To ? [after June 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5747 |
To Francis Darwin 8 [June? 1868]
Summary
A cheque written out for FD has never been presented to CD’s bankers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 8 [June? 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 211: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5769 |
To Linnean Society 1 June 1868
Summary
Requests 50 copies of his paper ["Offspring of illegitimate unions of di- and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 1 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6221 |
To Osbert Salvin 1 June 1868
Summary
Encloses some queries.
Would also like information about proportion of male to female humming-birds.
Reference to OS’s paper in Ibis, vol. 2.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 1 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6221A |
To Fritz Müller 3 June 1868
Summary
Is glad FM approves of a translation of Für Darwin.
Hopes FM will think well of Pangenesis.
Sexual differences in insect auditory and stridulating organs.
Read FM’s paper on Balanus with great interest ["On Balanus armatus", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 1 (1868): 393–412].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 3 June 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6224 |
To S. J. O’H. Horsman 3 June 1868
Summary
Thinks SJOH is right not to return to Down. Asks him to forward certain documents. Hopes final arrangements will soon be made for a resident clergyman in Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel James O’Hara Horsman |
Date: | 3 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6225 |
To John Scott 3 June 1868
Summary
As JS’s powers of observation seem to exist in all lines, CD begs further information from him and [H. N. B.] Erskine about the natives’ expressions of indignation, affirmation, and negation. The movements of the eyebrows and forehead of a girl in violent grief are of particular interest.
Do sub-breeds of pigeons exist in India as in Europe, but not in England? If so, what is the colour of the plumage in males and females at different stages of development?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 3 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6226F |
To H. B. Tristram 4 June 1868
Summary
Asks about camouflage of birds in the Sahara desert.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
Date: | 4 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6227F |
To J. J. Weir 5 June 1868
Summary
Sorry JJW cannot visit.
Will go to sea-side for five weeks at end of July.
Does Vidua have double annual moult? [See Descent 2: 181.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 5 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 317; Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RL.10387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6232 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 June [1868]
Summary
Congratulations on birth of daughter. CD used to dread birth-time.
Sexual selection has turned out to be a large subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6233 |
To Bibliographisches Institut, Hildburghausen 8 June 1868
Summary
Discusses possible English translation of A. E. Brehm’s [Illustrirtes] Thierleben [1864–9].
Asks for permission to use 15 of Brehm’s illustrations [in Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bibliographisches Institut |
Date: | 8 June 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.351) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6235 |
To B. D. Walsh 9 June 1868
Summary
Thanks BDW for new facts about Anthocaris [see 6156].
Asks BDW to observe stridulation apparatus in male and female lamellicorns.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 9 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6236 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 June 1868
Summary
W. S. Dallas asks whether Ray Society would publish translation of Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie. If THH thinks suggestion good, he might make inquiries.
Family news.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 239) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6239 |
To J. B. Innes 15 June [1868]
Summary
CD writes in detail about difficulties with Horsman’s financial accounts and the affairs of the parish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 15 June [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6242 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1868]
Summary
Sends second lot of grass grown from locust dung pellets from Natal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6243 |
To John Lubbock 15 June [1868]
Summary
Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 15 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6245 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [June 1868]
Summary
On Pour le Mérite; JDH has made him think more highly of it.
Messiah is the one thing he would like to hear again, but thinks his soul might be too dried up now to appreciate it. Sometimes hates science for making him "a withered leaf" for everything else.
Frank [Darwin] now doing botany seriously.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 [June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 72–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6248 |
To J. J. Weir 18 June [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JJW for letter about the crimson breast of linnets
and the fate of a pugnacious female bullfinch.
Refers to JJW’s pointing out the number of Jenners and Weirs who have been naturalists, and cites some writings by men of those families about striking cases of birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 18 June [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6250 |
To George Bentham 23 June 1868
Summary
Expresses thanks and pleasure at what GB has said about his book [Variation] in GB’s [Presidential] Address [to the Linnean Society, 1868, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1868): lvii–c]. "What you say about Pangenesis quite satisfies me".
CD discussed "bud-variation" to show that it was an error to believe all variability is due to sexual generation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 23 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 677) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6258 |
To Osbert Salvin 23 June [1868]
Summary
CD thanks OS for answering his questions and especially for giving the case of the sandpiper; "such little facts are my delight". [See 6253.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 23 June [1868] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6258A |
Bates, Frederick | (1) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bibliographisches Institut | (1) |
Bryceson Brothers & Co. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Horsman, S. J. O’H. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Salvin, Osbert | (2) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Tristram, H. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Salvin, Osbert | (2) |
Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Bates, Frederick | (1) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bibliographisches Institut | (1) |
Bryceson Brothers & Co. | (1) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Horsman, S. J. O’H. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Tristram, H. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |