To ? [before 1 July 1868]
Summary
Sends a copy of George Bentham’s Anniversary address to the Linnean Society of London (Bentham 1868).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [before 1 July 1868] |
Classmark: | Deutsches Museum Archive, Munich (Pamphlet HS-Nr. 04130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6262F |
From William Thomas Bridges? 14 July [1868–70?]
Summary
Asks CD what prompts dogs of all kinds to roll themselves in decayed animal matter; inherited habit or immediate gratification?
Author: | William Thomas Bridges |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July [1868-70] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13782 |
From H. B. Tristram 1 July 1868
Author: | Henry Baker Tristram |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 93–4, 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6262 |
From Edward Blyth 2 July 1868
Summary
Has examined three races of the mouflon sheep and remarks on the extent of variation in them.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6263 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 2 July 1868
Summary
Offers notes and reflections on Variation.
Not convinced by Pangenesis, particularly its dependence on the Cytisus [graft hybrid] examples [ch. 27 and ch. 11].
What a book could be written on the application of natural history to man! Gives examples of inheritance in man.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6264 |
To Ernst Haeckel 3 July 1868
Summary
Thanks for two small works.
Will read essay on man [Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts] with much interest.
Generelle Morphologie reviewed by G. Bentham ["Anniversary Address", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1867–8): lviii–c].
Extremely sceptical of hare–rabbit hybrid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 3 July 1868 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1–52/18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6265 |
From William Pole 3 July 1868
Summary
In Variation CD mentions colour-blindness in women. WP does not believe there are any proven cases.
Author: | William Pole |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6266 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 3 July 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for mentioning his Corydalis and Primula experiments in Variation.
Has become Professor of Botany at Freiburg.
Encloses specimen of Corydalis cava.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6267 |
From F. F. Geach 4 July 1868
Author: | Frederick F. Geach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 23/2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6267F |
To H. B. Tristram 4 July 1868
Summary
Thanks for interesting letter. ‘How very curious the case of the bright-coloured birds which conceal themselves in holes!’
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
Date: | 4 July 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6267G |
From John Addison 6 July 1868
Summary
Sends newspaper clipping about a nest of young birds, apparently hybrid offspring of a cock goldfinch and a hen green linnet.
Author: | John Addison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 279 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6268 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 6 July 1868
Summary
Thanks AdeC for his long letter full of interesting facts, which will be of great use if a new edition [of Variation] is demanded.
As for when CD will publish on variation in a state of nature: he has had the MS almost ready for several years but Variation fatigued him so much
that "I determined to amuse myself by publishing a short essay on the Descent of Man".
AdeC will have plenty of time to publish his views. Asks permission to quote AdeC on a case of inheritance of scalp-muscles [see Descent 1: 20].
Hooker has expressed a view, similar to AdeC’s, "that morals & politics would be very interesting if discussed like any branch of Natural History".
Agrees with AdeC on acclimatisation
and on graft-hybrids.
CD is repeating Hildebrand’s method in producing graft-hybrid potatoes.
As for Pangenesis, very few people approve of it though it has some enthusiastic friends and CD has much faith in its vitality.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 6 July 1868 |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6269 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 July [1868]
Summary
Sketches out subjects he intends to speak on at Norwich [BAAS meeting]: museums, CD’s work in botany, Pangenesis, early history of mankind.
Asks about CD’s "book on man" [Descent].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 220–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6272 |
From George Cupples 13 July 1868
Summary
Offers deerhound puppy.
Asks for photograph.
Encloses letter from George Cupples of notes, with excerpts from letters from Peter Robertson and John Wright, relating to difference in size between male and female deerhounds. Reports on weight statistics of ten [deerhound] puppies being observed.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 129–32; DAR 161: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6274 |
To Charles Lyell 14 July 1868
Summary
Comments favourably, though often differing, on articles by G. H. Lewes.
Discusses claim of Agassiz [in A journey in Brazil (1868)] that he found evidence of glaciers in Brazil. Suggests sponsoring an expedition to test these claims.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 July 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.352) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6275 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July 1868
Summary
Thinks JDH would be wise not to touch on Pangenesis; it has very few friends. Bentham is doubtful, Carus against, and Alphonse de Candolle likes it least in the book. CD still convinced it will be hereafter looked on as "best hypothesis of generation inheritance & development". If JDH means to cut up Pangenesis he has no word to say in opposition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6276 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 15 July 1868
Summary
Corrects himself on Robinia pseud-acacia: its spines are stipules, which explains hereditary fixity.
AdeC’s observations on movement of scalp muscles.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6277 |
To Inland Revenue [17–21 July 1868?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Inland Revenue |
Date: | [17–21 July 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6278 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 July 1868]
Summary
Looks forward to seeing JDH and hearing about address.
Feels better already.
Disappointed in house [they have taken at Freshwater].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 July 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 78–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6279 |
From Ernst Haeckel 17 July 1868
Summary
Comments on CD’s health.
Has received gold medal from Dutch Academy of Science for Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren [1869].
His Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts [1868] has been sharply attacked by the clergy.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6280 |
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Addison, John | (1) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Bridges, W. T. | (1) |
Cameron, J. M. | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
Geach, F. F. | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Koch, Eduard | (1) |
Lewes, G. H. | (2) |
Pattle, J. M. | (2) |
Pole, William | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Tristram, H. B. | (1) |
Wrigley, Alfred | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (4) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Lewes, G. H. | (3) |
Cameron, J. M. | (2) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Pattle, J. M. | (2) |
Tristram, H. B. | (2) |
Addison, John | (1) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Bridges, W. T. | (1) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
Geach, F. F. | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Inland Revenue | (1) |
Koch, Eduard | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Pole, William | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wrigley, Alfred | (1) |