From George Henslow 17 March [1866]
Summary
Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5036 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Henslow refers to his letter of 12 March 1866 and his summary of ‘Climbing plants’ ( …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from George Henslow, 12 March 1866 . …
- … a letter that has not been found. See letter from George Henslow, 12 March 1866 and n. …
- … 2. See letter from George Henslow, 12 March 1866 and n. 3. …
From George Henslow [13 or 14 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for criticism of proofs of his paper [see 5117].
Not sure whether CD believes in reversion and would like a positive statement as this is the one point C. V. Naudin especially observed. Naudin offers his remarks on ovules as a matter to be proved ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1 (1865): 25–176].
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 14] June 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 158 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5120 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … and n. 11, and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] ), and for …
- … between this letter and the letters to George Henslow , 12 June [1866] and 15 [June …
- … for Henslow 1866b ; see letter to George Henslow, 12 June [1866] . In a brief discussion …
- … pp. 1–9 (see Henslow 1866b , pp. 310–11). See letter to George Henslow, 12 June [1866] . …
- … See letter to George Henslow, 12 June [1866] , and n. 4. …
From J. T. Moggridge 10 May [1866]
Summary
Sends a box of orchids.
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5084 |
To Henry Bence Jones 3 January [1866]
Summary
A report on his somewhat improved health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 86 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968A |
Matches: 5 hits
- … secretion’ (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, [20–]22 February [ …
- … William Jenner (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and …
- … s advice (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters from William Jenner , 15 October 1864 and …
- … see Correspondence vol. 13, letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] and n. 12). CD reported …
- … letter to W. D. Fox, 13 November [1858] ). CD began taking iron in 1864, Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) recording ‘began iron’ on 12 …
From Richard Trevor Clarke 6 November [1866]
Summary
Wants to publish his observation on colour changes in Matthiola seeds.
Has been crossing cotton.
Approves of C. V. Naudin and Max Wichura.
| Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Nov [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4932 |
To Charles Kingsley 15 July [1866]
Summary
Thanks for information about the publication of CK’s lectures.
Discusses the migration of the eye in flatfish.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | 15 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5155F |
From Ernst Haeckel 11 January 1866
Summary
Comments on CD’s health.
Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.
Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.
His lectures on CD’s theory.
Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4973 |
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- … Anna Sethe (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 ; see …
- … on this book (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 26 October 1864 and …
- … translation; see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 9 [July 1864] ; see …
- … frontispiece to Correspondence vol. 12. See ibid. , letter to Ernst Haeckel, 19 July [ …
- … vol. 13, letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11 November 1865 and nn. 11 and 12); a protoplasmic …
From George Stacey Gibson 7 July 1866
Summary
Asks CD if he can explain the results of an experiment that produced barley from oats that had been cut down to prevent their flowering.
| Author: | George Stacey Gibson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5151 |
To H. G. H. Norman [after 30 November 1866]
Summary
Thanks his correspondent for remembering to send him a woodcock’s leg and informing him that "from a ball of earth attached to the leg of a Red Partridge no less than 82 plants germinated". [See 5287.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert George Henry Norman |
| Date: | [after 30 Nov 1866] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (20 June 1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5287A |
From George Henslow [18–30 March 1866]
Summary
Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18–30 Mar 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5037 |
From George Henslow 18 May 1866
Summary
Has written his Naudin–hybridism article [Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13]. Would like CD to criticise proofs.
Will return books borrowed from CD.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5095 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 September [1866]
Summary
Blocks for Variation are much improved. WBT deserves membership in Zoological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 Sept [1866] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5212 |
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- … of London (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 12 September 1866 ). See letter from W. …
- … from Gallus sonneratii (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 12 September 1866 and nn. 5 …
- … between this letter and the letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 12 September 1866 . Tegetmeier …
- … B. Tegetmeier, 12 September 1866 and n. 1. CD’s letter to his publisher, John Murray , …
From A. R. Wallace 4 February 1866
Summary
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4997 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 April 1866]
Summary
Sad about Oliver’s loss.
JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].
Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 Apr 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 284 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5051 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 May [1866]
Summary
Has forwarded FH’s paper on Fumariaceae to horticultural congress. Comments on its findings.
Discusses forms of Oxalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 16 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5092 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Africa in 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to Roland Trimen , 13 May 1864 and …
- … in Salvia , see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 25 June [1864] , …
- … 1866b . In his letter to CD of 21 June 1864 ( Correspondence vol. 12), Hildebrand stated …
- … 12 and 13, and ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , pp. 191–2 n. ( Collected papers 2: 130–1)). See also letter …
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January [1866]
Summary
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1866] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4980 |
To Charles Pritchard 12 October [1866]
Summary
Responds to CP’s sermon. Corrects CP’s confusion of what CD said about eyes of the Articulata with human eye,
and questions applicability of CP’s mathematical arguments about length of geological time needed for evolution.
Agrees he was foolish about the Wealden, now struck from later editions [Origin, pp. 285–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Pritchard |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1866] |
| Classmark: | A. Pritchard comp. 1897, p. 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5240 |
To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli 12 June [1866]
Summary
Comments on CWvN’s Die Entstehung und Begriff [der Naturhistorischen Art (1864)].
Discussion of beauty of flowers in new edition of Origin not based on CWvN’s article.
Comments on CWvN’s argument that flower structures are not due to natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
| Date: | 12 June [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5119 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1866
Summary
Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.
"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."
Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.
Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].
Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.
Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.
Balfour Stewart on sunspots.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 114–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5294 |
To Fritz Müller [before 10 December 1866]
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | [before 10 Dec 1866] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5261 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (67) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
| Müller, Fritz | (4) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (118) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
| Henslow, George | (8) |
| Lyell, Charles | (7) |
| Müller, Fritz | (6) |
Lost in translation: From Auguste Forel, 12 November 1874
Summary
You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections on your favourite topic—ants. If only you had paid attention when your mother tried to teach you English you might be able to read it. But you didn’t, and you…
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- … You receive a gift from your scientific hero Charles Darwin. It is a book that contains sections …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
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The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
Summary
Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
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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- … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
1.2 George Richmond, marriage portrait
Summary
< Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more may once have existed. In a letter of 1873 an old Shrewsbury friend, Arthur Mostyn Owen, offered to send Darwin a watercolour sketch of him, painted many years…
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- … < Back to Introduction Few likenesses of Darwin in his youth survive, although more …
Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments
Summary
1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…
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- … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began …
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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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
German and Dutch photograph albums
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Darwin Day 2018: To celebrate Darwin's 209th birthday, we present two lavishly produced albums of portrait photographs which Darwin received from continental admirers 141 years ago. These unusual gifts from Germany and the Netherlands are made…
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- … In 1877, Charles Darwin was sent some unusual birthday presents: two lavishly …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions …
Darwin in letters, 1878: Movement and sleep
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In 1878, Darwin devoted most of his attention to the movements of plants. He investigated the growth pattern of roots and shoots, studying the function of specific organs in this process. Working closely with his son Francis, Darwin devised a series of…
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- … I think we have proved that the sleep of plants is to lessen injury to leaves from radiation …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
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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…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
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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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
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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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
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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- … Over 850 illustrations from the printed volumes of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin have …
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
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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…
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- … Species theory In November 1845, Charles Darwin wrote to his friend and confidant Joseph …
Darwin’s queries on expression
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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…
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- … When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations …
