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From George Henslow   [after 19 April 1866]

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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

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  • … of good Pods. homo ( 5 ): Hetero ( 14 ) ( 6 ) ( 11 )— Have you ever noticed a sort of …

To George Henslow   12 June [1866]

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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

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  • … George Henslow, [13 or 14 June 1866] . In his letter to CD of 11 June [1866] , Henslow had …

To James Shaw   24 November [1866]

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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

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  • 11 February [1866] and [23 or 30 April 1866], and the letters from James Shaw , [6–10 February 1866] , 14  …

To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli   12 June [1866]

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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

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  • … vol.  11, letter to Daniel Oliver, [12 April 1863] , and letter from Daniel Oliver, 14  …

To Thomas Laxton   3 November [1866]

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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

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  • … the packets marked 7. 10. 11. 12. 13. & the purple pea N o . 14. I never saw anything more …

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

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  • … vol.  11, letter from Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863  and nn.  6–14, and Correspondence …

To Ernst Haeckel   20 January [1866]

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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

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  • 14 September 1866, the date appearing at the end of the foreword; it has never been translated into English. See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 11  …

From W. B. Tegetmeier   [after 24 January 1866]

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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

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  • … letter to W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 14 March [1865] and nn.  11 and 12). CD had wanted Frederick …

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

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  • 11 "  3 "  3 " 6 "  6 "  12 "  3 "  20 " 6 "  6 "  12 "  3–4 "  1 "  2) 6 "  6 "  12 "  4 "  25 " 6 "  7 "  12 "  3 "  1 " 6 "  7 "  13 "  4 "  1 " 6 "  7 "  14 "  …
  • 11 " 3 " 3 " 6 " 6 " 12 " 3 " 20 " 6 " 6 " 12 " 3–4 " 1 " 2) 6 " 6 " 12 " 4 " 25 " 6 " 7 " 12 " 3 " 1 " 6 " 7 " 13 " 4 " 1 " 6 " 7 " 14 " …

To Charles Lyell   [3 March 1866]

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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

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  • 11 of his ‘big book’ on species, ‘Geographical distribution’, were written in 1856. The manuscript CD refers to is in the Darwin Archive–CUL, DAR 14: …

To W. E. Darwin   19 [June 1866]

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Different forms of flowers of Rhamnus.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  19 [June 1866]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5125

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  • 14–50). Information on the white broom ( Cytisus multiflorus ) may have been in the missing portion of the letter from W.  E.  Darwin, [7 May – 11  …

To Julius von Haast   5 May [1866]

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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

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  • 14 (1865): 513. CD had expressed his concerns about the poor representation of natural history on the Royal Society council in a letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [31 December 1865] ( Correspondence vol.  13). See also Correspondence vol.  11, …

To B. D. Walsh   [19] April [1866]

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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

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  • 14, Appendix IV); the book was not published until November 1866 (see letter from John Murray, 18 July [1866] ). On the use of stereotypes in the production of the American edition of Origin in 1860, see the letter to Asa Gray, 16 April [1866] and n.  11. …

From Asa Gray   7 August 1866

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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

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  • 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]

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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

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  • 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

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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

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  • 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]

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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

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  • 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: …