To Henry Denny 28 January [1865]
Summary
Returns [Andrew] Murray’s paper;
especially values HD’s note that the same species of lice infect the different varieties of fowl, pigeon, and dog. Further queries about the relationship of the same species of pediculi to different domestic varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 28 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4756F |
To A. R. Wallace 29 January [1865]
Summary
Commends ARW’s papers on parrots
and on the theory of geographical distribution [see 4750].
Wild pigs in Aru Islands must have been introduced and later ran wild. Does ARW have an opinion on the subject?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 29 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4757 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 30 January [1865]
Summary
Orders that one of CD’s Porto Santo rabbits be killed and sent to him.
Asks whether ADB has got young from mating these with females of other breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 30 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Joseph Bradley Murray Collection (MS 363) Box 1, folder 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4758 |
To A. R. Wallace 1 February [1865]
Summary
Exchange of photographs.
Aru pigs present perplexing case, whether wild or domesticated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 1 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4760 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 February [1865]
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s death great loss to science.
His own health has been especially bad this last week.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 259 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4762 |
To [Robertson Munro?] 3 February [1865 or 1866?]
Summary
Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.
Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robertson Munro |
Date: | 3 Feb [1865-6] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4763 |
To Ray Society [14–18 January 1865]
Summary
"Read a letter from Mr Darwin expressing his regret that the state of his health would not permit of his writing an Introductory Chapter to the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ray Society |
Date: | [14–18 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 107r: Minute 1146, 3d February 1865) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4764 |
To Max Ernst Wichura 3 February [1865]
Summary
He has finished MEW’s work on hybrid willows [Die Bastardbefruchtung im Planzenreich (1865)] and sends his thanks. The extreme frequency of hybrid willows is new to CD, and he finds the explanation of their numbers in certain locations ingenious.
Comments on the criticism of Gärtner’s view of reversion
and the differences between MEW and Naudin.
CD now has doubts regarding his own view that hybrids are sterile from not being perfectly accommodated to their conditions of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Max Ernst Wichura |
Date: | 3 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | Autographia (dealers) (1986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4765A |
To Richard Kippist 8 February 1865
Summary
Requests all parts of Transactions due him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 8 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4767 |
To A. D. Bartlett 9 February [1865]
Summary
Inquires about body of Porto Santo rabbit which has not arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4768 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
To A. D. Bartlett 14 February [1865]
Summary
CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.
The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 14 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4771 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
Summary
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865]
Summary
Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.
Also mentions account of Heer’s work
and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.
Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4775 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 27 February [1865]
Summary
Wants his fowl MS.
Will shortly return WBT’s skulls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 27 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4776 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 [March 1865]
Summary
Asks for return of page about pigeon crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 [Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4779 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]
Summary
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786 |
To Rudolph Heine 16 March [1865]
Summary
Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rudolph Heine |
Date: | 16 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786F |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [March 1865]
Summary
Thanks for Thomson’s and JDH’s views on Scott’s paper. Will send it back with advice and explanations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 264 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4788 |
To Frank Buckland 21 March [1865]
Summary
Has heard from Mr Pennell, and written to say too ill to see him. Would like to hear about skin between toes of otter hounds in comparison with other hounds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 21 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (8–9 April 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4790F |
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