To the Athenæum 7 [July] 1869
Summary
Because readers have arrived at different answers to the problem of the rate of increase of elephants, CD offers a rule, used by his son George, for calculating the product for any number of generations.
[Letter erroneously dated June.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 7 [July] 1869 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 17 July 1869, p. 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6820 |
To Adolph Reuter 24 July [1869]
Summary
Thanks for facts on inheritance. May be used if CD corrects 3d ed. [2d ed.] of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adolf Reuter |
Date: | 24 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13837 |
To J. J. Weir 1 July [1869]
Summary
"My health got so bad I could do nothing at Down".
Gives information about migration of male and female birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 1 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6810 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 July [1869]
Summary
Thanks for procuring eggs.
CD’s health has necessitated his leaving home.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6811 |
From Ernst Haeckel 2 July 1869
Summary
Comments on 5th edition of the Origin [1869];
preparation of second edition of Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte [1870].
The reception of CD’s theory. Mentions support of Pieter Harting and Michael Sars.
EH’s research on calcareous sponges and plans to publish monograph on them.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6812 |
From John Lubbock 2 July [1869]
Summary
Asks for reference to Louis Agassiz’s views on embryos indicating ancestral structures.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6813 |
From John Scott 2 July 1869
Summary
Observations on expression and colour of beard and hair in natives of India.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A31, DAR 177: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6815 |
From William Erasmus Darwin 5 July [1869]
Summary
Observations on flies visiting Epipactis.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6816 |
From Louis Agassiz 6 July 1869
Summary
Introduces his son Alexander; believes CD will find him "more tractable" on certain questions than LA himself is.
Author: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6817 |
To William Ogle 7 July [1869]
Summary
Comments on WO’s paper on Salvia [Pop. Sci. Rev. 8 (1869): 261–73], which he admires.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ogle |
Date: | 7 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.5: 3 (EH 88205901) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6818 |
To W. E. Darwin 7 [July 1869]
Summary
Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 7 [July 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6819 |
From William Ogle [after 7 July 1869]
Summary
WO very gratified by CD’s complimentary remarks on his Salvia article.
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 July 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6821 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 July [1869]
Summary
Simeon Habel of New York has returned from Galapagos. CD has asked him to send any plants to JDH.
Reading Nägeli convinces him that it is all-important to learn all about polymorphic or protean genera for the "Laws of Variability".
New Zealand genera are interesting and have perplexed him for years.
Has read paper on snakes. Thinks it is not fascination but fear that makes the victim fall into snake’s power.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 137–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6822 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 July [1869]
Summary
Haeckel wants British specimens of calcareous sponges. Can THH tell him to whom he can apply?
Health not improving – cannot climb even a hill.
Has heard THH’s article on Comte ["Scientific aspects of Positivism", Lay sermons (1870)] is a splendid success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 271) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6823 |
From George Robert Gray 9 July 1869
Author: | George Robert Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 69v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6824 |
From W. C. Tait 11 July 1869
Summary
Drosophyllum lusitanicum.
Believes principle of natural selection can be more widely applied.
Flower structure of Geranium.
Author: | William Chester Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6825 |
From W. E. Darwin 12 July 1869
Summary
Bees visiting Epipactis.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6826 |
To G. R. Gray 12 July 1869
Summary
Would be glad to send GRG a testimonial of his abilities as a naturalist, but is not qualified to express opinion on his works in ornithology or entomology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Gray |
Date: | 12 July 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 232–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6827 |
From Alexander Wallace 15 July [1869]
Author: | Alexander Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6829 |
From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1869
Summary
Has already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank.
Has lost track of collectors and naturalists "by grace of the dredge" because of other work and ""the great question of "Darwinismus" which is such a worry to us all"".
Family health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6830 |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Annals and Magazine of Natural History | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |