To G. N. Smith 20 November [1840]
Summary
Sorry that ill health prevented sooner reply. Letter about caves at Caldy was already read by Buckland. Will examine birds’ beaks when better and present to Geological Society of London in Smith’s name.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gilbert Nicholas Smith |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1840] |
| Classmark: | Angus Carroll (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-580F |
To G. N. Smith [c. 15 August 1840]
Summary
Questions GNS on remains found in caves on Caldy Island. [CD’s pencilled queries sent via Frances Allen].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gilbert Nicholas Smith |
| Date: | [c. 15 Aug 1840] |
| Classmark: | Tenby Museum |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-576 |
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- … Darwin, C. R. Smith, G. N. …
- … To G. N. Smith [ c. 15 August 1840] …
- … Elizabeth Wedgwood , who was asked to send a note with the questions to G. N. Smith. As …
- … the letter from Frances Allen to G. N. Smith, 19 August [1840] , explains, she thought it …
- … British Association meeting in Oxford ( G. N. Smith 1860 ). Answer inserted by Smith: ( …
Frances Allen to G. N. Smith 19 August [1840]
Summary
Forwards list of questions from CD relating to GNS’s paper on Caldy [see 576].
| Author: | Frances (Fanny) Allen |
| Addressee: | Gilbert Nicholas Smith |
| Date: | 19 Aug [1840] |
| Classmark: | Tenby Museum |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-577 |
From W. G. Smith 27 July 1877
Summary
Has examined some sea-kale and iris leaves sent by CD and does not think the scars are caused by fungus but rather through the action of insects. Feels "bloom" may protect leaves from such insect attack.
| Author: | Worthington George Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 July 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11075 |
To A. G. Butler 20 February [1879]
Summary
"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.
I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11889 |
From P. H. Pye-Smith 19 December 1881
Summary
Urges CD to write on vivisection for Nineteenth Century or suggest a competent scientific author. Forming an association to forward interests of vivisectionists.
| Author: | Philip Henry Pye-Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13566 |
From G. S. Ffinden 31 May 1879
Summary
The official parish tithe map shows that a greater error than at first thought was made in measuring Miss Wedgwood’s land. She was overpaid £15 10s.
| Author: | George Sketchley Ffinden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1879 |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/3/4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12074 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1863]
Summary
Describes experiments on rotation of tendrils and shoots.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 July [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 198 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4227 |
From J. D. Hooker [2]9 June 1863
Summary
JDH and Oliver impressed with CD’s observations on gyratory motion of plants.
CD pleased with Bentham’s Linnean Society address on the reception of Darwinism [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 7 (1863): xi–xxix].
JDH’s social "dogma": "Brains x Beauty = Breeding + wealth".
[Dated 9 June by JDH.]
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [2]9 June 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 147–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4224 |
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- … Smith 1863 . G. Smith 1863 comprised a series of letters on the British empire, contributed by Goldwin Smith to the Daily News in 1862 and 1863. In his letters, Smith argued for ‘colonial emancipation’, by which he meant that the self-governing colonies should be converted into independent states; his views attracted much attention, and caused widespread offence ( DNB ). Julius von Haast . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 July [1863] and n. …
To J. J. Aubertin 19 July 1863
Summary
Discusses geology of Brazil.
Asks for Brazilian stamps for his son.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John James Aubertin |
| Date: | 19 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4246 |
To J. B. Innes 1 September [1863]
Summary
Family and local news, and memories of old times.
CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.
CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4287 |
From Frederick Smith 28 June 1862
Summary
Has seen Francis Walker, who has identified CD’s two Hymenoptera species ["caught in Musk Orchis" – CD note].
| Author: | Frederick Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3625 |
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- … n. ; see the second enclosure to the letter to H. G. Bronn, 30 June [1862] ). He later published them in ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , p. 145 ( Collected papers 2: 142), stating that Tetrastichus diaphantus was the most common of the minute Hymenoptera that visited H. monorchis , and that the Hymenoptera identified in the paper had all been named for him ‘by our highest authority, Mr. Frederick Smith’ ( ‘ …
To G. H. Darwin 18 [October 1877]
Summary
Sends a query he would like GHD to put to Clerk Maxwell: why does a sponged leaf dry more rapidly, although sponging cannot remove the waxy bloom from the minute pores through which it is secreted?
Is very glad to hear about tides in the earth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 18 [Oct 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 61–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11008 |
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- … G. H. Darwin 1878 ). See also Smith and Wise 1989, pp. 597–602. He possibly mentioned his work in a letter that has not been found. According to his journal, CD spent the latter part of 1877 working on bloom (see Appendix II); he never published the results of his investigation. See also letter to Fritz Müller, 14 May 1877 and n. …
To Asa Gray 1 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for notes on Cypripedium and Platanthera hookeri, which is really beautiful and quite a new case.
His son, George, has been observing the insect fertilisation of orchids.
CD has been crossing peloric flowers of Pelargonium, but doubts he will get good results with respect to sterility of hybrids.
Rhexia glandulosa does not appear to be dimorphic. Lythrum is trimorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3634 |
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- … n. ; see the second enclosure to the letter to H. G. Bronn, 30 June [1862] ). He later published them in ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , p. 142 ( Collected papers 2: 139–40). The records kept by CD of George’s observations on insects visiting H. monorchis , dated 22–7 June 1862, are in DAR 70: 32–6 (see also letter from Frederick Smith, …
| letter | (14) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Allen, Frances | (1) |
| Ffinden, G. S. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Pye-Smith, P. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Smith, G. N. | (3) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Smith, G. N. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Allen, Frances | (1) |
| Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
