To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli [after 8 April 1867]
Summary
Thanks for his long letter on morphological laws.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
Date: | [after 8 Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 33v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5496 |
To John Murray 10 April [1867]
Summary
CD writes about stereotypes for German and Russian editions of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 34–35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5497 |
To J. V. Carus 11 April [1867]
Summary
CD is delighted that JVC will undertake translation of Variation.
Agrees with JVC’s opinion of Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)]. CD believes it is bad policy for Haeckel to speak so positively about a disputed theory [i.e., CD’s] and particularly regrets the severity of EH’s criticisms of other authors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 11 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 8–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5498 |
To Carl Vogt 12 April [1867]
Summary
Would be great honour to have CV translate Variation, but Schweizerbart has arranged for J. V. Carus to do it.
Has read CV’s Lectures on man [1864] with extreme interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Vogt |
Date: | 12 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms fr. 2188, ff. 300–1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5499 |
To Ernst Haeckel 12 April [1867]
Summary
Struck by singular clarity of EH’s Generelle Morphologie. Remarks on various authors seem too severe. Severity leads the reader to take the side of the attacked person.
Making slow progress in correcting Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 12 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1–52/13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5500 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [April 1867]
Summary
Agrees with JDH about Anderson-Henry. He has however described in detail a curious case of the ovaria of Rhododendron directly affected by foreign pollen, like the Chamaerops and date-palm case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 21–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5502 |
To J. V. Carus 18 April [1867]
Summary
Reassures JVC [who had received the impression that CD would prefer Carl Vogt as translator of Variation].
CD surprised at receipt of an application for a Russian translation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 18 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 58–59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5506 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 April [1867]
Summary
Sends the revisions in the latest edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 20 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5507 |
To Fritz Müller 22 April [1867]
Summary
Self-sterility in orchids.
Growth differences in plants raised from self- and cross-fertilised seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 22 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5509 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [April 1867]
Summary
Has sent JDH’s Genera plantarum to Fritz Müller who finds it useful and offers to supply JDH with Brazilian plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Apr 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5514 |
To A. R. Wallace 29 April [1867]
Summary
Comments on ARW’s view of colouring in relation to sexual selection and protection. It is not new to CD. Hopes to discuss subject fully in his "Essay on Man" [Descent]. As to the problem of brightly coloured females, CD is not satisfied that it is due to males taking over incubation. Admires "value and beauty" of ARW’s generalisations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 29 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5517 |
To Charles Kingsley 30 April [1867]
Summary
Regrets that he is too busy getting his book [Variation] ready for publication to contribute an article to Fraser’s Magazine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 30 Apr [1867] |
Classmark: | B. C. Guild (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5520 |
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 |
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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) |