From W. E. Darwin [April–May 1865]
Summary
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506F |
From Hugh Falconer to E. A. Darwin 5 January [1865]
Summary
HF merely wanted to correct a false impression given by a sentence taken out of context.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4739 |
From Clémence Auguste Royer [April–June 1865]
Summary
Notes on the caste system of India; its influences on form and habit.
| Author: | Clémence Auguste Royer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–June 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5339 |
From E. A. Darwin 24 August [1865]
Summary
Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4885 |
From W. E. Darwin [14 July 1865]
Summary
Wants to borrow money to buy stock in the bridge over the Itchen.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873F |
From E. A. Darwin 1 September [1865]
Summary
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4889 |
Ainslie, Robert (1803–76)
Matches: 2 hits
- … E. Darwin, [October 1858] (DAR 210.6: 26) The Times , 23 August 1876, p. 1 Bibliography Ainslie, Robert. 1865. …
- … 1865 Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Susan Darwin, 3[–4] September 1845 England & Wales, non-conformist and non-parochial registers, 1567–1970 (Ancestry.com, accessed 27 February 2020) G. E. …
To Hugh Falconer 6 January [1865]
Summary
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4740 |
From E. A. Darwin [20 November 1865?]
Summary
John Brent [book?] has come, and he will send it.
Hopes CD will visit again.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Nov 1865?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4938 |
From W. E. Darwin [after 19 May 1864]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from a red cowslip.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 19 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 83 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4369 |
From Francis Walker 9 December 1867
Summary
The horns and spines of homopterous insects do not vary between sexes. Sexual differences in Blattidae.
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A48–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5718 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 25 [November 1865]
Summary
Does not like the photos; thinks they should try again.
Last account of Susan Darwin reports she is having a good deal of faintness.
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Nov 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B119–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4942 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 25 [November 1865] …
- … Darwin, 20 November 1865 . CD evidently sat for a photographer during his stay in London, from 8 to 20 November 1865. This may have been Ernest Edwards , who supplied photographs for the series Portraits of men of eminence in literature, science, and art, with biographical memoirs (Reeve and Walford eds.1863–7). CD had agreed to appear in the series (see letter to Edward Walford, 22 [January–April 1865? ] and n. 2). An entry in CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS) records a payment of £1 for ‘E. …
Delpino, Federico. 1865. Relazione sull’apparechio della fecondazione nelle asclepiadee. Aggiuntevi alcune considerazioni sulle cause finali e sulla teoria di Carlo Darwin intorno all’origine delle specie. Gazzetta Medica di Torino 2d ser. 15 (1865): 372–4, 382–4, 390–1, 398–400.
To Carl Vogt 12 April [1867]
Summary
Would be great honour to have CV translate Variation, but Schweizerbart has arranged for J. V. Carus to do it.
Has read CV’s Lectures on man [1864] with extreme interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Vogt |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms fr. 2188, ff. 300–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5499 |
To ? 1 August [1864 or 1865]
Summary
Sends a photograph of himself.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1864-5] |
| Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 493, fol. 637) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580F |
From Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin 3 January 1865
Summary
Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4737 |
To Charles Kingsley 2 June [1865]
Summary
Thanks for note; sends photograph taken by one of his sons.
His continued ill-health has prevented him making the acquaintance of many.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 2 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3174F |
From Richard Trevor Clarke 6 November [1866]
Summary
Wants to publish his observation on colour changes in Matthiola seeds.
Has been crossing cotton.
Approves of C. V. Naudin and Max Wichura.
| Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4932 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1865 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 871–3). CD had finished reading Wichura’s paper in early February 1865, noting in a letter to M. E. …
- … Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868. Wichura, Max Ernst. 1865. Die Bastardbefruchtung im Pflanzenreich erläutert an den Bastarden der Weiden. Breslau: E. …
To Hugh Falconer 8 November [1864]
Summary
Gratified to receive Copley Medal. Cannot attend anniversary [of Royal Society]. Would HF receive medal for him?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 8 Nov [1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4664 |
From Hermann Müller 23 October 1867
Summary
Thanks for German version of Origin [1867].
Dipterous insects are adapted to eating pollen rather than only to sucking nectar. He describes such adaptations in two dipteran species.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Oct 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 291 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5657 |
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