To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
To J. B. Baillière et ses fils 29 February [1868]
Summary
Sends stamps to the value of 1s. 1d. and asks for parcel to be sent to 6 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | J. B. Baillière et ses fils |
Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 698, 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415F |
To A. D. Bartlett 16 February [1868]
Summary
Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.
Asks for rabbit specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 16 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5401 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 February [1868]
Summary
THH’s offer to read proof of essay on man encourages CD to write with satisfaction instead of a vague dread.
Begs Mrs Huxley not to forget corrugator supercilii in a crying child.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5408 |
To J. V. Carus 1 February [1868]
Summary
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834 |
To William Lonsdale 1 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Murch 1893, p. 437 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834A |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
To Yorkshire Philosophical Society 8 February [1868]
Summary
CD appreciates the honour of being elected an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | T. S Noble |
Date: | 8 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Council Minute Book, vol. 3, p. 619 (2 March 1868) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839F |
To George Moultrie Salt 5 February [1868]
Summary
Forwards a letter from John Horner of Market Drayton, Shropshire, concerning £2000 he considers due to him from CD under the terms of the will of Sarah Bayley.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Moultrie Salt |
Date: | 5 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839G |
To G. G. Stokes 5 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on Francis Darwin’s success in the tripos examinations at the university of Cambridge.
The king of Prussia has awarded him the order Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
Date: | 5 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Heritage Auctions (dealers) (17–18 October 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839H |
To Ernst Haeckel 6 February [1868]
Summary
Delighted to hear of success of EH’s lectures.
Ernest Faivre [La variabilité des espèces (1868)] sees no reason to favour common descent of allied species.
Asks EH to pass German edition of Variation on to Gegenbaur.
Comments on work of Miklucho[-Maclay], Dohrn, and Bleek.
Has begun work on Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 6 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5841 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1868]
Summary
There is so much detail in Variation that WDF will never be able to finish it. Some chapters, like that on reversion, are "curious".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 148) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5842 |
To Asa Gray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Asks that Gray forward a letter to J. T. Rothrock. Variation is selling well. Nearly all chapters were at least partially written before Origin was published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | William Patrick Watson (dealer) (catalogue 19, 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5851F |
To John Murray 9 February [1868]
Summary
Heartily glad for JM’s sake at sale [of Variation]. Thinks JM right to publish a smaller second edition, for "the public will soon find out that it is dull" – though scientifically valuable. The index is excellent. CD is "always greedy" for presentation copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 180–181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5854 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 February [1868]
Summary
Has heard that Variation sold the whole edition of 1500 copies in a week [see 5844]. Has done him a world of good. Pall Mall Gazette has review which pleased him exceedingly [see 5874].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5856 |
To Henry Walter Bates 11 February [1868]
Summary
Asks about proportions of male to female insects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5858 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 11 February [1868]
Summary
Wants information on sex ratios in domestic animals. Can WBT help?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5859 |
To Fritz Müller 11 February 1868
Summary
Is working on sexual selection and is interested in any anomalous sex ratios in lower animals and any sex-related characters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5860 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 11 February [1868]
Summary
Requests information on published observations on the proportional number of males and females born to various domestic animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 11 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1868): 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5863 |
To Francis Trevelyan Buckland 12 February [1868]
Summary
CD is much interested in FB’s remarks in Land and Water on the apparent excess of male trout over females and asks for further information on other fish, birds, and domestic quadrupeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5866 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Stainton, H. T. | (3) |
Stokes, G. G. | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Stainton, H. T. | (3) |
Stokes, G. G. | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Buckland, Frank | (2) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Trimen, Roland | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
Bush, John | (1) |
Caspary, Robert | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Gray, J. E. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
J. B. Baillière et ses fils | (1) |
Lee, Henry | (1) |
Lonsdale, William | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Noble, T. S. | (1) |
Rütimeyer, Ludwig | (1) |
Salt, G. M. | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Shaw, James | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wilson, Edward | (1) |