 269b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4846 |
Matches: 24 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1865] …
- … DAR 115: 269, 269b Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 June [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and n. 6. CD sometimes expressed concern …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] . Hooker had sent CD letters written by his …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n. 10. CD used the word ‘splenditious’ …
- … from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and enclosures. References to specific …
- … between CD and Hooker (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ) indicate that Lyell sent the same enclosures to CD, probably …
- … John Murray. 1859. Tylor, Edward Burnett. 1865. Researches into the early history of …
- … The reference is to John Chapman (see letter to John Chapman, 16 May [1865] and n. 3). …
- … CD began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also …
- … Darwin to Henrietta Emma Darwin, [ 1 June 1865] (DAR 219.9: 28)), wrote: Papa had a good …
- … see the letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n. 15. After writing his initial …
- … note at the end of the preface to Lubbock 1865 . For the text of the note, see the letter …
- … from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] , n. 3. …
- … Because Lubbock cancelled the note in late June 1865, it does not occur in all copies of …
- … edition of Pre-historic times ( Lubbock 1865 ; see letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. …
- … and n. 14). CD’s annotated copy of Lubbock 1865 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia …
- … 1: 512–13) includes the note. The reference is to Tylor 1865 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n. …
- … 13. Lubbock 1865 . Henrietta and George …
- … Darwin went to London on 25 April 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Antirrhinum …
- … this artificial self-pollination, dated 20 May 1865, are in DAR 51: A23; he described the …
- … s notes on his experiments in 1863, 1864, and 1865 on peloric flowers of Antirrhinum majus …
From J. D. Hooker [23] December 1865
Summary
No one believes in Karsten.
Surprised by CD’s observations that illegitimate crosses within a species produce hybrid-like offspring.
JDH’s scepticism of Scott’s observations.
On proposing James Hector vs Julius von Haast for Royal Society; on learned society honours.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23] Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 47–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4954 |
Matches: 26 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [23] December 1865 …
- … DAR 102: 47–50 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [23] Dec 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [ 1865] and n. 13. Hooker’s wife was Frances …
- … The date ‘22’ was written in error; in 1865, 22 December was a Friday. See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] . In an 1861 paper, Hermann Karsten claimed to have …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] and n. 7). Prior to Karsten’s publication …
- … rheumatic fever (see letter from F. H. Hooker, [17 August 1865] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] ). On Hooker’s involvement in landscaping at Kew, see R. …
- … 7 (1857): 229–46. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] and n. 5. See letter …
- … to B. D. Walsh, 19 December [1865] and n. 10, and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] . CD had guided John Scott in his Primulaceae crossing …
- … see letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 , nn. 3, 4, and 6). In a letter to CD of 16 …
- … Scott denied the charges, however (see letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 and n. 6). …
- … At the September 1865 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, a …
- … Fund, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 and n. 22, and the letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] and n. 5. On Scott’s previous position at a Cinchona …
- … Anderson , see the letter from J. D. Hooker, [17 February 1865] , and the letter from …
- … John Scott, 21 July 1865 and nn. 3 and 4. Scott had promised to repay the …
- … and sundry expenses (see letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and n. 6). See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] . As the Linnean Society’s librarian, Richard …
- … memberships of each fellow. CD’s entry for 1865 listed only his membership of the Royal …
- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] and n. 10. Julius von Haast had asked CD …
- … see letter from Julius von Haast, 27 September 1865 and n. 6). Hooker refers to Roderick …
- … was a member of the Royal Society council in 1865 (Royal Society, council minutes). Hooker …
- … geologists (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] and n. 15). Charles …
- … Hooker had written to Hector on 24 November 1865 of his decision to have Hector proposed …
To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865]
Summary
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4909 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865] …
- … Archives (Huxley 5: 223) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Oct [1865] Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 October 1865 and n. 1). The reference is to Emma Darwin , …
- … see letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 October 1865 , n. 1). The letter is in Emma’s hand. …
- … this letter and the letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 October 1865 . See letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, 2 October 1865 . CD …
- … first consulted Henry Bence Jones in July 1865 (see letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 12; see also letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] and n. 14). CD …
- … fever suffered by Joseph Dalton Hooker in August 1865 and to the letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] . See letter from F. …
- … H. Hooker, 6 September [1865] and nn. 2 and 5. The reference is to …
- … see letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 October 1865 and n. 3). CD’s Account book–banking …
- … see letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] and nn. 4–8). Huxley’s reply has not been …
- … found; however, see the letters to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] and [ …
- … 17 July 1865] , and the letter from T. …
- … H. Huxley, 16 July 1865 . The Huxley family had spent their holiday in Littlehampton, West …
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: 22 hits
- … From Asa Gray 15 and 17 May 1865 …
- … DAR 165: 147 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 15 May 1865 17 …
- … May 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … June [1863] and n. 2). This may have been the issue of 27 April 1865. See n. 3, above. …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … Cambridge, Mass. May 15, 1865— My Dear Darwin Your kind letter of the 19 th ult. crossed …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] . Gray’s letter has not been found. …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] . With the fall of Richmond, Virginia, the capital …
- … Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia on 9 April 1865, the American Civil War effectively came …
- … 557). Abraham Lincoln was shot on 14 April 1865 and died of his wounds the following day ( …
- … Society of London. 1888. Gray, Asa. 1865–6. On the movements and habits of climbing …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169– 96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
- … American minister ( The Times , 27 April 1865, p. 7). An editorial said that the news …
- … p. 7). See letter to Asa Gray, 19 April [ 1865] and n. 6. The United States and Britain …
- … see Davis 1991 , pp. 651–63). See letter from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 and n. 10. …
- … In his letter to Gray of 19 April [1865] , CD had asked for dimorphic species of …
- … forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ in the May 1865 issue of the American Journal of Science and …
- … read at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865, and CD had begun distributing …
- … offprints of the paper by June 1865 (see letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 19 April [1865] and n. 16). Gray reviewed ‘Climbing plants’ …
- … Journal of Science and Arts ( A. Gray 1865–6 ). In the first part of his review, p. 273, …
- … CD (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 ). Brace was a philanthropist who worked with …
From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4826 |
Matches: 24 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865 …
- … DAR 102: 20–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 2 May 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … n. 8, above, and letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 May 1865] ). Masters also reported on the …
- … of the Royal Horticultural Society 5 (1865): 92–7. CD’s annotation refers to Ernst …
- … Haeckel . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] and n. 10. …
- … FitzRoy committed suicide on 30 April 1865 ( DNB ). FitzRoy was commander of HMS Beagle …
- … Botanique et d’Horticulture held at Amsterdam in April 1865; the report was published in …
- … the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 April 1865, pp. 385–6. CD was interested in a paper on the …
- … Longman, Roberts and Green. Lyell, Charles. 1865. Elements of geology, or the ancient …
- … others]. 1802–1967. Ramsay, Andrew Crombie. 1865. Sir Charles Lyell and the glacial theory …
- … n.p. [Extracted from Philosophical Magazine 29 (1865): 285–98. ] Stafford, Robert A. 1989. …
- … Department at the Admiralty ( Navy list 1865). For an account of FitzRoy’s final breakdown …
- … of the Royal Geographical Society 9 (1865): 215–18. The FitzRoys had taken Lyndhurst …
- … London ( Post Office London directory 1865). FitzRoy had three daughters, Emily-Unah , …
- … from bronchitis and influenza (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 12 April 1865 and [ …
- … 19 April 1865] ). The reference is to Robert Caspary’ …
- … Cytisus adami , now known as + Laburnocytisus adamii ( Caspary 1865 ). See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [1 May 1865] . Charles and Mary Elizabeth …
- … Lyell . Hooker refers to Ramsay 1865 , Andrew Crombie Ramsay’s response to Lyell’s …
- … edition of Elements of geology ( C. Lyell 1865 ). Ramsay had proposed a theory of the …
- … C. Lyell 1863a , pp. 311–19, and C. Lyell 1865 , pp. 168–74). For an account of the …
- … pp. 303–9. On the first page of Ramsay 1865 , p. 3 n. , Ramsay criticised Lyell for …
- … There is a lightly annotated copy of Ramsay 1865 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 21 February [1865] . The theory that rock basins such as those in …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 27 March 1865
Summary
Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].
Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4796 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … From W. B. Tegetmeier 27 March 1865 …
- … DAR 178: 65 William Bernhard Tegetmeier unstated 27 Mar 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1. Letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] . The article has not been identified. …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] . Tegetmeier sent the issues of the Field …
- … for 19 November 1864, 3 December 1864, 31 December 1864, 18 February 1865, and …
- … 4 March 1865; these issues are in DAR 138.3 and most are lightly annotated. …
- … of his article on carrier pigeons from the 25 February 1865 issue of the Field with …
- … his letter of 13 March 1865 . The series of articles provided descriptions of the standard …
- … by wood-engravings (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 and n. 9). …
- … CD acknowledged receipt of the issue of the Field for 1 April 1865 in his letter to …
- … Tegetmeier of [7 April 1865] ; the issue is in DAR 138.3: 6 and is lightly annotated. …
- … W. B. Tegetmeier, [28 February – 5 March 1865] ). The reference is to Luke Wells and his …
- … See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and nn. 7–9, and 12. See the postscript …
- … to the letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and nn. 9, 11, and 12. Tegetmeier is …
- … the Field between November 1864 and March 1865 (see n. 1, above). The draughtsman of the …
- … illustrations of the barb, smerle, and carrier pigeons ( Field , 18 February 1865, p. …
- … 115, 25 February 1865, p. …
- … 139, and 4 March 1865, p. 155). Tegetmeier refers to Harrison William Weir . …
- … also letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and nn. 8 and 10. In his acknowledgment …
- … 6). See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and n. 11. Tegetmeier refers to the …
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865] …
- … DAR 115: 265 Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Apr [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 13). Lubbock was standing for …
- … 1867–8 ), and whose Elements of geology had reached a sixth edition in January 1865 ( C. …
- … Lyell 1865 ). CD had expressed his admiration for Lyell’s work in this genre on several …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [February 1865] ). Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker , …
- … was seriously ill (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 April [1865] ). …
- … ser. 26: 644–71. Laugel, Antoine Auguste. 1865. Les Etats-Unis pendant la guerre. II. De …
- … University Press. [Thomson, Thomas. ] 1865. Species and subspecies. Natural History Review …
- … Auguste. 1866. Les Etats-Unis pendant la guerre (1861–1865). Paris: Germer Baillière. …
- … Lyell, Charles. 1865. Elements of geology, or the ancient changes of the earth and its …
- … the last election in 1859 ( Dod’s parliamentary companion 1865). See also letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 14. …
- … is to Pre-historic times ( Lubbock 1865 ), in which Lubbock discussed the archaeological …
- … Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 74). John William Lubbock died on 20 June 1865 (see letter from John …
- … Lubbock, 22 and 26 March 1865 and n. 3). The reference is to Auguste Laugel . In 1860, …
- … to the northern states of the USA in Laugel 1865 ; he discussed his support for the Union …
- … Laugel 1864 , and Laugel 1866 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1865] , n. 2. CD …
- … to George Bentham’ s review of Planchon 1864a and 1864b in the April 1865 issue of the …
- … Natural History Review ( [Bentham] 1865 ); see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 12 April [1865] and n. 6. CD evidently refers to Planchon 1864b ; there is …
- … CUL. The reference is to [Thomson] 1865 . Thomas Thomson’s article was a critical review …
- … faculties of naturalists’ ( [Thomson] 1865 , p. 227). Thomson used his review of Jordan’s …
- … of botanical nomenclature in [Thomson] 1865 , pp. 238–41. In 1842, CD had served on a …
- … 206–10, and Stevens 1994 ). [Thomson] 1865 , pp. 226 and 235–6, discussed the different …
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1865]
Summary
Kew affairs.
H. J. Carter’s observations are wonderful but want verification.
Skeptical of H. H. Travers’ observations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Nov 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 43–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4330 |
Matches: 22 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1865] …
- … DAR 102: 43–6 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [3 Nov 1865] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] , and by the date of Hooker’s return to Kew ( …
- … 2, below). The Friday following 28 October 1865 was 3 November. Hooker had been suffering …
- … fever (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] and n. 2). He returned to his …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] and n. 12. CD expected to be in London …
- … a week from 7 November (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] and n. 27). …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 5, and R. Desmond 1995 , p. …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] . See n. 16, below. The ability to ‘wriggle’ …
- … a joke between CD and Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] and n. …
- … 9). [Houghton] 1865 . See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] and n. 20. CD had praised the articles by Henry John …
- … Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Houghton, William. ] 1865. Gleanings from the natural history of …
- … see letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865 ). Hooker officially became director …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 1 November 1865; he had served as assistant director under …
- … 20 April 1864 , and this volume, letters from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and nn. …
- … 5 and 6, and [26 May 1865]. Hooker’s annual salary as director was £800 in 1868 ( …
- … and keeper of the herbarium at Kew; in 1865 he was also made keeper of the museum ( R. …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] and nn. 5–7). Hooker refers to Carter’ …
- … séances in London in the summer of 1865 (see Raby 2001 , pp. 184–7). His efforts to …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] and n. 14. Hooker refers to CD’s discussion of …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] and nn. 11 and 12). CD had also mentioned the …
From John Scott 10 April 1865
Summary
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4810 |
Matches: 24 hits
- … From John Scott 10 April 1865 …
- … DAR 177: 115 John Scott Rungbee 10 Apr 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … paper [ J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot. ) 8 (1865): 127–35]. May take position at Calcutta …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … more of Indian species (see letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 and nn. 15 and 16). …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
- … Rungbee 10 th . April 1865. Sir, I duly received your letter along with the copies of my …
- … was written before CD wrote a letter to Scott on 11 March 1865 that is also missing (see …
- … letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). Scott probably refers to copies of his papers in …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 127–35. ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’: On …
- … letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and n. 7). Thomas Anderson was superintendent of …
- … Calcutta Botanic Garden. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [17 February 1865] and n. 14. …
- … See letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 . The letters from …
- … John Scott of 21 December 1864 and 4 January 1865 have not been found. CD received …
- … Scott’s manuscript on Verbascum , which was sent on 4 January 1865 (see letter from …
- … John Scott, 20 January 1865 , letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 16 [March 1865] ). CD’s …
- … reply to Scott, written on 11 March 1865, has not been found (see …
- … letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). CD had previously advised Scott on his writing …
- … volume, letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and nn. 3, 4, and 6. CD’s annotations …
- … of which was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865; offprints of the paper …
- … were available from 12 June 1865 (see Freeman 1977 , p. 117). In a missing letter to …
- … see letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). In Forms of flowers , p. 335, CD noted that …
To Max Ernst Wichura 3 February [1865]
Summary
He has finished MEW’s work on hybrid willows [Die Bastardbefruchtung im Planzenreich (1865)] and sends his thanks. The extreme frequency of hybrid willows is new to CD, and he finds the explanation of their numbers in certain locations ingenious.
Comments on the criticism of Gärtner’s view of reversion
and the differences between MEW and Naudin.
CD now has doubts regarding his own view that hybrids are sterile from not being perfectly accommodated to their conditions of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Max Ernst Wichura |
Date: | 3 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | Autographia (dealers) (1986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765A |
Matches: 21 hits
- … To Max Ernst Wichura 3 February [1865] …
- … Autographia (dealers) (1986) Charles Robert Darwin unstated 3 Feb [1865] Max Ernst Wichura …
- … CD’s ‘scharfsinnig’ (sagacious) theory of natural selection ( Wichura 1865 , p. 82). …
- … John Murray. 1868. Wichura, Max Ernst. 1865. Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich …
- … Die Bastardbefruchtung im Planzenreich (1865)] and sends his thanks. The extreme frequency …
- … in the sale catalogue. The year is established by the reference to Wichura 1865 (see n. …
- … 2, below), and by CD’s 1865 discussions …
- … of Wichura 1865 with other correspondents (see, for example, letter to B. …
- … D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] ). …
- … Wichura 1865 . There is a heavily annotated presentation copy of Wichura’s Die …
- … See also letter to B. D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] . Though Wichura concluded that hybrid …
- … outnumbered their parent species ( Wichura 1865 , pp. 64–5). CD wrote in the margin of …
- … hybrid seeds in bare spots ( Wichura 1865 , p. 65); CD wrote by this passage, ‘Explains …
- … of hybrid pollen-grains, see Wichura 1865 , pp. 32–40, 79–80, 89. In CD’s abstract (see …
- … CD made a similar annotation in Wichura 1865 , p. 38 (see Marginalia 1: 871–3). Wichura’ …
- … variable but not hybridised; see Wichura 1865 , p. 89, where CD wrote in the margin: ‘ …
- … see Gärtner 1849 , pp. 437–41, Wichura 1865 , pp. 27–8, and Marginalia 1: 871–3). There …
- … Science and Arts (vol. 39, January 1865, pp. 107–8) about Naudin’s recent observations …
- … in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See Wichura 1865 , p. 28, and Marginalia 1: 872. …
- … The abstract CD inserted in Wichura 1865 indicates that he remembered Gärtner’s stating …
- … 6). See also CD’s annotations to Wichura 1865 , p. 83, and CD’s inserted abstract (see …
From Asa Gray 6 November 1865
Summary
Discusses "Climbing plants" and his own abstract of it.
CD should publish results of self-fertilising dimorphic plants.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4930 |
Matches: 21 hits
- … From Asa Gray 6 November 1865 …
- … DAR 165: 149 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 6 Nov 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … Cambridge. Mass. Nov. 6. 1865. My Dear Darwin I am very glad to hear from you, and to see …
- … half of CD’s last letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] , was written by Emma Darwin . …
- … In his letter of 19 October [1865] , CD had told Gray that although his health was …
- … regular work’. CD had stopped work on Variation in April 1865 because of poor health (see …
- … letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] , n. 1, and ‘Journal’, Appendix II; see also …
- … plants’ appeared in two parts ( A. Gray 1865–6 ). The first part, covering the sections …
- … Press of Harvard University. Gray, Asa. 1865–6. On the movements and habits of climbing …
- … leaf-climbers, appeared in the September 1865 issue of the American Journal of Science and …
- … CD’s lightly annotated copy of A. Gray 1865–6 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] and n. 3. Benjamin Silliman Jr and James Dwight …
- … Dupree 1959 , pp. 121–2, 258, 285. See letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] and n. 4. …
- … See letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] and n. 10. See also letter …
- … from B. D. Walsh, 29 May 1865 , n. 3. John Lloyd Stephens had …
- … DAB ). See letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] . Stephens’s first book was Incidents of …
- … Viscount Palmerston, died on 18 October 1865; he had been prime minister since 1859 ( …
- … the American Civil War. On 26 October 1865, the New York Times printed the diplomatic …
- … US claims. In his letter of 30 August 1865, Russell maintained that the British government …
- … London Gazette (supplement), 11 October 1865, pp. 4833–60. The ‘letter’ or ‘lecture’ has …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 March 1865
Summary
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4785 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 March 1865 …
- … DAR 178: 63 William Bernhard Tegetmeier Muswell Hill 13 Mar 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258]. …
- … See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 6 [March 1865] and n. 2. See letter …
- … to W. B. Tegetmeier, 6 [March 1865] and n. 1. Tegetmeier had undertaken experiments to …
- … the issues, except for that of 25 February 1865, are in DAR 138.3, and all but that of 19 …
- … The last articles in the series were published in the Field , 1 April 1865, p. …
- … 228, and 15 April 1865, p. 258; CD’s copy of the 1 April issue is in DAR 138.3. The …
- … issues for 31 December 1864 and 25 February 1865, respectively. The enclosed article on …
- … archives. See letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 February [1865] , and letter from W. B. …
- … Tegetmeier, [28 February – 5 March 1865] . CD described the feathers of the spangled …
- … carrier pigeon, published in the Field , 25 February 1865, p. 139 (see letter to W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] ). In the article, Tegetmeier attributed the homing …
- … B. Tegetmeier, [28 February – 5 March 1865] . Tegetmeier refers to a series of articles …
- … 1864, p. 366, 3 December 1864, p. 395, 31 December 1864, p. 459, 18 February 1865, p. …
- … 115, 25 February 1865, p. …
- … 139, and 4 March 1865, p. 155; all …
From John Lubbock 12 June [1865]
Summary
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4860 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From John Lubbock 12 June [1865] …
- … Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [ Prehistoric times (1865)]. …
- … under the direction of John Chapman ; see letter to John Chapman, 7 June 1865 and n. 1. …
- … 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury Chislehurst 12 June [1865] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] . See …
- … letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] . Lubbock refers to chapter 14 ( …
- … pp. 473–92) of Lubbock 1865 (see letter to …
- … John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] and n. 4). …
- … The review in The Times appeared on 6 June 1865, p. 9. The reference to the ‘Morning …
To B. D. Walsh 19 December [1865]
Summary
Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,
male Daphnia laying eggs.
His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 19 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4952 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … To B. D. Walsh 19 December [1865] …
- … History, Chicago (Walsh 6) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Dec [1865] Benjamin Dann Walsh …
- … London: John Murray. 1868. Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1865. The new potato-bug, and its natural …
- … see the letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 May 1865 , n. 3. CD’s research on intra-specific …
- … discussed in the letter to M. E. Wichura, 3 February [1865] . CD had sent Walsh a copy of …
- … praised the paper in his letter of 29 May 1865 , noting the ‘remarkable fact’ of intra- …
- … letter from B. D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 . In his paper on dimorphism in Cynips , Walsh …
- … Walsh 1864a ). In his letter of 12 November 1865 , he discussed his ongoing experiments at …
- … Newton, 15 March 1874 , Calendar no. 9364. CD refers to Walsh 1865 . See letter from B. …
- … D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 and n. 8. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), John …
- … the death of his father, John William Lubbock , in June 1865 ( DNB ). See letter from B. …
- … D. Walsh, 29 May 1865 and n. 14. See also letter …
- … from B. D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 . In …
- … his letter to CD of 1 March 1865 , Walsh had expressed doubts about Nikolai Petrovich …
- … of gemmation (see letter to B. D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] ; see also letter from B. …
- … D. Walsh, 29 May 1865 ). In the concluding paragraph to his 1866 paper on willow-galls, …
- … Haeckel 1865b ; see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 6 December [1865] and n. 9). See letter …
- … from B. D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 and n. 10. On John Scott’s research …
- … corroborate Scott’s findings, see the letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and n. 3, …
- … and the letter to Asa Gray, 19 October [1865] and n. 7. On CD’s differing results, …
From Daniel Oliver 23 October 1865
Summary
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4922 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Daniel Oliver 23 October 1865 …
- … DAR 173: 30 Daniel Oliver Kew 23 Oct 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] ). …
- … The Thursday following 23 October 1865 was 26 October. CD had enclosed …
- … a specimen of Strychnos in his letter to Oliver of 20 October [1865] . …
- … to the Linnean Society ; see letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] and n. 2. …
- … Linnean Society meeting of 7 December 1865. The printed version of the paper is reproduced …
- … this volume as the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . See …
- … letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] and n. 4. George Bentham . No paragraph …
- … to the stem axis. See letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] , and letter to …
- … Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] and n. 5. Joseph Dalton Hooker had been recovering from …
- … rheumatic fever (see letter from F. H. Hooker, [17 August 1865] , and letter from J. …
From F. W. Farrar 6 November 1865
Summary
Grateful for CD’s approval of Chapters on language.
Is inclined to believe that the races of man were primordially distinct.
Author: | Frederic William Farrar |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4933 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … From F. W. Farrar 6 November 1865 …
- … DAR 164: 35 Frederic William Farrar Harrow 6 Nov 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … monogenist theory of human descent. The May 1865 issue carried an article titled ‘On the …
- … plurality of the human race’ ( Anthropological Review 3 (1865): 120–32). …
- … For CD’s favourable view of Farrar 1865 , see letter to F. …
- … W. Farrar, 2 November [1865] . See letter to F. …
- … W. Farrar, 2 November [1865] and n. 6. For CD’s views on the origin and classification …
- … letter from Henry Denny, 23 January 1865 , n. 3. CD did not publicly advocate monogenism, …
- … John Murray. 1871. Farrar, Frederic William. 1865. Chapters on language. London: Longmans, …
- … Harrow. Nov 6. 1865. Dear Sir, I can say with perfect sincerity that your word of approval …
- … See letter to F. W. Farrar, 2 November [1865] and n. 7. Thomas Henry Huxley had stated …
- … vol. 10, Appendix VI). See letter to F. W. Farrar, 11 October [1865] and n. 3. Farrar …
- … articles that appeared in the 1864 and 1865 volumes of the Anthropological Review. The …
- … See also letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] , n. 8. Some of Farrar’s objections to …
To J. D. Hooker 22 December [1865]
Summary
Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.
Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.
Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 278, 278b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4953 |
Matches: 24 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 22 December [1865] …
- … DAR 115: 278, 278b Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Dec [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … to Hooker was that of 22 and 28 [October 1865]. After a period of illness following his …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [3 November 1865] and nn. 2 and 3). Julius von Haast had …
- … from Julius von Haast, 27 September 1865 and n. 6). Charles Lyell and Thomas Henry …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] …
- … his letter to Asa Gray of 19 October [1865] , he said that he was able to do no ‘regular …
- … he seems to have meant writing. On CD’s health in late 1865, see the letter from E. A. …
- … Darwin to Emma Darwin, 25 [November 1865] and n. 6. CD described same-form crosses …
- … Forms of flowers , pp. 188–243. CD’s notes on Lythrum for 1865 are in DAR 109: B30–5, 40, …
- … and 55–86; his notes on Primula for 1865 are in DAR 108. His list of illegitimate …
- … see the letter to B. D. Walsh, 19 December [1865] and n. 10. Caelebogyne ilicifolia had …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 December 1865 ). Subsequent observations had confirmed that …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 ). In an article in the Annals and Magazine …
- … Appendix VI). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 and n. 22, and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] and n. 5. …
- … Victor Naudin appeared in the 2 December 1865 issue of Gardeners’ Chronicle , p. 1133. It …
- … see Gardeners’ Chronicle , 4 November 1865, pp. 1033–4). The accusation was originally …
- … in the Natural History Review for October 1865 ( Naudin 1865b ). The note alleged that …
- … The Gardeners’ Chronicle for 18 November 1865, pp. 1081–2, carried a letter from Naudin …
- … see letter from C. V. Naudin, 18 June 1865 and n. 4). On the relationship between CD’s …
- … on hybridism and heredity, see the letter to M. E. Wichura, 3 February [1865] and n. 6. …
- … an honorary fellow at the 4 December 1865 meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh ( …
- … also letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 , n. 5. For the diploma, see Correspondence …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 April [1865]
Summary
Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4804 |
Matches: 15 hits
- … To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 April [1865] …
- … Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Apr [1865] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
- … while Murray was in France for three weeks (see letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 ). …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . …
- … Letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . The note has not been found. Luke Wells was the …
- … for Variation (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] , and letter from W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 ). CD refers to Wells’s drawing of the smerle pigeon in the …
- … barb pigeon in the Field , 18 February 1865. Tegetmeier sent CD a packet containing this …
- … and four other issues of the Field with his letter of 27 March 1865 (see letter from W. …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and n. 1); these items are in DAR 138.3 and are lightly …
- … annotated. See letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and [ …
- … 7 April 1865] . See …
- … letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] and n. 3. John Murray had asked CD to correspond …
- … see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and n. 6). In addition to providing a …
- … has not been found. See letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . CD refers to Wells’s …
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
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…
Matches: 29 hits
- … 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
Summary
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…
Matches: 5 hits
- … 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]
Summary
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
Summary
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…
Matches: 22 hits
- … 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]
Summary
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…
Matches: 4 hits
- … 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,…