To Alphonse de Candolle 11 December 1872
Summary
Thanks AdeC for great pleasure his new book [Histoire des sciences (1873)] has given him. Comments on several of the essays.
When AdeC backs up Asa Gray in saying all instincts are congenital habits, CD must protest.
Asks several questions about butterflies of the Alps discussed on p. 322 [of Histoire].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 11 Dec 1872 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8672 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 2 November [1872]
Summary
Thanks for AdeC’s Histoire des sciences [1873].
Sends a copy of Expression.
His health keeps him weak; he dreads grappling with the fearful subject of variation [in nature]
so he is working up some observations in botanical physiology to publish with his old papers on climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 2 Nov [1872] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8593 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 January [1873]
Summary
Asks whether his observations on absorptive powers of glandular hairs of plants are new facts.
Asks for a Drosophyllum.
Comments on Francis Galton’s article in Fraser’s Magazine,
Greg’s Enigmas,
and Alphonse de Candolle’s Histoire des sciences.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 243–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8726 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 14 January 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression, which has made him wonder whether his shyness in public until the age of 55 resulted from fear of subjecting his face to ridicule.
Criticises F. Galton’s Hereditary genius [1869] for neglecting environmental influence.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8737 |
From Francis Galton [before 28 May 1873]
Summary
Collecting information about antecedents of eminent men of science. Sends questionnaire.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 28 May 1873] |
Classmark: | Pearson 1914–30, 2: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8889 |
To J. V. Carus 11 November [1872]
Summary
Reports on very successful sale of Expression in England. Suggests German publisher keep the type set up in case more than the expected 3000 copies are needed.
Has begun work on some old botanical observations [of Drosera for Insectivorous plants].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 11 Nov [1872] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 98–99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8618 |
From Alois Humbert [before 18] January 1873
Summary
On a humming-bird Sphinx moth which tried to extract nectar from flowers on wallpaper. [See Descent, 2d ed., p. 317.]
Author: | Alois Humbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18] Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8718 |
To Francis Galton 4 January [1873]
Summary
Comments on FG’s article ["Hereditary improvement", Fraser’s Mag. 87 (1873): 116–30]. Finds it "the sole feasible, yet I fear utopian, plan of procedure in improving the human race".
Thanks for rabbits for Balfour.
Mentions reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas [of life (1872)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 4 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8724 |
To Gaston de Saporta 30 May 1874
Summary
Thanks GdeS for his "Études sur la végétation" [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 5th ser. 15 (1872): 277–315]. "Nothing can be more important … than your evidence of the extremely slow and gradual manner in which specific forms change."
Hopes GdeS will shed light on whether polymorphic forms like Rubus and Hieracium are generating new species at present; CD doubts this.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Date: | 30 May 1874 |
Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9476 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 January 1873
Summary
Fascinated by Greg’s Enigmas, though its matter is weak.
Is vexed at being drawn into hostility toward British Museum through William Carruthers’ insolence and presumption.
Recounts visit with Edward Cardwell [Secretary for War].
Has sent Candolle’s book to Gladstone.
JDH indignant at Gladstone’s speech putting English science below French and German.
Thinks it is an accepted dogma that glandular hairs are excreting only. Will ask others to confirm.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 140–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8727 |
To Robert Smith 27 February [1873]
Summary
CD answers a question about the attitude of foreign naturalists towards Darwinism by distinguishing between the belief in evolution and belief in natural selection. Gives the views of [Louis] Agassiz, [R. A.] Kölliker, [C. W.] Nägeli, [Ernst] Häckel, [C. F. W.] Claus, [F. J.] Cohn, Alphonse de Candolle, [J. L.] Claparède, Asa Gray, Gaston de Saporta, [E. D.] Cope, and [Carl] Gegenbaur.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Smith |
Date: | 27 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8790F |
To ? 18 July [1873?]
Summary
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 July [1873?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.430) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8982 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters March 1866
Summary
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5022 |
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- … Alphonse de Candolle , Charles Cardale Babington , John Joseph Bennett , Miles Joseph Berkeley , Robert Bentley , John Edward Gray , Friedrich Welwitsch , John Miers , and William Carruthers . The congress programme has not been found in the Darwin Archive–CUL; however, the papers were published, with a detailed report of the exhibition and congress, in International Horticultural Exhibition 1866 . Masters refers to Berthold Carl Seemann , who was absent from Britain between March and August 1866 on an expedition to Nicaragua ( Journal of Botany 10 (1872): …
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