From W. D. Fox [before 1 March 1866]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13808 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters March 1866
Summary
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5022 |
From Frederick Smith March 1866
Summary
Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.
Author: | Frederick Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5023 |
From Charles Lyell 1 March 1866
Summary
Feels sure that at times the globe must have been superficially cooler. Believes CD will turn out right with regard to migration across the equator via mountain chains, while the tropical heat of certain lowlands was retained.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 91: 89–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5024 |
From Charles Lyell 5 March 1866
Summary
Surprised at Hooker’s introducing "so organic a change as a deviation in the axis of the planet" to explain the cold of the Glacial Period.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | ML 2: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5027 |
From Fritz Müller 6 March 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for German translation of Origin.
Droughts over the summers have brought about changes in the numbers of plants and animals in the area. The small quantity of Orchestia darwinii that has survived the changes no longer includes two previously common male forms. Great changes also take place without such unusual physical conditions. The disappearance of a briefly abundant bryozoan in local caves has made way not for the return of original bryozoan inhabitants but for a completely new fauna.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5027A |
From George Henslow 8 March 1866
Summary
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5029 |
From Charles Lyell 10 March 1866
Summary
Comments on cool-period MS. Still believes geographical changes principal cause of former changes of climate.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 408–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5031 |
From George Henslow 12 March 1866
Summary
Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5033 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 13 March 1866
Summary
On the "bullae" as constant, regular generic characters in Hymenoptera. Disagrees with Louis Jurine ["Observations sur les ailes des hyménoptères", Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 24 (1820): 177–214].
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5034 |
From Rudolf Suchsland 16 March 1866
Summary
Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.
Author: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5035 |
From George Henslow 17 March [1866]
Summary
Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5036 |
From George Henslow [18–30 March 1866]
Summary
Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18–30 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5037 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 23 March 1866
Summary
Describes plans for new German edition of Origin [1867].
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5038 |
From Albert Müller 28 March 1866
Summary
Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?
Author: | Albert Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5039 |
From Robert Swinhoe 28 March 1866
Summary
Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5041 |
From Albert Müller 31 March 1866
Summary
Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.
Author: | Albert Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 281 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5043 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 March 1866]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5077 |
letter | (18) |
Henslow, George | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Müller, Albert | (2) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Henslow, George | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Müller, Albert | (2) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
Suchsland, Rudolf | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |