From M. T. Masters 20 April 1866
Summary
Expects R. Caspary’s paper to be published soon.
Reports the conclusions of another of RC’s papers on the movement of tree branches due to cold [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Lond. (1866): 98–117]
and discusses a paper by H. Lecoq on the mountain flora of the Auvergne [Proc. Bot. Congr. (1866): 158–65]. He disagrees with CD on glaciation and its effect on geographical distribution.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5062 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 20 April [1866]
Summary
Is obliged to receive FH’s papers. The cases of Lopezia and Schizanthus are new to him.
In 1860 CD watched Bombus lapidarius sucking the flowers of Pedicularis sylvatica and saw what FH has described.
Has not yet read the paper on Salvia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1866] |
| Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 698) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5062A |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
| Masters, M. T. | (1) |
4.20 Frederick Waddy, caricature
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< Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy appeared in the journal Once a Week through 1872. It clearly emulated the more famous series in Vanity Fair, and indeed, Waddy’s drawing of Darwin has the same title or…
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- … < Back to Introduction A series of portrait caricatures drawn by Frederick Waddy …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … A celebrated author and divine, &c., &c. Page 420, 9 fifteen lines from top, …
St George Jackson Mivart
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In the second half of 1874, Darwin’s peace was disturbed by an anonymous article in the Quarterly Review suggesting that his son George was opposed to the institution of marriage and in favour of ‘unrestrained licentiousness’. Darwin suspected, correctly,…
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- … hope’ for certain preliminary restrictions, and that (p. 420) ‘we can only make a really successful …
