From H. W. Bates 22 March 1865
Summary
Expresses pleasure at signs of CD’s recovery.
HWB’s work on the identification of species of the genus Colobthea; relates the large number of modifications that occur in the sexual organs of closely allied species. Does not doubt that this contributes greatly to multiplication of species in nature.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4792 |
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 John Lubbock 12 June [1865]
Summary
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4860 |
From Thomas Rivers 6 January [1865]
Summary
Thanks CD for his paper on Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Astonished by CD’s powers of observation and perseverance.
His elms raised from three varieties of weeping elms are doing well.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4381 |
From William Duppa Crotch 10 April 1865
Summary
Supports Atlantis hypothesis.
Author: | William Duppa Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4811 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 27 March 1865
Summary
Sends copies of the Field containing all the pigeon articles [see 4785].
Luke Wells will undertake engravings for Variation.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4796 |
From Charles Lyell 16 January 1865
Summary
His view of Origin.
Belief of Duke of Argyll that substituting "variation" and "selection" for creation deifies them.
Thinks Argyll would accept evolution except for man.
A’s view of humming-birds.
Describes discussion with [Victoria,] Princess Royal of Prussia, about evolution.
New edition of Elements consistent with Origin.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 384–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4746 |
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 11, letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] and n. 14). CD evidently did not obtain seeds …
- … 11, letter to W. E. Darwin, [5 May 1863] and n. 6, and Correspondence vol. 12, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 …
- … 14 June 1865 ). ‘Climbing plants’ begins with an acknowledgment of Gray’s study of the movements of the tendrils of cucurbitaceous plants ( A. Gray 1858 ) for stimulating CD’s interest in the subject. CD had been regularly corresponding with Gray on this subject since 1863 (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 11, …
From J. D. Hooker 6 October 1865
Summary
On novels he has been reading: Eliot, Richardson, etc.
On Wallace, the Reader, and anthropology.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 37–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4910 |
From A. R. Wallace 31 January [1865]
Summary
Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.
Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4759 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1865]
Summary
Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.
His health has been wretched.
Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4769 |
From T. H. Huxley 29 May 1865
Summary
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4838 |
To T. H. Huxley [17 July 1865]
Summary
Has read Buffon; whole pages are like his own. But CD is not converted to non-belief. There is a fundamental distinction between Pangenesis and Buffon. Fears he may not resist publishing it, but will be cautious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [17 July 1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 221) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4872 |
From Asa Gray 17 January 1865
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747 |
From Samuel Butler 1 October 1865
Summary
Autobiographical letter describing how, when he could not conscientiously take orders, he went to New Zealand and has now returned to England to study art.
Fascinated and delighted by Origin
and is pleased that his pamphlet [Evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ] pleases CD.
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A1–2; Butler 1923, pp. 198–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4904 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 7 February 1865
Summary
MTM heard part of the abstract of CD’s paper on climbing plants, read at the Linnean Society on 2 Feb. Offers CD his opinion and information on the subject, which he has studied for many years.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4766 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11. For CD’s notice of the relationship between leaves and the stem axis as indicated by the Solanum petioles, see ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 43, 47, and 113–14. …
- … 14, and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to M. T. Masters, 26 February [1862] ). CD had considered the relationship between plant parts in 1864, also in relation to his work with climbing plants (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 …
From Fritz Müller [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865]
Summary
FM’s comments on Climbing Plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 and 31 Aug 1865 and 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Notes on some of the climbing-plants near Desterro, in South Brazil. By Herr Fritz Müller, in a letter to C. Darwin. [Read 7 December 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1866): 344–9. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881F |
From James Shaw 20 November 1865
Summary
Praises CD’s theory.
Comments on criticism of CD’s work by Duke of Argyll.
Beauty in nature as caused by sexual selection.
Author: | James Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4939 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 January [1865]
Summary
Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.
For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.
Does not quite agree about Reader.
Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?
CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 257a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4742 |
To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
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