To W. D. Fox 4 November 1868
Summary
Much interested in WDF’s letter on inheritance and courtship of birds. CD "in a great muddle" on many points.
Asks for further information on proportion of sexes in sheep.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 4 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 150) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6447 |
To Ernst Haeckel 7 November 1868
Summary
Thanks for [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868]. "What an indomitable worker you are."
Agrees with EH’s Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts [1868].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 7 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6450 |
To W. S. Dallas 11 November [1868]
Summary
A letter strongly recommending him for the post of Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Date: | 11 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (LDGSL 286/8); DAR 96: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6457 |
To G. H. Lewes [13 November 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | [13 Nov 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6459 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 14 November [1868]
Summary
Suggests FH’s graft-hybrid potatoes should remain with FH.
Sends addresses of Alfred Russel Wallace and Alexander Wallace for August Weismann.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 14 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6459F |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 16 November 1868
Summary
Thanks for Botanische Zeitung notice of CD’s paper ["On the character and hybrid-like nature of the offspring from the illegitimate unions of dimorphic and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437]. FH writes clearest style of all German authors.
Asks that August Weismann be told about papers by Wallace and Bates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 16 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Eilo Hildebrand (private collection of facsimiles) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6461 |
To John Higgins 16 November 1868
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £259 11s. 10d.
Obliged for JH’s good account of Francis Hardy’s management of Beesby Farm.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 16 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6461F |
To Albert Gaudry 17 November 1868
Summary
Thanks AG for Animaux fossiles et géologie de l’Attique [1862–7]. Refers to Lyell’s quotation from AG as "one of the most striking I have ever read on the affiliation of Species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert-Jean (Albert) Gaudry |
Date: | 17 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milan (Library: Fondo Gaudry b. 7, fasc. 28, doc. 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6464 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 17 November 1868
Summary
Is interested to know whether there are differences in the period of development of horns in sheep in those breeds in which horns are common to both sexes, and in those in which horns are confined to males.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 17 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Hudson Rogue (dealers) (Catalogue 9); Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 21 November 1868, p. 1218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6464A |
To G. H. Lewes 18 November 1868
Summary
Will propose GHL for the Linnean Society.
Writes of his objections to GHL’s views.
Considers Weismann’s remarks on the importance of the nature of the organism as well as conditions of life in determining variability have much truth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Lewes |
Date: | 18 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 44, 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6465 |
To Ernst Haeckel 19 November 1868
Summary
Congratulates EH on birth of child.
Mentions projected translation of Generelle Morphologie.
Comments on EH’s last book [Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte]. Criticises EH’s statements on palaeontology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 19 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6466 |
To Friedrich Rolle 24 November 1868
Summary
Thanks for information on fowls.
Glad to see extracts from Blumenbach about sexual differences in fowls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
Date: | 24 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6472 |
To James Croll 24 November 1868
Summary
Comments on glaciers in North America.
Asks if glacial periods have occurred alternately in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Relevant to his glacial discoveries in South America: "it would have been an immense relief to my mind if I could have assumed … this". CD wishes to discuss subject in new edition of Origin [5th].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Croll |
Date: | 24 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 353 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6473 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 November [1868]
Summary
CD thought Watson’s article beastly in its criticisms of JDH. Watson’s criticism of CD was not new or important, but fair, so CD could honestly thank him, adding his regret at what was said about JDH.
Is sitting for Woolner bust.
Has read James Croll on alternation of glacial and warmer periods in north and south, which would remove JDH’s objections to cool period extending to equator.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Nov [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 98–101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6476 |
To John Price 26 November 1868
Summary
Thanks JP for congratulations on success of George Darwin at Cambridge.
Does not have time to investigate propagation of Cardamine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Price |
Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6479 |
To Fritz Müller 28 November 1868
Summary
Delay in translating Für Darwin.
Comments on plan to repeat CD’s experiments on illegitimate offspring.
FM’s observations on stridulation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 28 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6483 |
To Director, Natura Artis Magistra 28 November 1868
Summary
Asks whether the spurs in the young of Pavo muticus are developed earlier or later in life than in the young males of Pavo cristatus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Natura Artis Magistra (Artis). |
Date: | 28 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Stadsarchief Amsterdam (395: 614) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6484F |
To T. H. Farrer 26 November 1868
Summary
Advises THF that best plan is to investigate the part certain structures play with all plants or orders, instead of describing means of fertilisation in particular plants. Naturalists value observations far more than reasoning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
Date: | 26 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6475 |
letter | (18) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
Lewes, G. H. | (2) |
Croll, James | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
Lewes, G. H. | (2) |
Croll, James | (1) |
Dallas, W. S. | (1) |
Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gaudry, Albert | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Müller, Fritz | (1) |
Natura Artis Magistra (Artis). | (1) |
Price, John | (1) |
Rolle, Friedrich | (1) |