From E. A. Darwin 17 [July 1867]
Summary
Wynne [gardener] suggests he should be paid from the money from the sale of the Mount, but EAD suggests an annual subscription instead.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 [July 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5369 |
To August Kanitz 3 July [1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | August Kanitz |
Date: | 3 July [1867] |
Classmark: | C. G. Boerner in Leipzig (dealer) (4–6 December 1911) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5576F |
From J. D. Hooker 4 July 1867
Summary
Has been too busy to write. Is leaving for Switzerland that evening.
A friend, who ran away from home as a boy, has two sons who have done the same several times. Is the case worth investigating for CD?
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 July 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 169–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5577 |
To Ernst Haeckel 4 July [1867]
Summary
Congratulates EH on approaching marriage.
Sorry he will not visit in autumn.
Glad EH is re-examining Protoamoeba but puzzled to think what he can find.
Describes newspaper account of criticism by Agassiz of Generelle Morphologie.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 4 July [1867] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5578 |
To A. R. Wallace 6 July [1867]
Summary
Acknowledgment of article on mimicry [Westminster Rev. 88 (1867): 1–43].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 6 July [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5579 |
From J. P. M. Weale 7 July 1867
Summary
Has distributed CD’s questions on expression. Observations on the natives.
Floral structure encouraging cross-pollination in Polygala.
Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5581 |
From James Paget 9 July 1867
Summary
Will seek answers to CD’s questions on expression. Observing patients’ blushing. Is CD interested in the platysma during screaming under chloroform?
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 July 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5582 |
From Charles Lyell 16 July 1867
Summary
Curious to read what CD will say on man and his races.
Has CD seen Ludwig Rütimeyer’s Ueber die Herkunft unserer Thierwelt (Rütimeyer 1867c)?
Discusses J. F. W. Herschel’s theory of active volcanoes existing at the junction of continents and the sea.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1867 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5582F |
From Salt & Sons 17 July 1867
Author: | Salt & Sons |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5583 |
From Fritz Müller 17 July 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for sending F. H. G. Hildebrand’s book on fertilisation [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)]
and J. D. Hooker’s "Lecture on insular floras".
Describes work on Rubiaceae, Oxalis,
and on crossing orchids. Lists crosses made.
As for CD’s query concerning sexual differences among invertebrates, he gives the case of the local amphipod, Brachyscellus diversilor. Male differs in shape of antennae and coloration.
Also mentions local fish in sea near Sta Catharina which emits melodic tone to attract females.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 July 1867 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 130–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5583A |
To Charles Lyell 18 July [1867]
Summary
Chapter 12 [of Variation] finished;
too late to include information on six-fingered men. Plans for book on man [Descent].
Mentions coral reefs of Tahiti.
Discusses volcanic islands; volcanoes of the Cordillera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 July [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.331) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5584 |
From J. D. Hooker [27 July 1867]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 July 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 171 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5586 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 July [1867]
Summary
Pleased JDH will come next Saturday.
Asks him to return Adam Bede.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 July [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5587 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 July [1867]
Summary
Plans to come to Down on Saturday.
Returned Adam Bede two years ago.
Wishes CD would return Tylor’s Early history of mankind
and his own Himalayan journal with his notes, "both of which I have lent, i.e., lost".
Lyell well and full of "Insular" difficulties which he will propound.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 172–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5588 |
To William Bowman 30 July [1867]
Summary
Plans to write a book on expression. Questions WB on orbicular muscle in screaming infant and function of muscle contractions in looking at a distant object.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 July [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 8 (EH 8820 6060) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5589 |
From Hermann Julius Meyer 30 July 1867
Summary
Sends fourth volume of A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben. First three sent at V. O. Kovalevsky’s request. Asks CD’s support for an English edition, since this is the first extensive popular work based on CD’s theory.
Author: | Hermann Julius Meyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 169 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5590 |
To Fritz Müller 31 July [1867]
Summary
Has abstracted for insertion in his sterility chapter [Variation 2, ch. 18], FM’s observations of plant’s pollen being poisonous to itself.
Occurrence of mimetic plants.
Colouring of Planariae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 31 July [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5591 |
To Henrietta Emma Darwin 26 July [1867]
Summary
Prefers not to send her proof-slips of the present chapter [of Variation], which has been enormously altered, but will be glad to have her see slips and revises in future.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Date: | 26 July [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5585 |
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