To ? 17 December [1866]
Summary
Gives information about obtaining the most recent (4th) edition of Origin.
Is glad to hear that his correspondent is interested in the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 17 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (22 June 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5310F |
To Edward Blyth 10 December [1866]
Summary
Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4950 |
To Fritz Müller [before 10 December 1866]
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | [before 10 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5261 |
To Charles Lyell 1 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks CL for copy of his "grand book" [Principles of geology, 10th ed., vol. 1 (1867)]. Congratulates him on additions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.322) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5289 |
To Edouard Bornet 1 December 1866
Summary
Thanks JBEB for Papaver seeds. Has long wished to see some of the closely allied subspecies and hopes to make some crossing experiments with them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet |
Date: | 1 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 501, fol. 387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5292 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 December [1866]
Summary
Is tempted to cite Mr Zurhorst’s case.
Hopes to send pigeon and fowl MS [of Variation] to press in a fortnight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5293 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December [1866]
Summary
Is sending some plants and seeds to JDH.
Thanks Mrs Hooker for telling him of a life of his grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] of which he had not heard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5295 |
To Linnean Society 7 December [1866]
Summary
Asks to have author’s spare copies of F. Müller’s article on climbing plants [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344] sent to him for forwarding to FM.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 7 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5297 |
To Miss Behrens 7 December 1866
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miss Behrens |
Date: | 7 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (Catalogue 13, 1994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5297F |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1866]
Summary
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 308, 308b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5300 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 12 December [1866]
Summary
Gives his opinion on the ancestry of domestic ducks, geese, and guinea-fowl.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 12 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5301 |
To William Turner 14 December [1866]
Summary
Thinks of adding chapter on man to Variation. Asks about muscles connected to os coccyx in man and existence of other rudimentary organs in man.
Sends copy of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 14 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (DC. 2. 96/5 folio 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5306 |
To M. E. Boole 14 December 1866
Summary
Is unable to answer her questions about religious implications of natural selection, but would prefer to believe that suffering in world is due to natural events.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Everest Boole |
Date: | 14 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5307 |
To Charles Lovegrove? 16 December [1866?]
Summary
Acknowledges a subscription to the Down [Coal and Clothing] Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lovegrove |
Date: | 16 Dec [1866?] |
Classmark: | North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts (dealers) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5309F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 [December 1866]
Summary
Thanks for calling his attention to ancestry of guinea-fowl.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 [Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5311 |
To Henry Walter Bates 18 December [1866]
Summary
Asks for a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and printed in the Journal [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 23 (1853): 93–101].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 18 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5312 |
To John Murray 21 and 22 December [1866]
Summary
Submits the MS of Variation, all excepting the section on Man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 21 and 22 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | Herb Sewell (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5314F |
To T. H. Huxley 22 December [1866]
Summary
First impressions of Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie.
Has received THH’s [Lessons in elementary] Physiology [1866]
and reread Man’s place.
Asks THH to read revised "Hybridism" chapter in new edition of Origin. Hopes it will change THH’s view.
Convinced of P. S. Pallas’ view of loss of sterility under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 196) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5315 |
To P. L. Sclater 24 December [1866]
Summary
Encloses a portion of a letter from B. D. Walsh [5319] concerning an American interested in exchanging birds’ skins.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.324) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5318 |
To B. D. Walsh 24 December [1866]
Summary
Balbiani’s puzzling observations on Aphis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5320 |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Turner, William | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Turner, William | (2) |