To Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip [before 1 December 1867]
Summary
Sends, as corroboration of earlier articles on hedgehogs carrying fruit on their spines, a passage from a letter from R. Swinhoe [5598] describing hedgehogs carrying strawberries to their holes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip |
Date: | [before 1 Dec 1867] |
Classmark: | Hardwicke’s Science-Gossip 3 (1867): 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5702 |
To H. J. Slack 2 December [1867]
Summary
Explains that he has made it a rule not to write for periodicals, however eminent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry James Slack |
Date: | 2 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Bruun Rasmussen (dealers) (March 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5703F |
To Charles Lyell 7 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses transport of frog spawn and young molluscs by birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.337) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5708 |
To Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther 7 December [1867]
Summary
Sends his photograph.
Asks for any information of well-marked sexual differences in snakes, batrachians, or lizards. The rattlesnakes at the Zoological Garden differ considerably in colour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 7 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5710 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 9 December [1867]
Summary
Asks for index to Zoological Society’s Proceedings.
Mentions article on "Barbets" by PLS in Intellectual Observer [12 (1867–8): 241–6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.338) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5713 |
To J. P. M. Weale 9 December [1867]
Summary
Has had no less than seven grasses germinate from locust dung sent by JPMW.
JPMW’s paper on Bonatea is being printed by Linnean Society. [See J. P. M. Weale, "Structure and fertilisation of the genus Bonatea", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 470–6.]
Refers to Lyell’s new edition of Principles [10th ed., 2 vols. (1867–8)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 81) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5714 |
To the Linnean Society 9 December [1867]
Summary
Gives his comments on the merits of a paper on South African botany [by J. P. M. Weale, "Notes on Bonatea", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 470–6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, SP1249, 1253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5715 |
To Herbert Spencer 9 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks for copy of HS’s First principles [? 2d ed. (1867)].
Comments on HS’s Principles of biology [1864, 1867].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 485a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5717 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 9 December [1867]
Summary
Asks for name of the birds that have only once obtained summer plumage.
Wishes he could persuade ADB to experiment to see whether bower-birds prefer gay colours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5719 |
To St George Jackson Mivart 9 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks for his memoir ["On the appendicular skeleton of the Primates"].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 and 22 July 1988, pp. 212–13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5720A |
To J. V. Carus 10 December [1867]
Summary
Sends errata for German edition of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 10 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 35–36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5721 |
To Charles Kingsley 13 December [1867]
Summary
Discusses the reception of CD’s views at Cambridge and elsewhere.
Variation delayed by the index, but will appear at the end of the year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
Date: | 13 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5728F |
To A. C. L. G. Günther 21 December [1867]
Summary
Thanks AG for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
Date: | 21 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.339) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5735 |
To F. Du C. Godman 23 December [1867]
Summary
Will be pleased to receive FCG’s paper. Already has that of [G. R.] Crotch. Encourages further independent work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Du Cane Godman |
Date: | 23 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5738F |
To Roland Trimen 24 December [1867]
Summary
Invites RT to come to Down for a week-end.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 24 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5739 |
To John Smith 26 December [1867]
Summary
CD is obliged for a note by JS on crossing the Victoria regia, just received from Hooker; encourages JS to further experiments, saying there is much to be learned on self-fertilisation of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Smith |
Date: | 26 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5740 |
To John Murray 31 December [1867]
Summary
Introduces Clair Grece who wishes to translate a work on English grammar from the German.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 31 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 64–65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5743 |
To Eduard Koch 13 December [1867]
Summary
English edition of Variation delayed by the index, ES may publish German edition at the end of December. Asks that Carl Gegenbaur be substituted for Haeckel on list of presentation copies of German edition, Haeckel will receive copy of English edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Eduard Koch; E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Date: | 13 Dec [1867] |
Classmark: | Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart (Cod. hist. 4o 333a. No 77, 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5727 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Günther, Albert | (2) |
Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung | (1) |