From William Bennett 29 April 1864
Summary
Will send grasses CD asked about.
Reports observations on brood of Australian chicks he is hatching.
| Author: | William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 146 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4475 |
To Hermann Müller 5 May 1873
Summary
Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 5 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 434 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901 |
From William Bennett 25 May 1864
Summary
Sends plant and directions to his home so that CD’s gardener may call for another plant.
| Author: | William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4509 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise W. F. Daniell on collecting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2040 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1864
Summary
Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Apr 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 208–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4469 |
To Edward Walford 22 [January–April 1865?]
Summary
CD would be proud to be one of EW’s series [Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)]. If he goes to London in the summer he will call on Mr Edwards [the photographer].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Walford |
| Date: | 22 [Jan-Apr] 1865 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.237) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5508 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1874
Summary
Thiselton-Dyer’s announcement of his inability to continue as JDH’s private secretary is a blow. He will now be doing original work. JDH is glad of that but the loss of his help is great.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 88–9; DAR 103: 221; Insectivorous plants, p. 5 n. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9638 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 January 1873
Summary
Drosophyllum is coming from Dublin. Will ship it to Down when it arrives.
The awful honour of Presidency of Royal Society; his aversion to dignities and honours.
R. Strachey [Proc. R. Geogr. Soc. (1873): 450] has paid him and CD a compliment.
Letter from Gladstone.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 146–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8732 |
From George Henslow [c. 7 December 1876]
Summary
Considers some flowers especially adapted for self-fertilisation, and believes all flowers are self-fertilising under some conditions. Gives examples of plants in which he believes all flowers are cleistogamous. Believes self-fertilisation is the primordial condition of flowering plants.
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 7 Dec 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8204 |
From Roland Trimen 13 April 1872
Summary
On new [6th] edition of the Origin; comments on additions.
Owen’s attitude toward evolution.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8285 |
From Hermann Müller 19 May 1873
Summary
Praises Expression.
Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.
He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8907 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters March 1866
Summary
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Mar 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5022 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 November 1872
Summary
Is reading W. R. Greg’s Enigmas of life [1872]: "One of the most eloquent books I ever read".
Owen’s communications are doing incalculable mischief to science in the eyes of Government officials. "This ignorant, careless, unobservant government."
The Nature editors, J. N. Lockyer and Bennett, blame each other for printing Owen’s letter.
Huxley looks wretched.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 135–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8651 |
Matches: 1 hit
To J. D. Hooker [15 May 1864]
Summary
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [15 May 1864] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 233 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4496 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 March [1869]
Summary
Comments on Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Mar [1869] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6677 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Bennett’s cassowaries ( Casuarius bennettii ) in 1858. No letter from Bartlett discussing cassowaries has been found, but in a note dated 15 February 1857 (DAR 84.2: 178), CD wrote, ‘Casuarius galleatus male alone incubates & takes care of young, but
♀ in development, & bright colours of naked skin & appendages all about neck, decidedly most developed so that anyone w …
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1855]
Summary
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.
T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1643 |
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