To [?] 22 [March? 1867]
Summary
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 [Mar? 1867] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5453 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 5 March [1867?]
Summary
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 5 Mar [1867?] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1394 |
To E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung [19 March 1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | [19 Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5425 |
To Alfred Newton 4 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information about the dotterel.
CD had ascertained by dissection that the female of the carrion-hawk of the Falkland Islands is very much brighter coloured than the male. Has inquired about its nidification. Mentions other instances of female birds that are brighter and more beautiful than the males and suggests causes for this anomaly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 4 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5430 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 5 March [1867]
Summary
Asks whether WBT can carry out poultry mating experiments for him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 5 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5431 |
To Frederic William Farrar 5 March 1867
Summary
Much obliged for lecture [On some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal and taste for appreciation. Learned nothing at school except by reading and experimenting in chemistry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
Date: | 5 Mar 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5432 |
To A. R. Wallace [12–17] March [1867]
Summary
Asks to be kept informed on gaudy caterpillars.
Problems of his work on man; scope and role of sexual selection.
Indulgence of interest in expression is simply a "hobby-horse". Will see whether he can get queries inserted in an Indian newspaper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [12–17] Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 80–83v) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5440 |
To George Moultrie Salt 16 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for note and returns signed paper. Asks that the payment be made to his bank account.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Moultrie Salt |
Date: | 16 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5444F |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1867]
Summary
The date-palm seed case is important for Pangenesis.
Reports experiments on pollination of Ipomoea.
"Insular floras": A. Murray’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle is poor.
John Scott’s work on acclimatisation of plants.
The anomaly of the Azores flora on the migration theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 13a–e |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5445 |
To John Murray 18 March [1867]
Summary
The compositors have invented a title [for Variation] which CD thinks is better than the advertised one. CD can form no opinion on number of copies. Asks that clean sheets be sent to German and Russian publishers for translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 18 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 167–168) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5446 |
To John Murray 20 March [1867]
Summary
The new title is fixed. Thanks for clean sheets. As to number of copies, now that JM proposes 1500, CD is frightened.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 20 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 169–170) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5450 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 20 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for two copies of Hildebrand’s monograph on plant sexuality (Hildebrand 1867a).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 20 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5450F |
To J. D. Hooker 21 March [1867]
Summary
Suggests change in sentence of JDH’s "Insular floras" to make meaning clear.
Naudin’s letter about hybrids.
Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 13f–g |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5451 |
To B. D. Walsh 23 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for Agassiz’s Lectures. Lyell does not believe a word about glacial action of any kind in lowlands of Brazil. Agassiz’s view of glacial movement has been given up by physicists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 23 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5455 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [March 1867]
Summary
Returns Charles Naudin’s letter with its case in support of CD’s view of impregnation.
Twits JDH for trying to wriggle out of error made in his lecture and admires his "candour in letting the rat out of the bag". [See 5449 and 5451.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5457A |
To Fritz Müller 25 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for facts on orchids.
Friedrich Hildebrand’s new book on fertilisation of plants [Die Geschlechten-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
CD correcting proofs of Variation.
FM likes Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5458 |
To E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 27 March [1867]
Summary
Does not care which photograph is engraved. Hopes to get specimens of Eozoon canadense for J. V. Carus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | 27 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Jeremy Norman (dealer) (catalogue 69, item 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5461F |
To John Lubbock 26 March [1867]
Summary
Close inbreeding and factors acting against it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 65 (EH 88206509) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5463 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 26 March [1867]
Summary
Answers VOK’s questions regarding the size of forthcoming Variation and gives his consent to a translation.
But if Origin has not yet been translated into Russian, CD thinks it would be a better book to undertake.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 26 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5464 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 27 [March 1867]
Summary
Thanks WED for a present.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law [1867].
Is busy revising proofs [of Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 27 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5466 |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |