To ? 10 May [1866?]
Summary
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 May [1866?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5083 |
To [John Gould?] [before 10 May 1866?]
Summary
Asks for the name of a hummingbird.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Gould |
Date: | [before 10 May 1866?] |
Classmark: | Jeff Weber, Rare Books (dealer) (October 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5075F |
To Julius von Haast 5 May [1866]
Summary
Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 5 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5079 |
To William Robinson 5 May [1866]
Summary
Writes a line of thanks; includes instructions on procedure for crossing experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robinson |
Date: | 5 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (WRO/2/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5080 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 May 1866]
Summary
Caspary wants to visit Down. CD would like to see him but dreads the exertion.
Pleased that JDH will get D.C.L. at Oxford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5088 |
To William Ewart Gladstone 14 May 1866
Summary
Memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the fellows of the Royal, Linnean, Geological, and Zoological Societies of London, stating the importance of separating the administration of the national natural history collections of the British Museum from that of the library and art collections, and placing it in the hands of one officer, immediately responsible to one of the Queen’s ministers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | 14 May 1866 |
Classmark: | Gunther 1975, p. 238 (facsimile of printed copy of memorial) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5090F |
To John Higgins 14 May 1866
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £262 8s. 8d.
Had not heard they had suffered so much from the cattle plague in Lincolnshire.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 14 May 1866 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5090G |
To J. D. Hooker 16 May [1866]
Summary
Glad to see Asa Gray’s letter.
Asks whether he may insert a sentence about Cape Verde alpine plants in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Fears "twaddle" may also be the word for his two chapters on cultivated plants. Asks for Crawfurd’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 289, 289b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5091 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 May [1866]
Summary
Has forwarded FH’s paper on Fumariaceae to horticultural congress. Comments on its findings.
Discusses forms of Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5092 |
To Fritz Müller 23 May 1866
Summary
Thanks for information on orchids
and facts on coastal flora and fauna.
Asks FM to look out for dimorphic aquatic and marsh plants.
Has read pamphlets "in our favour" by Carl v. Nägeli and Oscar Schmidt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 May 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5097 |
To John Murray 28 May [1866]
Summary
Has corrected and improved Origin.
Now hopes to make real progress [on Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 28 May [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 143–144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5103 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 May [1866]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s list – very good, but Orchids and Primula paper have too indirect a bearing to be worth mentioning. The Eozoon is a very important fact and to a much lesser degree the Archaeopteryx. Müller’s Für Darwin [1864] perhaps the most important contribution.
CD has forgotten to mention Bates on variation and JDH’s Arctic paper ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348] in new edition of Origin.
Now finds that Owen claims to be originator of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5106 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 May 1866]
Summary
No enclosure in JDH’s last letter.
Would like to be amused "for my stomach & the whole Universe is this day demoniacal in my eyes".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 290a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5107 |
To Robert Hunt 3 May [1866]
Summary
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
Date: | 3 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5524 |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
Gould, John | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
Gould, John | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |