From A. W. Bennett 8 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Publication plans.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8905 |
To J. V. Carus 8 May [1873]
Summary
John Murray has announced his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation] without CD’s knowledge. It is only half-written. JVC will hear when it is published and will decide whether it is worth translating. It will be dry, but, CD believes, of value.
Has read an account of JVC’s Scottish lectures.
Invites JVC to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 8 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 104–105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8906 |
From Hermann Müller 19 May 1873
Summary
Praises Expression.
Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.
He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8907 |
From S. J. Pozzi 11 May 1873
Summary
French translation of Expression [1874].
Author: | Samuel Jean Pozzi |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8908 |
From Hermann Müller 12 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [see 8901].
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8909 |
From Ludwik Masłowski 14 May 1873
Summary
Requests permission to translate Descent into Polish.
Author: | Ludwik Masłowski |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8910 |
From C.-F. Reinwald 14 May 1873
Summary
Samuel Pozzi’s translation of Expression progressing slowly.
J. J. Moulinié’s translation of Descent is stylistically poor, which may account for low sales.
Difficult to find European naturalists to translate CD’s works. They would rather write books on "Darwinisme" under their own names.
Author: | Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8911 |
From W. W. Reade 14 May 1873
Summary
Has completed his book [The African sketch-book (1873)].
Author: | William Winwood Reade |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8912 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 15 May 1873
Summary
Asks for results of FH’s experiments fertilizing some flowers with pollen from the same flower, & other flowers with pollen from distinct flowers borne by the same plant.
Has read FH’s paper on the distribution of the seeds of the Graminæ (Hildebrand 1872, pp. 740–1) with great interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 15 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8912F |
To S. J. Pozzi 15 May 1873
Summary
Answers questions about the translations of some species names.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Jean Pozzi |
Date: | 15 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Nicholas Bourdet (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8912G |
To Charles Lyell 16 May [1873]
Summary
Thanks CL for copy of Antiquity of man [4th ed. (1873)]; will read the modified or new parts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 16 May [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.427) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8913 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 17 May 1873
Summary
Wishes to dedicate his memoir ["Monographie der Gattung Anthracotherium", Paleontographica 22 (1876): 131–347] to CD as founder of evolutionary theory.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8914 |
From Arthur Russell 19 May 1873
Summary
In Variation CD claims there are no distinct races of carp, but AR says that in Germany a peculiar and constant variety of carp has been bred.
Author: | Arthur John Edward (Arthur) Russell, Lord Arthur Russell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 226 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8915 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 21 May 1873
Summary
VOK’s paper ["Osteology of Hyopotamidae", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 147–65] appears a very valuable one.
Discusses work of VOK’s brother [Alexander] on Sagitta and the ascidians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 21 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg branch: SPBB ARAS (Fond 300. Register 1a. Folder 4. P. 1-2 r) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8916 |
From Arthur Mostyn-Owen 21 May 1873
Summary
Offers to exchange a water-colour portrait of CD, done, he believes, by Fanny Biddulph, for a copy of Descent.
There has been a decrease of game-birds in the area.
Author: | Arthur Mostyn Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8917 |
To J. J. Weir 22 May 1873
Summary
Has no doubt he will find JJW’s address interesting.
Thinks same spot for nesting might prove attractive to birds, though they had had no intercommunication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 22 May 1873 |
Classmark: | Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2003, 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8919 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 23 May 1873
Summary
Sends results of his observations of cross- and self-fertilisation of Hypecoum grandiflorum and Eschscholzia californica [see Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 331–2].
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B179–80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8920 |
To Anton Kerner von Marilaun 24 May [1873]
Summary
Thanks for ‘Die Schutzmittel des Pollens gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Dislocation und gegen die Nachtheile vorzeitiger Befeuchtung’ (Preventive measures of pollen against damage by premature dislocation and moistening; Kerner 1873) and several pamphlets.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anton Kerner von Marilaun |
Date: | 24 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Archive of the University of Vienna (151.273-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8920F |
From A. F. Baker 25 May 1873
Summary
Calls CD’s attention to the fact that Huxley’s view [in Lessons in elementary physiology (1866)] of lymphatic fluid as overflow from blood supports CD’s view of secretion of tears in Expression.
Author: | Augustine FitzGerald Baker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8921 |
From Arthur Nicols 25 May 1873
Summary
Thanks to CD his candidature for the Zoological Society has been entertained.
Observed a flamingo, at the Zoological Gardens, that vomited on a bustard in answer to the latter’s harsh cries.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8922 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Müller, Hermann | (3) |
Galton, Francis | (2) |
Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (2) |
Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Müller, Hermann | (2) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Canby, W. M. | (1) |
Baer, K. E. von | (1) |
Baker, A. F. | (1) |
Barrett, W. F. | (1) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (2) |
Canby, W. M. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (2) |
Cupples, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (48) |
Dell’Oro, Isidoro | (1) |
Delpino, Federico | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (3) |
Harte, William | (1) |
Hennig, Rudolf | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
Hookham, George | (1) |
Kerner von Marilaun, Anton | (1) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Krefft, Gerard | (1) |
Leffen, T. B. | (1) |
Luschan, Felix von | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Masłowski, Ludwik | (1) |
Mostyn Owen, Arthur | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (5) |
Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
Ogle, William | (2) |
Pozzi, S. J. | (2) |
Reade, W. W. | (1) |
Reinwald, C.-F. | (1) |
Russell, Arthur | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
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Weir, J. J. | (1) |