To J. B. Innes 1 December 1868
Summary
Problems with Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. The parish urgently needs some respectable man to hold the living permanently.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 1 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6486 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 December 1868
Summary
Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.
No work exists on various biological points in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 102–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6487 |
To James Croll 4 December [1868]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of book and manuscript.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Croll |
Date: | 4 Dec [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6491 |
To Frederick Behrens 6 December 1868
Summary
Sends his autograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederick Behrens |
Date: | 6 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6492F |
To G. H. Darwin [9 December 1868]
Summary
Asks GHD to look in William Thomson’s book [W. Thomson and P. G. Tait, Treatise on natural philosophy, vol. 1 (1867)] to see how many million years ago Thomson says earth’s crust solidified. CD is troubled by "brevity of the world", because pre-Silurian creatures must have lived during endless ages "else my views wd be wrong, which is impossible – Q.E.D.".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [9 Dec 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6496 |
To J. B. Innes 10 December [1868]
Summary
Does not think the supposed cow–deer hybrid worth investigating.
John Robinson [the curate at Down] reported to be walking with girls at night.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 10 Dec [1868] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6497 |
To W. D. Fox 12 December [1868]
Summary
Thanks WDF for information about sheep and cattle.
Mentions corrections for new edition of Origin [5th ed. (1869)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 12 Dec [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.357) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6500 |
To J. B. Innes 16 December 1868
Summary
Has received JBI’s two letters; agrees with him, but does not know what to do about [the alleged misconduct of] John Robinson. Reports in a long postscript on vain efforts to confirm rumours. Suggests JBI come to Down to see how affairs stand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 16 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6505 |
To J. N. Hegt 18 December 1868
Summary
Thanks for information about the spurs in the young of Pavo muticus and Pavo cristatus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | J. Noordhoek Hegt |
Date: | 18 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | Stadsarchief Amsterdam (395: 614) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6507F |
To Ernst Haeckel 20 December 1868
Summary
Concerning death of August Schleicher.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 20 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6509 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1868]
Summary
Is working on new edition of Origin [5th (1869)].
Asks JDH’s assistance on a problem posed by Nägeli on morphological differences that are of no utility to plants and hence could not be selected. CD wants to show that these differences do not support the idea of progressive development as Nägeli suggests.
Owen pitches into CD and Lyell in third volume of Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Dec [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 105–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6512 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 December 1868
Summary
Discusses experiments in breeding fowls.
Comments on letter from S. O. Glenie [see 6440] concerning the eyes of trumpeting elephants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.358) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6514 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 December 1868
Summary
JDH’s letter invaluable for an answer to Nägeli’s essay [Entstehung und Begriff der Naturhistorischen Art (1865)].
Has gone through his index to Gardeners’ Chronicle but finds little of use to JDH for his Flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 Dec 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 108—9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6515 |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Behrens, Frederick | (1) |
Croll, James | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Behrens, Frederick | (1) |
Croll, James | (1) |