To Robert Swinhoe [September 1866]
Summary
Hooker’s lecture to BAAS ["Insular floras"] was capital,
but hears Wallace’s paper [Address to Anthropology Section, Rep. BAAS 36 (1866): 93–4] was best.
Pleased RS continues zealous work for natural history.
CD considers the report that N. American antelopes’ horns are intermediate between hollow and solid horns of ruminants to be one of the more curious facts he has lately heard of with respect to higher animals [C. A. Canfield, "On the habits of the prongbuck", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1866): 105–11].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Swinhoe |
Date: | [Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 329r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5202 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 September 1866]
Summary
On his "Insular floras" lecture.
Huxley’s success as President of Section.
D. W. R. Grove’s address. Grove left Darwinism to JDH after "sounding the charge".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 100–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5206 |
From Julius von Haast 8 September 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for his efforts on behalf of JvH’s Royal Society candidacy.
Is at work on a large-scale map of the Southern Alps [of New Zealand].
The ever-growing goldfields and their effect on the country.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5207 |
To Charles Lyell 8[–9] September [1866]
Summary
Disappointed to put off CL’s visit because of illness of CD’s sister [Susan], but hopes to see him in October.
Thanks for lending pamphlet [L. Agassiz, Geology of the Amazons]. Agassiz has written "wild nonsense".
Refers to a translation of Pictet and Humbert’s "capital" paper on fossil fish ["Recent researches on the fossil fishes of Mount Lebanon", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 18 (1866): 237].
Hooker’s lecture at BAAS Nottingham meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8[–9] Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.319) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5208 |
From W. R. Grove 9 September 1866
Summary
Sends a "remarkable" enclosure [missing], evidently by a working man, which will interest CD as "shewing that ideas are spread".
Author: | William Robert Grove |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5209 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1866]
Summary
L. Agassiz’s evidence [for glaciation of America] is very weak.
Thanks AG for arranging for American edition of Variation, but doubts that the book will be successful.
Has found no differences in pollen of Rhamnus so cannot conjecture whether it is dimorphic.
The common oxlip of England is certainly a hybrid between the primrose and the cowslip whereas Primula elatior is a good species.
Reports experiments on the relative vigour of seedlings from cross- and self-fertilised plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5210 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 12 September 1866
Summary
Has had the blocks cut as requested and forwards the proofs.
Encloses article on habits of jungle fowl.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5211 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 September [1866]
Summary
Blocks for Variation are much improved. WBT deserves membership in Zoological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5212 |
To Albert Gaudry 17 September [1866]
Summary
Thanks AG for Considérations générales [sur les animaux fossiles] de Pikermi [1866]. The observations on the various intermediate fossil forms seem most valuable.
AG does not fully understand what CD means by "the struggle for existence, or concurrence vitale".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 17 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5213 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 September 1866
Summary
[N. C.?] Seringe’s article [unspecified] has come safely.
Feels deeply at CD’s distress [Susan Darwin is dying].
Drosera will go in a day or two.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5214 |
From George Warde Norman 20 September 1866
Author: | George Warde Norman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5215 |
To Fritz Müller 25 September [1866]
Summary
Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.
Self-sterility.
Climbing plants.
Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5216 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 September [1866]
Summary
Susan Darwin still lives, but is dying.
Requests an Erica massoni to compare with Drosera.
On L. Agassiz’s "astonishing" view that Amazon Valley was filled with gigantic glacier. Asa Gray says LA is determined to cover the globe with glaciers in order to destroy "Darwinian views".
Excellent review of A. Murray [The geographical distribution of mammals] in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 902].
Frankland’s Royal Institution lecture ["On the source of muscular power" Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1862–6): 661–85].
Wallace’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5217 |
From George Bentham 25 September 1866
Summary
Replies to CD’s two memoranda, GB explains: 1. That he never said thistles do not produce seeds, but rather that the infinite majority of new plants are propagated from buds
2. That book-borrowing rules of the Linnean Library are not so stringent as the Librarian makes out.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5218 |
To William Bowman 26 September [1866]
Summary
Thanks WB for his paper ["Address in surgery", Br. Med. J. (1866): 186–97, read at British Medical Association annual meeting, 9 Aug 1866].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5219 |
To George Bentham 27 September [1866]
Summary
His memory deceived him about GB’s statement [on propagation of thistles].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 27 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 705–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5220 |
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 27 September 1866
Summary
Sends his paper ["On the glacial phenomena of Caithness", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 22 (1866): 261–81], which shows glaciation under marine conditions in Scotland.
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5221 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1866
Summary
Drosera and Erica massoni have been sent.
Had heard of Agassiz’s theory but not that CD’s theory had raised it.
JDH wrote the article on A. Murray.
Frankland’s lecture too much for him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 106–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5222 |
From Francis Trevelyan Buckland 29 September 1866
Summary
Sends copy of Land and Water, a journal he now edits. Has quit the Field. Asks CD to patronise his columns with queries, as other zoologists do.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 360 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5223 |
To Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [before 25 September 1866]
Summary
Asks her to see whether the flowers or leaves of Erica massoni are noted as glutinous in the Botanical Magazine.
Inquires about the pods of peony: are they brilliantly coloured and do birds eat them?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Date: | [before 25 Sept 1866] |
Classmark: | CUL (Add 4251: 336) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5203 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
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Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Grove, W. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Harrison, L. C. | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Wedgwood, L. C. | (2) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Grove, W. R. | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Norman, G. W. | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |