From B. J. Sulivan 31 May [1865]
Summary
Would like to call on CD for an hour or so before leaving London to settle in Bournemouth.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 285 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4844 |
To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]
Summary
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4916 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
From John Scott 10 April 1865
Summary
Comments on CD’s Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31]
and on H. Crüger’s orchid paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35].
May take position at Calcutta Botanic Garden.
Regrets he cannot be elected to Linnean Society.
Pleased Asa Gray has commented on JS’s paper.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4810 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … letters from John Scott , [after 12] April [1863] and 21 May [1863] , and Correspondence …
- … Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John Scott, 19 March 1864 and n. 21). He also sent …
- … 12 June 1865 (see Freeman 1977 , p. 117). In a missing letter to Scott (see n. 16, above), CD probably discussed his observations on the cleistogamic flowers of Leersia oryzoides (see letter from John Scott, 21 …
- … 12–16, and Orchids 2d ed. , pp. 167–71). Scott had taken a position at Rungbee, a Cinchona plantation near Darjeeling, India, in December 1864 (see letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 and n. 7). Thomas Anderson was superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [17 February 1865] and n. 14. See letter from John Scott, 20 January 1865 . The letters from John Scott of 21 …
To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]
Summary
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 20 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4895 |
To Fritz Müller 10 August [1865]
Summary
Has read and admires FM’s work on species.
Observations on Crustacea are good and original; asks FM to dissect and check some of CD’s observations on cirripedes.
Has sent "Climbing plants" paper [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 10 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881 |
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 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 [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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John …
- … 28 August 1864, arriving 21 December 1864 (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter to J. H. …
- … 21 July 1865 ); CD may have given Hooker the manuscript during his visit to Down House between 4 and 6 March 1865. Thomson was based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while collaborating with Hooker on material for a new Flora Indica (see L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 12). …
From Fritz Müller 12 August 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his paper on climbing plants. Lists the many genera that he has found in his area in a short period since reading CD’s paper. [See 4881.]
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Aug 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 72–3. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881A |
From J. D. Hooker 1 January 1865
Summary
Forwards H. T. Stainton letter for reply.
Finds many Cucurbita have tendrils with sticking ends.
The "potentiality of so many organs in plants to play so many parts is one of the most wonderful of your discoveries . . . one day it will itself play a prodigious part in the interpretation of both morphological and physiological facts".
Is disgusted with Sabine’s address [see 4708] because of its mutilation of what JDH wrote.
THH’s slashing leader in Reader ["Science and ""Church policy"" ", 4 (1864): 821] – as usual he destroys all in his path.
Encloses letter from G. H. K. Thwaites with a message for CD [see encl].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 1–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Directors’ Correspondence 162: 224 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4734 |
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 B. D. Walsh 27 March [1865]
Summary
Comments on BDW’s papers ["On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists", Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 207–49; "On insects inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow", ibid. 3 (1864): 543–644]; much is new to CD.
Asks about wide-ranging insect genera,
Rocky Mt. wingless insects,
willow hybrids,
galls,
and other subjects.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 27 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | Field Musuem of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4797 |
From John Scott 20 January 1865
Summary
Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].
Describes his situation in Calcutta.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4751 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Scott, 21 September [1863] ). In his letter of 16 May [1864] ( Correspondence vol. 12), …
- … 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 30 August 1864 , and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, [26 January 1865] ). Scott sent CD a draft of a paper on Verbascum that he had prepared while sailing to India; CD passed the manuscript on to Hooker for comments, and it was eventually returned to Scott (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] , letter to J. D. Hooker, 16 [March 1865] , and letter from John Scott, 21 …
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 12, letters to B. D. Walsh, 21 October [1864] and 4 December [ …
- … 12 (1863): 100–9, 275–88, 367–81; 13 (1864): 43–56, 144–64; 14 (1864): 11–24; 15 (1865): 213–25, 382–94; 16 (1865): 101–13, 167–82, 308–14; 17 (1866): 31–42, 191–202, 288–303, 367–73; 425–35. Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 …
From Julius von Haast 27 September 1865
Summary
Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.
Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.
Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4900 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 21 July [–7? August 1863] and n. 13, and letter from Emma Darwin to Julius von Haast, 12 …
- … 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 , and H. F. von Haast 1948 , pp. 199–219). For Haast’s description of the moraines, see J. F. J. von Haast 1879 , pp. 93–4. For CD’s interest in Haast’s earlier report on New Zealand glaciers, see Correspondence vol. 12, …
To Charles Lyell 22 January [1865]
Summary
Criticises Duke of Argyll’s address [to the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1864)] and demurs on Argyll’s "new birth" theory.
Agrees with CL on beauty.
Enjoyed hearing of Princess Royal’s discussion [on Darwinism].
CD’s illness.
CL’s advice on chapter [of Variation] on dogs was excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Jan [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4752 |
From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Sends a paper ["Über das Holz einiger um Desterro wachsender Kletterpflanzen", Botanische Zeitung 24 (1866): 57–60, 65–9].
Believes species of sponge with different mineral spiculae are descended from a form with organic spiculae.
Reports observations on motions of Linum stalks following the sun.
Regards Anelasma as a connecting form between cirripedes and Rhizocephala.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 74–6. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912A |
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 B. D. Walsh 12 November 1865
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s paper on "Climbing plants".
Mentions Asa Gray’s complimentary notice in Silliman’s Journal [Am. J. Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82].
His difficulty in understanding how males of Daphnia or any other genus can produce eggs. If there is no impregnation, how can there be sexual organs? Why call one form male and another female?
He has sent CD his paper on "the new Potato Bug".
Will soon send "On Phytophagi Species & Unity of Coloration". [phytophagic!?]
Complaints about practices of the English Post Office.
His current research and description of the rationale of his experiments.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Riley bequest of 1948) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4934A |
letter | (32) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Müller, Fritz | (4) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Walsh, B. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |
Walsh, B. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |