To Asa Gray 4 August [1866]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s trouble about new edition of Origin.
Will be printing his new book [Variation] at the end of the year.
[Forwarded by AG, with covering note, to Mr Fields of Ticknor & Fields.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 4 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5177 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 August [1866]
Summary
CD defends his view of land birds on St Helena.
Explains why he would not expect American plants on the Azores.
It makes him miserable that he and JDH look at everything so differently.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5181 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 August [1866]
Summary
Admits that occasional transport is not a well-established hypothesis but believes it more probable than continental extension as an explanation for the stocking of islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5185 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 10 August [1866]
Summary
Thanks WBT for help with woodcuts [for Variation].
Has returned WBT’s curious feathers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 10 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5187 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 11 August 1866]
Summary
Asks readers to examine the flowers of Oxalis bowei to observe where the summits of the branching stigmas stand with respect to the two sets of anthers. In CD’s plants the stigmas stand beneath the lower anthers, but he believes two other forms exist: long-styled and mid-styled. Would be grateful for flowers of these types so he can fertilise them and obtain seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 11 Aug 1866] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1866): 756 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5188 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 11 August 1866]
Summary
Describes the difficulties of crossing papilionaceous flowers. Believes the lack of success is a consequence of the need for early castration and successive applications of pollen on the stigma. Gives details of a method he has used to cross such flowers successfully.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 11 Aug 1866] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1866): 756 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5189 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 August [1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5190 |
To Ernst Haeckel 18 August [1866]
Summary
Comments on sheet of EH’s Generelle Morphologie [1866]. In emphasising divergence of character EH shows his clear understanding of CD’s views. It was years before CD saw necessity of divergence.
Interested in Carl Claus [Copepodenfauna von Nizza (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 18 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5193 |
To B. D. Walsh 20 August [1866]
Summary
On various subjects: Dana’s misquotations,
H. J. Clark’s book Mind in nature [1865],
BDW’s Cynips experiments, galls,
Balbiani’s paper on aphids ["Sur la reproduction et l’embryogénie des pucerons", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 62 (1866): 1231–4, 1285–9, 1390–4].
Claus and other Germans testing CD’s views of variability in common lower animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 20 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5194 |
To Fritz Müller 23 August [1866]
Summary
Thanks for observations on orchids.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146]; CD has received proofs.
Carl Claus’s pamphlet on copepods [Die Copepodenfauna von Nizza (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5196 |
To W. D. Fox 24 August [1866]
Summary
Family news. Describes [final] illness of Susan Darwin [d. 3 Oct 1866]. CD’s health better.
Making rapid progress on Variation.
Has heard of hybrids between moths mentioned by WDF.
Work on [4th] edition of Origin has delayed Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 Aug [1866] |
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-5197 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1866]
Summary
Pleased by JDH’s success. JDH gives argument for occasional transport with perfect fairness.
W. R. Grove’s address [see 5201] good, but is disappointed that species part was so general.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5200 |
To Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
To Charles Lyell 8[–9] September [1866]
Summary
Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.
Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".
Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].
Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8[–9] Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5208 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1866]
Summary
L. Agassiz’s evidence [for glaciation of America] is very weak.
Thanks AG for arranging for American edition of Variation, but doubts that the book will be successful.
Has found no differences in pollen of Rhamnus so cannot conjecture whether it is dimorphic.
The common oxlip of England is certainly a hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip whereas Primula elatior is a good species.
Reports experiments on the relative vigour of seedlings from cross- and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5210 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 September [1866]
Summary
Blocks for Variation are much improved. WBT deserves membership in Zoological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5212 |
To Albert Gaudry 17 September [1866]
Summary
Thanks AG for Considérations générales [sur les animaux fossiles] de Pikermi [1866]. The observations on the various intermediate fossil forms seem most valuable.
AG does not fully understand what CD means by "the struggle for existence, or concurrence vitale".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 17 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5213 |
To Fritz Müller 25 September [1866]
Summary
Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.
Self-sterility.
Climbing plants.
Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5216 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1866]
Summary
Susan Darwin still lives, but is dying.
Requests an Erica massoni to compare with Drosera.
On L. Agassiz’s "astonishing" view that Amazon Valley was filled with gigantic glacier. Asa Gray says LA is determined to cover the globe with glaciers in order to destroy "Darwinian views".
Excellent review of A. Murray [The geographical distribution of mammals] in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 902].
Frankland’s Royal Institution lecture ["On the source of muscular power" Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1862–6): 661–85].
Wallace’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5217 |
To William Bowman 26 September [1866]
Summary
Thanks WB for his paper ["Address in surgery", Br. Med. J. (1866): 186–97, read at British Medical Association annual meeting, 9 Aug 1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5219 |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (10) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |
Murray, John (b) | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (182) |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (10) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |