To Edward Cresy [12 November 1860]
Summary
Thanks for information about the weight of water.
Describes experiments on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [12 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2620 |
From Charles Lyell [before 20 November 1860]
Summary
Discusses the possibility of a land-bridge connecting Biscay with Ireland and the consequent occurrence in southern Ireland of Asturian plants which are absent from England.
Asks if Hooker or anyone has criticised Edward Forbes’ botanical migration of five floras in the British Isles ["On the connexion between the distribution of existing fauna and flora of the British Isles, and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 20 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 170.2: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2902 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 November [1860]
Summary
THH’s term "Pithecoid Man" is a theory in itself.
CD is convinced that his doctrine of a mundane period of glaciation is correct.
Henrietta’s serious illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 141) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2972 |
To Edward Cresy 2 November [1860]
Summary
Thanks for pamphlet by A. S. Taylor.
"… we have had a terrible week with my poor girl [Henrietta] on the point of death".
Discusses experiments involving placing solutions of ammonia and other substances on leaves of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 2 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2973 |
To Edward Cresy 2 November [1860]
Summary
Discusses pamphlet by A. S. Taylor
and note by A. W. v. Hofmann concerning iodine solution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 2 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2974 |
To Daniel Oliver 3 November [1860]
Summary
DO’s candidacy for Professorship of Botany [at University College, London].
Henrietta’s health is better.
Paper in Botanische Zeitung [T. Nitschke, "Über die Reizbarkeit der Blätter von Drosera rotundifolia", 18: 229–34, 237–45, 245–50] missed leading point that plants close longer over animal substances. Carbonate of ammonia works on Lemna and Euphorbia roots.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 3 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 24 (EH 88206008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2975 |
To J. M. Rodwell 5 November [1860]
Summary
Comments on relationship between eye-colour and deafness in cats [discussed in Origin]. Asks for more information.
Mentions criticism of Origin.
Thanks for information about horses.
Hopes JMR writes his book on language. Mentions Hensleigh Wedgwood’s work [A dictionary of English etymology, 3 vols. (1859–65)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Medows Rodwell |
Date: | 5 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 328; Bradford Museums and Galleries: Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (NH.6.40 p. 641) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2976 |
To Daniel Oliver 7 November [1860]
Summary
Congratulations on Professorship.
Homologies between Drosera and Dionaea. Carbonate of ammonia on roots. Wants W. H. Fitch to make drawings of Dionaea. Will copy minute structure of hairs from Trécul [see 2965].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 7 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 25 (EH 88206009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2977 |
To W. E. Darwin [9 November 1860]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [9 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2978 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 November [1860]
Summary
On the prospectus of Natural History Review. Suggests it might offer information on whether subjects that correspondents may wish to investigate have been done already.
Henrietta still very seriously ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 143) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2979 |
From Edward Cresy 10 November 1860
Summary
Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.
EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.
Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 7, 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2980 |
To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1860]
Summary
The stone hatchets are a great muddle. Would like a copy of Jacques Boucher [de Crèvecoeur] de Perthes’s book [Antiquités Celtiques et antédiluviennes (1847–64)].
Is studying action of carbonate of ammonia on Drosera. Asks if this has been done.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 10 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A83–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2981 |
To G. V. Reed 12 November [1860]
Summary
The family was detained at Eastbourne by a setback in Henrietta’s health.
Will send Leonard for tutoring on Thursday morning. Frank is doing capitally at school.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Varenne Reed |
Date: | 12 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2982 |
To John Phillips 14 November [1860]
Summary
Thanks JP for copy of his Life on the earth [1860].
Is sorry, but not surprised, to see that JP is "dead against" CD on the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 14 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2983 |
From Trenham Reeks 15 November 1860
Summary
Sends weights of three objects (blotting paper, thread, and hair) to within 1/1000 of a grain.
Author: | Trenham Reeks |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2984 |
To Daniel Oliver 16 November [1860]
Summary
One thirty-thousandth of a grain of human hair inflects a single Drosera hair. Astonished by his results so he is not publishing until next summer. [Not published until 1875, Insectivorous plants. See ch. 2 for observations on inflection.]
Wants to study effects of acids on live Dionaea. Oliver should do their anatomy. Corresponding with chemical physiologists about carbonate of ammonia on roots.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 16 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 26 (EH 88206010) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2985 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 November [1860]
Summary
Thanks THH for his lecture ["On the study of zoology", Lay sermons, addresses and reviews (1870), pp. 104–31]. Best exposé and classification of the higher objects of natural history he has ever read. On reading and observation.
Henrietta’s lack of improvement.
R. McDonnell’s work on rays and electric organs of fishes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Nov [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 145) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2986 |
To Daniel Oliver [21 November 1860]
Summary
The plant CD’s father called "flycatcher" was not Asclepias.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [21 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 27 (EH) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2987 |
To John Lubbock [18 November 1860]
Summary
Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [18 Nov 1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 39 (EH 88206483) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2988 |
To John Higgins 19 November 1860
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £244 15s. 11d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 19 Nov 1860 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2988F |
letter | (37) |
Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Drummond, James (a) | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (5) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Reed, G. V. | (1) |
Reeks, Trenham | (1) |
Rodwell, J. M. | (1) |