To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
To [A. J. Woodhouse?] 25 January [1867?]
Summary
Two queries on teeth: 1. Is there evidence of inherited peculiarities in milk teeth?
2. Are male incisors longer than female?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred James Woodhouse |
Date: | 25 Jan [1867?] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 14 (EH 88206066) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13645 |
From S. E. Wedgwood [1867–72?]
Summary
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Author: | Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1867–72?] |
Classmark: | DAR 195.4: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13856 |
From John William Salter 4 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks CD for his kindness and hopes one day to return it.
Finds more and more observations fall in with CD’s theory but still finds it difficult to account for the sudden leaps in the fossil record and to explain why some organisms first appear as such high forms.
Author: | John William Salter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4969 |
To Charles Henry Middleton 20 [1867?]
Summary
Sorry he cannot remember where S. Filippe [San Felipe?] is.
Doubts that bones of ox, sheep, and horse could have been deposited in guano [on coast of Chile], but they would be worth examination.
[Tipped in copy of Origin (1866) with CHM’s bookplate.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Henry Middleton |
Date: | 20 [Jan-Dec] 1867 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (in Middleton’s copy of Origin 4th ed., BB.5.6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5341 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 7 January 1867]
Summary
On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 134a–d |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343 |
From Fritz Müller 1 January 1867
Summary
Describes his experiments in fertilising Oncidium flexuosum and comparison with Notylia.
Has been examining Catasetum.
Encloses seeds of two species of Gesneria and describes hairs in the seed capsule. Hairs in other plants seem to have a different function.
Starting tomorrow for a botanical excursion on the Continent.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 104–9; DAR 157a: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5344A |
From John Murray 2 January [1867]
Summary
William Clowes [printer for J. Murray] estimates that Variation will come to a first volume of 648 pages and a second volume of 624 pages – which is too much for volumes the same size as Origin. Murray proposes a larger size.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 342 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5345 |
To John Murray 3 January [1867]
Summary
Sorry about enormous size of Variation MS, but cannot shorten it now. If JM is afraid to publish, CD will consider agreement cancelled. Suggests he ask someone with judgment to read the MS. Has written concluding chapter on man. Whether it will be included depends on size of volume.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 158–160) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5346 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 6 January [1867]
Summary
Returns some of WBT’s skulls.
His MS is with printer, but book [Variation] will probably not be out until November.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5347 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867]
Summary
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5348 |
To Ernst Haeckel 8 January 1867
Summary
Comments on EH’s "great work" [Generelle Morphologie].
An English translation "hopeless".
Asks about EH’s expedition.
MS of Variation sent to printers.
Fritz Müller working on plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 8 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5349 |
To John Murray 8 January [1867]
Summary
CD annoyed at large size of Variation. Suggests printing detailed parts in small type. JM can, of course, decline to publish altogether.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 8 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 155–157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5350 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 January [1867]
Summary
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5353 |
From John Murray 9 January [1867]
Summary
CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.
Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5354 |
From James Philip Mansel Weale 9 January 1867
Summary
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5355 |
To John Murray 10 January [1867]
Summary
Relieved by JM’s note and by his agreement on type size. Is alarmed by what the verdict [on Variation] of JM’s friend will be. He is not a man of science. An unscientific reader would have condemned the Origin. An eminent semi-scientific man thought the Journal of researches not worth publishing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 166) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5356 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 11 January 1867
Summary
Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].
BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5357 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 131–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5358 |
From Thomas Belt 12 January 1867
Author: | Thomas Belt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 181–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5359 |
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