From William Bernhard Tegetmeier 8 January [1868?]
Summary
Has seen CD’s "carte" offered for sale.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4971 |
From George Brown [before 1868]
Summary
Has “several times noticed eight permanent incisors instead of six in the jaw [of the horse]”.
Author: | George Thomas (George) Brown |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1868] |
Classmark: | Variation 1: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5313F |
From John Scott 8 January [1868]
Summary
Asks CD for memorandum giving his opinion on a proposal to move the site of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. Gives details of the position, the physical character and the climate of the present site to show how desirable a move would be.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5351 |
From Richard Barwell [1868?]
Author: | Richard Barwell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 52a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5749 |
From Osbert Salvin [1868?]
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 172–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5758 |
From Hermann Müller January [1868]
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5770 |
From Alfred Wrigley 2 January 1868
Summary
Expresses his gratification on reading of Leonard Darwin’s high placing on the Sandhurst list.
Author: | Alfred Wrigley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5773 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 2 January 1868
Summary
Reports making graft-hybrid potatoes.
Has found direct action of pollen in Mays [Zea] crosses and apple-trees.
F. Delpino has asked for CD’s address.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5774 |
From C. S. Vesselofski 3 January 1868
Summary
CD has been elected a Corresponding Member of the Biology Section of the Académie Impériale des Sciences, St Petersburg.
Author: | Constantin Stepanovich Vesselofski |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5775 |
From Edward Blyth 4 January 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5776 |
From F. A. von Hartsen 5 January 1868
Summary
Sends portion of his book, Grundlegung von Aesthetik [1869]. Argues that CD’s theory can be reconciled with religion.
Author: | Frederik Anthony von Hartsen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5778 |
From William Sweetland Dallas 8 January 1868
Summary
Has sent off last portion of index [to Variation]. Hopes CD will be pleased with it. Will never undertake such labour again. He fears it has been an unfavourable way to make CD’s acquaintance. Trusts to CD’s goodness not to hate his name for the rest of his life.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5780 |
From John Murray 10 January [1868]
Summary
CD’s anxiety about the index [of Variation] will be relieved somewhat when he learns it has at last been set up.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5782 |
From Albert Gaudry 11 January 1868
Summary
Sends an article ["Des lumières que la géologie peut jeter sur … l’histoire ancienne des Athéniens"] extracted from his work [Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique (1862–7)]. CD’s letters have been an encouragement.
Hopes the belief in transformation will gradually be accepted. For himself the idea in no way undermines his idea of spirituality and his respect for human dignity.
Hopes to continue his work on the genealogical relationship (enchaînement) of fossils.
Author: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5784 |
From Roland Trimen 13 January 1868
Summary
Variations in the ocelli of Lepidoptera.
Encloses six pages from his catalogue of S. African butterflies [Rhopalocera Africae australis, 2 pts (1862, 1866)].
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 40–2, 168 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5785 |
From Asa Gray 14 January [1868]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5786 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1868
Summary
Sends a pamphlet by W. R. Greg [Malthus: re-examined by the light of physiology (1868)].
Many Cucurbitaceae have smaller male than female flowers.
Has written to H. C. Watson on the counterbalance [to variation] of crossing and uniform conditions. Watson has forgotten the argument.
Has written to F. Müller on abnormal Solanum.
Does not understand Hildebrand on potatoes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 193, 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5787 |
From W. S. Dallas 15 January 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for cheque for £5.5.0 supplementing fee from J. Murray’s. Will return it if Murray provides an additional amount. Is glad CD is so well pleased. Sends notes for errata.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5788 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 6 January 1868?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Jan 1868?] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5789 |
From John Brodie Innes 16 January 1868
Summary
Sends school subscription to CD as treasurer. Hopes Henrietta will assist in teaching there.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5791 |
letter | (43) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Barwell, Richard | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Barwell, Richard | (1) |