From Ludwig Büchner 9 October [1868 or later]
Author: | Friedrich Karl Christian Ludwig (Ludwig) Büchner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct [1868 or later] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 355 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13783 |
From E. A. Darwin [before 11 October 1868]
Summary
C[harles?] P[arker?] says he has made a "fearful mistake", and the marriage cannot be; EAD hopes to come to CD next week.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5746 |
From B. D. Walsh [before 31 October 1868]
Summary
Beginning of extract from William Dell Hartman’s "Journal of the doings of Cic[ada?] septemdecim" [unidentified] in Pennsylvania in 1851.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 31 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5755 |
From Francis Darwin to Emma Darwin [after 16 October 1868]
Summary
Has been working with G. R. Crotch on stridulation. The sexual theory seems very shaky.
Is sending preparations of beetles.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [after 16 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5761 |
From E. A. Darwin [11 October 1868]
Summary
J. J. Sylvester reports George’s fellowship "the most enviable position on earth".
Charles [Parker?] "appears to be ruined".
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B62–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6219 |
To Henry Michael Jenkins [after 1 October 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Michael Jenkins |
Date: | [after 1 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6402 |
From Edward Blyth 1 October 1868
Summary
Gives CD a reference to one of his papers ["Remarks on the modes of variation of nearly affined species or races of birds", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 19 (1850): 221–9]
and discusses moulting in birds.
Quotes instance of an action by an elephant that apparently displays considerable intelligence.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6406 |
From George Robert Crotch 2 October [1868]
Summary
Bibliographical references on [stridulation in] Coleoptera. Finds no idea of sex has occurred to authors [i.e., they do not find the stridulating organs differing according to sex; cf. Descent 1: 378–85].
Author: | George Robert Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6407 |
From A. R. Wallace 4 October 1868
Summary
Sexual differences in coloration. Sexual selection versus natural selection as explanations. ARW continues to argue against sexual selection, saying that natural selection, in keeping the female dull for protection, would account for differences in sexual colouring more effectively than inheritance and partial transmission of sexually selected male colours. Colours of female birds of paradise. Protective coloration. Disagrees with CD on coincidence of hidden nests and bright colours of females.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B68–69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6408 |
From Edward Blyth 4 October 1868
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 100–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6409 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 October 1868
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 238–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6410 |
From Joseph Plimsoll 5 October 1868
Summary
A sermon.
Author: | Joseph Plimsoll |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6411 |
To A. R. Wallace 6 October [1868]
Summary
Sexual selection, protection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 6 Oct [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 162–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6412 |
To John Tyndall 7 October 1868
Summary
Asks JT to distribute some circulars about the work of Gustavus Hinrichs of Iowa, whom CD wishes to help.
Admires JT’s Norwich address [to Mathematics and Physics Section, BAAS meeting, Rep. BAAS 38: 1–6] and his Fortnightly Review paper on scientific discovery [7 (1867): 645–60].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 7 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 5 (EH: 88205943) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6413 |
From John Tyndall 9 October 1868
Summary
Gustavus Hinrichs is also a [not highly regarded] correspondent of JT’s; he will put GH’s papers on the table at Royal Institution to ease CD’s conscience.
Dined with the Asa Grays at Hooker’s. Told Mrs Gray that CD’s ill health was a benefit because it caused him to ponder a great deal.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6414 |
To Hermann Müller 9 October 1868
Summary
Pleased HM says good words for Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 431 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6415 |
From Adam Sedgwick 11 October 1868
Summary
Congratulates CD on election of his son [George] as a Fellow of Trinity College.
Describes his ill health.
Invites CD to visit Cambridge.
[Letter dated November in error.]
Author: | Adam Sedgwick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6416 |
From W. S. Dallas 12 October 1868
Summary
Will finish translation of Für Darwin in a week.
Asks CD to use his influence to get him appointed Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society [London].
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6417 |
To Adam Sedgwick 13 October 1868
Summary
Thanks AS for congratulations on George Darwin’s Trinity fellowship.
Reminiscence of his geological tour of North Wales with AS and the encouraging messages received during the Beagle voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 13 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | Mrs Romney Sedgwick (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6418 |
From Edward Wilson 14 October 1868
Summary
Encloses further replies from Australia to CD’s queries on expression. Wilson’s letter to CD enclosed the letter from Smyth with its enclosures (see S6314).
Author: | Edward Wilson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 125, DAR 186: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6419 |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Büchner, Ludwig | (1) |
Caton, J. D. | (1) |
Crotch, G. R. | (3) |
Dallas, W. S. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Glenie, S. O. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Nilsson, Sven | (1) |
Plimsoll, Joseph | (1) |
Price, John | (1) |
Sanday, Sam | (1) |
Scherzer, Karl von | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Weale, J. P. M. | (1) |
Weir, J. J. | (1) |
Wilson, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (2) |
Tyndall, John | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (41) |
Crotch, G. R. | (3) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (3) |
Tyndall, John | (3) |
Blyth, Edward | (2) |