From Edward Blyth [2–30 March 1867]
Summary
Discussion of origin of domestic sheep races. Some comments on the yak and the wild ancestors of the llama and alpaca.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2–30 Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5337 |
From E. A. Darwin 22 [March 1867]
Summary
Is sending a copy of [John] Shaw’s book, which Lady Bell says is based on Charles Bell’s papers [possibly C. Bell, A treatise on diseases of the urethra, 3d ed. with notes by John Shaw (1822)].
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5342 |
From Alfred Newton 1 March 1867
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 28–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5426 |
From E. A. Darwin 3 March 1867
Summary
He has promised Mark [coachman to R. W. Darwin and Susan] that CD will continue the payment of £20 a year after EAD’s death; the house is rent free.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5428 |
From Fritz Müller 4 March 1867
Summary
Reports observations on fertility of orchids he has self-pollinated and crossed with pollen of other species.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5429 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 6 March [1867]
Summary
Observations on Ophrys plants and Thymus vulgaris. Encloses sketch of different forms of T. vulgaris [see Forms of flowers, p. 302].
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A90–1, DAR 111: B47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5433 |
From F. W. Farrar 7 March [1867]
Author: | Frederic William Farrar |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5434 |
From Francis Trevelyan Buckland 9 March 1867
Summary
Has been hunting for an otter-hound for CD.
Hopes CD will visit his museum at the Horticultural [Society].
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 362 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5435 |
From A. R. Wallace 11 March [1867]
Summary
ARW responds to CD’s list of queries about expression. Suggests acquiring informants through publishing the queries in newspapers. His doubts about their importance.
Has submitted caterpillar question to Entomological Society.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B24, B45; DAR 82: A22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5437 |
From Henry Walter Bates 11 March 1867
Summary
Sexual ornamentation of insects: coloration of Epicalia genus [of tropical S. American butterflies];
horned genera of lamellicorn beetles [see Descent 1: 370, 388].
Wallace brought CD’s question about gay-coloured caterpillars before the Entomological Society. Members now seeking explanations.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A36–9, A46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5438 |
From Benjamin Clarke 12 March 1867
Summary
Requests CD’s subscription to his On systematic botany and zoology [1870]. "Progressive development" is a leading principle of his work.
Author: | Benjamin Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 157/1, 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5439 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 March 1867
Summary
Has been persuaded to accept BAAS Presidency.
On Charles Naudin’s discovery of seeds of Chamaerops fertilised by the date-palm.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 145–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5441 |
From Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky 15 March 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for permission to translate Variation into Russian. The translation will be guided by his brother Alexander, a follower of Darwin,
whose articles on the affinity of ascidians and vertebrates he forwards.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5443 |
From J. T. Moggridge 15 March [1867]
Summary
Sends several plants with abortive anthers or bad pollen.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5444 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 18 March 1867
Summary
Intends to begin a journal reviewing the botanical literature.
Sends his book [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5447 |
From John Murray 19 March [1867]
Summary
Agrees that new title of Variation is an improvement. Now thinks 1500 copies a safe number to print.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5448 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 March 1867
Summary
Sends Naudin’s letter.
Pangenesis.
Benjamin Clarke is mad.
Interested in CD’s Ipomoea experiment.
Scott’s experiments are all in CD’s favour.
Clarifies a sentence in "Insular floras".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 147–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5449 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 22 March 1867
Summary
Agrees to publish German edition of Variation.
Discusses publication of third German ed. of Origin.
Thanks CD for portrait.
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5454 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 March 1867
Summary
More on Naudin’s hybrid; the wonder lessened slightly.
JDH’s view that insular plants [distantly] related to those of continents are common came to him only after the lecture was in print; has not yet thought it out fully.
Moroccan flora may throw some light on Madeira flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 151–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 143: 643) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5456 |
From Hermann Müller 23 March 1867
Summary
The Origin converted him from a Linnean interpretation of flowers and mosses.
Glad that CD appreciates his continuing work on mosses, in support of natural selection.
Plans to repeat CD’s orchid experiments.
Sends interpretation of the floral anatomy of Lopezia miniata.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 290, 290/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5457 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Clarke, Benjamin | (2) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Clarke, Benjamin | (2) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |
Farrar, F. W. | (1) |
Gibbs, George | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Newton, Alfred | (1) |
Nägeli, C. W. von | (1) |
Smith, Andrew | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |