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To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]

Summary

Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.

FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.

Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:	20 Sept [1865]
Classmark:	The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4895

Matches: 25 hits

… To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865] …
… 10 no 2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1865] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
… relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . See …
… letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 1, and letter …
… from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . CD had not yet received …
… Müller’s second letter on twining plants of 31 August 1865 (see letter to …
… Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ). The information on Haplolophium and …
… is contained in the section of the 12 August 1865 letter from Fritz Müller that was later …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] ‘Two …
… 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 1; …
… the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 11). Müller included drawings of …
… CD (see letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ), and some of these were reproduced in …
… Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and nn. 16–18). CD’s observations on …
… Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 19). CD refers to Bronn trans. …
… 1864] . The letter from Müller of 12 August 1865 is incomplete. The section of the letter …
… also letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n. 5). In Living Cirripedia (1851) , …
… see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n. 7). CD evidently reconsidered the …
… in the missing section of the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 (see letter from …
… Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 ). Since Müller would …
… not have received CD’s letter of 10 August [1865] when he wrote his own …
… letter to CD on 12 August 1865 , it appears that the possibility of Anelasma as a …
… section of Müller’s letter of 12 August 1865 in which he discussed Alexander Agassiz’s …
… found. Agassiz’s letter to Müller, 9 March 1865 , which contains these observations, is …
… Fritz Müller to Alexander Agassiz, 29 June 1865 , in Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 64–7) that …

To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]

Summary

Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:	14 Mar [1865]
Classmark:	Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4786

Matches: 18 hits

… To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865] …
… Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Mar [1865] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
… this letter and the letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 . See letter from W. …
… B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 . In …
… his letter of [28 February – 5 March 1865] , Tegetmeier mentioned that he had injured his …
… right eye. See letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 and n. 5. See letter …
… also letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and nn. 3 and 4. The pigeon breeds …
… from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 , and n. 9. Tegetmeier sent …
… containing five 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 most are …
… carrier pigeon published in the Field , 25 February 1865, p. 139 (see letter from W. …
… B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 and n. 7). The article was illustrated by a wood-engraving …
… n. 10, below. See also letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 , letters to W. …
… B. Tegetmeier 28 March [1865] , 6 …
… April [1865] , and [ …
… 7 April 1865] , and letter to …
… John Murray, 31 March [1865] . Chapter 7 of Variation included illustrations of the heads …
… letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [7 April 1865] ). See n. 8, above. CD had met Weir in the …

To Edward Walford 22 [January–April 1865?]

Summary

CD would be proud to be one of EW’s series [Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. If he goes to London in the summer he will call on Mr Edwards [the photographer].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Edward Walford
Date:	22 [Jan-Apr] 1865
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-5508

Matches: 8 hits

… To Edward Walford 22 [January–April 1865? ] …
… American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Jan 1865 22 …
… Feb 1865 22 …
… Mar 1865 22 …
… Apr 1865 Edward Walford …
… Edwards during his visit to London between 8 and 20 November 1865. See letter from E. …
… A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 25 [November 1865] and nn. 2 and 3. …
… during his stay to London in November 1865, with a view to being included in Walford’s …

To J. D. Hooker [31 December 1865]

Summary

Will explain about the so-called hybrids of Lythrum when they meet.

JDH should not be proposed for Copley Medal this year because Royal Society Council has so few naturalists on it.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	[31 Dec 1865]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 279
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4959

Matches: 12 hits

… To J. D. Hooker [31 December 1865] …
… DAR 115: 279 Charles Robert Darwin Down [31 Dec 1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… fellow of the Linnean Society ( DNB ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 December 1865 . …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 . Hooker’s next recorded visit to Down was …
… See letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] and n. 7, and letters from J. …
… D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 and …
… 24 December 1865 . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] and n. 5, and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 . Charles Lyell had contacted Henry Holland about …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 December 1865 and nn. 9 and 10. CD had met Lyell, and …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). For a list of the members elected to the …
… of the Royal Society of London 14 (1865): 513. The British Museum zoologist John Edward …

To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]

Summary

Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.

For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.

Does not quite agree about Reader.

Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?

CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	7 Jan [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 257a–c
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4742

Matches: 24 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865] …
… DAR 115: 257a–c Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Jan [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… the letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 . CD’s letter to Henry Tibbats Stainton has …
… the letter to Ray Society, [before 7 January 1865] and n. 3. CD refers to his suggested …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 and n. 14. CD refers to Thomas Henry Huxley …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 and n. 6. CD is paraphrasing Hooker’s …
… See letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 January [1865] and n. 7. CD refers to ‘Science and the …
… the letter from J. D. Hooker, [8–18 January 1865] , for Hooker’s confirmation that John …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
… the letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 . Thwaites had speculated on the origins of …
… colour of the soil. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 and nn. 2 and 3. CD …
… was read at the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865. The copyist of CD’s manuscript was the …
… cash account (Down House MS) dated 15 March 1865 records a payment of £5 11 s. to ‘Norman …
… Society . ‘Climbing plants’ was issued in June 1865 in a double number (nos. 33 and 34) …
… while commercial offprints were available from August 1865 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
… 1 August 1865, p. 391; see also letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] ). See Freeman 1977 , pp. 116–18. CD evidently considered …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 and n. 13. CD refers to the second volume …
… letter from T. H. Huxley, 1 January 1865 , n. 9). The last known letter from Jenner …
… diseases ( DNB ). CD began to consult Jones in July 1865 (CD’s Account book–cash account ( …
… Down House MS), entry for 22 July 1865). CD’s sons …
… and Leonard were attending Clapham School in 1865 (CD’s Account book–classed account (Down …
… Leonard returned to school on 2 February 1865, and suggests that George may also have been …
… Down for part of December 1864 and January 1865. CD’s youngest son, Horace, aged 13, had …

To John Lubbock 11 June [1865]

Summary

JL’s book [Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original".

Wishes him success in politics.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:	11 June [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 263: 7 (EH 88206456)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4858

Matches: 14 hits

… To John Lubbock 11 June [1865] …
… JL’s book [ Prehistoric times (1865)] is "most original". Wishes him success in politics. …
… Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 June [1865] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury …
… D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] and …
… 17 April [1865] . …
… In Lubbock 1865 , p. 481, Lubbock wrote: ‘Thus, then, the great principle of Natural …
… The year is established by the reference to Lubbock 1865 (see n. 2, below). …
… CD refers to Lubbock 1865 , an annotated copy of which is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see …
… Chapters 11 to 13 (pp. 335–472) in Lubbock 1865 are titled ‘Modern savages’. Chapters …
… 473–92), ‘Concluding remarks’, in Lubbock 1865 . In this chapter, Lubbock argued in favour …
… for Parliament in the constituency of West Kent in the election of 22 July 1865 (see The …
… Times , 18 July 1865, p. …
… 6, and 24 July 1865, p. 6). CD and Joseph Dalton Hooker deplored the loss to science that …
… politics. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 14, and letters to J. …

To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865]

Summary

Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].

P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.

Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:	6 Dec [1865]
Classmark:	Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4947

Matches: 16 hits

… To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865] …
… 1: 1–52/7) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Dec [1865] Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel …
… s health, see the letter from E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin, 25 [November 1865] and n. 6. …
… Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether …
… Blond & Briggs. Duncan, Peter Martin. 1865. A description of the echinodermata from the …
… Letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 . …
… In his letter of 11 November 1865 , Haeckel wrote that completion of his book Generelle …
… died on 16 February 1864 (see letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 13). …
… See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and n. 7. On Haeckel’s support for CD’s …
… the Geological Society. [Read 8 March 1865. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society …
… also letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] and n. 10. Haeckel 1865a was a more general …
… Geological Society of London on 8 March 1865, Peter Martin Duncan remarked that natural …
… stable and variable species ( Duncan 1865 , p. 361), and cited passages from Origin , …
… and longitude with or without gaps’ ( Duncan 1865 , p. 362). Duncan may have corresponded …
… example, letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] ). In his letter of 26 October 1864 ( …
… letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. 9 and 11. Haeckel 1864 and Haeckel …

To Ray Society [14–18 January 1865]

Summary

"Read a letter from Mr Darwin expressing his regret that the state of his health would not permit of his writing an Introductory Chapter to the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Ray Society
Date:	[14–18 Jan 1865]
Classmark:	Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 107r: Minute 1146, 3d February 1865)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4764

Matches: 10 hits

… To Ray Society [14–18 January 1865] …
… Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 107r: Minute 1146, 3d February 1865) Charles Robert Darwin …
… unstated [14–18 Jan 1865] Ray Society …
… Pflanzenreich ( Gärtner 1849 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 and n. 1, …
… and letter to Ray Society, [before 7 January 1865] ; see also letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] . …
… council meeting of the Ray Society , 3 February 1865. The date range is established by …
… the minutes of the special council of the Ray Society , 13 January 1865 (see letter to Ray …
… Society, [before 7 January 1865] ), and the relationship between this letter and the …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] . CD had recommended that the Society …

From Roland Trimen 13 December 1865

Summary

Butterflies of Mauritius.

RT’s Bonatea paper published by Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 156–60].

Author:	Roland Trimen
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	13 Dec 1865
Classmark:	DAR 178: 185
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4951

Matches: 16 hits

… the neighbouring Rodriguez Island (see A. Newton 1865a and 1865b, and E. Newton 1865 ). …
… From Roland Trimen 13 December 1865 …
… DAR 178: 185 Roland Trimen Colonial Office, Cape Town 13 Dec 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Office, | Cape Town. 13 th . December, 1865. My dear M r . Darwin, I am very greatly …
… 1866. ] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3d ser. 5 (1865–7): 329–44. …
… of London (1864): 1–8. Gurney, John Henry. 1865. On a raptoral bird transmitted by Mr. …
… from Damara Land. [Read 14 November 1865. ] Transactions of the Zoological Society of …
… Mauritius. Ibis n.s. 2: 128. Newton, Edward. 1865. On a remarkable discovery of bones of …
… flora of the Cape region (Gunn and Codd 1981). John Lindley died on 1 November 1865. His …
… death was reported in the 4 November 1865 issue of Gardeners’ Chronicle ; an obituary …
… 1058–9 and 1082–3. His death was also announced in The Times , 4 November 1865, p. 5. …
… spent three weeks on Mauritius in July 1865. He collected butterflies with Henry Barkly , …
… Gurney described the raptorial bird at the 14 November 1865 meeting of the Zoological …
… Society of London ( Gurney 1865 ). The specimen, later identified as Macheiramphus …
… Gurney was a leading patron ( Gurney 1865 , Modern English biography ). A large number of …
… had been found on Mauritius in October 1865. Two largely complete skeletons were sent to …

To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]

Summary

Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.

How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?

Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.

A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.

Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	15 [Feb 1865]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 261
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4772

Matches: 18 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865] …
… DAR 115: 261 Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 [Feb 1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… botanist Friedrich Hildebrand ( Hildebrand 1865 , pp. 13–15). In his letter to J. D. …
… to the sixth edition of Charles Lyell’s Elements of geology ( C. Lyell 1865 ), published …
… in January 1865 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
… 1 February 1865, p. 60). Lyell had …
… to send CD a copy of the book in his letter of 16 January 1865 . There is an annotated …
… copy of C. Lyell 1865 in the Darwin Library–Down ( Marginalia 1: 524–5). Hooker and …
… 10 (1869): 393–437. Lyell, Charles. 1865. Elements of geology, or the ancient changes of …
… Hildebrand, 25 June [1864] ). Hildebrand 1865 appeared in two parts, the first part in …
… the issue of Botanische Zeitung for 6 January 1865, pp. 1–6, and …
… the second part in the issue for 13 January 1865, pp. 13–15. …
… CD’s annotated copy of Hildebrand 1865 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (pamphlets …
… p. 101. In his letter of 9 February [1865] , CD had encouraged Hooker to visit Down …
… House. On 25 February 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that ‘Ed. 3 …
… the notice in the Reader , 11 February 1865, p. 167, of the subscriptions being raised …
… sent these papers to CD in January (see letters from A. R. Wallace, 20 January 1865 and …
… 31 January [1865] ). See also C. H. Smith ed. , …

To Henry Bence Jones 3 January [1866]

Summary

A report on his somewhat improved health.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Henry Bence Jones
Date:	3 Jan [1866]
Classmark:	DAR 249: 86
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4968A

Matches: 22 hits

… Ginger was valued for its beneficial effects on the stomach ( Beasley 1865 , p. 537). …
… Royal College of Surgeons. Beasley, Henry. 1865. The book of prescriptions, containing …
… a patient of Jones’s during the summer of 1865; on Jones’s recommendation, CD had begun a …
… diet (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 12). …
… improvement in his condition in September 1865 (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 13, …
… iron and their medicinal properties are described in Royle and Headland 1865, pp. 139–43. …
… for hydrochloric acid (Royle and Headland 1865, p. 49). A recipe for a remedy consisting …
… Capsicum and was used for the treatment of gout and flatulence ( Beasley 1865 , p. 161). …
… to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). For further discussion of CD’s health, …
… health, submitted to John Chapman in May 1865, CD mentioned that he could not walk more …
… between 3 and 5 2 3 miles between 5 and 17 October 1865 (DAR 242). In the letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] , CD recorded the beneficial effect of his loss of …
… to 11 st. 4 lbs (158 lbs) during August 1865. Thereafter, her weekly records show CD’s …
… to 10 st. 4 lbs (144 lbs) by early December 1865. His weight remained stable until late …
… 109). In his notes on his health dated May 1865, CD wrote that reading caused his ears to …
… vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). In his letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ( Correspondence vol. 13), CD said he was able to write …
… that he resumed his work on Variation on 25 December 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13, …
… Appendix II). In his May 1865 notes on his health, CD had stated that he seldom suffered …
… problems (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to John Chapman, 7 June 1865 ). The entry in …
… Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 8 December 1865 reads ‘left off sugar’. No other references …
… recorded in the notes on his health of May 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix IV and …

From Fritz Müller 31 August 1865

Summary

Hopes CD has received his letter of 12 August.

Sends some new observations on climbing plants. [The observations are part of "Notes on some of the climbing-plants, near Desterro, in South Brazil", J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9.]

Author:	Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	31 Aug 1865
Classmark:	Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 73–4.
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4885A

Matches: 10 hits

… From Fritz Müller 31 August 1865 …
… Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Desterro, Brazil 31 Aug 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
… see the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . See …
… also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 11. …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
… also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a transcription of this letter …
… vol. 13, p. 227. See also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. ‘Climbing …
… See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . For the missing portion of the letter, …
… Desterro, Brazil, 31. August 1865. Verehrter Herr! Ich hoffe, Sie werden einen Brief …
… Desterro, Brazil, 31 August 1865 My dear Sir, I hope you have received in good order a …

To Daniel Oliver 20 October [1865]

Summary

Sends Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in S. Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9] to be refereed.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Daniel Oliver
Date:	20 Oct [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4920

Matches: 13 hits

… To Daniel Oliver 20 October [1865] …
… DAR 261.10: 63 (EH 88206046) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Oct [1865] Daniel Oliver …
… Oliver wrote in his letter to CD of 23 October 1865 that he had that morning heard …
… that Hooker was returning on 26 October 1865. …
… this letter and the letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865 . CD probably refers …
… the letter from Fritz Müller of 31 August 1865 . The botanical observations contained in …
… the Linnean Society (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] and n. 2). See letter …
… to J. D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] . Owing to illness, Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… away from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, since 2 September 1865 (see letters from F. …
… H. Hooker, [17 August 1865] and …
… 6 September [1865] ). See …
… letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] and n. 4. In the published version of …
… Müller, [12 and 31 August and 10 October 1865] ; Müller 1865b , p. 344): On the branches, …

To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865]

Summary

Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.

Also mentions account of Heer’s work

and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.

Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:	21 Feb [1865]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4775

Matches: 18 hits

… To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865] …
… Mss.B.D25.306) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Feb [1865] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
… published C. Lyell 1865 . Sheets containing the printed pages would be folded and bound …
… The year is established by the reference to C. Lyell 1865 (see n. 2, below). The …
… sixth edition of Lyell’s Elements of geology ( C. Lyell 1865 ) was published …
… in January 1865 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
… 1 February 1865, p. 60). Lyell …
… it to CD in his letter of 16 January 1865 . CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library– …
… See letter from Charles Lyell, 16 January 1865 and n. 19. Lyell preceded his discussion …
… shall recant for fifth time’. There are in total 809 pages in C. Lyell 1865 . John Murray …
… and insects of Switzerland (see C. Lyell 1865 , pp. 246–73). Edward Forbes had argued …
… mentioned Forbes’s theory in C. Lyell 1865 , p. 267. For CD’s earlier discussions of …
… Surrey, Sussex, and Kent, in C. Lyell 1865 , pp. 351–74. In Principles of geology ( C. …
… he defended this position in C. Lyell 1865 , dismissing Joseph Beete Jukes’s and Andrew …
… and Davies 1969, pp. 347–8). In C. Lyell 1865 , p. 365, Lyell referred to ‘recent …
… in Elements of geology ( C. Lyell 1865 , pp. 375–91). CD was particularly interested by …
… with fluvial erosion (see C. Lyell 1865 , pp. 168–74). See Davies 1969, pp. 304–7. CD …
… London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1865. Elements of geology, or the ancient changes of …

To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]

Summary

Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.

His health has been wretched.

Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	9 Feb [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 260
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4769

Matches: 17 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865] …
… DAR 115: 260 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Feb [1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Elizabeth arrived on 8 February and departed on 9 February 1865. Frances Harriet Hooker . …
… between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 . CD refers to …
… the death of Hugh Falconer on 31 January 1865 and the letter from …
… Hooker of 3 February 1865 . Sic transit gloria mundi : ‘So passes away the glory of the …
… D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 . The excitement of social intercourse often made CD feel …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 and n. 12). See ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] and n. 6. For CD’s work on climbing plants …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 and n. 1). CD also expressed dissatisfaction …
… and by other doctors, in his letter to Hooker of 7 January [1865] . See letter from J. …
… was read at the meeting of the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865. See letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 . …
… In his letter of 3 February 1865 , Hooker had mentioned a comment of Maxwell Tylden …
… See letter from M. T. Masters, 7 February 1865 . George Bentham had commented on CD’s …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 and n. 12). CD had raised seedling Lathyrus …

From J. D. Hooker [19 April 1865]

Summary

Pleased at CD’s opinion of Thomson’s article.

Non-reading is great fault of the best school of English scientific men.

Opposed to Lubbock’s going into Parliament.

W. J. Burchell’s collections are coming to Kew.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[19 Apr 1865]
Classmark:	DAR 102: 18–19
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4816

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… From J. D. Hooker [19 April 1865] …
… DAR 102: 18–19 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [19 Apr 1865] Charles Robert Darwin …
… 14 July 1833 , and Appendix IV). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 May [1865] and n. 8. …
… between this letter and the letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 April [1865] ; the Wednesday …
… after 17 April 1865 was 19 April. In Anthony Trollope’s novel Can you forgive her? , Alice …
… see Trollope 1864–5 ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [April 1865] . Letter to J. …
… Batchworth Press. [Thomson, Thomas. ] 1865. Species and subspecies. Natural History Review …
… D. Hooker, 17 April [1865] . Charles Lyell . William Jackson Hooker . …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, 12 April [1865] . …
… Hooker refers to [Thomson] 1865 (see letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 17 April [1865] ). See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 17 April [1865] . The reference is to John Tyndall and Andrew Crombie Ramsay . …
… Lubbock ; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 14, and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 17 April [1865] . In 1861 Lyell declined the offer of the candidature for the …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 April [1865] ). Elizabeth Bates Laugel and Mary Elizabeth …

To J. D. Hooker 16 [March 1865]

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Thanks for Thomson’s and JDH’s views on Scott’s paper. Will send it back with advice and explanations.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	16 [Mar 1865]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 264
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4788

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… To J. D. Hooker 16 [March 1865] …
… vol. 13, Appendix II)). Heer 1864 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [February 1865] . …
… DAR 115: 264 Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 [Mar 1865] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] . CD refers to John Scott and to the draft …
… to Thomas Thomson . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] , and letter from …
… John Scott, 21 July 1865 . CD’s letter to Scott has not been found. The letter from John …
… See letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] and nn. 2 and 3. CD’s letter to Frederick …
… Hooker had visited Down House between 4 and 6 March 1865 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
… For CD’s health in early 1865, see letter to W. …
… B. Tegetmeier, 27 February [1865] and n. 6. CD was working on his manuscript of …

To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]

Summary

Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".

Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.

Working on Variation

and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.

Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.

Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Asa Gray
Date:	19 Apr [1865]
Classmark:	Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4467

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… To Asa Gray 19 April [1865] …
… Herbarium of Harvard University (77) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Apr [1865] Asa Gray …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
… by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 . …
… Letter from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 ; CD wrote ‘19 th ’ in error. …
… had fallen to Federal troops on 3 April 1865; General Robert E. Lee of the Army of …
… at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, on 9 April 1865. The other Confederate armies soon …
… June (see letter from Charles Kingsley, 14 June 1865 ). ‘Climbing plants’ begins with an …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] ‘Two …
… see the letter from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 and n. 11. CD mentioned Auguste Laugel in …
… his letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 April [1865] . On British fears that a victorious Union …
… 9, and letter from Asa Gray, 17 January 1865 ). The building of the herbarium is discussed …
… Scott . See letter from John Scott, 10 April 1865 and n. 13. At the end of his notice of …
… see letter from Asa Gray, 15 and 17 May 1865 ); his observations on dimorphism in this …
… translation of Mohl 1863 in the January 1865 issue of the American Journal of Science and …
… criticisms, see the letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 and n. 12. Gray acknowledged …
… salicaria ’ in his letter of 17 January 1865 . For CD’s presentation list for this paper, …
… III. CD refers to Variation (see letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 2). CD’ …
… of climbing plants’ was published on 12 June 1865 in a double issue of the Journal of the …
… was also published commercially in August 1865 by Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green …
… Norgate (see Publishers’ Circular , 1 August 1865, p. 391, and Freeman 1977 , pp. 116– …

From B. D. Walsh 29 May 1865

Summary

Discusses several subjects, including examples of "Unity of coloration",

the origin of gall-producing poison,

Wagner’s theory of viviparous larvae,

and stridulation in insects.

Sends a reference supporting CD’s statement in Origin that flies check propagation of horses and cattle.

Author:	Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	29 May 1865
Classmark:	DAR 47: 179, 179a; DAR 207: 18
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4839

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… From B. D. Walsh 29 May 1865 …
… 179a; DAR 207: 18 Benjamin Dann Walsh Rock Island, Ill. 29 May 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Rock Island. Illinois. May 29, 1865 Chas. Darwin Esq My dear Sir, Many thanks for your …
… Letter to B. D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] . CD had sent Walsh copies of ‘Dimorphic …
… in species of Linum ’ (see letter from B. D. Walsh, 1 March 1865 , and letter to B. …
… D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] ), and, evidently, an offprint of John Scott ’s study of …
… Philadelphia: J. W. Childs. Minor, W. C. 1865. Further remarks on larve budding. American …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 78–126. ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’: On …
… Zoologie 13: 513–27. Wagner, Nikolai Petrovich. 1865. Uber die viviparen Gallmückenlarven. …
… when he repeated the crossing experiments in 1865 and 1866 (see Variation 2: 109 n. and ‘ …
… see his letter to Walsh of 27 March [1865] and nn. 5 and 6. In Origin , pp. 163–7, CD …
… nomenclature of his own. See letter to B. D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] . See letter to B. …
… D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] and nn. 8 and 9. For CD’s query as to whether guest-flies may …
… see the letter to B. D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] and n. 10. For CD’s comment on Nikolai …
… the letter to B. D. Walsh, 27 March [1865] and nn. 15 and 16. Penis intrans : internal …
… see the letter to B. D. Walsh, 19 December [1865] , and Walsh 1866 , p. 288. The …
… the review of Wagner’s article on viviparous gall-forming midge larvae ( Wagner 1865 ) in …
… the May 1865 issue of the American Journal of Science and Arts , …
… pp. 362–3 ( Minor 1865 ). Walsh was misled by a mistake in translation in the review. …
… from eggs carried by the female in a pouch, or ephippia ( Wagner 1865 , pp. 110–11). …
… The review of Wagner 1865 , however, mistranslated reproduction ‘of both males and …
… implying that males produced eggs ( Minor 1865 , p. 362). Walsh probably refers to the …
… letter from B. D. Walsh, 12 November 1865 ). On Walsh’s law of unity of coloration, see …

To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]

Summary

Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].

Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:	17 Oct [1865]
Classmark:	The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4916

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… To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865] …
… 10 no 3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Oct [1865] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
… CD refers to the letter from Fritz Müller, 31 August 1865 . Müller’s first letter on …
… climbing plants was the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . See the letter from …
… Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , for the missing portion of …
… the letter of 31 August 1865 containing Müller’s botanical observations. Müller’s letters …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] ). Parts of Müller’s first two letters, …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 127–35. ‘Fertilization of orchids’: Notes on …
… from Müller’s third letter of 10 October 1865 , were submitted by CD to the Journal of the …
… the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August and 10 October 1865] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] . CD later sent the letter to …
… who made corrections (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] , and letter from …
… Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865 ). The term ‘bracteæ’ does not appear in the published …
… 12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). Only one plate accompanied the published paper ( …
… 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 5). …
… See letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] . CD’s discussion of the genus Catasetum …

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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…

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… in the early 1900s. In his letter, 17 January 1865 , Darwin asked Denny about the …
… was in fact two letters. The second one dated 28 January 1865 . After joining the Advisory …
… intervening letter from Denny to Darwin, dated 23 January 1865 . While not of huge …

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…

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… example of in that way. ( T. H. Huxley, 16 July 1865 ). 'Your last note& …
… make widely opposite remarks.' ( to T. H. Huxley, [17 July 1865] ). He was forced to confess …

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.…

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… Letter 4370 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [April - May 1865] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, …
… Letter 4794 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [25 March 1865] Darwin asks Charles Lyell for …

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…

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… [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, 6 November 1865 Letter to J. P. M. Weale, 27 …
… the making of the colonial order in the Eastern Cape, 1770–1865 . Cambridge: Cambridge University …

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…

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… Letter 4752 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, Charles, 22 Jan [1865] Darwin writes to King's …
… Letter 4939 — Shaw, James to Darwin, C. R., 20 Nov 1865 Scottish school teacher and writer …
… Letter 4943 — Darwin, C. R. to Shaw, James, 30 Nov 1865 Darwin writes to James Shaw. He is …

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…

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… Letter 4823 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, H. E., [May 1865] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, …
… Letter 4928 - Henslow, G. to Darwin, [11 November 1865] J. S. Henslow’s son, George, …

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,…

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… Letter 4933 : Farrar, F. W. to Darwin, 6 November 1865 "so far as I can see, History, …
… Darwinonline ] John Lubbock, Pre-Historic Times (1865) [ available at archive.org ] …
… ] T. H. Huxley, "Methods and Results of Ethnology" (1865) [ available at archive …

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