To Daniel Oliver 1 June [1867]
Summary
Asks DO to identify a plant grown from earth adhering to the foot of a woodcock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3587 |
To A. R. Wallace [24 June 1867]
Summary
CD now acknowledges that the sometimes very great sexual, i.e., ornamental, differences in fishes offer a difficulty to the view that females are not brightly coloured on account of the danger to propagation of the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [24 June 1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5404 |
To Charles Lyell 1 June [1867]
Summary
Comments on a discussion of humming-birds by the Duke of Argyll [in The reign of law (1867)].
Encloses article by Henry Parker on the Duke’s book [Saturday Rev. 23 (1867): 82–4].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.328) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5558 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 3 June [1867]
Summary
Sends a sheet of proofs. Will hold four others until he hears from VOK, because of expensive postage. Thinks illustrating Russian translation [of Variation] with woodcuts from A. E. Brehm’s work [Illustrirtes Thierleben, 4 vols. (1864–7)] is an excellent idea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 3 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5562 |
To Charles Lyell 9 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses hybridisation in cowslip and primrose.
Mentions proposed visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.329) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5566 |
To Charles Kingsley 10 June [1867]
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
Cites his own views on diversity of structure and beauty.
Encloses letter from Wallace. Sexual selection: evidence advanced by Wallace.
Discusses correlation of growth.
Comments on article in the North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin].
Discusses the evidence from physics on the age of the earth.
[Four pages of the final letter are missing, but the draft is complete.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 10 June [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.330) & DAR 96: 28–9, 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5567 |
To T. H. Huxley 12 June [1867]
Summary
Asks THH to think about a better name for "Pangenesis"; suggests "Cytarrogenesis" or "Atomogenesis", but still prefers vaguer "Pangenesis".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 12 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 235) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5568 |
To Charles Lyell 12 June 1867
Summary
CD probably advised omitting mention of experiments suggesting that oxlips, cowslips, and primroses could be produced from the seed of a single plant
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 June 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5568F |
To J. D. Hooker [16 June 1867]
Summary
Leaves for London tomorrow. Hopes to see JDH there or perhaps at Kew, but doubts the latter. He is not strong and has a good deal to do.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [16 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 29–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5569 |
To J. W. Salter 19 [June 1867]
Summary
CD is relieved that JWS’s circumstances have improved. He is pleased to accept Supplement to English Botany. He will try to attend Geological Society meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Salter |
Date: | 19 [June 1867] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5571F |
To J. D. Hooker [23 June 1867]
Summary
Disappointed at not seeing JDH in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 June 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5574 |
To V. O. Kovalevsky 24 June [1867]
Summary
Thanks VOK for the present of A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–7].
The woodcuts will do admirably [for Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Date: | 24 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Institut Mittag-Leffler |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5575 |
To L. C. Wedgwood 8 June [1867–72]
Summary
Asks her to observe whether her dog exposes his teeth when barking and to think of any facts about expression in her birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Date: | 8 June [1867-72] |
Classmark: | CUL (Add 4251: 334) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7223 |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Kovalevsky, V. O. | (2) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |