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 |
To George Henslow 12 June [1866]
Summary
Returns proofs of GH’s paper ["On hybridization among plants", Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13] with his criticisms. Prefers that GH not state that CD has read the proofs.
Does C. V. Naudin really say that ovules (not seed) of hybrid Luffa and Cucumis are imperfect?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | 12 June [1866] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5118 |
To James Shaw 24 November [1866]
Summary
Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 24 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5284A |
To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli 12 June [1866]
Summary
Comments on CWvN’s Die Entstehung und Begriff [der Naturhistorischen Art (1864)].
Discussion of beauty of flowers in new edition of Origin not based on CWvN’s article.
Comments on CWvN’s argument that flower structures are not due to natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
Date: | 12 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5119 |
To Thomas Laxton 3 November [1866]
Summary
Has examined TL’s crossed peas. Observes that in several lots crossed peas are smooth, like paternal stock, not wrinkled like maternal stock. Is this a result of mere variation, peculiar culture, or pollen of the father?
Encloses queries [missing].
Intends planting peas at once if TL approves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Laxton |
Date: | 3 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5267 |
From Ernst Haeckel 28 January 1866
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with German scientists.
Comments on attitudes of German scientists toward CD’s theory.
Names several scientists who exchanged photographs: Braun, Virchow, Leydig, and Dohrn.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4985 |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 January [1866]
Summary
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4980 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 24 January 1866]
Summary
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4979 |
From Fritz Müller [2 November 1866]
Summary
Sends his observations on sterility of Eschscholzia,
on Oxalis,
and on recently found dimorphic plants.
Sends specimen of Hedyotis [see Forms of flowers, p. 133].
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Nov 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: B59, DAR 142: 100, 101, 105, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 93–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5264 |
To Charles Lyell [3 March 1866]
Summary
Has returned memorial to Chancellor of Exchequer; thanks CL for his note.
Lengthy remarks on cool period. Did not know of CL’s interest. New facts in new German and English [4th] editions of Origin will be too late for CL’s use. CD’s ten-year-old MS on cool period is available.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Mar 1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.315) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5025 |
To W. E. Darwin 19 [June 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 19 [June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5125 |
To Julius von Haast 5 May [1866]
Summary
Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 5 May [1866] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5079 |
To B. D. Walsh [19] April [1866]
Summary
CD has followed Lyell’s advice and avoided controversy over Origin but encourages BDW to attack S. H. Scudder and others who argue foolishly or misquote him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | [19] Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5061 |
From Asa Gray 7 August 1866
Summary
Appleton’s will not print a new edition of Origin.
AG has read sheets of new English edition [4th] and is much pleased by the passage on Richard Owen in the historical sketch.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5184 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14. Gray alludes to experiments performed by his colleague at Harvard University, Jeffries Wyman , in order to test the claims of Louis Pasteur to have disproved the theory of spontaneous generation (see Wyman 1862 and 1867). Gray had previously defended Wyman as an accurate observer in the context of debates over spontaneous generation (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1866]
Summary
A confounded cock ground the crimson seeds up so CD could not find them in its excrement. CD is puzzled by how seeds can be disseminated if merely ground up by birds. Perhaps like acorns from seeds accidentally dropped by birds?
A woodcock’s leg with dry clay clinging to it, from which CD has grown a microscopical rush.
Spencer would have been wonderful if he had trained himself to observe more.
On New Zealand flora and connection with Australia.
Difficulty of speculating about the amount of organic chemical change at different periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 308, 308b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5300 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11). See Origin , p. 399. CD is probably referring to the argument made by William Branwhite Clarke and added to the fourth edition of Origin , that New Zealand and New Caledonia should be considered as ‘appurtenances’ of Australia (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from W. B. Clarke, 16 January 1862 and nn. 13 and 14, …
From Asa Gray 10 October 1866
Summary
Does not think he can persuade American publishers to reprint [4th English ed. of] Origin in U. S. Suggests Murray supply copies of it and the new book [Variation] to the American market.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5237 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11). Acorus calamus is native to North America ( Mabberley 1997 ). CD had reported to Gray the early results of his experiments on the relative growth and vigour of seedlings raised from cross-fertilised and self-fertilised plants; these indicated that the crossed seedlings were significantly larger than the seedlings from self-fertilised plants (see letter to Asa Gray, 10 September [1866] and nn. 13 and 14). …
To Charles Lyell 8 March [1866]
Summary
Gives details of enclosed MS on cool period. Mentions Hooker’s opposed "axis of the earth" view. Causes of glacial period are beyond CD; "cannot believe change in land and water being more than a subsidiary agent".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 Mar [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.316) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5028 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 of CD’s ‘big book’ on species are in the Darwin Archive–CUL (DAR 100: 109–10). CD also refers to the letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 6). Hooker’s notes on the chapter are reproduced as a memorandum with that letter in Correspondence vol. 6, and in Natural selection , pp. 575–7. A copy of the manuscript of the chapter, with annotations by Hooker, is in the Darwin Archive–CUL ( DAR 14: …
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Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Henslow, George | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Laxton, Thomas | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Nägeli, C. W. von | (1) |
Shaw, James | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Walsh, B. D. | (1) |