To William Turner 1 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information about rudimentary organs. Asks about rudimentary character of human hair and panniculus carnosus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 1 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5386 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1867]
Summary
Has just sent MS of Variation off to printer. Is in darkness about its merits.
News of family and their health. Riding seems to help him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5392 |
To Fritz Müller 7 February [1867]
Summary
CD’s Variation is in printer’s hands.
Orchid self-sterility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 7 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5393 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 February [1867]
Summary
On the Duke of Argyll and a review of his Reign of law.
Asa Gray’s theological view of variation. God’s role in formation of organisms; JDH’s view of Providence.
Insular and continental genera.
Owen on continuity and ideal types
and on bones of Mauritius deer.
On man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 10–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5395 |
To William Turner 11 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks WT for information.
Will not include chapter on man in Variation but plans separate essay in future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 11 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5398 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [13–16 February 1867]
Summary
Asks for specimen [of Eozoon] for J. V. Carus of Leipzig.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [13–16 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Sotheby Parke Bernet, London (dealers) (18 June 1979) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5402 |
To J. V. Carus 17 February [1867]
Summary
CD thinks JVC’s preface is fair to Bronn. Regrets JVC has not added notes of his own, but, having dropped Bronn’s appendix, it is perhaps best to leave the text without comment. Rejoices that the German public can now judge the Origin fairly.
Has written to W. B. Carpenter for a specimen of Eozoon to send to JVC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 17 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 6–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5403 |
To Edward Blyth [18 February 1867]
Summary
Asks to meet EB for a walk in the Zoological Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | [18 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5406 |
To Edward Blyth [19 February 1867]
Summary
Is so unwell he must cancel appointment to meet at Zoological Gardens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | [19 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5407 |
To J. P. M. Weale 22 February [1867]
Summary
Discusses JPMW’s paper on Bonatea [see 5411].
Mentions Robert Brown’s views on pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.326) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5409 |
To Fritz Müller 22 February [1867]
Summary
Observations on orchid self-sterility.
Wants information on characters that may have originated through sexual selection in lower animals.
Encloses queries on expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5410 |
To the Linnean Society 22 February [1867]
Summary
Sends J. P. M. Weale’s paper on Bonatea for consideration by Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 470–6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.1249) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5411 |
To King’s College, London 22 February [1867]
Summary
Asks for information concerning study at King’s College.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | King’s College London |
Date: | 22 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | King’s College London Archives (KA/IC/D45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5412 |
To Edward Blyth 23 February [1867]
Summary
Many of EB’s remarks about Origin [4th ed. (1866)] are new to CD.
Thinks of writing a short essay on man.
Struck by EB’s remarks about orang. They are similar to Carl Vogt’s remarks on origin of man from distinct ape families.
Thinks similarity of orang to Malay must be accidental.
Will send Variation when it is published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5413 |
To Paul Rohrbach 23 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks PR for his memoir on Epipogium ["Über den Blüthenbau von Epipogium" (1866)]. The structure and manner of fertilisation are new to CD;
he has long suspected that the classification of orchids requires considerable modification.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Paul Rohrbach |
Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 228–229 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5414 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 23 February 1867
Summary
Asks why caterpillars are sometimes beautifully coloured. It poses a problem for view that sexual selection is the explanation of colours of male butterflies.
More on mimetic butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 23 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | Marchant ed. 1916, 1: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5415 |
To A. R. Wallace 26 February [1867]
Summary
ARW’s explanation of protective value of conspicuous coloration is ingenious.
CD still holds to sexual selection with respect to beauty in male butterflies.
Sexual selection and the races of man.
Expression of emotions is another subject he plans to include in his essay [Descent].
Asks ARW to suggest an observer in Malay Archipelago to whom he might send queries [on expression].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 26 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5420 |
To J. P. M. Weale 27 February [1867]
Summary
Encloses his queries about expression which he asks JPMW to forward to trustworthy observers who associate with Hottentots and Kaffirs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 27 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5422 |
To Julius von Haast 27 February [1867]
Summary
Asks JvH’s assistance in making observations on the expression of emotions. Encloses 17 queries that are being sent to various parts of the world.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 27 Feb [1867] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5423 |
To Robert Swinhoe [27 February 1867]
Summary
CD’s queries on expression as reprinted in Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (1867): 105.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [27 Feb 1867] |
Classmark: | Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (1867): 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5423F |
letter | (21) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Turner, William | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Weale, J. P. M. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Turner, William | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |