To A. D. Bartlett 14 February [1865]
Summary
CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.
The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
Date: | 14 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4771 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
Summary
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 February 1865]
Summary
Why botanists will not subscribe to Falconer’s bust with enthusiasm.
Scott has been offered curatorship at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Feb 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4773 |
From George Busk 20 February 1865
Summary
On a proposed meeting of friends of the deceased Hugh Falconer to decide on a memorial to him. Invites CD’s support.
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 380 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4774 |
To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865]
Summary
Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.
Also mentions account of Heer’s work
and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.
Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4775 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 27 February [1865]
Summary
Wants his fowl MS.
Will shortly return WBT’s skulls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 27 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4776 |
From J. D. Hooker [27 February 1865?]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Feb 1865?] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4777 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 [March 1865]
Summary
Asks for return of page about pigeon crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 [Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4779 |
From Frederick Ransome 6 March 1865
Author: | Frederick Ransome |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4780 |
From Frederick Ransome 9 March 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his consideration in meeting his convenience respecting the payment of the £100.
Author: | Frederick Ransome |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4781 |
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1865]
Summary
Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4782 |
From Rudolph Heine 10 March 1865
Summary
Admires Origin, but CD does not consider hereditary law of use and disuse.
Author: | Rudolph Heine |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4783 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 13 March 1865
Summary
Will return page on pigeons.
Has concluded his crossing experiments and found no trace of hybrid sterility or loss of fertility.
The Field is publishing a series of papers on different pigeon varieties [24 (1864): 366, 395, 459; 25 (1865): 115, 139, 155, 228, 258].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4785 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]
Summary
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 14 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786 |
To Rudolph Heine 16 March [1865]
Summary
Is pleased to hear of Dr Heine’s interest in Origin. Questions whether Dr Heine’s law of inheritance can be demonstrated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rudolph Heine |
Date: | 16 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (23 November 2011); J. A. Stargardt (dealer) (26 March 1992) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786F |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [28 February – 5 March 1865]
Summary
Encloses some poultry feathers.
Will read over and return CD’s MS on fowls. Has been delayed by an eye injury.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Feb – 5 Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4787 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [March 1865]
Summary
Thanks for Thomson’s and JDH’s views on Scott’s paper. Will send it back with advice and explanations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 264 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4788 |
From Francis Trevelyan Buckland 18 March 1865
Summary
Introduces Cholmondely Pennell of the Admiralty, who wants to speak to CD about a literary matter.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 359 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4789 |
From George Stewardson Brady 19 March 1865
Summary
CD’s statement in Origin that clover is utterly dependent on humble-bee for fertilisation has been questioned by his friend’s evidence of visits by other insects. Asks CD’s opinion.
Author: | George Stewardson Brady |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4790 |
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