To Edward Blyth 10 December [1866]
Summary
Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4950 |
From Edward Blyth 13 [December] 1866
Summary
Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.
Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 [Dec] 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4975 |
From W. E. Darwin [1 December 1866]
Summary
William asks what to do about a complication in settling Aunt Catherine’s estate.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5021F |
To Fritz Müller [before 10 December 1866]
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | [before 10 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5261 |
From J. D. Hooker [December 1866?]
Summary
Asks CD to send W. R. Grove titles and place of publication of the Müller [Für Darwin (1864)] and Walsh (Walsh 1864–5) papers he referred to in his address [BAAS lecture at Nottingham, see 5135].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Dec 1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5288 |
To Charles Lyell 1 December [1866]
Summary
Thanks CL for copy of his "grand book" [Principles of geology, 10th ed., vol. 1 (1867)]. Congratulates him on additions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.322) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5289 |
To Anne Marsh-Caldwell 1 December [1866]
Summary
Mentions visit to E. A. Darwin.
Encloses note for Mr Corbet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne Caldwell; Anne Marsh; Anne Marsh-Caldwell |
Date: | 1 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.323) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5290 |
From Daniel Hanbury 1 December 1866
Summary
Wishes to consult Fritz Müller on pharmacological matters.
Author: | Daniel Hanbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5291 |
To Edouard Bornet 1 December 1866
Summary
Thanks JBEB for Papaver seeds. Has long wished to see some of the closely allied subspecies and hopes to make some crossing experiments with them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet |
Date: | 1 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 501, fol. 387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5292 |
From Fritz Müller 1 December 1866
Summary
Gives observations on orchid ovules ripening long after blooming.
Infertility with own pollen sometimes does and sometimes does not indicate dimorphism; gives observations on Ximenia, Eschscholtzia and Oncidium flexuosum.
Describes some striking seeds eaten by birds,
and some new dimorphic species.
Variation in Thillia.
Confirms CD’s suspicion that the lancet-fish [Amphioxus] lives in competition with invertebrates: it shares its habitat with a similar-looking Ophelia, which is quite unlike other annelids, just as the lancet-fish is unlike other fishes.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 99–102. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5292A |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 December [1866]
Summary
Is tempted to cite Mr Zurhorst’s case.
Hopes to send pigeon and fowl MS [of Variation] to press in a fortnight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5293 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 December 1866
Summary
Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.
"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."
Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.
Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].
Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.
Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.
Balfour Stewart on sunspots.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 114–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5294 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December [1866]
Summary
Is sending some plants and seeds to JDH.
Thanks Mrs Hooker for telling him of a life of his grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] of which he had not heard.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5295 |
To Linnean Society 7 December [1866]
Summary
Asks to have author’s spare copies of F. Müller’s article on climbing plants [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344] sent to him for forwarding to FM.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Linnean Society |
Date: | 7 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London, Misc. loose letters, case 1: C. Darwin (5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5297 |
To Miss Behrens 7 December 1866
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miss Behrens |
Date: | 7 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (Catalogue 13, 1994) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5297F |
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 8 December 1866
Summary
Sending annual Down charities cheque.
Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 234 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5298 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 10 December [1866]
Summary
WBT interested in ancestors of domestic guinea-fowl, ducks, and geese.
Egg colours in fowls.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5299 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1866]
Summary
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 308, 308b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5300 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 12 December [1866]
Summary
Gives his opinion on the ancestry of domestic ducks, geese, and guinea-fowl.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 12 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5301 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1866]
Summary
Plants arrived.
Delightful dinner at Lyell’s.
Will be interested in seeds passed through a fowl.
Wedgwood medallions were bought by a Miss W. [Sophy Wedgwood] of Leith Hill.
Lubbock’s account of a new centipede at Linnean Society gave rise to lively discussion by Busk and Huxley.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 118–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5302 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Becker, L. E. | (2) |
Boole, M. E. | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Behrens, Miss | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Boole, M. E. | (1) |
Bornet, Édouard | (1) |
Caldwell, Anne | (1) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lovegrove, Charles | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Marsh, Anne | (1) |
Marsh-Caldwell, Anne | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Turner, William | (2) |
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Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (50) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (5) |
Boole, M. E. | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |