From Daniel Mackintosh 1 December 1867
Summary
Seeks CD’s opinion and references on the causes of terraces in the south of England. He supports sea action as cause, either by currents or on coasts, and has been engaged in a controversy in the Geological Magazine [4 (1867): 571–5] with the subaerial school. Poulett Scrope thinks they are agricultural.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5703 |
From Joseph Plimsoll 3 December 1867
Summary
A sermon.
Author: | Joseph Plimsoll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5704 |
From Julius von Haast 4 December 1867
Summary
JvH forwards J. Stack’s replies to CD’s queries about expression [see Expression, p. 20].
Sends photos of skeletons of six species of Dinornis he is assembling for the Museum.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 12; DAR 177: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5705 |
From Thomas Woolner 6 December 1867
Summary
Will have to delay starting on the bust of CD.
Author: | Thomas Woolner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5707 |
From Edward Wilson 7 December 1867
Summary
Wants to catch some queen bees to ship to Australia; wonders whether CD’s sons can help.
Author: | Edward Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5709 |
From Daniel Mackintosh 8 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks CD for information on inclined terraces in S. America, which DM thinks applies to the chalk downs of S. England. CD’s definition that the sea widens and fresh water deepens is key to the subject.
Author: | Daniel Mackintosh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5711 |
From W. S. Dallas 8 December 1867
Summary
Some corrections and queries about Variation text. Is pushing hard to finish, but CD is right that the names in the notes make the work interminable. Fears he is causing delay in publication. Is astonished at "the wonderful array of facts brought together and at the manner in which you bring them to bear".
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5712 |
From John Lubbock 9 December [1867]
Summary
Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5716 |
From Francis Walker 9 December 1867
Summary
The horns and spines of homopterous insects do not vary between sexes. Sexual differences in Blattidae.
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A48–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5718 |
From A. D. Bartlett 9 December 1867
Author: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5720 |
From J. P. M. Weale [10 December 1867]
Summary
On expression among Kaffirs.
Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Dec 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5722 |
From W. S. Dallas 10 December 1867
Summary
WSD is pushing forward as fast as he can with [index to] second volume [of Variation]. The work is fearfully heavy.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5723 |
From W. S. Dallas 11 December 1867
Summary
Regrets that the remarks in his letter [5712] seemed to CD to be criticisms. Nothing was further from his intention. He is working hard. "The subjects often seem to elude the Index-maker."
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5725 |
From Andrew Murray 13 December 1867
Summary
Will return Federico Delpino’s two pamphlets soon.
Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5728 |
From Charles Kingsley 11 December 1867
Summary
CK is drawn into discussions of Darwinism everywhere in Cambridge. The climate has changed in the past three years: the younger M.A.s are greedy to know more and the criticism of the older Fellows has a new tone.
Author: | Charles Kingsley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5730 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 December 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5731 |
From Joseph Plimsoll 17 December 1867
Summary
A sermon.
Author: | Joseph Plimsoll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5732 |
From A. C. L. G. Günther 19 December 1867
Summary
Sexual differences in reptiles, especially Indian [see A. Günther, The reptiles of British India (1864)].
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Dec 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: B72–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5733 |
From A. C. L. G. Günther [late December 1867 or early January 1868]
Summary
The Cyprinodontidae family of fishes exhibits sexual differences as remarkable as any in reptiles or birds [Descent 2: 7, 9–10].
Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late Dec 1867 or early Jan 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: B75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5734 |
From Henry Holland 21 December [1867]
Summary
Has received a copy of an attack on CD ["Darwinian theory examined"] from the author, but does not know who it is.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 247 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5736 |
Dallas, W. S. | (4) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Mackintosh, Daniel | (2) |
Plimsoll, Joseph | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Dallas, W. S. | (4) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Mackintosh, Daniel | (2) |