From J. W. Salter 14 May 1867
Summary
Having tried all other sources for aid, JWS is forced to turn to CD’s generosity. His financial position is bad; frequent and serious illness prevents him from working properly.
Author: | John William Salter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5535 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 14 May 1867
Summary
The proofs CD sent seem to have been lost in the post. Asks him to send another set by ordinary letter post.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5536 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 May 1867
Summary
Lost proofs have arrived.
Proposes to append the woodcuts of dog and cat varieties from Brehm [Illustrirtes Thierleben (1864–7)], which he has also translated, to the Russian edition of Variation.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5537 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky [after 24? May 1867]
Summary
Repeats details of his previous letter [5537] as he was unsure whether CD received it.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24? May 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5538 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 May 1867
Summary
Cannot come to Down; John Smith is unwell.
Will go to Paris again at end of month.
Wallace and F. J. H. von Mueller of Victoria are most likely candidates for Royal Society Gold Medal for biology.
Encloses letter from Henry Barkly.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 163–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspoddence 188: 125) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5539 |
From Camille Dareste 19 May 1867
Summary
CD’s letter [3992] gave him encouragement in his work [on monstrosities], which, he regrets, is little understood or appreciated in France. Hopes to be able to produce anomalies at will as a result of his experiments. Sends a recent paper ["Rapport sur un veau monstrueux", Arch. Com. Agric. Arrondissement Lille (1867)].
Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5540 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Frederick F. Geach June 1867
Summary
Encloses observations on Malays who have not had communication with Europeans [in answer to CD’s queries about expression].
Author: | Frederick F. Geach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5557 |
From Fritz Müller 2 June 1867
Summary
Discusses dimorphism in plants, especially the Rubiaceae.
Gives observations on orchids; notes varying degrees of self-sterility and a varying success at crossing distinct species.
Mentions local ferns he is collecting
and considers the phenomenon of apparently mimetic plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5559 |
From J. J. Moulinié 2 June 1867
Summary
Has received the first four sheets of Variation. Reinwald has received the stereotypes and is ready for printing.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5560 |
From G. H. Darwin [3 June 1867]
Summary
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5561 |
From Edward Cresy 6 June 1867
Summary
Returns Hooker’s paper [unidentified].
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5564 |
From Charles Kingsley 6 June 1867
Summary
Criticises the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)], particularly on sexual selection.
But CD overlooks God’s intention to instruct man by nature’s beauty.
Criticism of anonymous article in North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin, 46 (1867): 277–318].
CK supports large sports in response to large environmental changes.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5565 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1867
Summary
Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.
Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 167–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5570 |
From J. W. Salter 18 June 1867
Summary
Offers to send parts of J. Syme, English botany [1863–86] in appreciation of CD’s aid.
Comments on CD’s species theory.
Will exhibit Cambrian fossil at next meeting of Geological Society.
Author: | John William Salter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5571 |
From Ernst Haeckel 28 June 1867
Summary
Is engaged to marry Agnes Huschke. Will make wedding trip to Switzerland and Italy in autumn; therefore cannot visit CD as hoped.
Discusses present research. Comments on Protoamoeba with respect to origin of life. Says it makes question of common or separate origin of phyla unimportant.
CD to receive honorary diploma from Imperial Zoological Botanical Society in Vienna.
Sends photograph of Viennese botanist, August Kanitz.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5576 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1867
Summary
Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.
A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 169–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5577 |
From J. P. M. Weale 7 July 1867
Summary
Has distributed CD’s questions on expression. Observations on the natives.
Floral structure encouraging cross-pollination in Polygala.
Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5581 |
Hooker, J. D. | (25) |
Murray, John (b) | (11) |
Carus, J. V. | (10) |
Wallace, A. R. | (8) |
Dallas, W. S. | (7) |