From Fritz Müller [8 October 1867]
Summary
Has CD ever considered that the colour of seeds of Amarantaceae would attract the attention of birds?
Describes case of a climbing Chamissoa of the local flora.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Oct 1867] |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 132 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5620A |
From Ferdinand von Mueller 8 October 1867
Summary
Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.
| Author: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5626 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 October [1867]
Summary
Informs CD of his reply to Argyll and the North British Review criticisms [in "Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. Cites "the predicted Madagascar moth" and Angraecum sesquipedale.
Birth of Herbert Spencer Wallace.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B43–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5637 |
From J. V. Carus 5 October 1867
Summary
Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5641 |
From J. V. Carus 7 October 1867
Summary
Some sheets of Variation have gone astray.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 62 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5643 |
From J. J. Moulinié 11 October 1867
Summary
Has received more Variation sheets; some are missing. In a few days the first six chapters of the French translation will be printed.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 268 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5646 |
From J. V. Carus 16 October 1867
Summary
Anxious to read the second volume [of Variation].
Appreciates "the way in which you [CD] teach us all how to look on, and how to study, nature".
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5650 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 October 1867
Summary
Must cut short visit to Down because of domestic problems.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 180–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5651 |
From William Houghton 18 October 1867
Summary
Studying freshwater Planariae. Did CD find they had nervous systems?
News of T. C. Eyton and [William?] Owen.
| Author: | William Houghton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 271 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5652 |
From Joseph Plimsoll 21 October 1867
Summary
Seeks to save CD’s soul.
| Author: | Joseph Plimsoll |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5655 |
From A. R. Wallace 22 October [1867]
Summary
Response to CD’s comments on "Creation by law" [see 5637].
The limits of variation discussed.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B46–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5656 |
From Hermann Müller 23 October 1867
Summary
Thanks for German version of Origin [1867].
Dipterous insects are adapted to eating pollen rather than only to sucking nectar. He describes such adaptations in two dipteran species.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5657 |
From J. V. Carus 30 October 1867
Summary
Asks CD for exact title of Variation for German advertisement.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5658 |
From John Lubbock 27 October [1867]
Summary
Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6433 |
| letter | (14) |
| Carus, J. V. | (4) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Houghton, William | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Carus, J. V. | (4) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Houghton, William | (1) |
