To G. R. Gray 12 July 1869
Summary
Would be glad to send GRG a testimonial of his abilities as a naturalist, but is not qualified to express opinion on his works in ornithology or entomology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Gray |
Date: | 12 July 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 232–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6827 |
From Alexander Wallace 15 July [1869]
Author: | Alexander Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6829 |
From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1869
Summary
Has already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank.
Has lost track of collectors and naturalists "by grace of the dredge" because of other work and ""the great question of "Darwinismus" which is such a worry to us all"".
Family health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6830 |
From Allan C. Pagan to George Cupples 16 July 1869
Author: | Allan Cunningham Pagan |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 16 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6831 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 July 1869
Summary
On reading F. Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Pangenesis.
Agrees with CD on fascination [of snakes].
Huxley is at Comte again.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 22–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6832 |
To W. C. Tait 17 July [1869]
Summary
Discusses need for cross-fertilisation in Geranium.
Hooker begins to doubt whether Drosophyllum so closely allied to Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Chester Tait |
Date: | 17 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 545; Sotheby’s (dealers) (19 July 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6833 |
From W. B. Dawkins 17 July 1869
Summary
On the genealogy of the horse.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6834 |
To Albany Hancock 17 July [1869]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel is working on calcareous sponges. Does AH have any British specimens that he can spare? [See 6842.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 17 July [1869] |
Classmark: | E. C. Hodgkin (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6834A |
To Fritz Müller 18 July [1869]
Summary
Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.
The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.
Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 18 July [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6835 |
From Adolph Reuter 18 July 1869
Summary
Sends notes on lack of variation in seedlings of trees and shrubs
and on climbers changing their character with age.
Author: | Adolf Reuter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6836 |
To W. B. Dawkins 19 July [1869]
Summary
Admits that he had disobeyed his instructions and dispatched a box of bones to him by rail. Gives an account of the discovery of the bones at Perth y Chwaril on the Rhagatt estate. He has promised Miss Lloyd to obtain from WBD the English names of the principal bones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Date: | 19 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Phillips, Son and Neale (dealers) (24 October 1985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6836A |
From E. L. Garbett to the Athenæum 19 July 1869
Summary
More on the problem of the increase of elephants (see 6806f and 6820).
Author: | Edward Lacy Garbett |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 19 July 1869 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 24 July 1869, p. 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6836F |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 20 July 1869
Summary
Sends C. M. Browne’s notes on transmission of colour in greyhounds [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 40]
and a letter from Major Holland.
WBT to visit America.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6837 |
From John Lubbock 20 July [1869]
Summary
Has been asked by Henry Powell [new vicar of Down] for help to build a house at Down; asks for CD’s advice.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6838 |
From James Rait to George Cupples 20 July 1869
Summary
Responds to questions about sex ratios at birth and mortality in either sheep or cattle.
Author: | James Rait |
Addressee: | George Cupples |
Date: | 20 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: 70–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6838F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 21 July [1869]
Summary
Further queries on poultry plumage.
WBT’s visit to America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 21 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6839 |
From Jules Joseph Fleury 23 July 1869
Author: | Jules Joseph Fleury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6840 |
To the editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History 23 July 1869
Summary
CD passes on notes prepared for the French translation of Orchids so that his book may be brought up to date in English as well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
Date: | 23 July 1869 |
Classmark: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 4 (1869): 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6840A |
To J. D. Hooker 24 July [1869]
Summary
An article in North British Review by mathematician against Hooker and Huxley and for William Thomson [P. G. Tait, "Geological time", North Br. Rev. 50 (1869): 406–39]. Feels a conviction that world will be found older than reviewer makes it.
Article on "Design" [by J. B. Mozley] in Quarterly Review [127 (1869): 134–76].
Has JDH studied Drosophyllum?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 July [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 140–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6841 |
From Albany Hancock 25 July 1869
Summary
Cannot help CD with his request for calcareous sponges.
Author: | Albany Hancock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6842 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Cupples, George | (4) |
Athenæum | (2) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
Cupples, George | (4) |
Dawkins, W. B. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |