From Edward Blyth 3 August 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6301 |
From M. J. S. Schultze 4 August 1868
Author: | Max Johann Sigismund Schultze |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6302 |
From Robert Swinhoe 4 August 1868
Summary
Discusses a domestic oriental fowl.
Is having problems getting answers to CD’s queries on expression as Chinese facial expressions are limited and controlled. Answers as well as he can. [See Expression index.]
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6303 |
From Richard Bowdler Sharpe 5 August 1868
Summary
Is writing to Australia to answer CD’s questions about resemblance of tail-feathers of young and mature female kingfishers. [See Descent 2: 188.]
Author: | Richard Bowdler Sharpe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 98–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6306 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 August 1868
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6307 |
From G. H. Lewes 8 August 1868
Summary
Gratified by CD’s approval of his articles, which the public has not much liked.
Clarifies the obscure sentence CD criticised – forms having a different genesis can be similar.
Calls CD’s attention to Kovalevsky’s memoir on Amphioxus [Mem. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 11 (1868) no.4]. K’s views are all in favour of CD’s and against GHL’s.
Author: | George Henry Lewes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6309 |
From George Cupples 10 August 1868
Summary
Thanks for photograph.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 286 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6310 |
From Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs [before 13 August 1868]
Summary
Sends work proving all elements formed of one substance: "Pantogen". Feels affinity with CD. His work will cause as great a stir. Has already been preached against. Asks CD for a note as a token of his sympathy.
Author: | Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 13 Aug 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6311 |
From Robert Brough Smyth 13 August 1868
Summary
Relates some observations on expression among Australian aboriginals and encloses answers to CD’s queries from other observers. [These include letters and observations from: J. A. Hagenauer, 28 May 1868; Archibald Grahame Lang, 17 June 1868; H. B. Lane, 24 June 1868; Templeton Bunnett, 25 June 1868; J. Bulmer (1868). (See introduction to Expression.)]
Author: | Robert Brough Smyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 205–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6314 |
From J. V. Carus 14 August 1868
Summary
Asks whether it would be convenient if he came to Down. JVC would be sorry to leave England without seeing and thanking CD.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6315 |
From A. R. Wallace 16 August [1868]
Summary
The problem of sterility, and its relation to natural selection.
George Bentham’s support of Darwinism.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6318 |
From W. S. Dallas 19 August 1868
Summary
The material [from F. Müller] makes the translation more like a new edition.
German entomologists are becoming Darwinists.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6325 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 August 1868]
Summary
Reports on Norwich address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): lviii–lxxv]. Left out some things, i.e., Asa Gray’s being superseded.
Tyndall says CD and JDH are types of "unconscious merit".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Aug 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 227–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6326 |
From T. C. Eyton 23 August [1868]
Summary
Sends a copy of his Osteologia avium.
Variation in pigs’ heads
and in Convolvulus.
Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6328 |
From Edward Blyth 24 August 1868
Summary
Discusses the development of horns in antelopes. Remarks on the variation within and between the species of Cervus and on their relationship to each other.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A34–5, DAR 160: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6329 |
From B. D. Walsh 29 August 1868
Summary
On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.
Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.
Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.
Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.
Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6332A |
From J. D. Hooker 30 August 1868
Summary
The newspapers’ pother about his mild theology.
Tyndall’s reference to JDH and CD as the two "modestest" men in science.
Huxley offended the clergy twice without cause or warrant.
William Hooker ill.
Astronomers do not like JDH’s reference to them.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 229–32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6333 |
From A. R. Wallace 30 August [1868]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Aug [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6334 |
From J. B. Innes 31 August 1868
Summary
JBI has been charmed with Variation. Does not think there is really any theological difficulty in the "predestination of variation".
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6335 |
From Edward Blyth 31 August 1868
Summary
EB is moving to Wiltshire for a week.
Tells CD of animals acquired, or about to be acquired, by the Zoological Garden.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 215 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6336 |
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Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Hinrichs, G. D. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Hinrichs, G. D. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Hordern, E. F. | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Lacy, Dyson | (1) |
Lewes, G. H. | (1) |
Lubbock, E. F. | (1) |
Molendo, Ludwig | (1) |
Schultze, M. J. S. | (1) |
Sharpe, R. B. | (1) |
Smyth, R. B. | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Walther, Alexander | (1) |