From Hubert Airy 12 December 1871
Summary
Thanks for letter and reference to Nägeli’s observations on leaf arrangement in the bud.
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 14 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8105 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1860]
Summary
Lyell, de facto, first to stress importance of geological changes for geographical distribution.
Asa Gray has given CD too much credit for theories of geographical distribution.
Reaction to hostile criticism
and debt to Lyell, Huxley, JDH, and W. B. Carpenter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2802 |
To Elizabeth Drysdale [22 or 29 October 1859]
Summary
Declines an invitation to visit [Moor] Park.
He hopes that Dr Lane is arranging things to his satisfaction.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
| Date: | [22 or 29] Oct 1859 |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 88); Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré (dealers) (Catalogue 55); B & L Rootenberg (dealers) (May 1991) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2498A |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 20 April [1866]
Summary
Is obliged to receive FH’s papers. The cases of Lopezia and Schizanthus are new to him.
In 1860 CD watched Bombus lapidarius sucking the flowers of Pedicularis sylvatica and saw what FH has described.
Has not yet read the paper on Salvia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 20 Apr [1866] |
| Classmark: | Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 698) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5062A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Henslow had visited CD from 2 to 3 or 4 April 1866 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). He had been preparing a paper on pollination mechanisms in Indigofera (see letter to George Henslow, 16 April [1866] and n. 2). Pedicularis sylvatica , commonly known as lousewort, is described in Hildebrand 1866a , pp. 10– …
To W. D. Fox 20 [September 1862]
Summary
Would like to go to Cambridge [for BAAS meeting]. Reminisces about his student days.
Pleased that WDF likes his book [Orchids]. At one time CD agreed with Lyell that he was an ass to publish it.
Working on dimorphism and sensibility of other plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 20 [Sept 1862] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 135) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3732 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Henslow was professor of botany at the University of Cambridge for thirty-six years, and had been a friend to both CD and Fox; he died in May 1861. See n. 4, above. CD refers to Charles Lyell and Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel, prince-consort of England. Orchids was published in May 1862. CD had been particularly pleased by the responses to Orchids of George Bentham , Daniel Oliver , and Asa Gray (see letter to Asa Gray, 10– …
From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1866]
Summary
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B52, 66–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3144 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 May 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 May [1866]
Summary
Glad to see Asa Gray’s letter.
Asks whether he may insert a sentence about Cape Verde alpine plants in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Fears "twaddle" may also be the word for his two chapters on cultivated plants. Asks for Crawfurd’s paper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 289, 289b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5091 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Henslow, 16 April [1866] . Hildebrand had published a paper on the pollination mechanisms of Indigofera and Medicago sativa ( Hildebrand 1866a ); the paper contained observations similar to those made independently by Henslow. CD refers to Hildebrand 1866c . See letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 11 May 1866 and nn. 2 and 3, and letter to Friedrich Hildebrand, 16 May [1866] and n. 10. …
To Robert Fitch 15 January [1850]
Summary
Discusses fossil cirripede specimens from RF’s collection. Comments on problems of describing their valves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1291 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Henslow for a small exhibit at the Ispwich Museum, and to George Brettingham Sowerby . In 1880, Sowerby’s collection was purchased by the Liverpool Free Public Museum, but it was destroyed in the Second World War. The two volumes of Fossil Cirripedia ( 1851 , 1854 ) were published in 1851 and 1854 by the Palaeontographical Society . Fitch’s specimens in the Norwich Castle Museum are illustrated in Trenn 1974 , p. 478 (fig. 3). See letter to Robert Fitch, 10 …
To George Henslow 15 [June 1866]
Summary
CD believes most strongly in reversion. J. G. Kölreuter’s, K. F. v Gärtner’s, and some of Charles Naudin’s cases leave no doubt in his mind. Forgets whether Herbert gave cases but in conversation he certainly believed in it. Thinks Gärtner is right to say reversion occurs only rarely in plant hybrids which have not been cultivated. [See 5120.]
Variation
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henslow |
| Date: | 15 [June 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR Library: tipped into George Henslow’s copy of Variation |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5123A |
Matches: 1 hit
- … George Henslow, [13 or 14 June 1866] and n. 3; see also n. 4, below. CD discussed the works of Joseph Gottlieb Kölreuter , Karl Friedrich von Gärtner , and Charles Victor Naudin for their bearing on reversion in Variation 1: 392 and 2: 36–7, 48–50. CD devoted chapter 13 in Variation to reversion, and gave numerous examples in other chapters. CD entered in his ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 14, Appendix II) for 10 May 1866, ‘began going over Ch. XIII of Dom. Animals’; see letter …
To Jeffries Wyman 2 February 1866
Summary
Obliged for JW’s information on variability of size of bees’ cells. Hexagonal cells not always work of several insects. W. H. Miller found great variability in thickness of cell walls.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
| Date: | 2 Feb 1866 |
| Classmark: | Jeffries Wyman Jr (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4994 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, and letter from F. W. Putnam, 29 January 1866) . There is an annotated copy in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. CD wrote of the queen wasp’s ability to make hexagonal cells in Origin , p. 233. CD had obtained information about wasps’ nests from Erasmus Alvey Darwin , Frederick Smith , and George Robert Waterhouse in 1858 ( Correspondence vol. 7); see also Correspondence vol. 8, letter from J. S. Henslow, …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Copland, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Drysdale, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Fitch, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Airy, Hubert | (1) |
| Copland, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
