To Ernst Haeckel 3 August [1869]
Summary
Suggests Englishmen who might provide sponge specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 3 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6850 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Norman, 29 July [1869] , and letter from A. M. Norman, 2 August 1869 and …
- … Hancock, 17 July [1869] , and letter from Albany …
- … Huxley, 9 July [1869] , and the letter from T. H. …
- … between this letter and the letter from Ernst Haeckel, 2 July 1869 . Letter from Ernst …
- … Huxley, 16 July 1869 . See letter to Albany …
- … CD refers to James Scott Bowerbank . See also letter from A. M. Norman, 2 August 1869 . …
- … Haeckel, 2 July 1869 . CD refers to Thomas Henry Huxley , the letter to T. H. …
- … Hancock, 25 July 1869 and n. 3. See letter to A. M. …
To George Maw 27 April [1869]
Summary
Thanks GM for specimens of Drosophyllum; by a strange coincidence CD has also received plants from a correspondent in Oporto [W. C. Tait].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 27 Apr [1869] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6714 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … from W. C. Tait, 26 January 1869 , letter to W. C. …
- … Tait, 2 February [1869] , and letter from W. C. …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from George Maw, 18 April 1869 . …
- … See letter from George Maw, 18 April 1869 . CD refers to William Chester Tait ; see letter …
- … Tait, 2 March 1869 . See also letter to George Maw, 13 January 1868 . Joseph Dalton Hooker …
From T. H. Huxley 17 March 1869
Summary
Last letter was written to be passed on for Lushington’s edification. "(Standing on the points of my toes and my tail very stiff)." Is tiring of controversy as a waste of time. Begins to understand CD’s sufferings over Origin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6665 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 August [1869]
Summary
Replies to JDH on Hallett; doubts that already improved varieties do not vary in other respects.
The North British Review article [see 6841] is worth reading "scientifically"; it made CD feel small.
Awaits JDH’s decision on affinities of Drosophyllum and Drosera.
Is curious to see proportion of males to females in recent census in India.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 144–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6855 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … the missing part of the letter from Fritz Müller, 15 June 1869 (see letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 13 August 1869 , and letter to Fritz Müller, 8 September [1869] ). CD refers to …
- … Hooker, 5 August 1869 ; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 July [1869] and n. 7. Tait …
- … 1. Müller had sent seed of a monstrous begonia with his letter of 14 March 1869 or later; …
- … s anonymous article in the North British Review ( [Tait] 1869 ). See letter from J. D. …
- … see also letter to George Bentham, 10 May [1869] and nn. 5 and 7. In a paper published in …
- … 2. See also letter to the Athenæum , 7 [July] 1869. CD quoted a sentence on polygamy in …
- … in Descent 1: 267. See letter to Walter Elliot, 3 August [1869] and n. 3. A report on the …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 5 August 1869 and n. 2. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 August …
- … birth to twins; see letter from Ponderer to the Athenæum , [before 5 June 1869] and n. …
- … of this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 August 1869 . CD refers to Frederic …
- … D. Hooker, 5 August 1869 and n. 9. Letter from J. D. …
- … 1 June [1865] and n. 3). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 August 1869 and n. 10. CD …
- … and Emma Darwin . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 July [1869] and n. 13. CD evidently …
- … and [McLennan] 1869 ( Wellesley index ). CD refers to Edward Sabine . See letter from J. …
- … 1869 . ‘Splenditious’ is an invented Darwin family word (see Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
- … The Times , 22 June 1869, p. 5). See also Correspondence vol. 16, letter from J. D. …
From Fritz Müller 16 February 1870
Summary
Sends specimens of Passiflora and seeds for T. H. Farrer [letter enclosed with 7188].
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7108 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 November [1869]
Summary
Sends title of Kerner’s book [see 6997] and comments that AK does not give the one parent form of the genus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7006 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … comments on Kerner von Marilaun 1869, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 November [ …
- … Lyell with his letter of 21 November 1869 . The letter has not been found. …
- … s comment on Kerner von Marilaun’s plant genealogy, see his letter of 21 November 1869 . …
- … than on the envelope; in his letter of 21 November 1869 , Hooker had written: ‘Pray do not …
- … See letter from George Bentham, 23 November 1869 . …
- … Hooker’s most recent extant letter is that of 21 November 1869. CD may be referring to …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 21 November 1869 . Hooker had enclosed a letter from Mary Elizabeth …
- … more on Hooker’s newly acquired CB, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . …
To Albert Günther 27 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks AG for full answers to queries.
Delighted Mr Ford will undertake drawings [for Descent]; comments on some illustrations he would like.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 27 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6913 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … letter to Albert Günther, 21 September 1869 , and letter from Albert Günther, [ …
- … specimens in DAR 84.1: 170. See letter from Albert Günther, 23 September 1869 and n. 7. …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter to Albert Günther, 21 September 1869 . See …
- … before 27 September 1869] . See letter from Albert Günther, [before 27 September 1869] and …
- … n. 5. George Henry Ford . See letter from Albert Günther, 23 September 1869 . …
- … See letter from Albert Günther, 23 September 1869 and nn. 3 and 4. Illustrations of a …
To Edward Blyth 14 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks EB for his attempts to find out about the mandrills;
sorry to hear that he has been so badly treated by the manager of Land and Water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 14 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6891 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … N. Hegt, [23 April 1869] , and letter to Max Schmidt, [29 April 1869] . CD cited William …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Edward Blyth, 13 September 1869 . …
- … See letter from Edward Blyth, 13 September 1869 . See letter from J. …
- … in Descent 1: 267. See letters from Walter Elliot , 7 August 1869 and 7 September 1869 . …
- … to Land and Water ; see letter from Edward Blyth, 13 September 1869 . Blyth had started …
To Fritz Müller 1 December [1869]
Summary
Role of humming-birds in plant fertilisation.
Alexander Agassiz has visited Down.
Sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Encloses copy of T. H. Farrer letter [7015] and observations on the self-sterility of Eschscholzia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 1 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7018 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … a copy of the extract from Müller’s letter of 18 October 1869 with his letter to T. H. …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, 12 January 1869 , and letter to Fritz Müller, 18 July [1869] and …
- … Müller evidently enclosed seeds with his letter of 18 October 1869 to replace those that …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 18 October 1869 . …
- … been damaged earlier (see letter to Fritz Müller, 18 July [1869] and n. 5). For Thomas …
- … pp. 150–1. See also letter from Louis Agassiz, 6 July 1869 . On the health problems of …
- … of F. Müller 1864a (Dallas trans. 1869). See letter from John Murray, 17 November 1869 . …
- … Farrer, 28 November 1869 . Both the enclosures to the letter to Müller are copies made by …
- … Farrer, [27 November 1869] . For Farrer’s original reply, see the letter from T. H. …
- … Wallace 1869a ). See letter from A. B. Meyer, 16 November 1869 . The enclosure, written …
To T. H. Huxley 9 July [1869]
Summary
Haeckel wants British specimens of calcareous sponges. Can THH tell him to whom he can apply?
Health not improving – cannot climb even a hill.
Has heard THH’s article on Comte ["Scientific aspects of Positivism", Lay sermons (1870)] is a splendid success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 271) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6823 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 12 March [1869] , and letter from T. H. Huxley, 11 March 1869 . …
- … between this letter and the letter from Ernst Haeckel, 2 July 1869 . Henrietta Anne …
- … Huxley . See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 2 July 1869 . CD refers to ‘The scientific aspects …
- … article ( T. H. Huxley 1869a ). See letters to T. H. Huxley, 10 March 1869 and …
To Eliza Meteyard [18 February 1869]
Summary
CD signed the petition, had Sir Charles Lyell do so also, and then forwarded the memorial to Sir John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eliza Meteyard |
Date: | [18 Feb 1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6618 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 June 1869
Summary
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6779 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869 , and letter from James Crichton-Browne, 1 June …
- … 1862 (see letter to James Crichton-Browne, 22 May 1869 , and letter from James Crichton- …
- … Asa and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May 1869). See letter from James Crichton-Browne, 1 June …
- … n. 1, above. See letter from James Crichton-Browne, 1 June 1869 . The observer was Jane …
- … Browne, 1 June 1869 ). No letter from Thomas Henry Huxley on this subject has been found. …
- … is referred to. See letter from James Crichton-Browne, 1 June 1869 . CD was in London from …
- … 1869 Dear Sir I am grateful for the extremely kind manner in which you offer me further assistance, and for the very valuable aid already given. And this is all the more kind, as I am well aware how much your time must be occupied with your arduous duties. The information about the hair standing on end is now quite ample. I am also glad to hear that you have seen the “grief muscles” in action, for these cannot often be observed. But I may add that I have just had a letter …
From R. F. Cooke 12 March 1869
Summary
Book [Facts and arguments for Darwin] is being bound; it is probably too late to alter lettering.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 367 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6659 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Bate , and copies of Dallas trans. 1869 (see letter to R. F. Cooke, 9 March [1869] ). …
- … R. F. Cooke, 9 March [1869] , and letter from R. F. Cooke, 10 March 1869 and n. 2). …
- … of journals that received review copies of Dallas trans. 1869, see the letter to R. F. …
- … 23 [February 1869] . Cooke refers to the lettering of the spine of the book (see letter to …
From G. H. Darwin 14 February 1869
Summary
Explains the point about gravitation and heat that CD does not understand in J. Croll’s letter [6218?].
Cambridge news.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6614 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … left for Paris on 5 March 1869 (see letter from G. H. …
- … Croll, 4 February 1869 , and letter to G. H. Darwin, 6 February [1869] and n. 2. …
- … See also letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] and n. 2. George refers to Augustus …
- … Darwin, [23 February 1869] and n. 7). See letter from James …
- … Fox Bristowe . See letter from G. H. Darwin, 6 February 1869 . George refers to John …
- … to Alfred Douglas Hamilton . See letter from G. H. Darwin, 6 February 1869 . George …
- … letters from James Croll , [2 December 1868] ( Correspondence vol. 16) and 4 February 1869. …
To J. D. Hooker 19 November [1869]
Summary
Glad to know about C.B.
Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.
Likes Academy.
Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].
The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.
Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 159–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6997 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … Reinwald of Paris on 10 November 1869; the letter has not been found. Reinwald agreed to …
- … of 14 November 1869 . CD refers to William Henslow Hooker ; see letter from J. D. …
- … Moulinié trans. 1873) in his letter of 13 November 1869 . Hooker had mentioned Charles …
- … from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . …
- … of Origin , see the letter to John Murray, 8 November [1869] and n. 5. For CD’s work on …
- … to the editions, see the letter to John Murray, 8 November [1869] and n. 5. Variation was …
- … Star of India); see letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . For more on Hooker’s …
- … Scientific Opinion , see the letter to J. D. Hooker, [22 January 1869] and n. 8. …
- … Nature , see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 . Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … Huxley 1869b , see letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 and n. 15). The essay …
- … 1988, pp. 3–5. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1869 and n. 14. CD refers to …
To Spiridion Brusina 8 May [1869]
Summary
Sends photograph of Sir C. Lyell and Professor Owen, generally considered our most distinguished [British] naturalists. Includes the requested photograph of himself [see 6720].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Spiridion Brusina |
Date: | 8 May [1869] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (XV-48/AI 340) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6736A |
From T. H. Farrer 12 August 1869
Summary
Will work on papilionaceous flowers since CD encourages it. Discusses function of hairs in certain plants.
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6861 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Farrer, 8 August 1869 , and letter to T. H. …
- … Farrer, 10 August [1869] . Farrer refers to Frances Farrer ; see letter to T. H. Farrer, …
- … to T. H. Farrer, 10 August [1869] . See letter from T. H. …
- … See letter from T. H. Farrer, 8 August 1869 and n. 4, and letter to T. H. …
- … 1869] . Trinity House corporation in London was the official regulator of British shipping, its responsibilities including the erection and maintenance of lighthouses on the coasts of England and Wales ( OED ). See letter …
To Alfred Merle Norman 29 July [1869]
Summary
Asks whether AMN has any specimens of British calcareous sponges that CD could forward to Haeckel, who is studying them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Merle Norman |
Date: | 29 July [1869] |
Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6845 |
From Charles Layton 22 November 1869
Summary
Appleton & Co. wish to be supplied with set of stereotype plates of CD’s new book [Descent] for American market; will pay for cost of plates, and 10% of sales to CD.
Also desire plates for new edition of the Origin.
Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 83a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7003 |
From John Beddoe [22 August – 12 September 1869]
Summary
Results of CD’s examination of data subvert JB’s former inferences. Will send abstracts from the data for his paper on colour of hair of single and married women 35 to 45 years old ["On the supposed increasing prevalence of dark hair in England", Anthropol. Rev. 1 (1863): 310–12].
Author: | John Beddoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Aug – 12 Sept 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6809 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … relationship between this letter and the letters from John Beddoe , 21 August 1869 and …
- … See letter from John Beddoe, 21 August 1869 . …
- … See letter from John Beddoe, 21 August 1869 and nn. 2 …
- … and 4. See letter from John Beddoe, 21 August 1869 . …
- … Beddoe 1863 ; see also letter from John Beddoe, 21 August 1869 and n. 2. …
- … See enclosure to letter from John Beddoe, 13 September 1869 . …
- … 13 September 1869 . Robert Christison . CD’s letter has not been found. …
- … letter has followed me hither, where I am enjoying a holyday— And by the same post I have received the result of the last examination of data— It is vexatiously subversive of my former inferences, & really looks very much as if the gradual darkening of colour were the real cause, or main cause at least, of the whole set of phenomena— Now that I have got a trustworthy amanuensis I will have the 35–45 women abstracted from the books which furnished the original data for my paper of 1863; and when I get the result you shall have it at once— Yours very faithfully | John Beddoe July 13 th 1863 to Aug 6. 1869 …
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Survival of the fittest in Commentary
Alfred Russel Wallace
Summary
Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and evolutionary theory to spiritualism and politics. He was born in 1823 in Usk, a small town in south-east Wales, and attended a grammar school in Hertford. At the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Wallace was a leading Victorian naturalist, with wide-ranging interests from biogeography and …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
Summary
Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
Matches: 1 hits
- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …