From William Turner [after 28 April 1866?]
Summary
Observations on a bird that used a stone to break open a snail.
Author: | William Turner |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13850 |
From John Walton [after 4 April 1866]
Summary
Reports of a tooth found in the testicle of a horse.
Hares are very fleet in countries in which greyhound coursing is developed, slow in those in which no greyhounds are kept.
Author: | John Walton, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13851 |
To [H. B. Jones?] 13 April [1866]
Summary
CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 13 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 December 1973) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13868 |
From Harriet Lubbock [April? 1866]
Summary
Local matters.
Author: | Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr? 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4960 |
To James Shaw [23 April 1866]
Summary
Thanks for sending facts on birds admiring themselves; mentions use in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | [23 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.317) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5006 |
From George Henslow [after 19 April 1866]
Summary
Thanks for explanation on relative fertility of homostyled and heterostyled crosses in Primula. Sends an intermediate form with small stamens, but stigma only slightly above stamens.
Election as Botanical Lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 19 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5044 |
From Rudolf Suchsland 2 April 1866
Summary
In response to a letter from RS’s father [translation enclosed] Schweizerbart has suggested H. B. Geinitz revise Bronn’s edition of the Origin, but RS doubts he is suitable.
Author: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 272 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5045 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 April [1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 282, 282b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5046 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 April 1866]
Summary
Reference to description of Begonia phyllomaniaca.
Thanks for the explicit account of Pangenesis. Thinks he now follows CD’s ideas but Pangenesis is very difficult and speculative.
Oliver has lost his little girl.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 69–70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5047 |
From George Henslow 7 April 1866
Summary
Sends copies of Science gossip and The leisure hour.
Enjoyed visit.
His criticism of Primula fertility referred to table 2 [Collected papers 2: 56] where weight of seeds produced from good pods by long-styled homostylous cross and short-styled heterostylous cross are virtually identical.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5048 |
From James Samuelson 8 April 1866
Summary
Pleased CD does not consider review of his works prejudiced [Anon., "Darwin and his teachings", Q. J. Sci. 3 (1866): 151–76].
Supports gradual development of species over time.
Confused by the metaphysical view implied in the analogy between a creative power that has made new species and artificial selection governed by human reason (Origin, 3d ed., p. 492).
Doubts natural selection.
Cites his discussion of the origin of Infusoria [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 14 (1865): 546–7].
Author: | James Samuelson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5049 |
To Fritz Müller [9 and] 15 April [1866]
Summary
Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.
Fertilisation of Aristolochia.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].
Is preparing new edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 and 15 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5050 |
To J. D. Hooker [9 April 1866]
Summary
Sad about Oliver’s loss.
JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].
Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5051 |
From J. E. Gray 9 April 1866
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5052 |
From E. A. Darwin 10 April [1866]
Summary
Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.
Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".
Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B42–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5053 |
From William Reeves 10 April 1866
Summary
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Author: | William Reeves |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5053A |
To J. D. Hooker [5 April 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Apr 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 286 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5054 |
To Rudolf Suchsland 4 April 1866
Summary
Cannot support another edition of Origin, so unable to send English pages. Suggests some of his other works that might be worth translating into German.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland |
Date: | 4 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (16 December 2010); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5054F |
From Friedrich Rolle 12 April 1866
Summary
Gustav von Leonhard and Hans Bruno Geinitz’s Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie [1862–79] unfriendly to CD’s theory.
Lists various German publications dealing with CD’s theory.
Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5055 |
From J. E. Gray 13 April 1866
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5056 |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Gray, J. E. | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Suchsland, Rudolf | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Suchsland, Rudolf | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Henslow, George | (4) |
Suchsland, Rudolf | (4) |
Bence Jones, Henry | (2) |