To T. H. Huxley 12 March [1869]
Summary
Apologises for passing on what he agrees were offensive remarks in V. Lushington’s letter. Has told VL he had no right to make them. Asks THH to make allowance for red-hot disciples defending the master.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 12 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 264) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6658 |
To Vernon Lushington [12 March 1869]
Summary
Huxley has acknowledged receipt of VL’s letter. Both he and CD feel that some of VL’s statements were a little offensive although CD is sure this was not intended. Was glad to read the condensed statement of Comte’s claims in VL’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vernon Lushington |
Date: | [12 Mar 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6660 |
To W. C. Tait 12 and 16 March 1869
Summary
Thanks for specimen of Drosophyllum.
Describes capacity of various plants to catch flies.
Cannot name fern specimen.
Laugher pigeon descended from Columba livia.
Discusses tailless dogs.
Believes astronomical phenomenon responsible for oscillation of level of earth’s crust.
Would WCT like copy of Orchids?
Expected plants [Drosophyllum] have arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 12 and 16 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 541; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6661 |
To Fritz Müller 14 March 1869
Summary
Translation of Für Darwin has been published [Facts and arguments for Darwin (1869)].
Discusses dimorphic plants, commenting on FM’s observations on Oxalis.
Is greatly interested in Eschscholzia, which seems somewhat more self-sterile in Brazil than in England.
Thinks FM’s grass is "most wonderful".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 14 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6662 |
From Fritz Müller 14 March 1869
Summary
Describes experiments with sterility in Abutilon.
Describes hermaphroditism in a wild Begonia in Brazil.
Has been observing humble bees on Salvia.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP 859) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6662F |
From Ernest Faivre 15 March 1869
Summary
EF is seeking a French editor for Orchids [1870]. Introduces L. Rérolle, his student. [See 6667.]
Author: | Jean-Joseph-August-Ernest (Ernest) Faivre |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6663 |
From T. H. Huxley 17 March 1869
Summary
Last letter was written to be passed on for Lushington’s edification. "(Standing on the points of my toes and my tail very stiff)." Is tiring of controversy as a waste of time. Begins to understand CD’s sufferings over Origin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6665 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1869]
Summary
Envies JDH’s Russian trip.
Thanks for information on Aucuba. Urges him to experiment – case "has highest physiological importance, not to mention Pangenesis".
Has heard that Huxley has been attacking views of Sir W. Thomson.
Has received 12 plants of Drosophyllum lusitanicum from Oporto.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 118–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6666 |
From Louis Rérolle 17 March 1869
Summary
LR undertakes translation of Orchids [1870]. Awaits CD’s new footnotes and intends to look at every flower CD mentions.
Author: | Louis Rérolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6667 |
To Fritz Müller 18 March 1869
Summary
On English edition of Für Darwin; CD’s gratitude and admiration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 18 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6668 |
To George Cupples 18 March [1869]
Summary
Suggests that Cupples weigh puppies from one week old, rather than two weeks old.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 18 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | Former collection of Pr. Georges Teissier (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6668F |
To T. H. Huxley 19 March [1869]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s address [to Geological Society, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53]. Admires it and enjoyed attack on William Thomson hugely, but would tremble if he were in THH’s boots. Distinction made by THH between evolutionists and uniformitarians is too great. CD’s sentences on age of world in Origin will do, but he might have been less timid had he read THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 19 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 266) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6670 |
From C. F. Claus 19 March 1869
Summary
The cirripede material mentioned in CD’s letter of 10 Feb has not arrived. [Asks CD to inquire of Williams and Norgate, who forwarded it.]
Author: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6671 |
To Charles Lyell 20 March [1869]
Summary
Discusses views of Wallace, H. N. Moseley, and Croll on the mechanics of glacier movement.
Comments on Wallace’s new book [The Malay Archipelago (1869)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.367) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6672 |
To Julius Dub 20 March 1869
Summary
CD will supply the sheets of the new edition of the Origin [5th ed. (1869)] if JD goes ahead with his work [Kurze Darstellung der Lehre Darwin’s über die Entstehung der Arten der Organismen (1870)]. Has no objection to JD’s quoting him, but wonders whether the German publisher of Origin might not feel injured.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christoph Julius (Julius) Dub |
Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 62, 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6673 |
To John Dean Caton 20 March 1869
Summary
Asks about coat colour of elk,
the mane of American bison,
and about sexual preferences of female deer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Dean Caton |
Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6674 |
From Samuel Owen Glenie 20 March 1869
Summary
His observations of the chickens hatched from eggs of an isolated pair of pure-bred black-boned fowl. Nine were black-boned, two were like ordinary fowl.
Quotes a Mr Holdsworth on unusual expressions of Singhalese and Tamils in pointing and beckoning.
Author: | Samuel Owen Glenie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6675 |
From W. T. Preyer 21 March 1869
Summary
Has given a lecture series on Darwinism which was attended by 200–500 students.
Would like to compile a list of CD’s works.
Author: | William Thierry (William) Preyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6676 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 March [1869]
Summary
Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6677 |
From Karl von Seidlitz 22 March 1869
Summary
Mentions his publication [Die Bildungsgesetze der Vogeleier (1869)].
Comments on importance of heredity for evolution.
Author: | Karl Johann (Karl) von Seidlitz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6678 |
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