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 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 November [1869]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on his becoming a C.B.
Hard at work on sexual selection – weary of everlasting males and females, cocks and hens.
Has read J. H. Stirling vs Huxley on protoplasm [As regards protoplasm (1869)]
and E. B. Tylor on survival of old thoughts in modern civilisation.
Bentham’s Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [see 6793] is worth its weight in gold in making converts. C. J. F. Bunbury is impressed by it.
Likes JDH’s review of K. F. Schimper’s work [Paléontologie végétale, in Nature 1 (1869): 48].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 156–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6985 |
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 |
To J. J. Moulinié 15 November [1869]
Summary
Makes suggestions for French translation of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 15 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 13–14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6989 |
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 |
To F. C. Donders 17 November [1869]
Summary
There is no hurry for information. Delighted that FCD is making experiments.
It was a sincere pleasure to make FCD’s acquaintance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 17 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6991 |
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 |
To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg 18 November [1869]
Summary
Thanks CGE for memoir on the Bacillariae of Mexico [Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys.) (1869): 1–66].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 18 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenberg, Nr. 321, Brief von Charles Darwin) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6996 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 November [1869]
Summary
Glad to know about C.B.
Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.
Likes Academy.
Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].
The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.
Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 159–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6997 |
To J. J. Moulinié 20 November 1869
Summary
Sends corrections of JJM’s translation of Origin. Sends preface.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 20 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6998 |
To J. V. Carus 20 November 1869
Summary
Encloses a few additions [missing] for new [4th] German edition of Origin
and a new application to publish translation of [Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 20 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6999 |
To George Cupples 20 November [1869]
Summary
Thanks GC for his assistance. "The data for all that I have to say about the Scotch deer-hound are, owing to you, almost sufficient; and much better data than I have got in many other cases." [See Descent 2: 260.]
Believes Dr Stirling would be compelled to admit some change in "the famous protoplasm in our domestic races, both in regard to the structure of the body & qualities of the mind".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 20 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4127 II, 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7000 |
To Camille Dareste 20 November 1869
Summary
Glad Dareste is candidate for Paris Chair. No subject more important than modification of structure by direct action of changed conditions, and Dareste has thrown much light on subject. Believes monstrosities cannot be separated from slighter variations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Date: | 20 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 369 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7001 |
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 |
From George Henslow 22 November 1869
Summary
Observations on fertilisation of Lapageria rosea by E. G. Henderson, florist of St John’s Wood.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7004 |
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