To J. D. Hooker [29 June 1870]
Summary
Asks whether JDH can send seeds of Hibiscus africanus and of Nolana prostrata raised at Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7251 |
To J. J. Weir 29 June [1870]
Summary
On birds erecting feathers.
Comments on production of buds in Cytisus.
Discusses case of rabbit-breeding which affected subsequent progeny of female.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 29 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7253 |
To W. W. Reade 30 June [1870]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information on the Nehro idea of beauty and other facts relating to expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 79–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7255 |
To B. J. Sulivan 30 June [1870]
Summary
Congratulates BJS on his K.C.B.
In autumn he will publish a book partly on man [Descent], which he expects "many will decry as very wicked".
Thinks the success of the Tierra del Fuego mission is wonderful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 30 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7256 |
To [Henry Hussey Vivian?] [April or May 1870?]
Summary
Discusses the reasons for inserting questions on consanguineous marriages in the forthcoming Census.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st baronet |
Date: | [Apr or May 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7257 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JDH for offer of lilies.
The paper on orchids is by Hermann Müller [Verh. Naturhist. Ver. Preuss. Rheinlande & Westphalens 25 (1868): 1–62], on Platanthera and Epipactis.
Cites another work by P. Rohrbach [Über den Blüthenbau (1866)].
MS [of Descent] ready for printer.
Has read Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1870): lxxiv–xciv] with great interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 175–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7261 |
To B. J. Sulivan 2 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks BJS for a journal and an interesting letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 2 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7263 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 4 July 1870
Summary
Requests seeds of Nolana prostrata & Hibiscus Africanus, which have been matured in Germany or in the more Southern parts of Europe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 4 July 1870 |
Classmark: | Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7264F |
To John Murray 5 [August 1870]
Summary
MS of Descent, except last chapter, is ready to send to printer. Hopes the printer will be able to keep him steadily at work correcting proof. "It drives me mad to change from job to job."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 5 [Aug 1870] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 209–10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7265 |
To W. H. Flower 5 July 1870
Summary
Encloses a query from Camille Dareste [see 7262] about the niata ox skull CD gave to the museum [of the Royal College of Surgeons].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 5 July 1870 |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7266 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 July [1870]
Summary
Thinks well of Claparède’s criticism; worth publishing as an answer to Wallace. Bates thinks Wallace’s heterodox views have done mischief to the cause of evolution. Wallace thinks Claparède’s article very weak, CD concludes, because Claparède has arrived at an unpleasant judgment very much like Lyell’s about Bentham’s address.
CD would wager Lyell lately has said something about European Proteaceae.
Does not remember anyone before Wallace on Sumatra and Java.
CD does not think he has a chance against Brandt in French Academy election.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7271 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1870]
Summary
Has not heard of Curtis on Dionaea.
Duke of Argyll is clever, but it is a sin to speak of a real old Duke as a "little beggar".
"My theology is a simple muddle: I cannot look at the Universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent Design."
On spontaneous generation and Bastian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 179–180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7273 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 July [1870]
Summary
WBT may use any of CD’s material for the new edition of his poultry book. Hopes WBT will keep firmly to his idea of working out pigeon variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 15 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7275 |
To Albert Günther 15 July [1870]
Summary
Asks AG to identify the species of Triton Mr Ford has drawn.
AG’s help has turned CD’s chapter on fishes and reptiles from "much the worst" into "one of the best" [in Descent].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 15 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7276 |
To John Lubbock 17 July 1870
Summary
CD would like questions on consanguineous marriages inserted in the Census to ascertain effects, if any, on fertility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 17 July 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7281 |
To William Farr 17 July [1870]
Summary
Writes concerning the questions on consanguineous marriages which CD wishes to have inserted into the Census. Discusses the form the questions might take and the value of the information that would be gained from them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Farr |
Date: | 17 July [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 76–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7282 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 20 July [1870]
Summary
Sends list of his publications.
Is grateful for interest QdeB has taken in his election [to Académie Française].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 20 July [1870] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.377); University Archives (dealers) (14 April 2021, lot 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7285 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 21 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks Quatrefages for his work on species. Explains that he received the Wollaston Medal for his three geological works.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 21 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Former collection of Pr. Georges Teissier (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7285F |
To John Lubbock 21 July [1870]
Summary
Thanks JL for his book [Origin of civilization (1870)], which he has read with "extreme interest". Wishes JL had published four or five months earlier as CD would have "so profited & saved so much work". CD will have to modify some of what he has written [in Descent]. Sees they differ a good deal about moral sense "but hardly two men ever do agree on this perplexing subject".
JL’s note of the 16th [see 7277] about the Census arrived too late for CD to answer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 July [1870] |
Classmark: | Dr N. Hammond (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7286 |
To J. P. M. Weale 30 July 1870
Summary
Has forwarded JPMW’s papers to the Linnean Society [four articles by J. P. M. Weale, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 13 (1870–2): 42–58].
Comments on JPMW’s findings concerning flowers and their fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 30 July 1870 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.380) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7290 |
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