To C. A. Bennet [before 3 January 1865]
Summary
Ludwig Rütimeyer thanks CAB for the skull of a Chillingham cow, and thinks it may belong to the Primigenius race.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville |
Date: | [before 3 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | Scotsman, 19 July 1929, p. 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4735F |
From Ludwig Rütimeyer 3 January 1865
Summary
Regrets he has not yet finished his monograph on Bos. Has examined and discusses the Bos skull from Lord Tankerville.
Would like CD’s opinion on the conclusions in LR’s paper on fossil horses.
Author: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 227 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4736 |
From Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin 3 January 1865
Summary
Encloses letter [missing] which he believes will clear up the part he played in Edward Sabine’s Presidential Address. Does not wish CD to think that he did not support the Origin.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4737 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 January [1865]
Summary
Thanks for photograph, charmed by Mrs Huxley’s letter.
Regrets THH cannot do the popular work on zoology.
Has heard THH wrote leading article in last Reader ["Science and ""church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 211) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4738 |
From Hugh Falconer to E. A. Darwin 5 January [1865]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 5 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4739 |
To Hugh Falconer 6 January [1865]
Summary
"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4740 |
From W. D. Fox 6 January [1865]
Summary
Thanks CD for his Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Tells of the birth of his 16th child. Has five grandchildren.
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4741 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [8–18 January 1865]
Summary
Bentham wants "Climbing plants" for Journal of the Linnean Society, however long [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 1–118]. Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society restricts correspondence.
Reader much improved.
Tyndall did write piece on spiritualism ["Science and the spirits", Reader 4 (1864): 725–6].
"Suppressed gout" annoys him as a term cloaking ignorance.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8–18 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4743 |
To T. C. Eyton 9 January [1865?]
Summary
Thanks TCE for information about breeding
and for his promise to measure feet of otter-hounds [see Variation 1: 39–40].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 9 Jan [1865?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.285) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4744 |
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 |
From T. H. Huxley 15 January 1865
Summary
Thanks for [E. Eudes?] Deslongchamps’ paper.
Henry Huxley born.
Leader in Reader [4 (1864): 821] is by THH. It has got him into trouble with some of his friends.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4745 |
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 |
From Asa Gray 17 January 1865
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747 |
To Richard Kippist 18 January [1865]
Summary
Asks that the long paper that he is sending for the Society be acknowledged when received.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 18 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alexander Autographs (dealers) (2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747A |
To Henry Denny 17 January [1865]
Summary
Pleased to learn that HD has resumed research on Anoplura.
Are Chiloe pediculi a distinct species?
Do lice differ on different races of humans?
Is there evidence supporting Mr Marshall’s statement about Polynesian lice?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 17 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | Alfred Denny Museum, University of Sheffield |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747F |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [20 January 1865]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [20 Jan 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4749 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 20 January 1865
Summary
His distress that his engagement has been broken off.
Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;
"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4750 |
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 |
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