From Charles Shaw 3 October 1865
Summary
Admiral FitzRoy’s daughters by his first marriage have been left without means. The largest subscription to the fund has been £100.
| Author: | Charles Shaw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4908 |
From J. D. Hooker [23] December 1865
Summary
No one believes in Karsten.
Surprised by CD’s observations that illegitimate crosses within a species produce hybrid-like offspring.
JDH’s scepticism of Scott’s observations.
On proposing James Hector vs Julius von Haast for Royal Society; on learned society honours.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23] Dec 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 47–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4954 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … p. 324). Hooker visited Vienna in 1856 ( Correspondence vol. 6, letter to J. D. …
- … 1856 appeared in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles ( Botanique ) 7 (1857): 229–46. See letter …
- … 1856 and Radlkofer 1857 , pp. 250–1). Hooker had visited Naudin and Decaisne in Paris in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter …
To W. B. Tegetmeier 2 June [1865]
Summary
Has lost time through illness.
Suggests an experiment to see whether the progeny of a pigeon cross are affected by a previous impregnation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 2 June [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4848 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … of Wingfield and Johnson 1856–7, if CD thought fit (see letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, [ …
- … letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, [7 April 1865] . A notice of Tegetmeier’s presentation of living specimens and preparations of skulls of Polish fowl at the 25 November 1856 …
- … 1856–7 and in Variation. Owing to the delay in publishing Variation , CD was able to use Tegetmeier 1867 in all his references to poultry, including information from Hewitt and Ballance. Tegetmeier 1867 was originally published in fifteen instalments in 1866 and 1867. CD’s unbound annotated parts are in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 800–3). See also Correspondence vol. 14, letter …
From George Henslow 1 November 1865
Summary
Has made observations on pollination mechanism in Medicago sativa [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 327–9], which his brother-in-law [J. D. Hooker] would accept. Wants to check that CD has not already made them.
Also sends interpretation of Salvia.
His observations come from following CD’s generalisation in Origin [p. 79] on necessity of out-crossing.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4928 |
To Charles Lyell 21 February [1865]
Summary
Belated thanks to CL for copy of Elements. Praises CL’s work. Notes especially Atlantic continents, the Weald, the Purbeck beds, glacial action, and the formation of lake-basins.
Also mentions account of Heer’s work
and CD’s disagreement with J. D. Forbes.
Suggests that CL have Murray print a two-volume edition [of the Elements].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.306) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4775 |
To B. D. Walsh 9 July [1865]
Summary
Thanks BDW for his interesting letter [4839] and for the case of Panagaeus, a genus almost sacred to him since Cambridge days.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 9 July [1865] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4867 |
To A. D. Bartlett 14 February [1865]
Summary
CD sends thanks for feather of the Gallus.
The rabbit arrived safely, but unfortunately the entrails had been removed; if ADB catches the other one, CD would like it sent unmutilated.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1865] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4771 |
To Abraham Dee Bartlett 30 January [1865]
Summary
Orders that one of CD’s Porto Santo rabbits be killed and sent to him.
Asks whether ADB has got young from mating these with females of other breeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Dee Bartlett |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Joseph Bradley Murray Collection (MS 363) Box 1, folder 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4758 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 March [1865]
Summary
Asks for WBT’s help in arranging for woodcuts to illustrate pigeon chapters of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 Mar [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4786 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 6, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 15 March [1856] , and Variation 1: …
- … 1856–7 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 798–800). Weir had also designed the illustrations for Wingfield and Johnson 1853. According to CD’s Classed account book (Down House MS), CD made a payment of £3 3 s. to Tegetmeier for ‘wood cuts’ on 24 January 1866. See also letter …
From J. D. Hooker 24 December 1865
Summary
Oliver says H. E. Baillon found stamens on female flowers of Coelebogyne, but JDH and many botanists have never found any stamens.
Lyell wants to propose JDH for Copley Medal.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Dec 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 51–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4955 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … n. 7. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [23] December 1865 and n. 5. In his 1856 paper on …
- … 1856 , p. 327, and n. 7, below). Robert Brown had collected specimens of Coelebogyne ilicifolia at Keppel Bay, on the east coast of Australia, in 1802 ( J. Smith 1839 , p. 509). Joseph Decaisne . See letter …
- … 1856 , pp. 327–33). In a subsequent paper on polyembryony in C. ilicifolia , Braun commented that, as no contrary evidence had yet been provided, the prevailing view that the plant was parthenogenetic must stand (see Braun 1859 , p. 117). CD had suggested this procedure in his letter …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [or 28 September 1865]
Summary
Agrees with JDH on difference in grief over loss of father and of child. His love of his father.
The Reader.
Politics and science.
Health improved by Bence Jones’s diet.
[Dated "Thursday 27th" by CD.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [27 or 28] Sept 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4901 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 September [1865]
Summary
Crests as inherited variations; domesticated birds.
Belief in value of travel journals.
Current reading.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434 f. 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4896 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [29 March – 7 April 1865]
Summary
WBT’s eye is getting on very well.
Enclosure comments on a note to folio 1 [of CD’s MS on variation], WBT thinks his works not worth citing: his edition of the Poultry book was never completed and Profitable poultry is out of print.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29 Mar – 7 Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 62, 66 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4803 |
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 A. R. Wallace 2 October 1865
Summary
Information concerning improvements in the Reader under new sponsorship.
Current reading and work [on pigeons for Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400, and catalogue of his collection of birds].
Book of travels postponed indefinitely.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B27–30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4906 |
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: 2 hits
- … 1856 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 348–51). CD discussed the pollination mechanisms of Plantago with Gray on several occasions (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
- … letter from John Scott, 10 April 1865 and n. 13. At the end of his notice of Scott’s paper, Gray wrote: ‘We may here append the remark that the Thymelæaceous genus Leucosmia is dimorphous, and some species of Drymispermum exhibit one if not both of the two forms’ ( A. Gray 1865a , p. 104). CD probably refers to four North American species of heterostyled Plantago discussed in A. Gray 1856 , …
To J. D. Hooker 19 January [1865]
Summary
"Climbing plants" sent off.
Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.
Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]
and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].
Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.
Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!
"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 258a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4748 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 September [1865]
Summary
Sends a "Lanc & York" [railway share?].
| Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: B35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4889 |
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Darwin in letters, 1856-1857: the 'Big Book'
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In May 1856, Darwin began writing up his 'species sketch’ in earnest. During this period, his working life was completely dominated by the preparation of his 'Big Book', which was to be called Natural selection. Using letters are the main…
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- … On 14 May 1856, Charles Darwin recorded in his journal that he ‘Began by Lyell’s advice writing …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
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- … Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
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- … Re: Design – performance version – 25 March 2007 – 1 Re: Design – Adaptation of the …
Origin
Summary
Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to establish priority for the species theory he had spent over twenty years researching. Darwin never intended to write Origin, and had resisted suggestions in 1856…
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- … Darwin’s most famous work, Origin, had an inauspicious beginning. It grew out of his wish to …
Six things Darwin never said – and one he did
Summary
Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly attributed to Darwin that never flowed from his pen.
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- … Spot the fakes! Darwin is often quoted – and as often misquoted. Here are some sayings regularly …
Dates of composition of Darwin's manuscript on species
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Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s manuscript on species (DAR 8--15.1, inclusive; transcribed and published as Natural selection). This manuscript, begun in May 1856, was nearly completed by…
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- … Many of the dates of letters in 1856 and 1857 were based on or confirmed by reference to Darwin’s …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
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- … Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants …
Descent
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There are more than five hundred letters associated with the research and writing of Darwin’s book, Descent of man and selection in relation to sex (Descent). They trace not only the tortuous route to eventual publication, but the development of Darwin’s…
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- … ‘ Our ancestor was an animal which breathed water, had a swim-bladder, a great swimming …
Species and varieties
Summary
On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…
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- … On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and …
Before Origin: the ‘big book’
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Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his eight-year study of barnacles (Darwin's Journal). He had long considered the question of species. In 1842, he outlined a theory of transmutation in a…
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- … Darwin began ‘sorting notes for Species Theory’ on 9 September 1854, the very day he concluded his …
Scientific Networks
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Friendship|Mentors|Class|Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific network is a set of connections between people, places, and things that channel the communication of knowledge, and that substantially determine both its intellectual form and content,…
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- … Friendship | Mentors | Class | Gender In its broadest sense, a scientific …
Thomas Henry Huxley
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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…
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- … Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a …
Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
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- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
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'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…
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- … < Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a …
Language: key letters
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How and why language evolved bears on larger questions about the evolution of the human species, and the relationship between man and animals. Darwin presented his views on the development of human speech from animal sounds in The Descent of Man (1871),…
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- … The origin of language was investigated in a wide range of disciplines in the nineteenth century. …
Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the …
Darwin in letters, 1858-1859: Origin
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The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet rural existence filled with steady work on his ‘big book’ on species, he was jolted into action by the arrival of an unexpected letter from Alfred Russel Wallace…
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- … The years 1858 and 1859 were, without doubt, the most momentous of Darwin’s life. From a quiet …
