To the Lords of the Admiralty [2–4 July 1866]
Summary
Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Admiralty |
| Date: | [2–4 July 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5142 |
To George Bentham [July–September 1866]
Summary
Asks GB to consider whether it is necessary for the Linnean Society to be so strict about the number of books members may borrow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | [July–Sept 1866] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 714) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5137 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 4 July [1866]
Summary
Sends a draft of memorial to Admiralty [to be signed by geologists and palaeontologists] requesting that an expedition to survey Strait of Magellan collect fossils discovered by Admiral B. J. Sulivan [see 5142].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 4 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 231) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5144 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 July [1866]
Summary
CD considers "the survival of the fittest" as alternative term to "Natural Selection". Reflections upon misunderstanding and his own ambiguity.
Health improved; can now work "some hours daily".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 5 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f.70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5145 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 July [1866]
Summary
WBT’s fowls’ skulls are being engraved; will see pigeon illustration proofs when he can.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 9 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5152 |
To John Murray 15 July [1866]
Summary
4th edition of Origin will soon be bound. Suggests sending copies to scientific periodicals that might notice it. Hopes JM will specify in advertisements that the work is corrected and enlarged. Hopes pages will be cut. Only insanity accounts for this not being done in England.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 15 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 145–146) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5155 |
To Charles Kingsley 15 July [1866]
Summary
Thanks for information about the publication of CK’s lectures.
Discusses the migration of the eye in flatfish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 15 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5155F |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [July 1866]
Summary
Asks help in naming a lupin, enclosed. Nurseryman said parties who make experiments should find the names. He might have added "and not trouble their friends".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [July 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 293 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5162 |
To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg 22 July [1866?]
Summary
Thanks CGE for two papers and for his assistance of many years ago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
| Date: | 22 July [1866?] |
| Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenberg, Nr. 321) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5163 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 22 July [1866]
Summary
Points out an error in proof-sheets of Hildebrand’s paper on Corydalis cava (Hildebrand 1866d) and suggests some improvements to the English.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 22 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5163F |
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1866]
Summary
His reasons for rejecting Atlantis hypothesis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 294, 294b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5167 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Admiralty | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Admiralty | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
