From William Erasmus Darwin [January 1869]
Summary
A list of investments presumably belonging to CD.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Jan 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 262.11: 6 (EH 88206193) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6541A |
From George Cupples [4–10 November 1869]
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–10 Nov 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6970 |
To A. R. Wallace 21 October 1869
Summary
Anticipates that all their differences are fated to find expression in projected book on man.
Offers his early MS with useful references related to the distribution of animals. Hopes ARW’s book will not be "little".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 21 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 189–90); Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6951 |
To Fritz Müller 8 September [1869]
Summary
Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.
Experiments on self-sterility.
Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 8 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6881 |
To Fritz Müller 18 July [1869]
Summary
Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.
The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.
Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 18 July [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6835 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 November [1869]
Summary
Glad to know about C.B.
Thinks better of Nature than JDH does.
Likes Academy.
Is reading Anton Kerner on Tubocytisus [in Die Abhängigkeit der Pflanzen von Klima und Boden (1869)].
The genealogical tree reveals the very steps of the formation of the species.
Mlle Royer has brought out a third edition of her translation of the Origin without informing CD, so corrections to fourth and fifth English editions are lost. Has arranged for a new translator of the fifth English edition.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 19 Nov [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 159–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6997 |
From Anton Dohrn 30 December 1869
Summary
He has gone through the whole embryology of the Crustacea and has arrived at a pretty well-established genealogy of the whole class; has even tried to write a history of the whole tribe. Finds he cannot adopt the old separation of Orders in the Class; the limits between them are indistinct.
Would like to study embryology of Limulus. Asks CD’s help in obtaining a female specimen.
Outlines his proposal to establish a marine zoological station.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7038 |
From John Beddoe [22 August – 12 September 1869]
Summary
Results of CD’s examination of data subvert JB’s former inferences. Will send abstracts from the data for his paper on colour of hair of single and married women 35 to 45 years old ["On the supposed increasing prevalence of dark hair in England", Anthropol. Rev. 1 (1863): 310–12].
Author: | John Beddoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 Aug – 12 Sept 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: A13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6809 |
From A. W. Bennett to Nature 8 November 1869
Summary
Discusses cross-fertilisation in Vinca.
Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 8 Nov 1869 |
Classmark: | Nature 1 (1869): 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6978F |
To George Bentham 10 May [1869]
Summary
Sends a letter (and seeds) from Fritz Müller about a strange monstrous form of Begonia found wild in Brazil. Asks GB whether it is worth communicating to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 10 May [1869] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 680) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6743 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 June 1869
Summary
Recounts the trip back from St Petersburg – visits to botanic gardens and museums throughout Western Europe.
Pleased that CD admired Bentham’s address [see 6793]. JDH had read it in MS and modified some very heterodox passages about insularity. CD has hit the flaw in it.
F. A. W. Miquel is a convert.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 18–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6800 |
From Fritz Müller 18 October 1869
Summary
Describes experiments to test the fertility of Abutilon, which appears self-sterile,
and briefly mentions dichogamy in Eschscholzia.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B178, Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6943 |
From William Buckler [after 8 June 1869]
Summary
List giving the numbers of Lepidoptera of different species reared in 1869 and the proportions of the sexes [see Descent 1: 313].
Author: | William Buckler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 June 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 85: B127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6766 |
To Samuel Hubbard Scudder 15 September [1869]
Summary
Thanks SHS for papers he has sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Hubbard Scudder |
Date: | 15 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6893 |
From Max Schmidt 14 June 1869
Summary
Frankfurt Zoological Garden has only male mandrill. Does CD want description? Antwerp garden may have a pair.
Author: | Maximilian (Max) Schmidt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6781 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 Juni 1869. Sehr geehrter Herr! Mehrfache geschäftliche Reisen und Überhäufung mit Arbeiten haben mich bis jetzt verhindert Ihre geehrte Zuschrift vom 29 April zu beantworten und ich bitte dies freundlichst entschuldigen zu wollen. Leider bin ich auch jetzt nicht in der Lage, Ihnen die gewünschte Auskunft zu geben, da unser Garten nicht ein Paar ausgewachsene Mandrillen sondern nur einen männlichen Drill (Mormon leucophaeus) besitzt, welcher sich bereits seit 11 …
From Orange Judd & Co 21 April 1869
Summary
Reports on the sales of Variation; discusses the difficulties of inserting additions and corrections.
Author: | Orange Judd & Co. |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6709 |
From George Cupples 11 March 1869
Summary
Differences in size and weight in deerhounds, with tables of comparative weights according to sex. Promises information on weights of deerhound puppies. Effects of cross- and inbreeding.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 133–8, DAR 161: 282 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6657 |
From L. E. Becker 29 December 1869
Summary
Asks CD to which journal she should send her Lychnis paper and whether she may quote extracts from his letters to her.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7037 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 October 1869 ). A summary of Becker’s work on Lychnis , as reported at the Exeter meeting of the British Association, appeared in the 1869 volume of Journal of Botany ( Becker 1869b ); a quotation is included from a letter of CD’s to Becker that must have been written on 26 or 27 May 1863 ( Calendar no. 4185g, to be published in next supplement; see also Correspondence vol. 11, …
letter | (18) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |
Beddoe, John | (1) |
Bennett, A. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Müller, Fritz | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Nature | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Cupples, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Becker, L. E. | (1) |