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 |
From Albert Gaudry 22 May 1867
Summary
Sends a notice on a reptile intermediate between true Triassic reptiles and Devonian fishes ["Sur le reptile (Actinodon)", C. R. Hebd. Acad. Sci. 63 (1866): 341–4].
Expresses his admiration for CD, and his growing sense that transformation of species is probable, though he does not share CD’s explanation of the cause. He avoids the question, since he lacks requisite knowledge and is convinced that there are causes of which God alone knows the secret.
Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5546 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 May 1867
Summary
Does not share CD’s objection to continental extension, i.e., that it must be extended to every island in every ocean.
Sends paper on domesticated animals by Brian Hodgson [J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 165–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5548 |
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 |
From J. T. Moggridge 29 May [1867]
Summary
Wrote to J. B. E. Bornet on CD’s behalf, declining the offer of seeds of Draba. But now Bornet writes that he is sending seeds to CD anyway [see 5592].
Corrects his previous description of the fertilisation of Indigofera.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 157a: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5555A |
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 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 20 May 1867
Summary
Offers to send Benoît de Maillet’s Telliamed [1750].
Encloses a letter [16 May 1867] from John Anderson, a nurseryman, giving information on budding of blotched ash at the nursery.
Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 68, 68a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5542 |
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 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 24 May 1867
Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5549 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 25 May 1867
Summary
Details of Arabis crosses. Seed-pods of A. blepharophylla and A. soyeri crosses are longer and wider than those of either species.
Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5550 |
letter | (36) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (3) |
Anderson, Isaac | (3) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (3) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (4) |
Anderson, Isaac | (4) |