To A. R. Wallace 5 [July 1870]
Summary
CD sends a "curious drawing" [missing] relating to imitation and protection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 [July 1870] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 204–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7218 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1870
Summary
Hibiscus and Nolana seeds not harvested at Kew. Sends list of the best plants of Lilium he can give.
Asks CD for name of work on orchids mentioned in his supplementary paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 51–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7258 |
From John Murray 1 July 1870
Summary
Financial adjustments for last edition of Origin
and a tentative title for the new work: "Descent of man and selection according to sex". [Later changed to "in relation to sex".]
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 376 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7259 |
From B. J. Sulivan 1 July 1870
Summary
Sends copies of a mission magazine [missing] and discusses the missionaries’ work in S. America, especially that of Thomas Bridges and W. H. Stirling.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 294 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7260 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JDH for offer of lilies.
The paper on orchids is by Hermann Müller [Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande & Westphalens 25 (1868): 1–62], on Platanthera and Epipactis.
Cites another work by P. Rohrbach [Über den Blüthenbau (1866)].
MS [of Descent] ready for printer.
Has read Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1870): lxxiv–xciv] with great interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 175–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7261 |
From Camille Dareste 2 July 1870
Summary
Has found a remarkable anatomical character in the niata skull of which he wrote [see 5540]. Asks whether the skull CD brought from South America [at the Royal College of Surgeons] shows the same character. If so, it would provide incontestable evidence of the origin of this race of cattle.
Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7262 |
To B. J. Sulivan 2 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks BJS for a journal and an interesting letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 2 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7263 |
From J. J. Weir 4 July 1870
Summary
On mutations in rabbits.
Cytisus case is not a double graft.
Aggressive behaviour of birds of prey.
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7264 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 4 July 1870
Summary
Requests seeds of Nolana prostrata & Hibiscus Africanus, which have been matured in Germany or in the more Southern parts of Europe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 4 July 1870 |
Classmark: | Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7264F |
To W. H. Flower 5 July 1870
Summary
Encloses a query from Camille Dareste [see 7262] about the niata ox skull CD gave to the museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 5 July 1870 |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7266 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 or 7 July 1870]
Summary
Has CD read E. Claparède ["Remarques à propos de l’ouvrage de M. Alfred Russel Wallace sur la théorie de la sélection naturelle", Arch. Sci. Phys. & Nat. n.s. 38 (1870): 160–89]? Is it worth translating?
CD and J.-F. de Brandt are "en lutte for Ac. of Sc. [France]. What a farce it is".
His work on Nepenthes supports Miquel’s and Wallace’s view of the zoology of Borneo and Sumatra.
Brian Hodgson on dogs.
H. C. Bastian’s book [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)] unsatisfactory.
Lyell does not share CD’s view of Bentham’s address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 or 7 July 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 55–56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7267 |
From Ernst Haeckel 6 July 1870
Summary
Discusses applicability of evolutionary theory to the question of human origins.
Describes revisions in 2d edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte.
His research on calcareous sponges.
Mentions evolutionary content in Gegenbaur’s Vergleichende Anatomie [2d ed. (1870)].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7268 |
From A. R. Wallace 6 July 1870
Summary
Thanks for the drawing.
E. Claparède’s review [of Theory of natural selection, Rev. Cours Sci. 7 (1870): 564–71] is weak.
Looks forward [to Descent] with fear of being "crushed under a mountain of facts!"
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B92–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7269 |
From George Green Gascoyen 7 July 1870
Summary
Sends CD information on two points which St George Mivart has asked him to provide, respecting the platysma myoides muscle. It is always in a state of violent contraction when a person is struggling for breath. In persons to whom chloroform is about to be administered, there is contraction but not so marked. No doubt contraction was strong before use of chloroform in operations.
Author: | George Green Gascoyen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7270 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 July [1870]
Summary
Thinks well of Claparède’s criticism; worth publishing as an answer to Wallace. Bates thinks Wallace’s heterodox views have done mischief to the cause of evolution. Wallace thinks Claparède’s article very weak, CD concludes, because Claparède has arrived at an unpleasant judgment very much like Lyell’s about Bentham’s address.
CD would wager Lyell lately has said something about European Proteaceae.
Does not remember anyone before Wallace on Sumatra and Java.
CD does not think he has a chance against Brandt in French Academy election.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7271 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1870
Summary
Sends seeds from R. L. Playfair in Algiers.
F. Delpino writes asking where M. A. Curtis has published physiological observations on Dionaea ["Enumeration of plants growing spontaneously around Wilmington, North Carolina", Boston J. Nat. Hist. 1 (1834–7): 82–140; see Insectivorous plants, p. 301 n.].
Talk with Duke of Argyll on CD’s and Wallace’s views on man.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 53–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 17a: 117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7272 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1870]
Summary
Has not heard of Curtis on Dionaea.
Duke of Argyll is clever, but it is a sin to speak of a real old Duke as a "little beggar".
"My theology is a simple muddle: I cannot look at the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent Design."
On spontaneous generation and Bastian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 179–180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7273 |
From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 14 July 1870
Summary
Sends a letter by Mr Teebay on variation in wild ducks.
Offers to lend Dr Cooper’s book on game fowls.
Is preparing a new edition [1873] of his Poultry book.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 82, DAR 193: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7274 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 July [1870]
Summary
WBT may use any of CD’s material for the new edition of his poultry book. Hopes WBT will keep firmly to his idea of working out pigeon variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 15 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7275 |
To Albert Günther 15 July [1870]
Summary
Asks AG to identify the species of Triton Mr Ford has drawn.
AG’s help has turned CD’s chapter on fishes and reptiles from "much the worst" into "one of the best" [in Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 15 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7276 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Butler, A. G. | (1) |
Dareste, Camille | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Farr, William | (1) |
Flower, W. H. | (1) |
Forbes, David | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
John Murray | (1) |
Kippist, Richard | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Weale, J. P. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Lubbock, John | (5) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (3) |
Farr, William | (2) |
Forbes, David | (2) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Butler, A. G. | (1) |
Dareste, Camille | (1) |
Flower, W. H. | (1) |
Gascoyen, G. G. | (1) |
Günther, Albert | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
John Murray | (1) |
Kippist, Richard | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Weale, J. P. M. | (1) |
Weir, J. J. | (1) |