To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
To J. D. Hooker 28 [December 1866]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?
Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 310, 310b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5326 |
To R. F. Cooke 16 October 1880
Summary
C. Reinwald wishes to publish a French translation [of Movement in plants] but is doubtful on account of cost. CD wants to supply him with stereotypes of the 195 cuts at prime cost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 16 Oct 1880 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 375) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12761 |
From J. V. Carus 11 November 1867
Summary
Is not writing prospectus [of Variation] – merely sketch of contents and tenor of first volume for advertisement to booksellers.
Questions on details for the translation.
Publisher anxious to get volume out.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5676 |
To R. F. Cooke 30 June [1877]
Summary
Has not heard from Appleton about an American edition [of Forms of flowers]. Asks how many copies Murray is printing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 30 June [1877] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 302–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11024 |
From R. F. Cooke 12 November 1874
Summary
New edition of Descent just off the press. Murray feels price must be 9s instead of 12s, if it is to sell. This will reduce profit to almost nil.
Author: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 442 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9717 |
To John Murray 19 October [1867]
Summary
An absurd error ("Election" for "Selection") in the advertisement of Variation. Dallas is the best man for index.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 19 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 174–175) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5654 |
To A. R. Wallace 5 March [1869]
Summary
Reception of ARW’s book, Malay Archipelago.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 5 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6642 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867]
Summary
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5348 |
To Fritz Müller 2 November 1867
Summary
Variation to be published at end of month.
Dimorphism and self-sterility.
Seed dissemination in Adenanthera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 2 Nov 1867 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5666 |
To R. F. Cooke 12 January [1871]
Summary
Has no idea about length of index [for Descent]. W. S. Dallas wrote it would take ten days more. Asks how many presentation copies he may have. Lists journals to receive review copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray |
Date: | 12 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7438 |
To R. F. Cooke 24 June [1875]
Summary
Insectivorous plants ready for publication. Asks price. Suggests advertisements in Nature and Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Francis Cooke |
Date: | 24 June [1875] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 338–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10028 |
To John Murray 10 January [1867]
Summary
Relieved by JM’s note and by his agreement on type size. Is alarmed by what the verdict [on Variation] of JM’s friend will be. He is not a man of science. An unscientific reader would have condemned the Origin. An eminent semi-scientific man thought the Journal of researches not worth publishing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 166) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5356 |
From G. R. Crotch 19 [February 1871]
Summary
Thanks for presentation copy of Descent.
Mivart’s Genesis of species [1871] is poor.
Mathematical illustrations of Pangenesis at Cambridge.
Wallace’s address on Madeira not convincing ["The President’s Address", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1870): xliv–lxix; A. R. Wallace, Studies scientific and social (1900) 1: 250–66].
Author: | George Robert Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [Feb 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7491 |
From James Shaw 17 February 1868
Summary
Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].
Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.
Author: | James Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5884 |
From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868
Summary
Could not believe Owen to be so demoniacal as to write the Athenæum review [of Variation].
Gardeners’ Chronicle review [see 5918] is weak. CD’s ideas on causes of variation may be as hazy as the reviewer’s.
Huxley’s clever remark on Pangenesis. JDH’s view of Pangenesis as fundamental to development doctrines, but nothing is gained by formulation in terms of germs or gemmules.
Tries to answer question on last page of CD’s letter anent sexuality.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26[–7] Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 200–3, DAR 94: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5935 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1868
Summary
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5831 |
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- … vol. 15, letter to the Athenæum , 1 January 1867. Charles Murchison compiled and edited …
- … 1867 , a descriptive catalogue of the beetles of the Cape Verde archipelago, in his letter to Hooker of [31 January 1868] . Hooker had mentioned the book in his letter of 28 January 1868 . Hooker had sent CD a pamphlet by William Rathbone Greg (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 January 1868 ). CD’s reply to Greg has not been found. CD had complained to Murray about the practice of publishing books with their pages uncut and had written a letter to the Athenæum …
From J. D. Hooker 7 September 1869
Summary
Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President.
Huxley "poured boiling oil" over James McCann in answer to his "conceited dogmatic sermon".
F. A. W. Miquel is coming to stay.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 30–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6879 |
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