To Editor of the Natural History Review [December? 1864]
Summary
Forwards a communication from A. Fonblanque for possible publication in Natural History Review. [See "Notice of mule breeding", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 5 (1865): 147–8.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Natural History Review |
Date: | [Dec? 1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.286a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4686 |
To John Higgins 1 December 1864
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £262 13s. 5d.
Sorry to hear JH is still suffering from gout.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 1 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4690F |
To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]
Summary
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4695 |
To George Busk 4 December [1864]
Summary
Thanks GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4696 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 December [1864]
Summary
Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.
Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4698 |
To B. D. Walsh [4 December 1864?]
Summary
Sends J. O. Westwood’s direction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | [4 Dec 1864?] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4698F |
To C. V. Naudin 8 December [1864]
Summary
Thanks CVN for reference to the Comptes Rendus [Académie Française].
Mentions CVN’s work on Cucurbitaceae and notes that he (CD) has quoted extensively from it in Variation.
Hopes to send paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31] soon.
Mentions exchange of photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Date: | 8 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.303) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4707 |
To [Frederick Wollaston Hutton] 8 December [1864]
Summary
Regrets he has no notes on periods when albatrosses were abundant off Cape Horn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Wollaston Hutton |
Date: | 8 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4710 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1864]
Summary
Has found incipient stages of adhesive discs in Hanburia tendrils.
Huxley was probably right to have challenged Sabine, but the poor old man is sick.
CD remembers the old Disraeli novel [Tancred (1847)] that sneers at transmutation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4712 |
To F. T. Buckland 11 December [1864]
Summary
Asks for comparison of otter-hounds’ feet with those of other dogs.
Changes in oysters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 11 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 7 (EH 88206059) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4713 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 December [1864]
Summary
Requests addresses of J. E. Planchon, W. F. Hofmeister and M. J. Schleiden so he can send them copies of Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 62 (EH 88206045) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4716 |
To F. T. Buckland 15 December [1864]
Summary
Would be delighted to see FB for a few minutes but his health is so poor he doubts it would be worth the trouble for FB to visit.
Thanks about the otter-hound.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 15 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4717F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 December [1864]
Summary
CD working on Variation; he will soon want corrected fowl MS [Variation, ch. 7].
WBT’s breeding experiments produced no sterility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4720 |
To John Lubbock 21 December [1864]
Summary
The Copley medal. Sabine’s Presidential Address and Huxley’s response.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 60 (EH 88206504) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4721 |
To T. C. Eyton 29 December [1864?]
Summary
Asks TCE to verify whether otter-hounds have more skin between their toes than other hounds. Also interested in cases of infertile matings between normally fertile individuals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 29 Dec [1864?] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4724 |
To Edward Sabine 4 December [1864]
Summary
Thanks ES for his "splendid eulogium" [in Presidential Address to Royal Society on award of Copley Medal]. CD would have liked him to have said "a little more" about Origin.
CD feels no doubt about natural selection. Has heard from Germany of "a string of excellent men" who accept it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sabine; Royal Society of London |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (Sa: 388) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4694 |
Buckland, Frank | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Busk, George | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Buckland, Frank | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Busk, George | (1) |