To Asa Gray 11 May [1863]
Summary
CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.
Is confused over phyllotaxy.
Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153 |
From Bernard Peirce Brent 18 June 1864
Summary
Has been informed Miss E. Watts retiring from poultry department of the Field and would like to take the post if made available. Asks CD if he would provide a reference for him if necessary.
Has bred and reared a young turtle-dove.
On progress of his lawsuit.
Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4538 |
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- … 1857 B287 (Brent v Briggs)). Before taking up residence in Sussex, Brent had lived at Bessels Green in Kent (CD’s Address book (Down House MS)). Brent probably refers to Horace Darwin , who had been seriously ill in the early part of 1863, and who remained in poor health (see Correspondence vol. 11, and this volume, letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
From J. D. Hooker 24 December 1865
Summary
Oliver says H. E. Baillon found stamens on female flowers of Coelebogyne, but JDH and many botanists have never found any stamens.
Lyell wants to propose JDH for Copley Medal.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Dec 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4955 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 and nn. 3–5. In a paper presented to the Société Botanique de France in Paris, Ernest-Henri Baillon reported having possibly observed an immature or underdeveloped stamen in the female flower of Coelebogyne ilicifolia ; however, he was unable to confirm that the material extracted from the supposed anthers was in fact pollen grains ( Baillon 1857 , …
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
JDH wants papers at once. CD sends Wallace’s paper and CD’s abstract of his letter to Asa Gray. Sends [species] sketch of 1844 with JDH’s notes to assure JDH he had read it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2298 |
To W. D. Fox 8 February [1857]
Summary
Birth of his sixth son [C. W. Darwin]. It is dreadful "to think of all the sendings to school and the professions afterwards".
CD is not well but has not the courage for water-cure again; trying mineral acids.
Working hard on the book [Natural selection]; is overwhelmed with riches in facts and interested in way facts fall into groups.
To his surprise [Helix pomatia] has withstood 14 days in salt water.
Pigeons’ skins come in from all parts of the world.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 8 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2049 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 3 February [1850]). Fox had twelve children in all, five by his first marriage and seven by his second. Of these, four were boys. An allusion to the advanced stage of Ellen Sophia Fox’s pregnancy. Edith Darwin Fox was born on 13 February 1857 ( …
- … J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1856] , and letter from T. V. Wollaston, [11 or 18 December 1856] . On 22 January, after one of the Helices provided by Thomas Vernon Wollaston had survived the effects of immersion in salt water, CD began a new experiment with Helix pomatia and H. aspersa . In his Experimental book, p. 16 (DAR 157a), CD recorded on 5 February 1857 …
To J. D. Hooker [17 June 1865]
Summary
Huxley’s capital, witty letter.
Charles Kingsley has written of his interest in "Climbing plants".
Health has been very bad.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4862 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 November 1862
Summary
Stupefied by CD’s five forms of Lythrum.
Asa Gray busy with Cypripedium. JDH offers some to CD if he wants to challenge Gray.
J. W. Dawson’s review of JDH’s paper on Arctic plants.
Louis Lucien Bonaparte’s views on Basque and Finnish language [Langue basque et langues finnoises (1862)] suggest to JDH that Basques are Finns left behind after the glacial period, like the Arctic plants!
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 66–7, 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3792 |
To Asa Gray 22 January [1862]
Summary
Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".
U. S. politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3404 |
From Asa Gray 21 June 1858
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2288 |
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- … 1857] ). CD investigated the subject experimentally in June 1858 (see n. 2, below). The note forms part of CD’s record of observations made in May and June on the fertilisation of these and similar leguminous flowers by bees. The letter is bound with CD’s other slips and notes on the topic in DAR 76. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, …
To T. H. Huxley 29 [September 1855]
Summary
Responds to THH’s questioning of his observations on cirripede anatomy with extensive discussion of what he observed. Admits his elementary knowledge of microscopical structures but seriously doubts he has erred. Cement glands, ovarian tubes, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 29 [Sept 1855] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 21); Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1757 |
From A. R. Wallace 9 July 1881
Summary
Enthusiasm for Henry George’s Progress and poverty. Considers it to rank with Adam Smith’s work. His own work on the land question [Land nationalisation (1882)].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13238 |
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- … 1857–61. History of civilization in England. 2 vols. London: John W. Parker & Son. Darwin, Charles and Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1858. On the tendency of species to form varieties; and on the perpetuation of varieties and species by natural means of selection … Communicated by Sir Charles Lyell … and J. D. Hooker. [ …
To H. W. Bates 9 May [1862]
Summary
Referring to conversation with Lyell, CD is certain that there was a Miocene glacial period.
Compliments HWB on the mimetic display at the British Museum. Those at the Museum readily accepted HWB’s "doctrine".
Was shown genital organs of closely allied Chrysomelidae.
Albert Günther is candidate for position at Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3540 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.
Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.
H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].
Working on bees’ cells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2222 |
From Daniel Oliver [1 April 1864]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4443 |
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To T. C. Eyton 4 October [1858]
Summary
Comments on TCE’s skeletons.
Must get advice from Hugh Falconer on names of some bones.
Preparing his abstract [Origin].
Asks about colours of horses and stripes on asses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 4 Oct [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.158) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2333 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 20 [October 1858] ). CD discussed the osteological differences between skeletons of various breeds of pigeons in Variation 1: 162–7. ‘A great hunter; one who is fond of, or given to, hunting’ ( OED ). See Correspondence vol. 6, letters to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 13 June 1857], …
To Daniel Oliver 30 November [1861]
Summary
Requests that DO examine enclosed microscope slides of Acropera ovules, to confirm CD’s opinion that females are non-functional.
Can DO comment on disagreement between Robert Brown and John Lindley over the number of Acropera carpels?
O. Heer’s Atlantis theory vs CD’s hypothesis of a migration north during warm periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 30 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 2 (EH 88205986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3333 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 25 November [1861] , and to Daniel Oliver , 7 December [1861]. To account for the European character of the flora of Madeira and for the presence of American forms, Oswald Heer had proposed that Madeira, the Canaries, Porto Santo, and the Azores were the remnants of a sunken land-mass, or ‘Atlantis’, that in the Tertiary period had been connected by a land-bridge to America and Europe (Heer 1857). …
From A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1858]
Summary
Death of Charles Waring Darwin [1856–8] from scarlet fever.
JDH’s and Lyell’s kindness [presumably about A. R. Wallace’s letter]. CD can provide a copy of his letter to Asa Gray [about CD’s species theory].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 June 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2297 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1862]
Summary
Wife’s health improved by trip.
Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.
Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.
Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 171, DAR 101: 48–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3665 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 10 July 1862 , and L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 401–2). In attempting to explain the resemblance between the Tertiary flora of Europe and Madeira, and the present flora of Atlantic North America, Heer had argued that, during the Miocene era, there must have existed an Atlantic land-bridge between Europe and North America, which was subsequently submerged, with the exception of the various Atlantic islands (Heer 1857 …
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