From Asa Gray [25 February 1868 or later]
Summary
Discusses arrangements for American edition of Variation.
Observations on apparently inherited instinct in a dog.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Feb 1868 or later] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2563 |
To J. B. Baillière et ses fils 29 February [1868]
Summary
Sends stamps to the value of 1s. 1d. and asks for parcel to be sent to 6 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | J. B. Baillière et ses fils |
| Date: | 29 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 698, 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4415F |
From William Blenkiron Jr [c. February 1868?]
Summary
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
| Author: | William Blenkiron, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. Feb 1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 83: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5340 |
To A. D. Bartlett 16 February [1868]
Summary
Asks ADB to perform experiment on colour perception in bower-bird.
Asks for rabbit specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5401 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 February [1868]
Summary
THH’s offer to read proof of essay on man encourages CD to write with satisfaction instead of a vague dread.
Begs Mrs Huxley not to forget corrugator supercilii in a crying child.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 260) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5408 |
From Edward Blyth [after 3 February 1868]
Summary
Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 3 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 210 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5750 |
From Daniel Oliver [before February 1868]
Summary
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 81 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5824F |
From C. S. Bate [17 February 1868]
Summary
On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.
| Author: | Charles Spence Bate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 82: A61–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5826 |
From J. Daly [before 9 February 1868]
Summary
Corrections [incorporated in 2d issue of Variation].
| Author: | J Daly |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 9 Feb 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 195.1: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5827 |
To Reviewer [February–April 1868?]
Summary
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [Feb–Apr 1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5829 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1868
Summary
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5831 |
From William Bowman 1 February 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5832 |
From D. Appleton & Co. to Asa Gray 1 February 1868
Summary
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
| Author: | D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5833 |
To J. V. Carus 1 February [1868]
Summary
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834 |
To William Lonsdale 1 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Lonsdale |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Murch 1893, p. 437 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5834A |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1868]
Summary
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 44–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5835 |
From Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff 3 February 1868
Summary
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
| Author: | Albrecht Bernstorff, Graf von Bernstorff |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5836 |
From W. D. Fox 3 February [1868]
Summary
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 186 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5837 |
From Edward Wilson 4 February 1868
Summary
Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
| Author: | Edward Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 122 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5838 |
From John Edward Gray 4 February 1868
Summary
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
| Author: | John Edward Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5839 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (60) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (7) |
| Gray, J. E. | (5) |
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Blyth, Edward | (3) |
| Bartlett, A. D. | (1) |
| Bates, H. W. | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
| Buckland, Frank | (2) |
| Bush, John | (1) |
| Carus, J. V. | (2) |
| Caspary, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (79) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| J. B. Baillière et ses fils | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
| Lee, Henry | (1) |
| Lonsdale, William | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| McLachlan, Robert | (1) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
| Newton, Alfred | (1) |
| Noble, T. S. | (1) |
| Rütimeyer, Ludwig | (1) |
| Salt, G. M. | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
| Shaw, James | (1) |
| Stainton, H. T. | (3) |
| Stokes, G. G. | (3) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (4) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Trimen, Roland | (2) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Weir, J. J. | (2) |
| Wilson, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (139) |
| Dallas, W. S. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Bates, H. W. | (6) |
| Gray, J. E. | (6) |
