To M. J. Berkeley [26 November 1840]
Summary
Remarks that each of two species of Fagus separated by 1000 miles has a fungus that grows on it; the fungus species are probably closely allied.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
| Date: | [26 Nov 1840] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-583 |
To Charles Babbage 26 May [1840]
Summary
Asks if he can bring his guests, J. C. L. and Mme [Simonde de] Sismondi and [Fanny] Allen, to CB’s parties.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | 26 May [1840] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37191: 294–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-570 |
To J. S. Henslow [26 January 1842]
Summary
CD relates that Robert Brown is anxious to have [C. M.] Leman[n] elected librarian of the Linnean Society and urges JSH to come to vote for him. CD joins in the request.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [26 Jan 1842] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-615 |
To William Herbert 26 June 1839
Summary
CD is led to believe there are no true permanently inbreeding, sexually reproducing beings. Thanks for replies to breeding questions.
Asks for clarification of Hippeastrum crosses: is selfing or crossing with individual of same species intended and was increased fertility due to constitution of foreign parent or due to the pollen coming from another plant? Has WH known any hybrid or mongrel to revert or to vary in a manner unlikely to be effect of soil?
Sends Journal of researches.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
| Date: | 26 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 65–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-523 |
Swinhoe, Robert. [1863f.] A list of the Formosan reptiles; with notes on a few of the species, and some remarks on a fish (Orthagoriscus, sp.). N.p.: n.p. [Reprinted from Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 12 (1863): 219–26.]
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1862d. Description of a new specimen of Glyptodon recently acquired by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. [Read 18 December 1862.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 12 (1862–3): 316–26.
From Asa Gray 29 December 1862
Summary
Encloses maize seeds.
Has heard of a butterfly with pollinia of Platanthera stuck to it.
Comments on AG’s notes ["Dimorphism in the genitalia of flowers", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 149–50].
"Precocious fertilisation".
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: 85, DAR 165: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3882 |
Agassiz, Louis. 1867. The geological formation of the valley of the Amazon. The river, its basin and tributories. The ancient glaciers in the tropics. The aquatic animals of the Amazon. The land animals of South America. The monkeys and native inhabitants. [Six lectures read at the Cooper Institute, New York, 5, 11, 12, 18, 20, and 26 February 1867.] New York Herald Tribune, 6 February 1867, p. 8, 12 February 1867, p. 5, 13 February 1867, p. 5, 19 February 1867, p. 8, 21 February 1867, p. 5, 27 February 1867, p. 8.
Stahl, Ernst. 1878. Ueber den Einfluss des Lichts auf die Bewegungserscheinungen der Schwärmsporen. Verhandlungen der physikalisch-medizinischen Gesellschaft zu Würzburg 12: 269–70.
Mayer, Anna-K. 1999. Note on the Fritz Müller–Charles Darwin correspondence. Archives of Natural History 26: 293–5.
Wilson, Alexander Stephen. 1874–5. On the fertilisation of cereals. [Read 12 February 1874 and 11 February 1875.] Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 12 (1876): 84–95, 237–42.
Beal, William James. 1878. Hairs and glandular hairs of plants, their forms and uses. American Naturalist 12: 271–82.
To Ernst Krause 30 July 1880
Summary
Profit on Erasmus Darwin is £9 15s 5d. Sends cheque. 218 copies remain unsold.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
| Date: | 30 July 1880 |
| Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36207); DAR 210.11: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12675 |
From Francis Darwin [after 7 July 1878]
Summary
Sleep in Porlieria studied.
Oats begin germinating.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 7 July 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 209.7: 157 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11596 |
Meissner, Georg, et al. 1859–62. Untersuchungen über die Verdauung der Eiweisskörper. Zeitschrift für Rationelle Medicin 3d ser. 7 (1859): 1–26; 8 (1860): 280–303; 10 (1861): 1–32; 12 (1861): 46–67; 14 (1862) 78–96, 303–19.
From G. H. Darwin 25 April 1876
Summary
Is elated by his work on the alteration in the earth’s axis and the displacement of the poles. [See 10689.]
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10472 |
From Charles Loring Brace 29 April 1867
Summary
Letter of introduction to CD for CLB’s friend Robert S. Rowley.
| Author: | Charles Loring Brace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 272 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5518 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [February 1881]
Summary
Island life continues to stimulate: Wallace ignores effects of glaciers on alpine flora and generally exaggerates those of débâcles and wind dispersal. CD encourages JDH to prepare a geographical address including history of geographical distribution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 [Feb 1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 509–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13067 |
To B. D. Walsh 23 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for Agassiz’s Lectures. Lyell does not believe a word about glacial action of any kind in lowlands of Brazil. Agassiz’s view of glacial movement has been given up by physicists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5455 |
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