To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1869]
Summary
Interested in Barkly’s letter about Mauritius. Doubts non-volcanic origin. Urges collection of all forms of terrestrial life to determine whether they are of a former continent or "waifs and strays". He leans to latter view, as snakes and reptiles are different.
Huxley’s address wonderfully "brilliant", but it is a mistake to separate evolutionists from uniformitarians.
Bentham has come out "splendidly" on descent of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6688 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … and the letter from J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 29 March 1869 . Hooker had enclosed …
- … Barkly and Isaac Anderson -Henry with his letter to Emma Darwin of 29 March 1869 . See the …
- … Hooker enclosed in Hooker’s letter to Emma Darwin of 29 March 1869 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 29 March 1869 and n. 1. CD refers to Thomas Henry Huxley’s …
- … 19 March [1869] and n. 3. Henrietta Emma Darwin had been ill for a couple of weeks (see …
From V. O. Kovalevsky 13 September 1869
Summary
Since March has been living in Heidelberg, where his wife is studying mathematics and physics.
The Russian translation of Variation has been printed in his absence; he will bring a copy to Down if he receives one from Russia.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6890 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 September [1869]
Summary
F. C. Donders has been to lunch – a good "Darwinian"!
JDH’s speech of resignation [as BAAS President] at Exeter was charming [Rep. BAAS (1869)]. JDH should have been an ambassador.
Has received Indian census.
Is unusually well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 151–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6886 |
From Thomas Henry Farrer 15 January 1869
Author: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6556 |
To Asa Gray 1 June [1869]
Summary
Thanks for answers about expression.
Is going to N. Wales to recover after his riding accident.
New edition of Origin.
French edition of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 June [1869] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (86a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6767 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Miss Norton’ visiting the preceding day ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); the Nortons were …
- … p. 222). The Nortons also visited on 13 May 1869 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Asa and …
- … Darwins from 24 to 30 October 1868 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). For CD’ s interest in …
- … 29 May 1869, p. 582. According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Huxleys visited on 25 …
From J. D. Hooker 5 August 1869
Summary
Huxley has shown him the jaws of an Anoplotherium brought from the Gallegos by R. O. Cunningham.
Saw Hallett’s wheat crops at Brighton; results of his selection very striking.
Huxley is assembling his Darwiniana papers for republication.
Has written a crushing reply to Richard Congreve ["The scientific aspects of positivism", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 5 (1869): 653–70] and JDH feels "infantine" beside him.
Comments on Sabine’s being offered and accepting K.C.B.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6853 |
To John Murray [after 18 September 1869]
Summary
Wishes JM’s new periodical [the Academy] could have been a weekly so it might kill the Athenæum by a lingering death.
Has drafted a piece [about Descent] but is not pleased with it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | [after 18 Sept 1869] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 39–40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6900 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 December [1869]
Summary
Inquires about arrangements for the German translation and publication of their original Linnean Society papers [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
ARW thinks he has hit upon a solution to problem of geological time.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B88–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7019 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 March [1869]
Summary
Transmits letter [from Fritz Müller].
Has been asked to permit a French translation of Orchids and Journal of researches.
At work on sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 116-17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6647 |
To J. J. Moulinié 22 February [1869]
Summary
Thanks JJM for translating long paper [by Carrière, J. Agric. Pratique 48 (1869): 159–67]. Paper interesting especially for showing variation has been different under different conditions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 22 Feb [1869] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 9–10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6625 |
To T. H. Farrer [27 November 1869]
Summary
Encloses extract from a letter from Fritz Müller about humming-birds visiting Passiflora, "as a caution about Passiflora in contrast with Tacsonia".
[Signed with CD’s name by Emma Darwin.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | [27 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7013 |
To J. V. Carus 21 June [1869]
Summary
Sends new edition of the Origin. Has made some corrections.
Has been led into dreadful blunder on p. 75 by erroneous calculations of a mathematical friend.
Opposes change of Entstehung into Ursprung [in title] even if more correct. It would make readers think it is a new book.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 21 June [1869] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 19–20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6790 |
From A. R. Wallace 30 January 1869
Summary
Argues that [general variability] of species, not single variations or sports, is basis for modification and adaptation to new conditions.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6583 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 October [1869]
Summary
V. O. Kovalevsky, Russian translator [of Variation], wishes to hear THH lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 275) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6922 |
From J. J. Moulinié 20 October 1869
Summary
Wishes to translate CD’s forthcoming work on man into French.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6950 |
To Linnean Society, President and Council [10 May 1869]
Summary
Referee report on paper by Richard Spruce on sacs in Melastoma [see 6690]. CD says RS’s suggestions that sacs are inherited is not supported and should be deleted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
Date: | [10 May 1869] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6722 |
To A. R. Wallace 14 April 1869
Summary
ARW’s review of 10th ed. of Lyell’s Principles [see 6684] is admirable.
But he differs "grievously" with ARW on man. CD sees no necessity for an additional and proximate cause.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 14 Apr 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 181–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6706 |
From John Beck 15 May 1869
Author: | John Beck |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6747 |
To Edward Alfred Smith 30 June [1869]
Summary
Thanks EAS for excellent proofs of woodcuts [for Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
Date: | 30 June [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.372) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6807 |
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 |
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