To Oswald Heer? 20 April [1861?]
Summary
Thanks for correspondent’s Untersuchungen [? Über das Klima und die Vegetationsverhältnisse des Tertiärlandes (1860)]. CD has always considered subject interesting and important.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 20 Apr [1861?] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765 |
From John Innes [before 6 April 1861]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3074 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
To Daniel Oliver 1 April [1861]
Summary
CD never dreamed primroses did not abound with DO; apologises for trouble and sends flowers.
Will repay DO for cost of Cypripedium and for the Dionaea, if any can be got.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.243) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3106 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 April [1861]
Summary
Does not think much of the arguments of the Duke [of Argyll], though liberal and complimentary to himself.
THH’s Athenæum letter ["Man and the apes", 30 Mar 1861, p. 433] almost too civil. What a thorn THH must be to Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 162) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3107 |
To B. P. Brent 1 April [1861]
Summary
Thanks for informatiion about birds and for copies of the Cottage Gardener (26 March 1861). Discusses ancestor of domestic fowl.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Date: | 1 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Richard Brent (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3107F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 April [1861]
Summary
Details of peculiarities in poultry.
Is examining wild varieties of rabbit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 2 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3108 |
To H. W. Bates 4 April [1861]
Summary
CD urges HWB to write on his travels;
asks for facts on domestic variations;
is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.
He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.
Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3109 |
To Daniel Oliver 4 April [1861]
Summary
Primula sibirica seems to be the only non-dimorphic species. Has made over one hundred Primula crosses.
Regrets Henslow’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 29 (EH 88206012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3110 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3111 |
To George Busk 5 April [1861]
Summary
Sends two letters from G. Lincecum about ants ("perhaps the most marvellous instinct ever recorded") for possible publication. [See Gideon Lincecum, "The habits of the ""agricultural ants"" of Texas", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 6 (1862): 29–31.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk |
Date: | 5 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.704A) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3112 |
From John D. Glennie Jr 6 April 1861
Author: | John David Glennie, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 70–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3113 |
To Samuel Birch 6 April [1861]
Summary
Requests information about Japanese and Chinese encyclopedias,
about the rarity of fowls with black feathers,
and about date of the king Thouthmosis III.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
Date: | 6 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, Correspondence 1826–67: 1493 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3113A |
To John Crawfurd 7 April 1861
Summary
Thanks JC for pamphlets.
"I do not believe in Metempsychosis nor in Genesis – & you are growing so orthodox, that you will end your days, I believe, in believing in the Tower of Babel–."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Crawfurd |
Date: | 7 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3114 |
To Asa Gray 11 April [1861]
Summary
Huxley and CD fear Chauncey Wright’s review is too general.
Reports the praise for AG’s pamphlet.
J. S. Henslow is dying.
Francis Bowen strikes CD as weak and unobservant; presumes he is a metaphysician, which accounts for his "entire want of common sense".
Does wild Apocynum catch flies in U. S.?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3115 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 April [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3116 |
To Charles Lyell 12 April [1861]
Summary
Discusses progress of CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].
CD had not thought of subsidence in connection with "roads" of Glen Roy.
Discusses habits of ants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.244) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3117 |
To [Robert Chambers?] 13 April [1861]
Summary
Since his previous letter, has unexpectedly arranged to go to London next Tuesday.
Hopes to call on recipient.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
Date: | 13 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (item 25007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3117F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 April [1861]
Summary
Inquires about rabbits.
Sends list of queries on poultry.
WBT’s fowls’ skulls have arrived.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3118 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [April 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3119 |
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Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Rolleston, George | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Birch, Samuel | (2) |
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Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
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