From E. A. Darwin 26 [November 1869 or later]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Nov 1869 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6539 |
From Federico Delpino 1 November 1869
Summary
Comments on Hermann Crüger’s paper, sent by CD, on fertilisation of orchids [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
Observations on dichogamy in grasses (wheat, rye, barley).
Has not yet read CD’s reply to his article on Pangenesis [Collected papers 2: 158–60].
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6965 |
From Charles Lyell 2 November 1869
Summary
Comments on Huxley’s address ["Geological reform", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): xxxviii–liii].
Physicists have ignored variation in sea-level in calculating effects.
Doubts if sun only source of heat.
Notes average depth of sea is 15 times height of land.
Criticises CD’s concept of permanent continents.
Sedimentary strata of Alleghenies must have derived from continent located where Atlantic is. Thinks enormous amount of denudation, submergence, and elevation may have accompanied relatively insignificant organic changes.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.113.ff.3734–3737) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6967 |
From George Cupples [4–10 November 1869]
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–10 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6970 |
From J. J. Moulinié 5 November 1869
Summary
Reinwald will be pleased to publish Descent.
He would also like to publish a Moulinié translation of the latest English edition of Origin. Negotiations with the old publisher are needed.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6971 |
From Frederick Smith 5 November 1869
Summary
Sends reference to stridulation in an article about Scolytus by Dr Chapman "Observations on the economy of British species of Scolytus", Entomol. Mon. Mag. 6 (1870): 126–31.
Author: | Frederick Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6972 |
From J. V. Carus 6 November 1869
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind offer [of translation rights for Descent].
Feels it a duty to make CD’s "way of looking to fields [recte facts] under the guidance of ideas" known to his countrymen, especially since zoologists and physiologists seem to think science is nothing but the accumulation of facts and have almost forgotten to reason about them.
Explains that, contrary to Carl Vogt’s report to CD, he continues as Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Leipzig, but he has failed to get the place of the late Professor of Zoology, as he had hoped.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6974 |
From George Busk 7 November 1869
Summary
The Polyzoa CD saw emerging from cells of a particular growth appear to be parasites. The main growth is a species of Sertularia; the minute parasites take possession of vacated cells.
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 382 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6975 |
From John Murray 8 November [1869]
Summary
JM advises CD regarding his relations with Masson, the French publisher of the Origin [1866], and the possibility of Reinwald’s publishing a translation of the 5th edition.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 373 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6978 |
From E. A. Darwin 11 November [1869]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6982 |
From F. C. Donders 12 November 1869
Summary
CD’s questions [on expression] are more difficult than he thought and have led him further afield than he expected. If CD is not hurried, he promises less imperfect answers in six weeks. Thanks CD for drawing his attention to a really important question from different points of view.
Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6983 |
From Hermann Müller 12 November 1869
Summary
Would like Frederick Smith of the British Museum to determine whether or not some unidentified Westphalian bees are new species.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 295 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6984 |
From Charles-Ferdinard Reinwald 13 November 1869
Summary
Pleased to undertake publication of a new French translation of Origin based on the 5th English edition. J. J. Moulinié to be translator, with Carl Vogt reviewing his work. Will make arrangements to buy out the Royer edition [V. Masson et Fils; Guillaumin et Cie.].
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6986 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1869
Summary
Describes how the offer of C.B. was made. He declined a knighthood. Murchison and Lyell are trying to get him made Knight Commander of the Star of India, but he does not think there is a chance. The Duke [of Argyll?] might do it, but does not like JDH’s Darwinism.
Next Presidency of Royal Society discussed: all (Brodie, the X Club botanists, et al.) are agreed on Lyell.
Everyone is disappointed with Nature.
What did CD think of "Huxley’s rhapsody on Goethe’s ditto" [Nature 1 (1869): 9–11]?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 35—8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6988 |
From Adolf Bernhard Meyer 16 November 1869
Summary
Sends his translation of Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
Wishes to translate 1858 essays by CD and Wallace from Linnean Society Proceedings [Collected papers 2: 3–19].
Plans journey to tropics.
Hopes to meet CD.
Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6990 |
From John Murray 17 November 1869
Summary
JM reports sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin, Variation, and Origin [5th ed.].
Sends best wishes for success in putting down "Parisian blasphemers".
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6992 |
From Albert Hugh Jones 17 November 1869
Author: | Albert Hugh Jones |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: 77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6993 |
From Camille Dareste 18 November [1869]
Summary
Asks CD to write a letter sponsoring him for the Chair of Comparative Physiology at Paris. There are some who do not think his work on artificial production of monstrosities belongs in physiology.
Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6994 |
From Roland Trimen 18 November 1869
Summary
Thanks CD for his orchid paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56]. Comments briefly on orchids.
Discusses moths in which the wing underside is the most brightly coloured, and relates his observations on sexual selection by a moth, Syntomis.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: 27–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6995 |
From J. D. Hooker 21 November 1869
Summary
Has corresponded with Macmillan about Nature.
Will get the Kerner book.
Mere guesses must determine which form to fix on as the type.
Raises questions about the genealogical tree.
Serves Mlle Royer right.
Lyell declines Royal Society Presidency; now look to W. R. Grove. Long postscript on JDH’s views about knighthood.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 39–41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7002 |
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