To ? 8 December [1861–8]
Summary
Thanks for information on inheritance of mental peculiarities in cats.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 8 Dec [1861-8] |
Classmark: | Dr Jeremy J. C. Mallinson (private collection): sold at Sotheby’s (dealers), 11 December 2017, lot 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770J |
To ? 31 December [1861–8]
Summary
"As I have never especially attended to Conchology I am sorry to say I cannot tell you the name of the enclosed shell which I now return–"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Dec [1861-8] |
Classmark: | J. David Archibald (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13881A |
From H. W. Bates [1 December] 1861
Summary
Furnishes CD with more information on Volucella and gives him references relating to this and butterfly colourings. States that colours are not necessarily related to resting-places but rather an endowment to enable them to withstand adverse conditions.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Dec] 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3336 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3337 |
To H. W. Bates 3 December [1861]
Summary
Thanks HWB for references.
Praises his paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", read before Linnean Society, 21 Nov 1861, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862) : 495–566] which solves "one of the most perplexing problems which could be given to solve".
Discusses the difficulties of writing and expresses disappointment at Wallace’s book [Travels on the Amazon (1861)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 3 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3338 |
To John Higgins 3 December 1861
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £245 18s.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 3 Dec 1861 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3338F |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 5 December [1861]
Summary
Admires LR’s book [Die Fauna der Pfahlbauten (1861)].
Will attempt to arrange for skull of wild white Chillingham cattle to be sent by Earl of Tankerville.
CD has come to same conclusion as LR on zebus.
CD’s MS of Variation is half-prepared.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 5 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3339 |
To Daniel Oliver 7 December [1861]
Summary
Trusts DO’s opinion on Acropera ovules.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 7 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 3 (EH 88205987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3340 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 December 1861]
Summary
Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 136, 129c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3341 |
To Asa Gray 11 December [1861]
Summary
Discusses the worsening relations between their two countries and the possibility of war.
Expects Orchids and his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] to be out soon.
Thanks AG for some facts on dimorphism.
George Bentham has given him a list of Oxalis and Mentha species that are dimorphic like Primula.
Is in a "thick mud" regarding design in nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3342 |
To John Innes 15 December [1861]
Summary
Delighted to have Quiz [Johnny Innes’ dog].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 15 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3343 |
To John Lindley 15 December [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL for a flower of Bolbophyllum, a genus that puzzles him.
Recent work has convinced him a number of orchids are male. Points out that JL [in The vegetable kingdom (1846), pp. 177–8] "accidentally misquoted" R. H. Schomburgk on this point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 15 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 198) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3344 |
To H. W. Bates 15 December [1861]
Summary
Praises MS of first chapter of HWB’s book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)]. Suggests he give common names and make comparisons to familiar English species to help readers. Suggests a few changes. Will speak strongly to Murray about publishing whenever HWB is ready.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 15 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton collection) (tipped into a copy of Bates 1892) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3345 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [December 1861]
Summary
Lindley suggests Gongora may be female Acropera.
CD’s orchid book nearly ready for press.
Discovers trimorphism in Lythrum is in H. Lecoq [Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3346 |
To John Innes 19 December [1861]
Summary
Arrangements for receiving Quiz.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 19 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3347 |
From B. O’Neile Wilson 22 December 1861
Summary
Variation in instincts among domestic animals.
Author: | Benjamin O’Neile Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3348 |
From John Innes [24 December 1861]
Summary
Arrangements for sending Quiz.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3349 |
To John Lindley 24 December [1861]
Summary
Delayed thanking JL for two notes until he heard from Hooker about Acropera luteola; had no idea A. luteola was not a well-known name.
Cites his reasons for identifying A. loddigesii as male; hopes for a Gongora flower from Hooker which, JL suggested, may be the female.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 24 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 199) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3350 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 [December 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3351 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1861]
Summary
Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.
Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3352 |
letter | (26) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Lindley, John | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Lindley, John | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Rütimeyer, Ludwig | (1) |
Wilson, B. O’N. | (1) |