To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
To [?] 22 [March? 1867]
Summary
CD must decline his correspondent’s kind offer [unspecified], but he is out of health and has passed the part about dogs in a work now at the printer’s [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 22 [Mar? 1867] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5453 |
To [A. J. Woodhouse?] 25 January [1867?]
Summary
Two queries on teeth: 1. Is there evidence of inherited peculiarities in milk teeth?
2. Are male incisors longer than female?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred James Woodhouse |
Date: | 25 Jan [1867?] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 14 (EH 88206066) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13645 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 5 March [1867?]
Summary
Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 5 Mar [1867?] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1394 |
To Daniel Oliver 1 June [1867]
Summary
Asks DO to identify a plant grown from earth adhering to the foot of a woodcock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 1 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3587 |
To Charles Henry Middleton 20 [1867?]
Summary
Sorry he cannot remember where S. Filippe [San Felipe?] is.
Doubts that bones of ox, sheep, and horse could have been deposited in guano [on coast of Chile], but they would be worth examination.
[Tipped in copy of Origin (1866) with CHM’s bookplate.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Henry Middleton |
Date: | 20 [Jan-Dec] 1867 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (in Middleton’s copy of Origin 4th ed., BB.5.6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5341 |
To John Murray 3 January [1867]
Summary
Sorry about enormous size of Variation MS, but cannot shorten it now. If JM is afraid to publish, CD will consider agreement cancelled. Suggests he ask someone with judgment to read the MS. Has written concluding chapter on man. Whether it will be included depends on size of volume.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 3 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 158–160) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5346 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 6 January [1867]
Summary
Returns some of WBT’s skulls.
His MS is with printer, but book [Variation] will probably not be out until November.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5347 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867]
Summary
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5348 |
To Ernst Haeckel 8 January 1867
Summary
Comments on EH’s "great work" [Generelle Morphologie].
An English translation "hopeless".
Asks about EH’s expedition.
MS of Variation sent to printers.
Fritz Müller working on plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 8 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5349 |
To John Murray 8 January [1867]
Summary
CD annoyed at large size of Variation. Suggests printing detailed parts in small type. JM can, of course, decline to publish altogether.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 8 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 155–157) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5350 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 January [1867]
Summary
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5353 |
To John Murray 10 January [1867]
Summary
Relieved by JM’s note and by his agreement on type size. Is alarmed by what the verdict [on Variation] of JM’s friend will be. He is not a man of science. An unscientific reader would have condemned the Origin. An eminent semi-scientific man thought the Journal of researches not worth publishing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 166) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5356 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1867]
Summary
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 5–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5361 |
To William Turner 15 January [1867]
Summary
Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5362 |
To John Murray 15 January [1867]
Summary
Approves of type [for Variation]. Pleased to hear from Hooker that he is not surprised that MS is big.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 161) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5363 |
To Thomas Belt 15 January [1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Belt |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5364 |
To B. J. Sulivan 15 January [1867]
Summary
Thanks BJS for W. H. Stirling’s answers [to queries about expression]
and for information on cattle and breeding of dogs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Date: | 15 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5365 |
To John Lubbock 17 January [1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 17 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 64 (EH 88206508) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5367 |
To Alfred Newton 19 January [1867]
Summary
Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.
Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 19 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5371 |
Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
Murray, John (b) | (18) |
Carus, J. V. | (11) |
Wallace, A. R. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |