To J. D. Hooker 4 May [1865]
Summary
On FitzRoy’s life and character.
Carl von Siebold’s cases of males and females of gall insects [True parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)]. Each sex produced on different plants.
Haeckel’s astonishing case of propagation in a Medusa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 268a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4827 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … Robert FitzRoy committed suicide on 30 April 1865 (see letter from J. D. …
- … 1864 ). CD refers to Maxwell Tylden Masters and to Caspary 1865 (see letter to J. D. …
- … Hooker, [1 May 1865] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Busk, 28 April 1865 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 May 1865] . CD had been seriously …
- … see letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] , and letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 ). …
- … his visit to Down from 4 to 6 March 1865; no letter containing this information has been …
- … 19 April 1865] ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 April 1865] . Elizabeth Bates Laugel …
- … Hooker, 2 May 1865 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 May 1865 . …
- … recommended another physician in his letter of 28 April 1865 . At the end of the letter, …
- … Dann Walsh , in his letter to Walsh of 27 March [1865] : ‘With respect to Dimorphism you …
- … See letters from J. D. Hooker, [19 April 1865] and 2 May 1865 . …
- … from bronchitis and influenza (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 12 April 1865 and [ …
- … 1865 ). On FitzRoy’s breakdown in 1834, during the voyage of the Beagle , see Correspondence vol. 1, letter …
- … him another doctor (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 April [1865] and n. 2). Jenner had …
- … on 22 April 1865 (see Correspondence vol. 13, Appendix II). See also letter from George …
- … 1865 issue of Annals and Magazine of Natural History , pp. 437–44; CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL. In Variation 2: 384 n. 41, CD wrote: ‘Ernst Häckel has recently … observed the surprising case of a medusa, with its reproductive organs active, which produces by budding a widely different form of medusa; and this latter also has the power of sexual reproduction. ’ Haeckel had mentioned his ongoing work on the Coelenterata, a class of invertebrates that included sea anemones and jellyfish, in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters …
To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]
Summary
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 20 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4895 |
Matches: 19 hits
- … is contained in the section of the 12 August 1865 letter from Fritz Müller that was later …
- … on twining plants of 31 August 1865 (see letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ). The …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 (see letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 ). …
- … Since Müller would not have received CD’s letter of 10 August [1865] when he …
- … 135–40). The section of Müller’s letter of 12 August 1865 in which he discussed Alexander …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. …
- … been found. Agassiz’s letter to Müller, 9 March 1865 , which contains these observations, …
- … 1; see also the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 11). Müller included …
- … his letters to CD (see letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ), and some of these were …
- … 17 February [1864] . The letter from Müller of 12 August 1865 is incomplete. The section …
- … pp. 404–5; see also letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n. 5). In Living …
- … other cirripedes (see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n. 7). CD evidently …
- … wrote his own letter to CD on 12 August 1865 , it appears that the possibility of Anelasma …
- … 1, and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . CD had not yet …
- … his reply ( letter from Fritz Müller to Alexander Agassiz, 29 June 1865 , in Möller ed. …
- … 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. …
- … 36 n. (see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and nn. 16– …
- … 21–2 (see letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 19). …
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
Matches: 26 hits
- … from F. H. Hooker, [17 August 1865] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 September …
- … father, William Jackson Hooker , who had died on 12 August 1865 (see letter to J. D. …
- … Science meeting at Birmingham in 1865 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September …
- … Lubbock, 11 June [1865] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 July 1865] ). Hooker refers …
- … directed at the final chapter of Lubbock 1865 (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 October …
- … from A. R. Wallace of 2 October 1865 with his letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 October [ …
- … had given a negative opinion of Tylor 1865 in his letter to CD of 2 October 1865 . …
- … earlier recommendation of Tylor 1865 , see the letters from J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] …
- … Wallace’s views on Lecky 1865 and Buckle 1857–61 , see the letter from A. R. Wallace, …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] and n. 2; see also letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 14, letter to John …
- … 28 September 1865] ). Hooker refers to Le Fanu 1864 and Eliot 1860 (see letter from J. …
- … Bence Jones (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] and n. 14). Hooker …
- … to Palgrave 1865 , and to his cousin, William Gifford Palgrave . See letter to J. D. …
- … Eliot 1860 ); see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] . Wood 1864 . Kay- …
- … Thomas Bendyshe (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 October 1865 and n. 4). Wallace had …
- … articles (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 October 1865 ). In fact, the scientific …
- … had died in August (see letter from F. H. Hooker, [17 August 1865] ). W. J. Hooker was …
- … of Murchison, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 and n. 8. W. J. …
- … earthly ambition (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] and n. 29). …
- … 1850 ( DNB ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] and n. 30. Jeffrey …
- … 1831 to 1834 ( DNB ; see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). Jeffrey’s …
- … p. 110). In his letter to J. D. Hooker of 27 [or 28 September 1865] , CD wrote of his …
- … 1865). Both Hooker and CD were dismayed at the thought of Lubbock entering politics, thinking that his work in science would suffer (see letter …
- … 1865] and n. 1). Hooker refers to Eliot 1861 . CD had recommended the novel to Hooker, offering to lend his copy (see letter …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, [3 January 1830] . ‘Uncle Sam’ may be a reference to Samuel Richardson . Horresco referens : I shudder to relate. For more on the cautionary themes in Richardson’s novels, see Doody 1974 , pp. 128–50. Hooker refers to a passage in a biography of Joshua Reynolds (Leslie and Taylor 1865, …
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on Lyell–Lubbock controversy except that Lubbock’s printed note does not seem to him insulting. Hopes JDH can heal the breach.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 270 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4852 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … that he had been ill since 22 April 1865 (see letter to John Chapman, 16 May [1865] and …
- … 31 May 1865] , n. 3, for the text of the note in Lubbock 1865 , and letter from J. D. …
- … 31 May 1865] and n. 2. CD refers to Lubbock 1865 . See letter from J. D. …
- … Lyell dated 29 May 1865 (see enclosure to letter from Charles Lyell to J. …
- … and to Lubbock’s note in Lubbock 1865 , p. x (see letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. …
- … of [2 June 1865] , Hooker had referred to a letter from Lubbock to …
- … when he wrote in his letter to Lubbock of 25 May 1865 , ‘there are only three passages in …
- … Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n. 14. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] . …
- … Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n. 13; see also letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] . In 1865, the Sunday …
- … D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] ). Hooker argued that Lubbock, in that letter, gave ‘Lyell’s …
- … 2 June 1865] , for Hooker’s impression of the controversy). See letter from Charles Lyell …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n. 16). See letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n. 4. In his letter to CD …
- … to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] and enclosures and n. 1. See letter from J. D. …
- … expressions from you’ (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] and nn. 12 and 13). …
- … C. Lyell 1863c ; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n. 7. CD apparently …
- … Collection–CUL. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] , n. 12. CD refers to …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]
Summary
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … 10, below. See also letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 , letters to W. B. …
- … of 27 March 1865 (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and n. 1); these …
- … 1865] , 6 April [1865] , and [7 April 1865] , and letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] . …
- … letter and the letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 . See letter from W. B. …
- … 13 March 1865 . In his letter of [28 February – 5 March 1865] , Tegetmeier mentioned that …
- … in the Field , 25 February 1865, p. 139 (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March …
- … See letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 13 March 1865 and n. 5. See letter from W. B. …
- … 24 January 1866. See also letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and nn. 3 and 4. …
- … drawn by Wells (see letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [7 April 1865] ). See n. 8, above. CD …
- … 1865 , and n. 9. Tegetmeier sent CD a packet containing five issues of the Field with his letter …
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 26 October 1865; see letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865 . …
- … beyond the first volume of Palgrave 1865 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 …
- … 6 October 1865 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] . CD refers to …
- … Wichura 1865 at the beginning of 1865 (see letter to M. E. Wichura, 3 February [ …
- … Marginalia 1: 871–3). Robert FitzRoy had died on 30 April 1865 (see letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, 2 May 1865 , and letter to J. D. …
- … Wallace, 2 October 1865 , with his letter to J. D. …
- … from A. R. Wallace, 2 October 1865 , and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 October …
- … a month’s absence due to illness (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865 and n. …
- … asked for its return in a letter to Hooker of [17 June 1865] . CD’s annotated presentation …
- … found; however, see the letter from Charles Shaw, 3 October 1865 and n. 6. Six Queen …
- … Jones had been treating CD since July (see letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] , n. …
- … Hooker, 4 May [ 1865] ). CD’s letter to Charles Shaw , the honorary secretary of the …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 . CD had enclosed the letter from A. R. …
- … 6). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 . The Royal Society of London had …
- … faunal regions (see letter to A. R. Wallace, 29 January [1865] and nn. 4 and 5). In …
- … s sneers’ at CD’s Origin (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 October 1865 and n. 27). No …
- … 1857–61 and to Emma Darwin (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 , n. 16). …
- … refers to Eliot 1860 and 1861; see letters from J. D. Hooker, [26 September 1865] and …
- … History , see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] , n. 12. Most of CD’s …
- … 12, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR …
- … 1865] . On the disputes between members of the Anthropological Society of London and some of CD’s scientific friends and supporters, see the letter …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 June [1857] ). CD’s annotated copy of Travers 1864 , in his unbound issue of the 3 October 1865 …
- … letter from Patrick Matthew, 6 June 1864 and n. 3). CD refers to an unsigned article by William Houghton , ‘Gleanings from the natural history of the tropics’, which reviewed A. R. Wallace 1853 , Hooker 1854 , and Bates 1863 , as well as other works ( [Houghton] 1865 ; …
- … letter to the Right Hon. Lloyd, Lord Kenyon and an account of a female of the white race of mankind, part of whose skin resembles that of a negro; with some observations on the causes of the differences in colour and form between the white and negro races of men. London: Archibald Constable and Co. [and others]. Wichura, Max Ernst. 1865. …
To T. H. Huxley 4 October [1865]
Summary
Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.
The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.
Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4909 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … October 1865 . CD first consulted Henry Bence Jones in July 1865 (see letter to Asa …
- … 17 July 1865] , and the letter from T. H. …
- … fever suffered by Joseph Dalton Hooker in August 1865 and to the letter from J. D. …
- … and the letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 October 1865 . See letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 …
- … Hooker, [26 September 1865] . See letter from F. H. Hooker, 6 September [1865] and nn. …
- … Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 12; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September …
- … from T. H. Huxley, 2 October 1865 , n. 1). The letter is in Emma’s hand. …
- … Thomas Bendyshe (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 October 1865 and n. 3). CD’s Account …
- … for inclusion in Variation (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 May [1865] and nn. 4–8). …
- … reply has not been found; however, see the letters to T. H. Huxley, 12 July [1865] and [ …
- … 1865 . The Huxley family had spent their holiday in Littlehampton, West Sussex (see letter …
- … 1865 and n. 1). The reference is to Emma Darwin , and to Henrietta Anne Huxley and the Huxley children (see letter …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 April [1865]
Summary
Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4804 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] , and letter from W. B. …
- … of 27 March 1865 (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 27 March 1865 and n. …
- … while Murray was in France for three weeks (see letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 ). …
- … between this letter and the letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . Letter from John …
- … 7 April 1865] . See letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] and n. 3. John Murray …
- … has not been found. See letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 . CD refers to Wells’s …
- … March 1865 ). CD refers to Wells’s drawing of the smerle pigeon in the Field (see letter …
- … 138.3 and are lightly annotated. See letters to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and [ …
- … 1865. Tegetmeier sent CD a packet containing this and four other issues of the Field with his letter …
- … 1865 . The note has not been found. Luke Wells was the artist recommended by Tegetmeier to prepare the pigeon illustrations for Variation (see letter …
To John Murray 2 June [1865]
Summary
There is no chance of publication [of Variation] by autumn, because of CD’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 2 June [1865] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 130) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4850 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Murray, 1 April 1865 , letter to John …
- … Murray, 4 April [1865] , and letter from W. B. Tegetmeier to John Murray and R. F. …
- … would depend on his health (see letter from John Murray, 1 April 1865 , and letter to John …
- … press in early autumn (see letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] ). CD agreed to Murray’s …
- … April 1865, p. 427 (see letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] and n. 2). He advertised …
- … Murray, 4 April [1865] and n. 3). See letter from John …
From John Scott 10 April 1865
Summary
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4810 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … Scott, 20 January 1865 , letter from J. D. …
- … Scott’s manuscript on Verbascum , which was sent on 4 January 1865 (see letter from John …
- … Hooker, [10 March 1865] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 [ …
- … more of Indian species (see letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 and nn. 15 and 16). …
- … CD wrote a letter to Scott on 11 March 1865 that is also missing (see letter from John …
- … CD’s reply to Scott, written on 11 March 1865, has not been found (see letter from John …
- … India, in December 1864 (see letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and n. 7). Thomas …
- … 14. See letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 . …
- … n. 1, and this volume, letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and nn. 3, 4, and 6. …
- … Leersia oryzoides (see letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). In Forms of flowers , p. …
- … Rungbee 10 th . April 1865. Sir, I duly received your letter along with the copies of my …
- … The letters from John Scott of 21 December 1864 and 4 January 1865 have not been found. CD …
- … the Calcutta Botanic Garden. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [17 February 1865] and n. …
- … from 12 June 1865 (see Freeman 1977 , p. 117). In a missing letter to Scott (see n. 16, …
- … 1865 ). CD had previously advised Scott on his writing style, and may also have commented on the style of Scott 1864a and Scott 1864c in the letter …
- … letter to Scott that has not been found. CD probably intended to send Scott a copy of ‘Climbing plants’ , an abstract of which was read before the Linnean Society on 2 February 1865; …
- … 1865 ). Scott probably refers to copies of his papers in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) ( Scott 1864a and 1864c). Scott had sought CD’s advice before preparing the manuscript of Scott 1864c (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]
Summary
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4916 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … corrections (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] , and letter from Daniel …
- … missing portion of the letter of 31 August 1865 containing Müller’s botanical …
- … observations from Müller’s third letter of 10 October 1865 , were submitted by CD to the …
- … CD refers to the letter from Fritz Müller, 31 August 1865 . Müller’s …
- … first letter on climbing plants was the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August and 10 October 1865] . See letter to J. D. …
- … 5). See letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] . CD’s discussion of the genus …
- … See the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , for the …
- … Hooker, 3 October [1865] . CD later sent the letter to Daniel Oliver , who made …
- … D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] ). Parts of Müller’s first two letters, along with further …
- … p. 344, and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). Only one …
- … 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. …
- … 1865 ). The term ‘bracteæ’ does not appear in the published version of the Müller letter; …
From J. D. Hooker [27 February 1865?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Feb 1865?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4777 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of the letter in the archive: the letter was deposited with other 1865 letters in DAR …
- … arranged to visit from 4 to 6 March 1865 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [17 February …
- … 102 (Hooker’s letters to CD, 1865–8), which is arranged chronologically. The arrangement …
- … on 27 February. In his letter to Hooker of 9 February [1865] , CD encouraged Hooker to …
From Daniel Oliver 23 October 1865
Summary
Returns a paper which he has looked over.
Cannot name the scrap of Strychnos with any certainty.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4922 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] , and letter to Daniel …
- … from F. H. Hooker, [17 August 1865] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 September …
- … CD had enclosed a specimen of Strychnos in his letter to Oliver of 20 October [1865] . …
- … to the Linnean Society ; see letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] and n. 2. …
- … from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . See letter to Daniel …
- … December 1865. The printed version of the paper is reproduced in this volume as the letter …
- … 1865] and n. 5. Joseph Dalton Hooker had been recovering from an attack of rheumatic fever (see letter …
- … 1865] and n. 4. George Bentham . No paragraph containing the terms ‘upwards’ and ‘downwards’ occurs in the printed version of Müller’s paper (see above, n. 2). It is likely that the terms were used by Müller in his description of the positions of leaves and tendrils and their relationships to the stem axis. See letter …
From J. D. Hooker 13 July 1865
Summary
Studying moraines.
On Lubbock’s book [see 4860], and Lyell’s apology. Recapitulates whole affair.
W. E. H. Lecky [Rise of rationalism in Europe (1865)] and other reading.
Spencer’s observations are wrong on umbellifers, his reasoning partially right.
Natural History Review is all but defunct.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 30–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873 |
Matches: 23 hits
- … preface of copies of C. Lyell 1863c printed after June 1865 (letter from Charles Lyell to …
- … in County Durham on 26 or 27 June 1865 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ). …
- … that he was disappointed with Lubbock 1865 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] …
- … in his own hand was that of 1 June [1865]. See letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. …
- … Modern savages’ (see letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] and n. 3). The purpose of …
- … ibid. , p. 336). In the letter to Hooker of [10 July 1865] , CD made no mention of having …
- … in the preface to Lubbock 1865 accusing Lyell of plagiarism, see the letter from J. D. …
- … 1994–7 , 1: 342–3). In his letter to Hooker of [10 July 1865] , CD had asked about Daniel …
- … of biology in the July 1865 issue of Natural History Review in the letter from Charles and …
- … Hooker, [2 June 1865] ; for the text of the note, see the letter from Charles Lyell to …
- … among others (letter from Charles Lyell to Thomas Henry Huxley, 28 June 1865, Imperial …
- … D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. 14. The first page of the letter is written in pencil …
- … 1865, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Huxley 6: 111; see also letter …
- … 1865 , CD had asked Hooker whether he knew anything about the author, Edward Burnett Tylor (see letter …
- … against him (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] , n. 6), Charles Lyell changed a …
- … of the difference in their ages (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n. 9). …
- … enclosures to letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] , and Appendix V. …
- … 1865] and n. 13. Frances Harriet Hooker was recovering from a miscarriage (see letter …
- … umbellules (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and …
- … stem (see letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] and n. …
- … 1865 , 2: 188). CD had read and admired the first volume of Buckle 1857–61 in 1858 (see Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 23; see also Correspondence vol. 7, letters …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 September [1860] and n. 1; see also R. Desmond 1999 , pp. 210–16). Hooker refers to William Spottiswoode and William Robert Grove . In 1865, …
- … 1865 ). William Gifford Palgrave , an elder brother of Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave , travelled across central Arabia in 1862 and 1863 ( DNB ). In 1864 Hooker mentioned to CD William Gifford Palgrave’s plan to publish on his travels, but remarked that he had ‘made no observations of the smallest scientific value’ (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
From J. D. Hooker [15 June 1865]
Summary
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 June 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4855 |
Matches: 21 hits
- … Thursday after 12 June was 15 June. Hooker first mentioned Tylor 1865 in his letter of [ …
- … 2 June 1865] , and the letters to J. D. …
- … subjects he discussed in his letter to Hooker of [17 June 1865] . ‘Wimmer’ is presumably …
- … D. Hooker, 23 June 1865 , Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. …
- … H. Huxley of 6 June 1865 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. …
- … to Hooker on 23 June 1865 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Letters to J. D. Hooker, vol. …
- … 26 May 1865] , claiming that he was ‘charmed’ with it; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … refers to ‘Climbing plants’ (see letter from Charles Kingsley, 14 June 1865 , n. 1). …
- … serious reservations. In a letter to Huxley of 7 June 1865 (Imperial College of Science, …
- … John Lubbock plagiarism affair, see the letters from J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] and [ …
- … Friedrich Heinrich Wimmer ; see letter to J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865] , n. 8; ‘How …
- … a reference to Prichard 1864 ; see letter to J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865] , n. 9. …
- … and [4 June 1865] ; see also Appendix V. Thomas Henry Huxley , whose letter to Hooker is …
- … from a miscarriage (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] and n. 22). Teesdale, …
- … specific pages. See also letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] , n. 7. John Tyndall …
- … 1865 (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archive, Huxley 3: 109). In this letter, …
- … to the X Club; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [7–8 April 1865] and n. 8). The note …
- … note, see the letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker, [31 May 1865] , n. 6) and add …
- … note). In the letter from T. H. Huxley to John Lubbock, 7 March 1865 (British Library …
- … p. 11 (see letter from Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker [31 May 1865] , n. 6). Wud (or …
- … 1865 (University of Edinburgh Library, Special Collections, Lyell 1, Gen. 113/3644–5), asking for Lyell’s authorisation to include a note explaining that Lyell ‘through an inadvertence’ had copied from Lubbock’s article ( Lubbock 1861 ). Lubbock later told Hooker that he had originally intended to print parallel passages from Lubbock 1861 and C. Lyell 1863c to prove his claim of plagiarism ( letter …
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: 9 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] , letter to T. H. …
- … Huxley, 4 October [1865] , and letter to W. D. Fox, 25–6 October [1865] and n. 2). CD’s …
- … the series (see letter to Edward Walford, 22 [January–April 1865? ] and n. 2). An entry …
- … from Edward Cresy to Emma Darwin, 20 November 1865 . See letter from Edward Cresy to …
- … letter and the letter from Edward Cresy to Emma Darwin, 20 November 1865 . CD evidently …
- … had been ill (see letter to W. D. Fox, 25–6 October [1865] ). CD’s younger sister, Emily …
- … Emma Darwin, 20 November 1865 and nn. 2 and 3. In his letter to J. D. …
- … 1865] , CD wrote that he intended to visit London for a week in order to consult the physician Henry Bence Jones . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), CD and Emma had stayed with Erasmus in London from 8 to 20 November; CD became feverish on the 20th and did not improve until the 27th (see also ‘Journal’, Appendix II). CD had been consulting Jones since July, and had reported an improvement in his health under the rigorous diet prescribed by Jones (see letter …
- … 1865 sitting, is reproduced as the frontispiece to this volume, and in Browne 1998 , p. 256. Photographs from both sittings were sold commercially as cartes de visite by the London Stereoscopic Company and the firm of Edwards and Bult. CD evidently purchased copies of one or more of these photographs for his own use. A second payment, of £3 8 s. 6 d. was made to Edwards on 5 September 1866 (CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS)). See letter …
From Charles Lyell to J. D. Hooker [31 May 1865]
Summary
Emcloses copies of correspondence concerning his dispute with John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [31 May 1865] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/2/1/14 f.323); The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 113/3650–3, 3813–20, 3821–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4844F |
Matches: 22 hits
- … Lubbock had written to Lyell in March 1865 (letter from John Lubbock to Charles Lyell, 13 …
- … letters, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] , and the letters from J. D. …
- … J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Letters to J. D. Hooker vol. …
- … above, to the preface of Lubbock 1865 (see, for example, letter from Thomas Henry Huxley …
- … communicate directly after Lyell’s letter of 30 May 1865, but on the advice of Hooker and …
- … J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Letters to J. D. Hooker vol. …
- … 14, doc. 183–4). In his letter to Hooker of 23 June 1865, Lubbock revealed that the note …
- … 1865] , and [15 June 1865] and enclosure). Neither the letter to CD nor its enclosures …
- … with Mr. Busk. In his letter to Lyell of 13 March 1865 (see n. 5, above), Lubbock …
- … should say in the preface to Lubbock 1865 . That letter has not been found, but Lyell’s …
- … by Emma Darwin in her letter to Henrietta Emma Darwin of [1 June 1865] (see n. 2, above). …
- … CD in person. In a letter to Henrietta Emma Darwin , [1 June 1865] (DAR 219.9: 28), Emma …
- … Lubbock, 7 March 1865, British Library MSS ADD 49641, and the letter from John Lubbock to …
- … of Lubbock 1865 deleted from all subsequent print-runs of the first edition (letter from …
- … the third enclosure (letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 30 May 1865). See n. 1, …
- … with Lyell (letter from John Lubbock to Thomas Henry Huxley, 7 June 1865, Imperial College …
- … Lubbock refers to Lubbock 1865 and C. Lyell 1863c . The letter from Lyell has not been …
- … well as Hooker (letter from Charles Lyell to T. H. Huxley, 2 June 1865, Imperial College …
- … of this note, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 May 1865] and n. 15. The reference …
- … to George Busk (letter from Charles Lyell to T. H. Huxley, 5 June 1865, Imperial College …
- … 1865 Copy Dear Lubbock, I have received a copy of your “Pre-historic Times” marked “from the author I like so much what I have seen of it & expect it to do so much good to the cause that it is a real disappointment to me to have to say that I think, after the full reply I gave both written & in conversation to a former letter …
- … letters, he thinks he was quite wrong not to allude to Sir C’s explanation of the matter. He has written to this effect to Sir C. & I suppose this will be shewn to John L. Lyell alludes to the note Lubbock had written at the end of the introduction to Prehistoric times ( Lubbock 1865 , …
To Ray Society [14–18 January 1865]
Summary
"Read a letter from Mr Darwin expressing his regret that the state of his health would not permit of his writing an Introductory Chapter to the Translation of Gaertner’s work [Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849)]."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ray Society |
Date: | [14–18 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 107r: Minute 1146, 3d February 1865) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4764 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … before 7 January 1865] ; see also letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] . …
- … of the special council of the Ray Society , 13 January 1865 (see letter to Ray Society, [ …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1865 and n. 1, and letter to Ray Society, [ …
- … before 7 January 1865] ), and the relationship between this letter and …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] . CD had recommended that the Society …
- … letter has not been found. The text given here is taken from the minutes of the special council meeting of the Ray Society , 3 February 1865. …
To Asa Gray 15 August [1865]
Summary
Gratified by AG’s praise of "Climbing plants".
Thanks for Specularia seed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4882 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865] , and letter from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. …
- … letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 . Letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 . …
- … Climbing plants’ (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and n. 5). Gray had objected to …
- … been sufficient (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 ; see also ‘Climbing plants’ , …
- … is not mentioned. See letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and n. 3. CD had earlier …
- … defeat of the South, see the letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and nn. 13 and 14. See …
- … to Frances Wedgwood (see letter from Asa Gray, 24 July 1865 and n. 10). CD had evidently …
- … a strict diet (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] ). Emma Darwin’s …
- … vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 29 October [1864] ). CD refers to Lubbock 1865 , Tylor …
- … Lecky 1865 . CD and Joseph Dalton Hooker had already discussed these books (see letters to …
- … Elizabeth Darwin . In a letter to J. D. Hooker of 1 June [1865] , CD had mentioned that …
From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Sends a paper ["Über das Holz einiger um Desterro wachsender Kletterpflanzen", Botanische Zeitung 24 (1866): 57–60, 65–9].
Believes species of sponge with different mineral spiculae are descended from a form with organic spiculae.
Reports observations on motions of Linum stalks following the sun.
Regards Anelasma as a connecting form between cirripedes and Rhizocephala.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 74–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912A |
Matches: 12 hits
- … from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; see also letter from Fritz …
- … Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 ; see, however, the letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [ …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a translation of this …
- … 13, Appendix I. See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a transcription …
- … of its published source, see pp. 266–7. See letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] . …
- … to Müller 1864 (see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] , n. 2). CD had probably …
- … In his letter of 20 September [1865] , CD wrote that he had sent it. The reference is to …
- … In a letter of 12 December 1865, Müller asked Schultze to try to get the essay published …
- … translation of Orchids (Bronn trans. 1862) in his letter to Müller of 10 August [1865] . …
- … the wood of twining plants to Schultze (see letter to Fritz Müller, 9 December [1865] ). …
- … Brazil, 10 October 1865 My dear Sir, Yesterday I received your kind letter of 10 August …
- … 1865 , n. 11. Rosa Müller . Müller later published the observation on Linum usitatissimum (common flax; Müller 1870 , p. 137); CD cited the article in Movement in plants , p. 203. CD’s annotated copy of Müller 1870 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Müller’s observations on Anelasma were in a missing section of the letter …
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Descent in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
Matches: 1 hits
- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …