From Frederick F. Geach June 1867
Summary
Encloses observations on Malays who have not had communication with Europeans [in answer to CD’s queries about expression].
| Author: | Frederick F. Geach |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5557 |
From Fritz Müller 2 June 1867
Summary
Discusses dimorphism in plants, especially the Rubiaceae.
Gives observations on orchids; notes varying degrees of self-sterility and a varying success at crossing distinct species.
Mentions local ferns he is collecting
and considers the phenomenon of apparently mimetic plants.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110: B113–14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5559 |
From J. J. Moulinié 2 June 1867
Summary
Has received the first four sheets of Variation. Reinwald has received the stereotypes and is ready for printing.
| Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 267 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5560 |
From G. H. Darwin [3 June 1867]
Summary
Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".
Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 June 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5561 |
From Edward Cresy 6 June 1867
Summary
Returns Hooker’s paper [unidentified].
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 248 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5564 |
From Charles Kingsley 6 June 1867
Summary
Criticises the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)], particularly on sexual selection.
But CD overlooks God’s intention to instruct man by nature’s beauty.
Criticism of anonymous article in North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin, 46 (1867): 277–318].
CK supports large sports in response to large environmental changes.
| Author: | Charles Kingsley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5565 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 June 1867
Summary
Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.
Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 167–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5570 |
From J. W. Salter 18 June 1867
Summary
Offers to send parts of J. Syme, English botany [1863–86] in appreciation of CD’s aid.
Comments on CD’s species theory.
Will exhibit Cambrian fossil at next meeting of Geological Society.
| Author: | John William Salter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5571 |
From Ernst Haeckel 28 June 1867
Summary
Is engaged to marry Agnes Huschke. Will make wedding trip to Switzerland and Italy in autumn; therefore cannot visit CD as hoped.
Discusses present research. Comments on Protoamoeba with respect to origin of life. Says it makes question of common or separate origin of phyla unimportant.
CD to receive honorary diploma from Imperial Zoological Botanical Society in Vienna.
Sends photograph of Viennese botanist, August Kanitz.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 June 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5576 |
From A. R. Wallace [19 June 1867]
Summary
CD is invited to see ARW’s collections at Bayswater.
ARW has written an answer to the Duke of Argyll and North British Review criticisms.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 June 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B41–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5634 |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Geach, F. F. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Geach, F. F. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Kingsley, Charles | (1) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Salter, J. W. | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
