From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1866]
Summary
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B52, 66–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3144 |
From Daniel Oliver [after 13 May 1866]
Summary
Gives CD some references to papers.
Reports improvement in his wife’s health.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 13 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4964 |
From H. E. Darwin [c. 10 May 1866]
Summary
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 10 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5075 |
To [John Gould?] [before 10 May 1866?]
Summary
Asks for the name of a hummingbird.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Gould |
Date: | [before 10 May 1866?] |
Classmark: | Jeff Weber, Rare Books (dealer) (October 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5075F |
To Julius von Haast 5 May [1866]
Summary
Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 5 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5079 |
To William Robinson 5 May [1866]
Summary
Writes a line of thanks; includes instructions on procedure for crossing experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Robinson |
Date: | 5 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (WRO/2/26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5080 |
From Asa Gray 7 May 1866
Summary
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5081 |
From Robert Caspary 7 May 1866
Summary
Thanks CD for invitation. Solicitous of CD’s health. Will let Hooker decide whether CD’s health will allow his visit.
[Alexander] Braun in poor health.
Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5082 |
To ? 10 May [1866?]
Summary
The apparent difference in arm lengths of compositors is due to a drooping shoulder. File-makers stand in a peculiar position and call one of their legs the hind leg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 10 May [1866?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5083 |
From J. T. Moggridge 10 May [1866]
Summary
Sends a box of orchids.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5084 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 10 May 1866
Summary
Encloses letter from H. B. Geinitz, who declines to handle translation of new edition of Origin. Recommends Julius Victor Carus. Also suggests Gustav von Leonhard as translator for Origin.
Discusses translation of Variation.
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5085 |
From John Gould 10 May 1866
Summary
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.
Author: | John Gould |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 20–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5086 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 11 May 1866
Summary
Sending his paper on tristyly in Oxalis.
Cannot attend botanical congress, where CD will be vice-president.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5087 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 May 1866]
Summary
Caspary wants to visit Down. CD would like to see him but dreads the exertion.
Pleased that JDH will get D.C.L. at Oxford.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 288 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5088 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 May 1866
Summary
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 71–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5089 |
To William Ewart Gladstone 14 May 1866
Summary
Memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the fellows of the Royal, Linnean, Geological, and Zoological Societies of London, stating the importance of separating the administration of the national natural history collections of the British Museum from that of the library and art collections, and placing it in the hands of one officer, immediately responsible to one of the Queen’s ministers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Ewart Gladstone |
Date: | 14 May 1866 |
Classmark: | Gunther 1975, p. 238 (facsimile of printed copy of memorial) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5090F |
To John Higgins 14 May 1866
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £262 8s. 8d.
Had not heard they had suffered so much from the cattle plague in Lincolnshire.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 14 May 1866 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5090G |
To J. D. Hooker 16 May [1866]
Summary
Glad to see Asa Gray’s letter.
Asks whether he may insert a sentence about Cape Verde alpine plants in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Fears "twaddle" may also be the word for his two chapters on cultivated plants. Asks for Crawfurd’s paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 289, 289b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5091 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 May [1866]
Summary
Has forwarded FH’s paper on Fumariaceae to horticultural congress. Comments on its findings.
Discusses forms of Oxalis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 16 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Klaus Groove (private collection); sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5092 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 May 1866]
Summary
W. H. Harvey is dead. His loss to science.
Will get a copy of Crawfurd’s paper. It was such trash he tore his up.
His letter to Asa Gray was about his [JDH’s] proof that America will have an aristocracy from interbreeding of wealth, intellect, and beauty; and the lower classes, not having time for politics, will leave them to the aforementioned.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 May 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5093 |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (3) |
Caspary, Robert | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
Gladstone, W. E. | (1) |
Gould, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Caspary, Robert | (2) |