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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: 54 hits

… 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 ). Miles Joseph Berkeley was an expert on …
… Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, [19 September 1864] . Thwaites refers to the first parts of …
… letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 February [1864] and nn. 3 and 5; see also Correspondence …
… London: Michael Joseph. Disraeli, Benjamin. 1864. Church policy: a speech delivered … at a …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] …
… to the Ray Society , [before 4 November 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12; see also letter …
… London: Lovell Reeve. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1864–7. Handbook of the New Zealand flora: a …
… London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967. Sabine, Edward. 1864. [ …
… Anniversary address, 30 November 1864. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 13 ( …
… D. Hooker. Peradenia, Ceylon 28 th Oct 1864 Dear Hooker, The last mail brought a kind & …
… to J. D. Hooker, [ c. 23 September 1864]). Hooker also supported the proposed …
… see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 and [ …
… 28 September 1864] , and Curle 1954 , pp. 25–6). A heavily annotated copy of Gärtner …
… 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] and n. 6. As part of his research on …
… see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] , letter from Asa …
… Gray, 11 July 1864 , and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] ). From his observations of Hanburya mexicana , a species of …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 December [1864] , and ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 78). In ‘ …
… 187: 2. CD recorded in his Journal for 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II) that …
… anniversary address written for the 30 November 1864 meeting of the Royal Society by its …
… forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ (see Sabine 1864 , p. 510). Hooker had provided information …
… Edward Sabine to J. D. Hooker, 14 November 1864 , Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, letters to …
… edited version of the address in the 3 December 1864 issue of the Reader , pp. 708–9 (see …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] ). Hooker probably refers to the publication …
… of the Royal Society of London 13 (1864): 497–517. Individual numbers of the journal were …
… Elizabeth Juliana Sabine, 7 December [1864] ). For a discussion of Sabine’s presidency, …
… policy” ’, which appeared in the 31 December 1864 issue of the Reader , p. 821 ([T. H. …
… recent speech on church policy ( Disraeli 1864 ). For a discussion of Huxley’s article, …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 December 1864] . Hooker had expressed similar frustrations …
… Handbook of the New Zealand flora ( Hooker 1864–7 ); having accumulated a large number of …
… from J. D. Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] ). For CD’s interest in transitional forms in …
… 816. In his letter to Hooker of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD reported …
… Hooker in his letter of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12) that he expected to …
… Hildebrand about dimorphism in P. officinalis in June 1864 (see Correspondence vol. …
… 12, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 21 June 1864 , and letter to …
… Friedrich Hildebrand, 25 June [1864] ). Hildebrand sent CD a copy of his paper ‘ …
… 3. In his letter to Hooker of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD had asked …
… distribution in his letter of 10 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). Hooker and CD …
… for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] ). …
… In 1864, editorial control passed increasingly into the hands of Huxley, Norman Lockyer , …
… 1998 , pp. 439–40). Near the end of 1864, the journal was purchased and reorganised by a …
… the Reader Limited Company in November 1864 (CD’s Account book–banking account (Down House …
… vol. 12, letter to John Lubbock, 19 November [1864] ). See enclosure. The reference …
… Henry Kendrick Thwaites . In the spring of 1864, CD had asked Hooker on several occasions …
… see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 , n. 22; …
… see also letter to Daniel Oliver, [22 July 1864] ). Hooker evidently passed CD’s query to …
… James Veitch (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] and [ …
… 28 September 1864]). CD classified Nepenthes among the leaf-climbers, concluding that, at …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, [26–7 April 1864] . Thwaites probably refers to Johann Müller …
… Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in September 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from …
… J. D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 ). David Edward Power was a merchant with premises at …
… in Bath on the evening of 14 September 1864. See Cox 1888 , 1: 257, for Colenso’s account …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …

From John Scott 20 January 1865

Summary

Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].

Describes his situation in Calcutta.

Author:	John Scott
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	20 Jan 1865
Classmark:	DAR 177: 114
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4751

Matches: 26 hits

… Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in March 1864 and, on the advice of CD and Joseph Dalton …
… 12). He departed for Calcutta on 28 August 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from …
… J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 , and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 January …
… for Scott (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and [ …
… 19 September 1864] ). Scott was given a position at Rungbee, a newly established Cinchona …
… 1863] ). In his letter of 16 May [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), Scott remarked: ‘the …
… version of the paper from Scott in January 1864, together with a set of queries regarding …
… vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 7 January [1864] , and letter from Emma Darwin …
… to John Scott, 9 January 1864 ). Scott’s paper contained calculations of the comparative …
… 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). Gray wrote a review of the paper in the …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [1864] and n. 6). He eventually sent Hooker a …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 September [1864] , and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 16 September 1864 ). He sent the paper, with references to its important …
… to review it ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 September [1864] ). Oliver’s brief notice of …
… in the Natural History Review for October 1864, p. 640. CD also sent a copy to Benjamin …
… vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 28 May 1864 ). CD and Hooker had suspected that Balfour …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] , and letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). Balfour had supplied Hooker with a character reference for …
… see Correspondence vol. 12, enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 ). See …
… also letter from John Scott, 28 May [1864] and the enclosed reference from Balfour. On …
… vol. 12, letter to John Scott, 9 April 1864 ). Scott initially declined (see ibid. , …
… letter from John Scott, 5 May [1864] ); however, when it became clear that his own …
… settled into a position abroad (see ibid. , letters from John Scott , 28 May [1864] and …
… 8 June 1864 ). CD made three separate payments to Scott, totalling £115, in each case …
… 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1864] ). He repeatedly praised Scott’s abilities as …
… ibid. , letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] ), and Hooker, through his contacts in …

From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865

Summary

Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].

Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].

Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.

Author:	Benjamin Dann Walsh
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	1 Mar 1865
Classmark:	Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4778

Matches: 38 hits

… See Correspondence vol. 12, letters to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] and [ …
… 4 December 1864 ? ]. Walsh had requested photographs of CD and John Obadiah Westwood (see …
… 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 ). The photograph of CD, taken by William …
… Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644]. Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views …
… also letter from W. E. Darwin, [19 May 1864] . Walsh was a student at Trinity College, …
… from B. D. Walsh, 29 April – 19 May 1864 and nn. 1 and 3). See Correspondence vol. …
… 12, letter from J. O. Westwood, 2 December 1864 . CD enclosed Westwood’s letter, which …
… Medal was presented to CD on 30 November 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12 and Appendix …
… 1990. Meinert, Frederik Vilhelm August. 1864. Miastor Metraloas: yderligere Oplysning om …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] …
… 13: 513–27. Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864–5. On phytophagic varieties and phytophagic …
… his letter to B. D. Walsh, [4 December 1864? ] ( Correspondence vol. 12). Thomas Say . …
… Cynips , a genus of gall-wasps, in March 1864 ( Walsh 1864a ). See also n. 20, below. ‘ …
… vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 28 May [1864] . There is an annotated copy of Mohl 1863 in …
… also Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] , and letters from …
… William Bennett , 29 April 1864 and …
… 25 May 1864 and n. 1. …
… s notes on this species, dated between July 1864 and July 1866, are in DAR 111: A37–40 and …
… varieties and phytophagic species’ ( Walsh 1864–5 ) and his article ‘On the insects, …
… of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia in November and December 1864, respectively. …
… There are heavily annotated copies of Walsh 1864–5 and 1864b, inscribed by Walsh, in the …
… translation and discussion (Siebold trans. 1864) of Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert’s …
… on reproduction in insect larvae ( Meinert 1864 ). Meinert confirmed Wagner’s observations …
… 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] . In Walsh 1864c Walsh had criticised Louis …
… appeared in the Reader , 31 December 1864, p. 837. The article favourably reviewed …
… vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 29 April [– 19 May] 1864 , letter to B. …
… D. Walsh, 21 October [1864] , and letter from …
… John Lubbock, 3 November 1864 ). There is an annotated copy of Walsh 1864a , inscribed by …
… which appeared in the October–December 1864 issue of Entomologische Zeitung , the journal …
… society of Stettin ( Osten-Sacken 1864 ). Magna est veritas et praevalebit : ‘truth is …
… 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 ); for a discussion of Agassiz’s views on …
… vol. 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] and nn. 4 and 5. Rock Island, …
… tour through the American Midwest in 1864 ( Lurie 1960 , p. 341). See also Correspondence …
… 12, letter from B. D. Walsh, 7 November 1864 . In his ‘Essay on classification’ (J. …
… paper in his letter to Walsh of 4 December [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD wrote an …
… 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] . Walsh argued that unity of habits was …
… Murray. 1859. Osten-Sacken, Charles Robert. 1864. Ueber den wahrscheinlicher Dimorphismus …

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: 26 hits

… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. 21). He also sent the completed …
… University Press. 1985–. Crüger, Hermann. 1864. A few notes on the fecundation of …
… and their morphology. [Read 3 March 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… CD for comments (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from John Scott , 28 March 1864 , 5 …
… May [1864] , and first letter …
… of 10 June [1864] ). CD communicated …
… papers to the Linnean Society in June 1864. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ . Scott is …
… told Scott of Hermann Crüger’s work and of the manuscript of Crüger 1864 in February …
… or March 1864 (see Correspondence vol. …
… 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. 20). …
… sterility of the male Catasetum , see Crüger 1864 , pp. 127–8. Conducting tissue is the …
… vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. 16. CD cited Scott’s observations …
… insect pollination of Gongora in Crüger 1864 , pp. 130–1. CD and Scott had wondered how …
… 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and nn. 12–16, and Orchids 2d ed. , pp. …
… near Darjeeling, India, in December 1864 (see letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and …
… The letters from John Scott of 21 December 1864 and 4 January 1865 have not been found. CD …
… and 1 and 3 August [1863] ). In February 1864 George Bentham had suggested that Scott be …
… at the Linnean Society on 4 February 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. …
… D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 , [before …
… 9 February 1864] , and 26[– …
… 8] October 1864 , and letter to …
… John Scott, 9 February [1864] and n. 9). Scott refers to Asa Gray’s review of Scott 1864b …
… see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] , and letter from …
… Asa Gray, 3 October 1864 ). Scott began his paper on Primula with a discussion of the …
… vol. 12, letter to John Scott, 10 June 1864 , n. 1, and this volume, letter from John …

From Asa Gray 17 January 1865

Summary

New herbarium is finished.

Congratulations on Copley Medal.

Author:	Asa Gray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	17 Jan 1865
Classmark:	DAR 165: 146
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4747

Matches: 18 hits

… Medal of the Royal Society on 30 November 1864 (see Proceedings of the Royal Society of …
… Gray last wrote to CD on 5 December 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12). ‘Three forms of …
… and Scott 1864c ; he also refers to Crüger 1864 . These papers were communicated to the …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… University Press. 1985–. Crüger, Hermann. 1864. A few notes on the fecundation of …
… and their morphology. [Read 3 March 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… of Scott 1864b (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Asa Gray, 13 September [1864] ). CD …
… had expressed his interest in Crüger 1864 in his letter to …
… Asa Gray, 25 February [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). CD had …
… to his letter to Asa Gray of 29 October [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12). The enclosure …
… prompted by an article in the 8 October 1864 issue of the Spectator , which discussed the …
… vol. 12, letter from Asa Gray, 5 December 1864 , which includes a note from Henry Bryant …
… about cuckoos (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Asa Gray, 5 December 1864 ). …
… In his letter of 7 November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12), Benjamin Dann Walsh had …
… also letter to B. D. Walsh, 4 December [1864] . Agassiz’s extensive work in ichthyology …
… of the herbarium is discussed in the letters from Asa Gray , 16 February 1864 and …
… 11 July 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). Gray eventually appointed Horace Mann as curator …
… had fallen to the Union army on 21 December 1864 ( Denney 1992 , pp. 506–7). Prison …

From J. D. Hooker [7–8 April 1865]

Summary

Reforms at Kew.

X Club Dinner. H. B. Wilson and J. W. Colenso as guests.

Troubled by Lubbock’s going into Parliament – loss to science.

Has written to Busk.

Sending Botanische Zeitung.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[7–8 Apr 1865]
Classmark:	DAR 102: 15–16
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4807

Matches: 20 hits

… s letter to Hooker of 6 April [1865] . The Friday after 6 April 1864 was 7 April. Hooker …
… Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach and to Grisebach 1864 ; there is a copy of this work, with most …
… a flora of the British West Indies in 1864 (Grisebach 1859–64); this was one of a series …
… pollination of Strelitzia reginae from Roland Trimen in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. …
… 12, letters to Roland Trimen , 13 May 1864 and …
… 25 November 1864 ); during Hooker’s last visit to Down (see n. 7, below), CD had probably …
… and to his new curator, John Smith (1821–88), in his letters of [2 April 1864] and …
… 8 April 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). …
… of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in 1864 (see R. Desmond 1995 , p. 430). The former …
… see also Correspondence vol. 12, letters from J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1864] and 26[– …
… 8] October 1864 . Hooker discussed orchid poisoning and other horticultural problems that …
… had developed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in his letters of [2 April 1864], [4 …
… June 1864], and …
… 15 June 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12). Hooker spent from 4 to 6 March at Down House ( …
… called the X Club, established on 3 November 1864 at St George’s Hotel, Albemarle Street, …
… s right to freedom of opinion and in 1864 had contributed to his defence funds. See …
… vol. 12, letter from E. A. Darwin, 1 February [1864] , and letters from J. …
… D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 and …
… 16 February 1864 and nn. 17 and 18. For Colenso’s connections with Hooker and other …
… 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 February 1864 and n. 19; see also Barton 1998 , pp. …

From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865

Summary

Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.

Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.

Author:	Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	29 May 1865
Classmark:	DAR 166: 307
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4838

Matches: 14 hits

… Haeckel . Haeckel had written to CD in 1864 concerning the reception of Darwinian theory …
… Kölliker, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 October [1864] and n. …
… 2, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 8 October [1864] , and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 8 October [1864] . CD had at first considered replying to Kölliker himself ( …
… see letters to J. D. Hooker, 28 August [1864] and [ …
… 1 September 1864] , and letter to T. …
… H. Huxley, 3 October [1864] and n. 3). Haeckel later criticised Kölliker’s review in …
… in Germany (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from Ernst Haeckel , 9 [July 1864] , 10 …
… August [1864] , and …
… 26 October 1864 ). On the reception of CD’s theory in Germany, see also Correspondence …
… 1989 , Engels ed. 1995, and Nyhart 1995 . In 1864 Rudolf Albert von Kölliker published a …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 and n. 12. Huxley’s …
… of the Natural History Review for October 1864, and focused in particular on undermining …
… of the Natural History Review for October 1864, are in the Darwin Library–CUL. For CD’s …

From Henry Holland 2 January 1865

Summary

Thanks for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864].

Remarks on development of the tapeworm.

Author:	Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	2 Jan 1865
Classmark:	DAR 166: 245
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4735

Matches: 12 hits

… 31]. T. S. Cobbold’s book on the Entozoa [1864]. Remarks on development of the tapeworm. …
… Pulmonaria and other genera in 1862, 1863, and 1864 (see Correspondence vols. 10–12). The …
… eighth duke of Argyll ( G. D. Campbell 1864 ). See letter from Charles Lyell, 16 …
… Bibliography Campbell, George Douglas. 1864. …
… Opening address, 1864–5 session. [ …
… Read 5 December 1864. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 5 (1862–6): …
… 264–92. Cobbold, Thomas Spencer. 1864. Entozoa: an introduction to the study of …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… monograph on internal parasites ( Cobbold 1864 , pp. 220–2). Cobbold described the life- …
… then, in the form of ‘measly pork’, by humans. A review of Cobbold 1864 had appeared in …
… the 26 November 1864 issue of the Reader , pp. 668–70; CD was a regular subscriber to the …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, 1 January 1864 and n. 14). The reference is to CD’s work …

From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865

Summary

Sends photograph.

THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.

Author:	Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	1 Jan 1865
Classmark:	DAR 166: 304
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4732

Matches: 14 hits

… CD had received the book from Fritz Müller in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. …
… letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 November [1864] ). A lightly annotated copy is in the Darwin …
… 12, letter to T. H. Huxley, 5 November [1864] . The photographs have not been found. …
… In his letter to Huxley of 5 November [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD encouraged him …
… In his letter to Huxley of 5 November [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), CD included some …
… races of mankind’ were delivered at the end of 1864 as part of a regular series of evening …
… at the Royal College of Surgeons at the beginning of 1864. Abstracts of these lectures …
… appeared in the Medical Times and Gazette , 26 March 1864, pp. …
… 343–4, and 2 April 1864, pp. 369–70. …
… also reported in the Reader , 27 February 1864, pp. 266–7. Huxley’s work on human races …
… Lubbock (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to John Lubbock , 19 November [1864] and …
… 21 December [1864] ). Although CD’ …
… s health had improved for some of 1864, he still suffered intermittently from sickness and …
… The reference is to Für Darwin ( Müller 1864 ), a developmental history of the Crustacea, …

From A. R. Wallace 31 January [1865]

Summary

Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.

Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Author:	Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	31 Jan [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 106: B22–3
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4759

Matches: 11 hits

… 12, letter from A. R. Wallace, 2 January 1864 ; see also letter from Richard Spruce to …
… J. D. Hooker, 29 July 1864 ). …
… paper on man ( Wallace 1864a ) in May 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from A. …
… R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… his return to England at the end of May 1864 ( Wallace 1905 , 1: 276–9; Spruce 1908 , 1: …
… records of travel … during the years 1849–1864. Edited by Alfred Russel Wallace. 2 vols. …
… 29 May [1864] , and letter to A. …
… R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). Wallace 1862 , 1863a, and 1863c. Annotated copies of these …
… for example, Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Hermann Crüger, 21 January 1864 , n. 6, …
… and letter from Asa Gray, 11 July 1864 , n. 14). See letter to A. R. Wallace, 29 …

To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]

Summary

Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.

Agrees with CL on beauty.

Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].

CD’s illness.

CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:	22 Jan [1865]
Classmark:	American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4752

Matches: 14 hits

… Orchids and other works. ] Edinburgh Review 116: 378–97. Campbell, George Douglas. 1864. …
… Opening address, 1864–5 session. [ …
… to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory. …
… Royal Society of Edinburgh on 5 December 1864 by George Douglas Campbell , eighth duke of …
… Argyll ( G. D. Campbell 1864 ); see letter from Charles Lyell, 16 January 1865 . See …
… Read 5 December 1864. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 5 (1862–6): 264–92. …
… s views on humming-birds in Descent 2: 151–3. CD’s notes on G. D. Campbell 1864 , dated …
… December 1864, are in DAR 47: 20. Campbell argued that the variations in bills, wings, and …
… struggle for existence ( G. D. Campbell 1864 , p. 281): ‘It seems rather to have been a …
… vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 18. According to Campbell, CD’s …
… of such births ( G. D. Campbell 1864 , p. 286). See letter from Charles Lyell, 16 …
… n. 2. After a period of improvement in the spring and summer of 1864, CD had a return to …
… ill health toward the end of 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12). See letter to J. D. …
… most recently resumed work in September 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12). Variation was …

From Roland Trimen 13 December 1865

Summary

Butterflies of Mauritius.

RT’s Bonatea paper published by Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 156–60].

Author:	Roland Trimen
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	13 Dec 1865
Classmark:	DAR 178: 185
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4951

Matches: 12 hits

… region of South Africa, to the Linnean Society , where it was read on 1 December 1864 ( …
… Trimen 1864 ; see Correspondence vol. …
… 12, letter to Richard Kippist, 24 November [1864] ). For CD’s interest in B. …
… vol. 12, letter to Roland Trimen, 25 November 1864 and nn. 1–3, and Orchids pp. …
… 302–5. CD’s annotated copy of Trimen 1864 is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. It …
… that had been found in November 1864 by his brother, Edward, on the neighbouring Rodriguez …
… London 6 (1869): 49–85. Trimen, Roland. 1864. On the structure of Bonatea speciosa , Linn. …
… to its fertilisation. [Read 1 December 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) …
… papers 2: 138–56. ] Gurney, John Henry. 1864. A list of birds collected in Damara Land by …
… Mr. C. J. Andersson. [Read 12 January 1864. ] Proceedings …
… of the Zoological Society of London (1864): 1–8. Gurney, John Henry. 1865. On a raptoral …
… John Andersson (see, for example, Gurney 1864 ). CD had been introduced to Andersson by …

From John Traherne Moggridge 17 May [1865]

Summary

Sends fresh plants from France: Lythrum graefferi, Romulea.

Does CD know Pulmonaria is dimorphic?

Author:	John Traherne Moggridge
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	17 May [1865]
Classmark:	DAR 171: 202
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4835

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… letter to J. T. Moggridge, 1[7] July [1864] ). Moggridge described the species in …
… 3 February [1865] and n. 9. In July 1864, CD had asked Moggridge to send additional …
… vol. 12, letter from J. T. Moggridge, 15 July 1864 and n. 2, and letter to J. …
… T. Moggridge, 1[7] July 1864 ). CD’s son William Erasmus Darwin had discovered dimorphism …
… first discussed dimorphism in July 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. …
… T. Moggridge, 15 July 1864 , and letter to J. …
… T. Moggridge, 1[7] July 1864 ). After an earlier examination of a short-styled specimen, …
… primrose) in his letter of 15 July [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12; see also ibid. , …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… observations on P. angustifolia in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12). CD’s notes on …

From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865

Summary

His view of Origin.

Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.

Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.

A’s view of humming-birds.

Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.

New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.

Author:	Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	16 Jan 1865
Classmark:	K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4746

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… Pius IX’s encyclical was published 8 December 1864, in conjunction with the ‘syllabus of [ …
… of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 4 (1857–62): 350–77. Campbell, George Douglas. 1864. …
… Opening address, 1864–5 session. [ …
… Read 5 December 1864. ] Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 5 (1862–6): 264–92. …
… 377–452. Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume. 1864. Méditations sur l’essence de la religion …
… In his letter of [before 30 November 1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), Erasmus Alvey …
… Royal Society of Edinburgh on 5 December 1864 by George Douglas Campbell , eighth duke of …
… Argyll ( G. D. Campbell 1864 ). Campbell distinguished between laws such as natural …
… modification of structure’ ( G. D. Campbell 1864 , pp. 275–6). Campbell had sent Lyell …
… of bodily structure’ ( G. D. Campbell 1864 , p. 288). In support of his position, …
… with all of their faculties and powers fully developed (see G. D. Campbell 1864 , p. …
… 289, and Guizot 1864 , p. 49). For Campbell’s earlier reservations about Origin , see his …
… of his address ( G. D. Campbell 1864 , pp. 291–2), Campbell stated that recent …
… the fulfilment of purposes ( G. D. Campbell 1864 , p. 270). According to Campbell, CD’s …
… therefore incomplete ( G. D. Campbell 1864 , pp. 276–81). He argued ( ibid. , p. 277) …

From Edward Cresy 10 September 1865

Summary

Reading Carl Vogt [Lectures on man (1864)].

Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to Darwinism.

Author:	Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	10 Sept 1865
Classmark:	DAR 161: 245
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4892

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… Reading Carl Vogt [ Lectures on man (1864)]. Vogt, though anti-Lamarck, is converted to …
… London: Kelly & Co. 1860–1903. Vogt, Carl. 1864. Lectures on man: his place in creation, …
… had visited the United States and Canada in the summer of 1864 (see Correspondence vol. …
… 12, letter from Edward Cresy, 29 July 1864 ). ‘Blue-nose’: Nova Scotian ( OED ). CD had …
… n. 3. Carl Vogt’s Lectures on man ( Vogt 1864 ) was translated and edited by James Hunt …
… the theory was the result of ‘continued self-instruction’ ( Vogt 1864 , pp. 446–7). See …
… vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] . Thomas Henry Huxley had expressed his …
… page appendix was placed at the end of Vogt 1864 . It contained passages that Hunt, the …
… Ateles belzebuth , a spider monkey; see Vogt 1864 , p. 470). In Origin , pp. 224–35, CD …

To Fritz Müller 10 August [1865]

Summary

Has read and admires FM’s work on species.

Observations on Crustacea are good and original; asks FM to dissect and check some of CD’s observations on cirripedes.

Has sent "Climbing plants" paper [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:	10 Aug [1865]
Classmark:	The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 1)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4881

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… 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 November [1864] and n. 4. CD refers to Orchids , which …
… The reference is to Müller 1864 , a study of the Crustacea that was supportive of CD’s …
… copy from Müller before 21 November 1864, but found the German difficult to understand and …
… 12, letter to Ernst Haeckel, 21 November [1864] and n. 6). The translation was probably …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] …
… 1865 for translation. An annotated copy of Müller 1864 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see …
… CUL (see Marginalia 1: 609). In Müller 1864 , Müller discussed the existence of two forms …
… advantage in clasping females (see Müller 1864 , pp. 13–19 and Dallas trans. 1869, pp. …
… breathing existence independently (see Müller 1864 , pp. 24–6, and Dallas trans. 1869, …
… on crustacean embryology, see Müller 1864 , pp. 31–65; his remarks on classification are …
… emphasis on embryonic similarity ( Müller 1864 , pp. 73–4; Dallas trans. 1869, p. 109). …
… barnacles), but alongside it ( Müller 1864 , p. 59; Dallas trans. 1869, pp. 88–9). CD …

From J. D. Hooker 2 May 1865

Summary

On FitzRoy’s suicide.

The Lyell–Ramsay disagreement [on formation of lakes?].

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	2 May 1865
Classmark:	DAR 102: 20–1
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4826

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… B. Jukes, 10 August 1864 and n. 2). See also ibid. , …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 . Hooker refers to Maxwell Tylden Masters and …
… of the Royal Geographical Society 34 (1864): xlvii), and had been awarded the society’s …
… 1862 ); he elaborated the theory in Ramsay 1864 . Lyell, however, argued that ice was …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. C. Ramsay, 12 July [1864] , letter from J. …
… B. Jukes, 10 August 1864 and n. 2, and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 22 October [1864] , and this volume, letter to Charles Lyell, 21 February [ …
… discussed Murchison’s theory with Hooker in 1864; see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to …
… J. D. Hooker, [23 August 1864] , and letters from J. …
… D. Hooker, 5 September 1864 and …
… 16 September 1864 . There is an annotated copy of Murchison …
… in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In 1864, Hugh Falconer had propounded a tectonic …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 , and letter from J. …

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

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… it too long. For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular …
… and the spirits’, the lead article in the 10 December 1864 issue of the Reader , pp. …
… 725–6 ( [Tyndall] 1864 ). See the letter from J. D. Hooker, [8–18 January 1865] , for …
… London: Lovell Reeve. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1864–7. Handbook of the New Zealand flora: a …
… Handbook of the New Zealand flora ( Hooker 1864–7 ). The work, which had been commissioned …
… parts. The first volume was issued in 1864, the second in 1867. See also Correspondence …
… 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 October [1864] and n. 7, and R. Desmond 1999 , p. …
… introduction to the second volume of Hooker 1864–7 , Hooker used the same essay that he …
… corolla parts of a flower (see Hooker 1864–7 , 1: xiii–v). CD may have been anticipating a …
… Jenner had been treating CD since March 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12; see also letter …
… known letter from Jenner is [after 24 November] 1864. Henry Holland first diagnosed CD’s …
… have been at Down for part of December 1864 and January 1865. CD’s youngest son, Horace, …

To B. D. Walsh 27 March [1865]

Summary

Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.

Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,

Rocky Mt. wingless insects,

willow hybrids,

galls,

and other subjects.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:	27 Mar [1865]
Classmark:	Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4797

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… Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of …
… certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD. Asks about wide- …
… reference is to the first part of Walsh 1864–5 , in which Walsh discussed the influence of …
… annotated copy of the first part of Walsh 1864–5 , inscribed by Walsh, is in the Darwin …
… of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 7 (1864): 69–83. [ Collected papers 2: 93–105. ] …
… John Murray. 1868. Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864–5. On phytophagic varieties and phytophagic …
… to CD’s copy of the first part of Walsh 1864–5 , in addition to CD’s annotations on page …
… varieties to phytophagic species ( Walsh 1864–5 , pp. 427–9; see Origin 4th ed. , pp. …
… 12, letter to B. D. Walsh, 21 October [1864] and n. 6). See Variation 2: 283–4 for CD’s …
… Cynips , a genus of gall-wasps, in March 1864 ( Walsh 1864a ). See also letter from B. …
… By Charles Darwin. [Read 16 June 1864. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 ( …

From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865

Summary

Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.

Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].

Author:	Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	9 June 1865
Classmark:	DAR 161: 244
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4856

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… abstract of Anon. 1865a, a review of Müller 1864 . See letter from Edward Cresy, 30 May …
… for a scholarship at Trinity College in April 1864 (see letter from G. H. Darwin …
… to H. E. Darwin, [4 April 1864] (DAR 251: 2236)). …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] , and letters from A. …
… R. Wallace, 10 May 1864 and …
… 29 May [1864] ). For Huxley’ …
… involvement in ethnological disputes in 1864, see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from …
… J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 and n. 23. Cresy refers to Emma Darwin and Henrietta Emma …
… matriculated at Trinity College in October 1864 ( Alum. Cantab. ). William Carpmael was a …

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Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health

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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…

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… Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864 : ‘the venerable beard gives the …
… Darwin corresponded little during the first three months of 1864, dictating nearly all his letters …
… had consulted in 1863. In a letter of 26[–7] March [1864] , Darwin exclaimed to his close friend, …
… letters of advice from Jenner. In a letter of 15 December [1864] to the surgeon and naturalist …
… his cousin William Darwin Fox in a letter of 30 November [1864] , ‘the Copley being open to all …
… five years earlier. His primary botanical preoccupation in 1864 was climbing plants. He had become …
… ( Correspondence vol. 11). In a letter of [27 January 1864] , Darwin wrote to Hooker: ‘The …
… produce tendrils’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [8 February 1864] ). Darwin’s excitement about his …
… & therefore sacred’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1864] ). When Darwin asked Oliver …
… light of axioms’ ( letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] ). Though Darwin replied with his …
… . . .’ When he told Asa Gray in a letter of 29 October [1864] that he was continuing to study …
… addition to his work on climbing plants, Darwin engaged in 1864 in botanical observations and …
… were produced. Continuing from these earlier studies, in 1864 he conducted crossing experiments …
… in causing sterility both within and between species in his 1864 paper, ‘Three forms of Lythrum …
… trimorphic Lythrum , and when his health permitted in 1864 he drew up the results (see …
… Darwin remarked to Hooker in a letter of 26 November [1864] that nothing had interested him so …
… species with the common oxlip. In a letter of 22 October [1864] , Darwin triumphantly wrote to …
… flowers ). A household enterprise Darwin’s 1864 correspondence with family members …
… Forms of flowers . The greatest assistance in 1864, however, was provided by William, Darwin …
… minute and painstaking observations, writing on 14 April [1864] , ‘I can do as much pollen work …
… letter from Emma and Charles Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [20 May 1864] ), or his excitement when he …
… for my stomach’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 17 February [1864] ). Darwin was also impressed …
… to inspire the research of others as well; he influenced the 1864 publication of a paper by another …
… publish his new material on them. Nevertheless, his work in 1864 contributed to his 1869 paper …
… continuing identification of insect pollinators in 1864 and following years. John Scott again …
… on the orchid Oncidium to the Linnean Society in 1864 (Scott 1864b). Recognising Scott’s skills …
… paid by Darwin himself ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [1 April 1864] ). Hooker’s series of …
… over them’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 April 1864] ). Hooker warned Darwin: ‘Do pray …
… careful treatment’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1864 ). Nevertheless, Hooker solicited and …
… hastening the fall’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 ). In his reply of 25 April [1864] …

Darwin's health

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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…

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… of a fashionable spinal ice treatment. In April 1864, Darwin attributed his improved health to Dr …
… gaining vigour .’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ) Why was Darwin’s so ill? …
… vol. 12, letter to F. T. Buckland, 15 December [1864] ). On Darwin’s early stomach …
… vol. 4). Throughout the winter of 1863 and spring of 1864, he was sick almost daily (see …
… Chapman. In a letter to J. D. Hooker, [20-] 22 February [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), …
… in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness …
… 12, letter from Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1864] . Treatments and medications …
… doses of chalk, magnesia, and other antacids in March 1864 (see Emma Darwin’s diary, DAR 242, and n. …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] ). …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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… an important focus for his experiments. By the spring of 1864, he was thinking of expansion, telling …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March 1864 ). The plan was quickly set in motion, and …
… the work, while William Ledger did the building. By August 1864, he had spent £126 10s. on the new …
… was replaced after Darwin’s death, and one section of the 1864 greenhouse was subsequently …
… vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [25 January 1864] ). In view of the importance of Darwin …

Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex

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The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…

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… the mating process. In a letter to Alfred Russel Wallace in 1864, Darwin claimed that sexual …
… (Correspondence vol. 12, letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] ). Darwin’s theory of …

Diagrams and drawings in letters

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Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have been added to the online transcripts of the letters. The contents include maps, diagrams, drawings, sketches and photographs, covering geological, botanical,…

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… W. E. Darwin's observations on Pulmonaria , 14 April [1864] Ernst Haeckel's …

Natural Science and Femininity

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Discussion Questions|Letters A conflation of masculine intellect and feminine thoughts, habits and feelings, male naturalists like Darwin inhabited an uncertain gendered identity. Working from the private domestic comfort of their homes and exercising…

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… Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel sends Darwin some …
… Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
… Letter 4469 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [20 April 1864] Hooker discusses the scientific …
… Letter 4472 - Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, [26 or 27 April 1864] Hooker once again discusses …

'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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… for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Annual Report, 1864, p. 32; Animal World , 1 February …
… with the RSPCA; however, the RSPCA Annual Report for 1864 records that 'a benevolent lady, …
… the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington, in June 1864 ( The Times , 27 May 1864, p. 11, …
… Darwin 2: 200). Although the RSPCA considered in 1864 that many game preservers had …
… were 'awakening to its barbarity' (RSPCA Annual Report 1864, p. 32), the use of the steel …
… payments being recorded from 1854 to 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in 1878 and 1880 …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… Letter 4523 - Wedgwood, L. C. to Darwin, [6 June 1864] Darwin’s niece, Lucy, responds …
… Letter 4436 - Darwin to Hooker, J. D., [26-27 March 1864] Darwin thanks Hooker for …
… - Wright, Charles to Gray, A., [20, 25, 26 March & 1 April 1864] Charles Wright tells …

The Lyell–Lubbock dispute

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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…

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… and Scotland (Lubbock 1862a, 1862b, and 1863a). In the July 1864 issue of Natural History Review …
… address for the British Association meeting at Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By …
… Darwin’s theory ([Lubbock] 1863b, p. 213). In May 1864, Lubbock received a letter from …
… 3. Letters from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 22 February 1864 and 24 February 1864 (British …
… 12. Letter from Hugh Falconer to John Lubbock, 24 May [1864], in (British Library, Add. MSS 49640) …
… and gentlemen in the formation of the X Club, 1851–1864. Isis 89: 410–44. Bynum, William …
… History Review n.s. 3: 211–19. Lubbock, John. 1864. Cave-men. Natural History Review n …
… revised. London: John Murray. Lyell, Charles. 1864. Presidential address. Report of the …

Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…

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… & succeeding in India. John Scott to Darwin, 1864. I was astounded at …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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… ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Science: A Man’s World?

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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…

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… Letter 4377 - Haeckel, E. P. A. to Darwin, [2 January 1864] Haeckel sends Darwin some …
… Letter 4441 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [30 March 1864] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a copy …

Scientific Networks

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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…

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… Letter 4463 — Scott, John to Darwin, C. R., 14 Apr [1864] Scott thanks Darwin for his …
… Letter 4468 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 19 [Apr 1864] Darwin makes another plea to his …
… Letter 4469 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 20 Apr 1864 Hooker again refuses to help Scott, …
… Letter 4471 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 25 Apr [1864] Darwin thinks his friend Kew …
… Letter 4611 — Darwin, C. R. to Gray, Asa, 13 Sept [1864] Darwin sends abstract of John Scott …
… Letter 4441 — Becker, Lydia to Darwin, C. R., 30 Mar 1864 Becker sends Darwin a copy of her …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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… Civil War. DARWIN: 157 February 1864… My dear Gray. It is now six months since I …
… 1863 157 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 25 FEBRUARY 1864 158 C DARWIN TO A GRAY 28 …
… 27 OCTOBER 1862 168 TO ASA GRAY 29 OCTOBER 1864 169 FROM ASA GRAY 5 …

Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865

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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…

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… a period of severe illness, which improved by March 1864 under the care of the physician William …
… his brain or heart to be ‘primarily affected’. In March 1864, Darwin began to consult Jenner, who …
… Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864], letter from William Jenner to …

Darwin and Fatherhood

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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…

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… daughter reveal (J. D. Hooker to Darwin, 16 September 1864 ). In addition to his fears for …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… for the Copley Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1864, had staunchly supported his candidacy, …
… to CD’s theory of transmutation, in or before November 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter to …
… ), and wrote up his results on his voyage to India in late 1864, despite suffering from sea-sickness …
… in learned societies and in the popular press. In December 1864, George Douglas Campbell, the duke …
… this and that modification of structure’ (G. D. Campbell 1864, pp. 275–6). Campbell argued further …

3.5 William Darwin, photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…

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… the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. …
… among the prints that William posted to his father in May 1864, since the photograph subsequently …
… simply inscribed by hand on the back in pencil ‘C. Darwin 1864’ – the accuracy of the dating …
… Erasmus Darwin   date of creation April 1864   computer-readable date 1864-04 …
… William Darwin’s letter to his father [19 May 1864] sending prints of his recent photograph (DCP …

Darwin’s Photographic Portraits

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Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…

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… far more satisfied with the results. In 1860-61 and again in 1864 Charles Darwin sat for his eldest …
… photographs of Darwin.The years between 1860 and 1864 took a physical and emotional toll on Darwin, …
… and the Botany Libraries (left) and Charles Darwin, 1864, William Darwin, Dar 225:113, …
… took the first portrait with his ‘venerable beard’ in 1864. Image: Charles Darwin, 1881, …

Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small

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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…

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… able to work’ ( letter to A. R. Wallace, [ c . 10 April 1864] ). To the physician Henry Holland, …
… History every day’ ( letter to Henry Holland, 6 November [1864] ). Writing to the clergyman and …

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