To George Fraser 14 April [1871]
Summary
Cannot provide comment on GF’s paper for publication. Hopes GF will publish in Nature. Will consider his remarks when revising book [Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser |
Date: | 14 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7684 |
To Ernst Krause 29 January 1881
Summary
Sends copy of Nature in which EK’s letter, translated by Balfour, is printed. Thanks him. Now feels easy.
G. J. Romanes’ language in his review of Butler’s book [Unconscious memory] is perhaps too strong. Butler’s vanity is a "real psychological curiosity".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 29 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36213) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13032 |
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- … Butler ; it was published as a letter to Nature dated 12 January 1881, and appeared in the …
- … letter to F. M. Balfour, 12 January 1881 ). For Butler’s attack on CD, see Butler 1880 , pp. 58–62, and the letter to Leslie Stephen, 11 January 1881 and n. 3. George John Romanes ’s review of Butler 1880 appeared in Nature , …
To J. D. Hooker 3 October [1865]
Summary
Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.
Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4907 |
To G. J. Romanes [4 November 1875]
Summary
Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.
Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.
Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].
[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [4 Nov 1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.478) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10239 |
From F. M. Balfour 13 January [1881]
Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13011 |
To Pieter Harting 19 March 1877
Summary
Thanks for account of his work. Cannot read Dutch, but son has translated it.
Thanks for album sent by PH’s countrymen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Pieter Harting |
Date: | 19 Mar 1877 |
Classmark: | Leiden University Libraries (BPL 1938) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10899 |
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- … letters published in Nature , 8 March 1877, pp. 410–12 (see letter from A. A. van Bemmelen …
- … letter to A. A. von Bemmelen, 12 February 1877). For his 68th birthday, CD had been sent an album containing photographs of 217 distinguished professors and lovers of science from Holland; it accompanied the letter from A. A. van Bemmelen and H. J. Veth, 6 February 1877 . Apart from the announcement in Nature ( …
To Nature 24 February [1877]
Summary
Darwin consents to his correspondence with Pieter Harting being published in Nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 24 Feb [1877] |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (July 2004) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9872F |
To J. D. Hooker [9 April 1866]
Summary
Sad about Oliver’s loss.
JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].
Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5051 |
To Asa Gray 3 June [1874]
Summary
CD is deeply pleased by AG’s article on him in Nature [10 (1874): 79–81].
Is preparing book on "Drosera and Co." for the printers. Reports observations on digestion in Drosera and Pinguicula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 3 June [1874] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9480 |
From Ernst Krause 12 January 1881
Author: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13009 |
To F. M. Balfour 28 January 1881
Summary
Thanks FMB for translation of Ernst Krause’s letter for Nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
Date: | 28 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13030 |
To Edward Frankland 14 May [1874]
Summary
Requests sewage water (and oleic acid) for experiments to determine sensitivity of leaves [of Drosera].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 14 May [1874] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9460A |
From Emile Alglave 27 March 1874
Summary
On EA’s persecution by new government for liberal–republican position of his Revues; threat to remove him from Faculté de Droit, unless he renounces relations with Revues or changes their politics.
Has reviewed CD’s Orchids.
Author: | Émile Alglave |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9375 |
From Robert McLachlan 13 March 1879
Summary
Returns to CD a corrected proof [of "Fritz Müller on a frog having eggs on its back", Nature 19 (1878–9): 462–4].
Discusses adaptations of the pupae of, and Fritz Müller’s work on, Trichoptera.
Author: | Robert McLachlan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11930 |
To George Harris 16 February [1874]
Summary
Returns proofs; has no criticisms or remarks worth sending.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Harris |
Date: | 16 Feb [1874] |
Classmark: | University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9294 |
To George Harris 12 February 1874
Summary
Has read GH’s proofs and, although not entirely in agreement, has no criticisms worth sending.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Harris |
Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9284 |
To W. H. Flower 25 February 1878
Summary
Encloses letter from R. A. Blair concerning goose with abnormal wing. Hopes WHF will look at bones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 25 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | John Innes Foundation Historical Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11375 |
To Herbert Spencer 10 June [1872]
Summary
Expresses his "unbounded admiration" for HS’s article on Martineau ["Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54]
and his article on sociology [Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 701–18]. CD never believed in the reigning influence of great men on the world’s progress but could not have given his reasons. "Now every one with eyes to see and ears to hear . . . ought to bow their knee to you, as I for one do."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 10 June [1872] |
Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS791/80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8380 |
From Fritz Müller 31 May 1881
Summary
Has just received CD’s letter of 12 April [13113]. To answer CD’s query, Heteranthera reniformis is an amphibious plant that grows as well on moist ground as it does in ditches filled with water.
For the past few weeks has been observing Phyllanthus plants that had shown the irregular movement in leaves returning from the positions assumed at night, but none has repeated the irregularity. Perhaps the progeny from the seeds he has collected will inherit the tendency for irregular movement.
Describes his observations of the power of movement in Cassia, Desmodium, and a few other plants.
Paul Mayer has identified seven new species of insects FM found in nine different species of figs.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May 1881 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 410–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13185A |
To Ernst Haeckel 26 December 1874
Summary
Comments on review of EH’s Anthropogenie [1874].
Mentions recent work of Huxley and other scientists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 26 Dec 1874 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9781 |
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