To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1866]
Summary
Has finished Variation. May insert a chapter on man.
Still puzzled by seeds of Adenanthera.
New Zealand and Borneo flora problems continued.
Fritz Müller found six genera of dimorphic plants in one day.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 Dec [1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 309, 309b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5321 |
To Robert Hunt 3 May [1866]
Summary
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
| Date: | 3 May [1866] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5524 |
To Charles Lyell 7 February [1866]
Summary
Discussion of Mrs Agassiz’s letter [to Mary Lyell, forwarded to CD] regarding S. American glacial action,
with comments on Bunbury’s letter on temperate plants.
Refers to opinions of Agassiz, David Forbes, Hooker, and CD on glacial period and glaciers.
Wishes he had published a long chapter on glacial period [Natural selection, pp. 535–66] written ten years ago.
Tells of death of his sister, Catherine, and other family matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 7 Feb [1866] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.312) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4999 |
| letter | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hunt, Robert | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hunt, Robert | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
