To Edouard Bornet 1 December 1866
Summary
Thanks JBEB for Papaver seeds. Has long wished to see some of the closely allied subspecies and hopes to make some crossing experiments with them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 501, fol. 387) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5292 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 April 1866]
Summary
Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 286 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5054 |
To Fritz Müller 11 January 1866
Summary
Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.
Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.
CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4972 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 and 4 August [1866]
Summary
Answers JDH’s questions on connection of SE. England and continent,
on the effect of breaking the Isthmus of Panama,
and on Madeira flora as remnant of Tertiary flora.
Cautionary remarks for JDH on his "Insular floras" speech, designed to strengthen case of "occasional migration" theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 and 4 Aug 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 295, 295b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5174 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 31 July 1866 and n. 19. CD’s enquiry about sea currents to the Atlantic islands, and the response, have not been found. The only ship wrecked in the Canary Islands between 1836 and 1866 was the British steamship Niger . The Niger was wrecked at Santa Cruz, Tenerife, on 12 June 1857, …
To J. D. Hooker [28 February 1866]
Summary
Refers to part of JDH letter on glacial period sent on to Lyell. CD will not yield. Cannot think how JDH attaches so much attention to physicists. Has "come not to care at all for general beliefs without the special facts".
His health is improved but not so good as JDH supposes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Feb 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5020 |
To Fritz Müller [9 and] 15 April [1866]
Summary
Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.
Fertilisation of Aristolochia.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].
Is preparing new edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 9 and 15 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5050 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 7 June [1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8). His notes on Scaevola are in his Experimental notebook (DAR 157a). CD discussed the cross-pollination mechanism of Lobelia in Origin , pp. 98–9, and Cross and self fertilisation , p. 176. See also Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] . …
| letter | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Bornet, Édouard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Müller, Fritz | (2) |
| Bornet, Édouard | (1) |
