From [C. P.] 29 April 1864
Summary
On rereading the Origin, offers a criticism on two grounds: 1. Blending inheritance; 2. The tendency of species to elude competing species. Also competition within species eliminates the weak and thus preserves the species.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4476 |
From H. C. Watson [16 May 1864]
Summary
Cover containing some seeds mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (S 4512).
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891H |
From Francis Trevelyan Buckland [before 11 December 1864]
Summary
Salmon and trout increase in size with river.
Wishes to show CD fish hatchery near Hampton Court.
Quoted CD’s book on self-destruction within species in a salmon arbitration case.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Dec 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 358 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4363 |
From E. A. Darwin [after 31 March 1864?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 31 Mar 1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4364 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [1864?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1864?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4365 |
From William Jenner [after 24 November] 1864
Summary
CD’s urine is normal. He may take antacids for his stomach.
Author: | William Jenner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Nov] 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4367 |
From W. E. Darwin [after 19 May 1864]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from a red cowslip.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 19 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4369 |
From Ernst Haeckel 2 January 1864
Summary
Returns letter mailed by mistake [see 4361].
Hopes CD will accept gift of his Radiolarien [Die Radiolarien, 2 vols. (1862)].
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4377 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
From E. A. Darwin 5 January [1864]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B21–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4379 |
From Charles Spence Bate 6 January 1864
Summary
Asks CD’s opinion on the accuracy of stating that barley and wheat are different varieties of the same species.
Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4380 |
From John Scott 7 January [1864]
Summary
Has finished correcting Primula paper [see 4332].
Has presented paper on monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Jan [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 98, 99 f.3; Edinburgh Courant, 19 December 1863, p. 8. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4382 |
From John Lubbock 10 January 1864
Summary
JL’s article on Huxley’s "Lectures [to working men]".
Planning a volume of essays [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4384 |
From John Scott [13 January 1864]
Summary
Glad CD is sending his Primula paper to Linnean Society.
Sends promised Linum seeds.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4385 |
From John Scott 12 [February 1864]
Summary
Regrets sending his MS missing two pages.
Has proofs of his paper on the monoecious spikes of maize [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 213–20].
J. H. Balfour objected to notion of maize descent from a hermaphrodite.
Reading of JS’s paper on Selaginella hybrid [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 19 (1864): 192–9] deferred until March. Believes it is first example of experimentally produced hybridity in higher cryptogams.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 [Feb 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4386 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 16 January 1864
Summary
Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4388 |
From Robert Goodwin Mumbray 18 January 1864
Summary
Has verified J. M. Bechstein’s contention that species of finches hybridise.
Quotes Thomas Bewick’s observations on hybrids between pheasants and common fowl. RGM had often noticed so-called "pheasant fowl", but thought it was a foreign bird.
Author: | Robert Goodwin Mumbray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 318–318/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4392 |
From Charles Parker 18 January 1864
Summary
Collecting subscriptions for a school at Ford.
Author: | Charles Parker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4393 |
From Hermann Crüger 21 January 1864
Summary
Sends his MS of orchid paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for CD to send to an editor.
CD was right about Catasetum sexes.
Ficus experiments fail.
Author: | Hermann Crüger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 278 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4394 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1864
Summary
JDH’s opinion of Herbert Spencer.
Rejects CD’s view of inheritance of induced modifications.
Huxley grows fat.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 176–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4396 |
Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
Darwin, E. A. | (12) |
Oliver, Daniel | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (202) |
Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (13) |
Darwin, E. A. | (12) |