To V. O. Kovalevsky 2 May [1867]
Summary
CD has sent some revised proof-sheets and ordered the stereotypes [for Russian translation of Variation]. First volume is dull, but he hopes second is more interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 2 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5523 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 4 May [1867]
Summary
Thanks LR for sending his works.
Correcting proofs of Variation.
Chapter on pigs and cattle derived mostly from LR’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 4 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5527 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 May [1867]
Summary
Returns ARW’s notes. He will work up subject much better than CD.
Apologises for the note of illiberality in his letter regarding ARW’s work on the colouring and other sexual differences in mammals.
Discusses laws of inheritance based on sexual selection.
He questions the extent of applicability of principles of protection and sexual selection to lower animal forms, though Ernst Haeckel has shown how protection may account for transparency and absence of colour in lower oceanic animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 May [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434 f. 89) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5528 |
To J. M. Herbert 7 May [1867]
Summary
Contributes to a memorial for Richard Dawes.
Describes his health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | 7 May [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.327) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5529 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 16 May [1867]
Summary
Sends proof-sheets [of Variation]. Will not charge VOK for right of translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 16 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5531 |
To J. D. Hooker [12] May [1867]
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller’s address; has sent him Insular floras [pamphlet].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12] May [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5532 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 20 May [1867]
Summary
CD is sorry proof-sheets were lost; hopes clean sheets will have arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 20 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5541 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 May 1867]
Summary
Glad to hear Wallace is contender for Gold Medal. Has highest esteem for his extraordinary talents.
Thanks for H. Barkly’s letter from Mauritius.
Glad to see HB takes same view as CD about bones of deer [see 5395].
Objections to continental extension theory.
Progress [on Variation] very slow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 May 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5543 |
To Ernst Haeckel 21 May [1867]
Summary
Discusses his previous criticisms of EH’s Generelle Morphologie. Fears it will make enemies.
Discusses reception of descent theory in England.
Mentions EH’s trip to Canary Islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 21 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5544 |
To Camille Dareste 23 May 1867
Summary
Praises Dareste’s work on teratology; is convinced that it will be highly valued.
Is working on Variation; will send a copy when published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Date: | 23 May 1867 |
Classmark: | Jean-Louis Fischer (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5547 |
To John Higgins 23 May 1867
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £159 11s. 2d.
Glad to hear that the cottages are nearly finished.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 23 May 1867 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5547F |
To Fritz Müller 26 May [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information on sexual differences.
Orchids; self-sterility and difficulty of getting seeds to germinate.
Dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 26 May [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5551 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [May 1867]
Summary
It was foolish of him to say a word about continental extensions so briefly that he thinks JDH misunderstood him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [May 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5552 |
To George Howard Darwin 27 May [1867]
Summary
CD has come to think a name better than "Pangenesis" is needed. Asks GHD to get a suggestion from a classics scholar. "Cell-genesis wd be perfect if it cd be put into Greek."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | 27 May [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5553 |
To Albert Gaudry 27 May [1867]
Summary
Is much obliged for AG’s two memoirs ["Mémoire sur le reptile découvert par M. Frossard", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 3 (1867): 21–40; Bull. Soc. Géol. France 2d ser. 24 (1867): 397–400].
All "inosculating forms" are very interesting to CD.
Agrees with AG on the importance of attempts to affiliate extinct and existing species.
Will send French edition of Variation when published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 27 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5554 |
To J. J. Moulinié 16 May [1867]
Summary
Sheets dispatched. Book [French edition of Variation] not so large as expected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Date: | 16 May [1867] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, f. 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6176 |
To Isaac Anderson-Henry 22 May [1867]
Summary
Obliged for case of grafted ash.
Asks about pods of Arabis.
Would like to borrow Maillet [Telliamed (1750)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Date: | 22 May [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5545 |
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