From J. T. Moggridge 12 July 1873
Summary
Sends his paper on Ophrys insectifera, translated into German by H. G. Reichenbach [Abh. Kais. Leopold.-Carol. Dtsch. Akad. Naturforsch. 33 (1870) no. 3], which shows the intermediates between O. aranifera and O. apifera. He has since gathered information on variation in Ophrys.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8977 |
From Joshua Toulmin Smith 6 January 1860
Summary
Sends a copy of his Ventriculidae [of the Chalk (1848)]. This group, he feels, is well represented by CD’s plate of graduating species [Origin, ch. 4].
| Author: | Joshua Toulmin Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 32.ii (EH 88206084) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2642 |
From Daniel Oliver 12 October 1874
Summary
Sends specimens of Byblis, Roridula, and Utricularia for CD’s examination.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 99–100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9675 |
Leslie, Charles Robert and Taylor, Tom. 1865. The life and times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: with notices of some of his contemporaries. Commenced by C. R. Leslie and continued and concluded by T. Taylor. 2 vols. London: John Murray.
From Alfred Swaine Taylor to Edward Cresy 10 December 1860
Summary
CD may be interested in a reference to a method of detecting 1/195000 of a grain of sodium chloride.
Also, on Drosera, suggests it would be interesting to try substances such as gun-cotton, in which nitrogen is in very different states from a salt of ammonia.
| Author: | Alfred Swaine Taylor |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 14–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3015 |
To Asa Gray 28 January 1876
Summary
Thanks for reviews of Insectivorous plants and of Climbing plants in Nation and American Journal Science [see 10329].
AG’s essay on seed dispersal ["Burs in the borage family", Am. Nat. 10 (1876): 1–4].
Preparing book on advantages of crossing [Cross and self-fertilisation].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 28 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (111) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10370 |
From William Swale 16 February [1870?]
Summary
Sends CD some notes on the habits of the "American Blight Bird" in New Zealand.
| Author: | William Swale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1870?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 324 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7109 |
From William Charles Linnaeus Martin [1859–61]
Summary
MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.
| Author: | William Charles Linnaeus Martin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1859–61] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 56/1–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13827 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1846]
Summary
Arrangements for publishing [South America].
| Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June [1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983F |
To G. R. Gray [20 November – 11 December 1840]
Summary
Thanks GRG for his gift [A list of the genera of birds (1840)] and trusts that now GRG will be able to finish John Gould’s MS for Zoology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Gray |
| Date: | [20 Nov – 11 Dec 1840] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 237–8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-581 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 August 1864]
Summary
Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Aug 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 232–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4590 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1864]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 July [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 241 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4561 |
From Daniel Oliver 24 December 1874
Summary
Sends capsules with results from Genlisea specimens and fragments of Polypompholyx.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9778 |
To [the Royal College of Surgeons of England] 28 December [1860]
Summary
Asks whether, during the past year, Richard Owen’s edition of John Hunter’s new work has been published [Memoranda on vegetation (Hunter 1860), or Essays and observations on natural history, anatomy, physiology, psychology, and geology (Hunter 1861)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal College of Surgeons of England |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1860] |
| Classmark: | Donald R. Markey (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3035F |
To T. C. Eyton [6 January 1840]
Summary
Has been unwell.
Thanks TCE for his descriptions [of specimens for Birds]. Has already expended a high proportion of Government grant on birds, but if TCE thinks engravings are needed, he shall have them. He may keep the bones.
CD has become a father.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Date: | [6 Jan 1840] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-549 |
From Francis Darwin to ? 23 August 1878
Summary
Writes for CD. Thanks correspondent for curious case of inheritance, which CD cannot use as he is working in different directions.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 23 Aug 1878 |
| Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 104 F-1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11672 |
From Edward Cresy 10 November 1860
Summary
Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.
EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.
Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Nov 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 7, 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2980 |
From John Scott 20 June [1864]
Summary
Preparations for trip to India. Thanks for testimonial.
Surprised by the self-fertility of CD’s peloric Antirrhinum.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4541 |
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