To T. H. Huxley 12 June [1867]
Summary
Asks THH to think about a better name for "Pangenesis"; suggests "Cytarrogenesis" or "Atomogenesis", but still prefers vaguer "Pangenesis".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 12 June [1867] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 235) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5568 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … H. Darwin, 27 May [1867] , and letter from G. H. Darwin, [3 June 1867] . …
- … to pangenesis (see letter to G. H. Darwin, 27 May [1867] ). June 15 was a Saturday in …
- … Darwin ( Post Office London directory 1867). Stomacho volente : stomach willing. Huxley had read CD’s manuscript on pangenesis in 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] ). See letter to G. …
From G. H. Darwin [3 June 1867]
Summary
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 June 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5561 |
To J. D. Hooker [12] May [1867]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s address; has sent him Insular floras [pamphlet].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12] May [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5532 |
From Henry Napier Bruce Erskine to Frances Julia Wedgwood 1 November 1867
Summary
Sends FJW replies to queries about expression.
| Author: | Henry Napier Bruce Erskine |
| Addressee: | Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5663 |
To Henrietta Emma Darwin 26 July [1867]
Summary
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 26 July [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5585 |
To George Howard Darwin 27 May [1867]
Summary
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5553 |
From G. H. Darwin to W. D. Whitney 21 December 1875
Summary
Müller has sent Chips [from a German workshop (1867–75)] and a boring defence against WDW’s attack. GHD feels he is maligned for using the weight of CD’s name in his Contemporary Review article. CD says Müller has misinterpreted a letter from CD as supporting him in his controversy with WDW.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Dwight Whitney |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 23, folder 631 1875 Dec. 18-24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10314 |
From Alfred Wrigley 9 March 1868
Summary
Wants to know why Horace has been removed from school without any notification.
| Author: | Alfred Wrigley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5999 |
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From W. E. Darwin [24 April 1881]
Summary
Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1881] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 102) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13141G |
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- … G. H. Darwin, 16 March 1881 (DAR 210.3: 5)). William was assisting CD with his observations for Earthworms ; see letter to W. E. Darwin, 19 February [1881] . Syenite, an intrusive igneous rock, is the ‘crystalline nucleus’ of the Malvern Hills; the Ludlow formation consists of shale, and steeply abuts the west side of the hills ( Murchison 1867 , …
From E. A. Darwin 19 February [1866]
Summary
Division of Catherine’s estate.
Arrangements for EAD’s will.
Wishes CD would pay him another visit.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B40–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5010 |
To G. H. Darwin [9 December 1868]
Summary
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [9 Dec 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6496 |
From G. H. Darwin 8 December 1868
Summary
Sends news of his and Frank’s doings at Cambridge.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Dec 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6495 |
From Friedrich Max Müller 13 October [1875]
Summary
Sends CD his answers to W. D. Whitney’s articles. Sees man as separated from other animals by the possession of language. There is no scientific evidence for even the slightest attempt at language in the higher animals, which cannot, therefore, be reasonably regarded as "stunted man". [See "In self-defence", Chips from a German workshop 4 (1875): 473–549.]
| Author: | Friedrich Max Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10194 |
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- … G. H. Darwin and Whitney in ‘My reply to Mr. Darwin’ in the January 1875 issue of the Contemporary Review ( Max Müller 1875 ). Whitney replied in April 1875 in the same journal ( Whitney 1875 ). Max Müller’s latest essay in Max Müller 1867– …
- … 1867–75 , 4: 473–549; see Publishers’ circular , 2 November 1875, p. 857). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. William Dwight Whitney had written a critical essay review of Max Müller’s lectures on Darwinism and language (Max Müller 1873 ) in the North American Review ( Whitney 1874 ). In November 1874, George Howard Darwin published a review of Whitney 1874 titled ‘Professor Whitney on the origin of language’ in the Contemporary Review ( G. H. …
From Francis Darwin 9 July 1879
Summary
Pressure paralyses the streaming of protoplasm in the hairs of Tradescantia.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12142 |
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- … 1867 , pp. 50–1). In Insectivorous plants , p. 43, CD had observed that if the glands of the tentacles of Drosera were crushed between pincers the tentacles did not become inflected or exhibit any signs of aggregation, and seemed paralysed. Horace Darwin had recently met with Thomas Henry Farrer , who had earlier objected to his proposed engagement to Ida Farrer (see letter to G. H. …
From G. H. Darwin 20 August 1875
Summary
CD’s suspicions that Legrain falsified experiments on interbred rabbits are like second sight. Has sent a copy of the letter to A. H. Huth.
Henry Sidgwick and A. J. Balfour are "spiritualising" again.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10129 |
From G. H. Darwin to James T. Knowles 8 February 1875
Summary
Letter [to editor of Contemp. Rev.] saying that W. D. Whitney would like to reply to Max Müller. Hopes space can be given him.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Thomas Knowles |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9846 |
To Richard Kippist 18 January [1865]
Summary
Asks that the long paper that he is sending for the Society be acknowledged when received.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 18 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | Alexander Autographs (dealers) (2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747A |
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- … 1867): 1–118. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. C. G. …
From G. H. Darwin 24 October 1874
Summary
GHD explains conduction, radiation, and convection.
His paper on political economy for Royal Institution lecture has reached 60 pages. Plans to send it to Contemporary Review.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.2: 54; 210.2: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9695 |
From G. H. Darwin 12 October 1875
Summary
Sends an article for CD’s opinion.
Has finished an account of the globes for the Philosophical Magazine ["On maps of the world", 50 (1875): 431–44].
His poor health has interfered with his pitch experiments.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10191 |
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- … G. H. Darwin 1875c ) appeared in the Philosophical Magazine in December 1875. George, who was a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, refers to meals served in the dining hall. The men who had recently taken their MA degrees have not been identified. Daniel Coit Gilman became the first president of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, in January 1875. In 1867, …
From Édouard van Beneden 18 August 1875
Summary
The unreliability of the work of J.-B. Legrain on consanguineous marriages [Recherches critiques et experimentales relatives aux marriages consanguins, extrait du Bull. Acad. R. Med. Belg. 2d ser. 9, no. 3].
| Author: | Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 134 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10125 |
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- … 1867): 26–49). Without referring to Beneden by name, CD used his information in the second edition of Variation in a note added to a discussion of the effects of inbreeding in rabbits ( Variation 2d ed. 2: 100 n. 20). CD also recalled the episode in his autobiography ( ‘Recollections’ , p. 425). See also letter to G. H. Darwin, [ …
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