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 J. D. Hooker [4 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for Asa Gray’s letter, enclosed.
Knew JDH would not care about omissions but was vexed at his own forgetfulness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 291 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5112 |
To William Turner 5 June [1866]
Summary
Thanks for WT’s papers, especially ["The present aspect of the doctrine of cellular pathology", Edinburgh Med. J. 8 (1863): 873–97].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 5 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5113 |
To Thomas Rivers 8 June [1866]
Summary
Examined the Cytisus and forwarded to Caspary. The C. adami case "gets more and more perplexing", asks for report if Cytisus purpureus-elongatus produces any pods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 8 June [1866] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5115 |
To George Henslow 12 June [1866]
Summary
Returns proofs of GH’s paper ["On hybridization among plants", Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13] with his criticisms. Prefers that GH not state that CD has read the proofs.
Does C. V. Naudin really say that ovules (not seed) of hybrid Luffa and Cucumis are imperfect?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | 12 June [1866] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5118 |
To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli 12 June [1866]
Summary
Comments on CWvN’s Die Entstehung und Begriff [der Naturhistorischen Art (1864)].
Discussion of beauty of flowers in new edition of Origin not based on CWvN’s article.
Comments on CWvN’s argument that flower structures are not due to natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
Date: | 12 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5119 |
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 15 June [1866]
Summary
Thanks for Geological survey of North Wales [1866]. Longs to return to the mountains with which he was once familiar, but did not understand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 15 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 8 (EH 88205981) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5123 |
To George Henslow 15 [June 1866]
Summary
CD believes most strongly in reversion. J. G. Kölreuter’s, K. F. v Gärtner’s, and some of Charles Naudin’s cases leave no doubt in his mind. Forgets whether Herbert gave cases but in conversation he certainly believed in it. Thinks Gärtner is right to say reversion occurs only rarely in plant hybrids which have not been cultivated. [See 5120.]
Variation
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | 15 [June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR Library: tipped into George Henslow’s copy of Variation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5123A |
To W. E. Darwin 19 [June 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 19 [June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5125 |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (10) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |
Murray, John (b) | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (182) |
Hooker, J. D. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (10) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |