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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
To Alphonse de Candolle 20 July [1868]
Summary
Thanks AdeC for correcting an error about thorns, which CD might have quoted.
CD will be cautious in regard to the muscles of the scalp. [Descent 1: 20].
His health has failed again "in the usual manner" and he has been ordered to do no work.
Repeats how interested and pleased he was by AdeC’s last long, remarkable letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Date: | 20 July [1868] |
Classmark: | Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6282 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 July [1868]
Summary
Has come to Freshwater for five weeks for his health. Sends regrets to Prof. Kühne at not being able to see him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 July [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 241) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6287 |
To Horace Darwin 26 [July 1868]
Summary
Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
Date: | 26 [July 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6289 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 July [1868]
Summary
Sorry to hear of baby’s illness.
Comments on statement that belief in natural selection is passing away. Common descent of species is almost universally accepted now, and this is more important. In large part acceptance is due to Origin. Discusses reception of and interest in Origin in various countries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 July [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6292 |
To G. H. Lewes 28 July [1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | 28 July [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6293 |
To Edward Blyth [after July 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | [after July 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.2: 183, 187, 187v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6532 |
letter | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, Horace | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Inland Revenue | (1) |
Lewes, G. H. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Tristram, H. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |