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: 3 hits
- … 1 January 1865 and n. 1, and letter to Ray Society, [before 7 January 1865] ; see also …
- … Society , 13 January 1865 (see letter to Ray Society, [before 7 January 1865] ), and the …
- … letter has not been found. The text given here is taken from the minutes of the special council meeting of the Ray Society , …
To Ray Society [before 7 January 1865]
Summary
Concerning the proposed translation of K. F. von Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung (1849).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ray Society |
Date: | [before 7 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY A: vol. 2, p. 106r: Minute 1141, 13th January 1865) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4744F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Ray Society, [before 4 November 1864] ). On …
- … 1864] ). This letter was read at the special council meeting of the Ray Society on 4 …
- … Ray Society , 13 January 1865. The date is established by the relationship between this letter …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] . CD had previously written to the Ray Society , …
To John Lubbock 10 [September 1853]
Summary
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 10 [Sept 1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1365 |
To John Denny 14 July [1872]
Summary
Discusses JD’s crossing experiments with Pelargonium; notes that his conclusions on male prepotence oppose those of Gärtner. Suggests that his observations on differences in fertility of certain varieties of Pelargonium crossed with certain other varieties be communicated to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Denny |
Date: | 14 July [1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 114–15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8410 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1849 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Ray Society, [before 4 November 1864] ). …
- … See letter from John Denny, 12 July 1871 and n. 9. CD had suggested that the Ray Society …
- … Ray Society minutes for 3 February 1865 record a resolution by the Council to employ a translator for Gärtner 1849 , the work was never undertaken (see Curle 1954 , p. 26). See letter …
To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]
Summary
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 257a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4742 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 22 July [1851]
Summary
Will bring MS [of vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] on the last day of July, and proofs of the eight plates now engraved will be sent soon. CD has failed to get materials for the one coloured plate he wanted, so none will be in colour. There will be ten altogether. He will ask later whether he must pay for the extra one. G. B. Sowerby Jr comes next day to complete drawings for two not yet engraved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
Date: | 22 July [1851] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1444 |
From the Ray Society [after 7 October 1850]
Summary
"Resolved that the Secretary be requested to ask Mr. Darwin if he would agree to the publication of his work [Living Cirripedia] in parts."
Author: | Ray Society |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 7 Oct 1850] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1361 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … a member of the Ray Society since 1845 ( Correspondence vol. 3, letter to Edward Forbes, …
- … The letter has not been found but it was recorded in the minutes of the Ray Society …
- … letter to Edwin Lankester, [18–22 October 1850] . According to the minute book, CD had offered his work to the Ray Society …
To T. H. Huxley 4 May [1856]
Summary
It seems improper that his advances to G. B. Sowerby Jr for payment of engravings should not have been mentioned to Council of Ray Society. His appreciation of the Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1868 |
From John Denny 20 July 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for his offer to communicate the results of his experiments with Pelargonium to the Linnean Society. Prefers to continue experimenting for at least another season before doing so.
Author: | John Denny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8421 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society [18–22 October 1850]
Summary
CD will write again when he returns to Down and has looked over his MS.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
Date: | [18–22 Oct 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1363 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased with news of BAAS meeting
and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.
Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.
Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see 4614].
Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.
Rereading his old MS [Natural selection] CD is impressed with work he had already done.
Writing Variation much harder than Climbing plants.
Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 14; DAR 115: 250a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4621 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … is evidently a draft of it. See also letter to Ray Society, [before 4 November 1964] . CD …
- … the Ray Society , with the suggestion that CD put his request in writing (see letter to …
- … letters, farewell; but do not write soon again Ever yours | C. Darwin Do you object to my putting this sentence from old note from you? “Annual plants sometimes become perennial under a different climate, as I hear from D r . Hooker is the case with the stock & migniotte in Tasmania”. (say yes or no) I know the case is nothing wonderful, & I want only just thus to allude to it— [Draft] Down My dear Hooker Would you propose or suggest for me to the Council of the Ray Society, …
To A. R. Wallace 28 December 1875
Summary
Is glad ARW will attend to vote for Lankester [at the Linnean Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 28 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10330 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 January [1865]
Summary
"Climbing plants" sent off.
Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.
Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]
and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].
Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.
Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!
"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 258a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4748 |
Matches: 2 hits
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
Matches: 2 hits
To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1875]
Summary
CD is furious at the prospect of Lankester’s being black-balled by the Linnean Society. He plans to solicit support from various members and to come up with Frank for the voting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 95: 401–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10295 |
To ? [after 11 December 1875]
Summary
Strongly disapproves of the blackballing of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society. States the reasons for his disapproval and hopes they will be considered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10296 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Ray Lankester’s second nomination for fellowship of the society (see, for example, letter …
- … Ray Lankester (see n. 3, below); the day is conjectured from CD having heard the news on Saturday 11 December (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [12 December 1875] and n. 2]). CD heard from Joseph Dalton Hooker that Lankester had been blackballed at a meeting of the Linnean Society on 2 December 1875 ( letter …
To Ernst Haeckel 19 November 1868
Summary
Congratulates EH on birth of child.
Mentions projected translation of Generelle Morphologie.
Comments on EH’s last book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte]. Criticises EH’s statements on palaeontology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 19 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6466 |
To Williams & Norgate 30 August [1872]
Summary
Asks them to procure the two volumes of Living Cirripedia for Anton Dohrn’s zoological station in Naples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 30 Aug [1872] |
Classmark: | Duke’s, Dorchester (dealers) (6 September 2018, lot 367) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8495F |
To Arthur Henfrey 17 March [1855]
Summary
Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Henfrey |
Date: | 17 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1648 |
Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Darwin, Francis | (3) |
Allman, G. J. | (1) |
Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Ray Society | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Lankester, Edwin | (6) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (78) |
Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
Ray Society | (11) |
Lankester, Edwin | (6) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (4) |
Geology in Commentary
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …