From Francis Trevelyan Buckland [before 11 December 1864]
Summary
Salmon and trout increase in size with river.
Wishes to show CD fish hatchery near Hampton Court.
Quoted CD’s book on self-destruction within species in a salmon arbitration case.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 358 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4363 |
To Editor of the Natural History Review [December? 1864]
Summary
Forwards a communication from A. Fonblanque for possible publication in Natural History Review. [See "Notice of mule breeding", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 5 (1865): 147–8.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Natural History Review |
Date: | [Dec? 1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.286a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4686 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [before 21 December 1864]
Summary
Sends paper on mimetic analogy [Intellect. Obs. 6 (1864): 307–13].
Mongrel experiments are progressing, but he has observed no signs of sterility.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4687 |
From George Busk 1 December 1864
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4689 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 December 1864
Summary
Discusses the affairs of the late Edward Evans for whom CD and EAD are trustees.
Has got CD’s [Copley] Medal, "it is rather ugly to look at, & too light to turn into candlesticks".
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4690 |
To John Higgins 1 December 1864
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £262 13s. 5d.
Sorry to hear JH is still suffering from gout.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 1 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4690F |
From John Obadiah Westwood 2 December 1864
Summary
Sends photo for B. D. Walsh; requests those of New World entomologists, and CD’s.
Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4691 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1864
Summary
Recounts row at the Royal Society over exclusion of mention of Origin from Sabine’s address awarding Copley Medal to CD.
Encloses two letters to JDH from James Hector in New Zealand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 260–1; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ correspondence 174: 429–31 & 433–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4692 |
From Hugh Falconer 2 December 1864
Summary
The [Royal Society] President’s address is in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], but one or two sentences have been omitted.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4693 |
To B. D. Walsh 4 December [1864]
Summary
Discusses Agassiz’s misrepresentations of his views and J. D. Dana’s "wild notions".
The reception is friendlier from younger scientists in France, and many of the best men in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4695 |
To George Busk 4 December [1864]
Summary
Thanks GB for proposing him for Copley Medal; suspects he is responsible for the praise in Sabine’s "splendid eulogy" on his work. Has, however, written to Sabine to say he would have liked a little more said about the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
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-4696 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1864]
Summary
CD pleased with Huxley for defending him against Sabine. Also pleased with much of Sabine’s address. Is sure JDH wrote the botanical part.
Suggests James Hector observe which insects visit endemic New Zealand plants
and JDH examine distribution of white vs coloured corollas in New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 255a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4697 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 December [1864]
Summary
Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.
Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4698 |
To B. D. Walsh [4 December 1864?]
Summary
Sends J. O. Westwood’s direction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | [4 Dec 1864?] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4698F |
From Asa Gray 5 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Is making inquiries on the habits of American cuckoos and sends a letter from Henry Bryant on that subject.
Discusses the Civil War.
Encloses letter from W. H. Leggett containing observations on Amphicarpaea.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A87; DAR 165: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4699 |
From C. V. Naudin 6 December 1864
Summary
Congratulates CD on the Copley Medal.
Directs CD to his short memoir on crossing ["De l’hybridité", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 59 (1864): 837–45].
Author: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4703 |
From Elizabeth Juliana Sabine 7 December [1864]
Summary
Acknowledges the receipt of CD’s letter on behalf of her husband, who is unwell.
Author: | Elizabeth Juliana Sabine |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4705 |
To C. V. Naudin 8 December [1864]
Summary
Thanks CVN for reference to the Comptes Rendus [Académie Française].
Mentions CVN’s work on Cucurbitaceae and notes that he (CD) has quoted extensively from it in Variation.
Hopes to send paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31] soon.
Mentions exchange of photographs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Date: | 8 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.303) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4707 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1864]
Summary
Sabine’s address, printed in the Reader [4 (1864): 708–9], is good on the whole. Sends Huxley’s account of the row.
Praises John Ruskin’s eloquent reply to Jukes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 262–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4708 |
To [Frederick Wollaston Hutton] 8 December [1864]
Summary
Regrets he has no notes on periods when albatrosses were abundant off Cape Horn.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Wollaston Hutton |
Date: | 8 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4710 |
letter | (34) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Buckland, Frank | (2) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Busk, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Buckland, Frank | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Busk, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Buckland, Frank | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Busk, George | (2) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Naudin, C. V. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hutton, F. W. | (1) |
Lesquereux, Leo | (1) |
Natural History Review | (1) |
Royal Society of London | (1) |
Sabine, E. J. | (1) |
Sabine, Edward | (1) |
Struthers, John | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |