From John Scott 20 June [1864]
Summary
Preparations for trip to India. Thanks for testimonial.
Surprised by the self-fertility of CD’s peloric Antirrhinum.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4541 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 21 June 1864
Summary
Studying insect pollination in Salvia
and heterostyly in Pulmonaria officinalis which is similar to Linum case.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4542 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 June 1864
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4543 |
From E. A. Darwin 27 June [1864]
Summary
CD will be proposed for the Copley Medal. Hugh Falconer wants information: list of all CD’s papers, dates of the voyage, things not judicious to mention, when his sickness came on, etc.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4546 |
From E. A. Darwin 30 June [1864]
Summary
Henry Holland thought CD would be interested to know that Buxton’s brewery cannot go on with their own yeast, but are obliged to interchange with other breweries.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4548 |
From Charles Parker 1 July 1864
Summary
Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.
Author: | Charles Parker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4549 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1864
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 230–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4552 |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 [July 1864]
Summary
No book has made such a powerful impression on EH as the Origin. Most older German scholars opposed to it, but number of supporters growing among the young. Fortunately strength of religious dogmas now small among educated Germans. Situation in Jena especially favourable. Defended CD’s theory last year at Congress of German Scientists in Stettin.
Intends special study of jellyfish.
Plans general work on natural history.
Hard fate [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel] has made EH indifferent to criticism.
Colleagues August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also convinced by CD’s theory.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 [July 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4555 |
From George Bentham 10 July 1864
Summary
Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B107–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4556 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 10 July 1864
Summary
Sends 2d ed. of his Physical geology [1864]; hopes that he will burn the 1st because of its errors.
ACR is convinced he is right about denudation of the Weald.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4557 |
From Asa Gray 11 July 1864
Summary
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4558 |
From J. T. Moggridge 15 July [1864]
Summary
Sends seeds of Trichonema and bulb and leaves of Romulea rollii, plus specimens showing two forms of Primula marginata.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4567 |
From Horace Benge Dobell 15 July 1864
Summary
Suggests man’s original mode of walking and running is similar to that of quadrupeds.
He also suggests CD answer critics who say no new species has ever been unequivocally traced to its origins, by pointing out that there is no unequivocal account of the origin of surnames.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4568 |
From J. T. Moggridge 19 July [1864]
Summary
Offers notes on Romulea rollii with sketch of a dissection.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A25a, A25b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4570 |
From Daniel Oliver 21 July 1864
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4571 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4572 |
From Robert Thomson 24 July 1864
Summary
Observations on insects visiting Melastomataceae.
Author: | Robert Thomson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4574 |
From John Lubbock 28 July 1864
Summary
Has obtained microscopes for CD.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4575 |
From John Scott 29 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for additional financial aid for trip to India.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4578 |
From Edward Cresy 29 July 1864
Summary
Requests letter of introduction to Asa Gray.
Went to Linnean Society to hear CD’s Lythrum paper read [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4579 |
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