To H. B. Dobell 17 July [1864]
Summary
Thanks HBD for his note. The analogy of surnames had not occurred to CD – only that of language generally, as shown so well by Lyell. Fears HBD’s argument about progression would not have much weight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 17 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 8 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4239 |
From Charles Parker 1 July 1864
Summary
Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.
Author: | Charles Parker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4549 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 July 1864
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 230–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4552 |
To George Bentham 7 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.
Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 7 July [1864] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4554 |
From Ernst Haeckel 9 [July 1864]
Summary
No book has made such a powerful impression on EH as the Origin. Most older German scholars opposed to it, but number of supporters growing among the young. Fortunately strength of religious dogmas now small among educated Germans. Situation in Jena especially favourable. Defended CD’s theory last year at Congress of German Scientists in Stettin.
Intends special study of jellyfish.
Plans general work on natural history.
Hard fate [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel] has made EH indifferent to criticism.
Colleagues August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also convinced by CD’s theory.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 [July 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4555 |
From George Bentham 10 July 1864
Summary
Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B107–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4556 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 10 July 1864
Summary
Sends 2d ed. of his Physical geology [1864]; hopes that he will burn the 1st because of its errors.
ACR is convinced he is right about denudation of the Weald.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4557 |
From Asa Gray 11 July 1864
Summary
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4558 |
To A. C. Ramsay 12 July [1864]
Summary
Thanks for his book [Physical geology and geography of Great Britain, 2d. ed. (1864)].
Pleased that ACR’s glacial lake theory is progressing. New Zealand lakes support the view. Suggests he write to Charles Gould in Tasmania, calling his attention to glacial action.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 12 July [1864] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4560 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 July [1864]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.
Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?
Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4561 |
To George Bentham 12 July [1864]
Summary
Thanks GB for specimens [of Aegiphila] and his information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 12 July [1864] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 708) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4562 |
To J. T. Moggridge 1[7] July [1864]
Summary
Discusses dimorphism in flowers. Describes his experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 1[7] July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 373 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4563 |
To Daniel Oliver 13 July [1864]
Summary
If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 13 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4564 |
To Daniel Oliver [22 July 1864]
Summary
Will DO observe whether leaf [of Nepenthes] with pitcher ever wound round a stick? CD’s plant is improving.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [22 July 1864] |
Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection); in September 2020 owned by ZHANG, Lun Xia (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4566 |
From J. T. Moggridge 15 July [1864]
Summary
Sends seeds of Trichonema and bulb and leaves of Romulea rollii, plus specimens showing two forms of Primula marginata.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4567 |
From Horace Benge Dobell 15 July 1864
Summary
Suggests man’s original mode of walking and running is similar to that of quadrupeds.
He also suggests CD answer critics who say no new species has ever been unequivocally traced to its origins, by pointing out that there is no unequivocal account of the origin of surnames.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4568 |
To Ernst Haeckel 19 July [1864]
Summary
Thanks for praise [of Origin].
Comments on EH’s Die Radiolarien.
Grieved EH has suffered calamity [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel].
CD recovering from long illness.
Doing easy botanical work.
Mentions variability.
Discusses reception of CD’s views in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 19 July [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4569 |
From J. T. Moggridge 19 July [1864]
Summary
Offers notes on Romulea rollii with sketch of a dissection.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A25a, A25b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4570 |
From Daniel Oliver 21 July 1864
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4571 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4572 |
letter | (26) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bentham, George | (3) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (3) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |