From Frederick Smith March 1866
Summary
Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.
Author: | Frederick Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5023 |
From Charles Lyell 1 March 1866
Summary
Feels sure that at times the globe must have been superficially cooler. Believes CD will turn out right with regard to migration across the equator via mountain chains, while the tropical heat of certain lowlands was retained.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 91: 89–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5024 |
To Charles Lyell [3 March 1866]
Summary
Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5025 |
To Robert Caspary 4 March 1866
Summary
Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Date: | 4 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5026 |
From Charles Lyell 5 March 1866
Summary
Surprised at Hooker’s introducing "so organic a change as a deviation in the axis of the planet" to explain the cold of the Glacial Period.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | ML 2: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5027 |
From Fritz Müller 6 March 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for German translation of Origin.
Droughts over the summers have brought about changes in the numbers of plants and animals in the area. The small quantity of Orchestia darwinii that has survived the changes no longer includes two previously common male forms. Great changes also take place without such unusual physical conditions. The disappearance of a briefly abundant bryozoan in local caves has made way not for the return of original bryozoan inhabitants but for a completely new fauna.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 80–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5027A |
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
From George Henslow 8 March 1866
Summary
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5029 |
From Charles Lyell 10 March 1866
Summary
Comments on cool-period MS. Still believes geographical changes principal cause of former changes of climate.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 408–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5031 |
From George Henslow 12 March 1866
Summary
Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5033 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 13 March 1866
Summary
On the "bullae" as constant, regular generic characters in Hymenoptera. Disagrees with Louis Jurine ["Observations sur les ailes des hyménoptères", Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 24 (1820): 177–214].
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5034 |
From Rudolf Suchsland 16 March 1866
Summary
Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.
Author: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5035 |
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 |
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 E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 23 March 1866
Summary
Describes plans for new German edition of Origin [1867].
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5038 |
To Robert McLachlan 23 March [1866]
Summary
Thanks for the paper on Sterrha (McLachlan 1865).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
Date: | 23 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Raab Collection (dealer) (June 2014) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5038F |
From Albert Müller 28 March 1866
Summary
Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?
Author: | Albert Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5039 |
To Albert Müller 28 March [1866]
Summary
Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert Müller |
Date: | 28 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5040 |
From Robert Swinhoe 28 March 1866
Summary
Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Mar 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5041 |
To Richard Kippist 31 March [1866]
Summary
Asks [Secretary] to list the proper titles of foreign societies of which he is an honorary member; he has mislaid diplomas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 31 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5042 |
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