From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [24 September – 10 October 1868]
Summary
Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 Sept – 10 Oct 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B60–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6339 |
From William Ogle 2 September 1868
Summary
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
| Author: | William Ogle |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6346 |
From Henry Fletcher Hance 3 September 1868
Summary
Sends CD an article [missing] on the early domestication and culture of the goldfish.
| Author: | Henry Fletcher Hance |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6348 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1868
Summary
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 233–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6349 |
From A. R. Wallace 5 September [1868]
Summary
Accepts invitation.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6350 |
From H. B. Tristram 5 September 1868
Summary
Sexual differences in plumage of birds; various species compared.
| Author: | Henry Baker Tristram |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 95–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6351 |
From Gaston de Saporta 6 September 1868
Summary
Strong support for theory of descent.
Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.
CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.
| Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6352 |
From Emanuel Bonavia [before 7 September 1868]
Summary
Peloric forms of flowers: Clitoria Ternatea.
| Author: | Emanuel Bonavia |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 26 September 1868, p. 1013 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6352F |
From M. T. Masters 7 September 1868
Summary
Thanks for Emanuel Bonavia’s letter on a Laburnum monster.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6354 |
From J. J. Moulinié 7 September 1868
Summary
Pleased to have met the Darwins.
Sends his photograph.
Printers are past the index in vol. 2 of Variation.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 271 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6355 |
From Edward Blyth 8 September 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for invitation to Down.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6358 |
From Fritz Müller 9 September 1868
Summary
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6359 |
From H. W. Bates 10 September 1868
Summary
Because of work on the first number of the new Royal Geographical Society magazine, a manual of geography, and other things, HWB finds he must decline CD’s invitation.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 85 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6360 |
From A. R. Wallace [11 September 1868]
Summary
ARW’s wife will accompany him to Down.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 426b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6362 |
From T. H. Huxley 12 September 1868
Summary
BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 314 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6363 |
From A. R. Wallace [14 September 1868]
Summary
On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6364 |
From A. B. Meyer 15 September 1868
Summary
Sends essay by Karl Bettelheim.
Describes preparations for scientific journey.
| Author: | Adolf Bernhard Meyer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6366 |
From Asa Gray 17 September 1868
Summary
Reached Kew last evening.
Hooker is in Scotland for two or three days.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6370 |
From John Syer Bristowe 17 September 1868
Summary
Reports a case of peculiar colouring in grapes, each with well-defined segments of purple.
| Author: | John Syer Bristowe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 311 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6371 |
From Edward Blyth 17 September 1868
Summary
Wonders if George Darwin can explain why a thin stream of water poured from a jug always spirals right to left.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Sept 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6372 |
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| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (3) |
| Bonavia, Emanuel | (1) |
| Bristowe, J. S. | (1) |
| Croll, James | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hance, H. F. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Meyer, A. B. | (1) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Nunn, C. W. | (1) |
| Ogle, William | (1) |
| Rolleston, George | (1) |
| Saporta, Gaston de | (1) |
| Speedy, T. C. S. | (1) |
| Tristram, H. B. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
| Blyth, Edward | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (2) |
