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 Charles Lyell 1 June [1867]
Summary
Comments on a discussion of humming-birds by the Duke of Argyll [in The reign of law (1867)].
Encloses article by Henry Parker on the Duke’s book [Saturday Rev. 23 (1867): 82–4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.328) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5558 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 3 June [1867]
Summary
Sends a sheet of proofs. Will hold four others until he hears from VOK, because of expensive postage. Thinks illustrating Russian translation [of Variation] with woodcuts from A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben, 4 vols. (1864–7)] is an excellent idea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 3 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5562 |
To Charles Lyell 9 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5566 |
To Charles Kingsley 10 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 10 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5567 |
To T. H. Huxley 12 June [1867]
Summary
Asks THH to think about a better name for "Pangenesis"; suggests "Cytarrogenesis" or "Atomogenesis", but still prefers vaguer "Pangenesis".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 12 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 235) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5568 |
To Charles Lyell 12 June 1867
Summary
CD probably advised omitting mention of experiments suggesting that oxlips, cowslips, and primroses could be produced from the seed of a single plant
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5568F |
To J. D. Hooker [16 June 1867]
Summary
Leaves for London tomorrow. Hopes to see JDH there or perhaps at Kew, but doubts the latter. He is not strong and has a good deal to do.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [16 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5569 |
To J. W. Salter 19 [June 1867]
Summary
CD is relieved that JWS’s circumstances have improved. He is pleased to accept Supplement to English Botany. He will try to attend Geological Society meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Salter |
Date: | 19 [June 1867] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5571F |
To J. D. Hooker [23 June 1867]
Summary
Disappointed at not seeing JDH in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5574 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 June [1867]
Summary
Thanks VOK for the present of A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–7].
The woodcuts will do admirably [for Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 24 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5575 |
To August Kanitz 3 July [1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | August Kanitz |
Date: | 3 July [1867] |
Classmark: | C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5576F |
To Ernst Haeckel 4 July [1867]
Summary
Congratulates EH on approaching marriage.
Sorry he will not visit in autumn.
Glad EH is re-examining Protoamoeba but puzzled to think what he can find.
Describes newspaper account of criticism by Agassiz of Generelle Morphologie.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 4 July [1867] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5578 |
To A. R. Wallace 6 July [1867]
Summary
Acknowledgment of article on mimicry [Westminster Rev. 88 (1867): 1–43].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 6 July [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5579 |
Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
Murray, John (b) | (18) |
Carus, J. V. | (11) |
Wallace, A. R. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (195) |
Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
Murray, John (b) | (18) |
Carus, J. V. | (11) |
Wallace, A. R. | (9) |