To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
From Asa Gray [25 February 1868 or later]
Summary
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 102 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2563 |
To J. B. Baillière et ses fils 29 February [1868]
Summary
Sends stamps to the value of 1s. 1d. and asks for parcel to be sent to 6 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | J. B. Baillière et ses fils |
Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 698, 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415F |
From William Blenkiron Jr [c. February 1868?]
Author: | William Blenkiron, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Feb 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5340 |
To A. D. Bartlett 16 February [1868]
Summary
Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.
Asks for rabbit specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 16 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5401 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 February [1868]
Summary
THH’s offer to read proof of essay on man encourages CD to write with satisfaction instead of a vague dread.
Begs Mrs Huxley not to forget corrugator supercilii in a crying child.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5408 |
From Edward Blyth [after 3 February 1868]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 3 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5750 |
From Daniel Oliver [before February 1868]
Summary
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5824F |
From C. S. Bate [17 February 1868]
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A61–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5826 |
From J. Daly [before 9 February 1868]
Summary
Corrections [incorporated in 2d issue of Variation].
Author: | J Daly |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5827 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1868
Summary
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5831 |
From William Bowman 1 February 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5832 |
To J. V. Carus 1 February [1868]
Summary
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834 |
To William Lonsdale 1 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Murch 1893, p. 437 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834A |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
From Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff 3 February 1868
Summary
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Author: | Albrecht Bernstorff, Graf von Bernstorff |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5836 |
From W. D. Fox 3 February [1868]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5837 |
From Edward Wilson 4 February 1868
Summary
Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Author: | Edward Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5838 |
From John Edward Gray 4 February 1868
Summary
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839 |
To Yorkshire Philosophical Society 8 February [1868]
Summary
CD appreciates the honour of being elected an Honorary Member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | T. S Noble |
Date: | 8 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Yorkshire Philosophical Society, Council Minute Book, vol. 3, p. 619 (2 March 1868) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (60) |
Dallas, W. S. | (7) |
Gray, J. E. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (79) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Stainton, H. T. | (3) |
Stokes, G. G. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (139) |
Dallas, W. S. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Bates, H. W. | (6) |
Gray, J. E. | (6) |