From B. D. Walsh 17 July 1866
Summary
On H. A. Dubois’ attack on "Darwin, Huxley and Lyell"
and H. J. Clark’s Mind in nature [1865].
BDW’s work [on Cynipidae].
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5159 |
From Asa Gray 18 July 1866
Summary
Appleton’s cannot alter their plates so as to reproduce revised work [Origin, 4th ed.]. Has made it clear that CD could not do otherwise than object strenuously to course they intend to pursue, and has asked them to return the sheets. Wishes CD’s publisher would supply U. S. market with large numbers of copies, as the English edition could well compete with any American one. Encloses [statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin to 1 February 1866].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 149–150); DAR 159: 80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5160 |
From John Murray 18 July [1866]
Summary
Proposes to delay issue [of 4th ed. of Origin] until November to obtain better market conditions. Now printing 1250 copies.
Explains practice of not cutting pages is due to propensity of English public to read books without buying them.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 336 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5161 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [July 1866]
Summary
Asks help in naming a lupin, enclosed. Nurseryman said parties who make experiments should find the names. He might have added "and not trouble their friends".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [July 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 293 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5162 |
To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg 22 July [1866?]
Summary
Thanks CGE for two papers and for his assistance of many years ago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
| Date: | 22 July [1866?] |
| Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenberg, Nr. 321) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5163 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 22 July [1866]
Summary
Points out an error in proof-sheets of Hildebrand’s paper on Corydalis cava (Hildebrand 1866d) and suggests some improvements to the English.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 22 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5163F |
From John Murray 23 July [1866]
Summary
Will attend to CD’s wishes regarding six presentation copies [of Origin, 4th ed.] for England and America.
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 337 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5164 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1866]
Summary
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 July 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (letters): 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5165 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 24 July 1866
Summary
Assures CD of his belief in descent from his first reading of Origin.
Describes a case of dichogamy.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 204; DAR 49: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5166 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 July [1866]
Summary
His reasons for rejecting Atlantis hypothesis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 July [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 294, 294b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5167 |
From J. D. Hooker 31 July 1866
Summary
Questions for his lecture on "Insular floras".
Comments on CD’s criticism of Atlantis. Has no fixed opinion on continental extensions. Great objections to hypotheses of CD and Forbes: botanical to CD’s; geological to Forbes’s. Will point out that natural selection is necessary to both hypotheses.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 81–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5168 |
From Ellen Frances Lubbock to H. E. Darwin [28 July? 1866]
Summary
John Lubbock wants a copy of Origin (4th ed.) for Philip Norman.
| Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
| Addressee: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | [28 July? 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5204 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Currey, Frederick | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Admiralty | (1) |
| Bentham, George | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
