To T. H. Huxley 10 June 1868
Summary
W. S. Dallas asks whether Ray Society would publish translation of Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie. If THH thinks suggestion good, he might make inquiries.
Family news.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 239) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6239 |
From J. B. Innes 13 June 1868
Summary
Writes about difficulties in which S. J. O. Horsman, curate at Down, has involved himself and others. Horsman has said he would resign. JBI offers to give up his interests in the living at Down.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6241 |
To J. B. Innes 15 June [1868]
Summary
CD writes in detail about difficulties with Horsman’s financial accounts and the affairs of the parish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 15 June [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6242 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1868]
Summary
Sends second lot of grass grown from locust dung pellets from Natal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6243 |
From W. B. Dawkins 15 June 1868
Summary
Variation in recent leonine skeletons.
Miocene fauna of Europe.
Author: | William Boyd Dawkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6244 |
To John Lubbock 15 June [1868]
Summary
Has been looking at the school accounts. Has any interest been paid to S. J. O’H. Horsman this year? CD will keep accounts temporarily; he has not yet received from Horsman the balance in hand from last year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 15 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6245 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 June 1868
Summary
Will get name of grass [see 6243] from Gen. William Munro.
Has heard from Charles Wheatstone that CD has Prussian Order of Merit. Rejoices because it is the only distinction worth a fig.
Went to Handel festival; heard Messiah.
Went to poor old N. B. Ward’s funeral.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 216–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6247 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 [June 1868]
Summary
On Pour le Mérite; JDH has made him think more highly of it.
Messiah is the one thing he would like to hear again, but thinks his soul might be too dried up now to appreciate it. Sometimes hates science for making him "a withered leaf" for everything else.
Frank [Darwin] now doing botany seriously.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 [June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 72–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6248 |
From Fritz Müller 17 June 1868
Summary
Again thanks CD for trouble in arranging for translation of Für Darwin.
Sends addition answering critics of his idea of insect metamorphosis [see Möller ed. 1915–21, 1: 259].
Agrees with Charles Lyell’s suggested English title "Facts and arguments in favor of Darwin", although perhaps more accurate to call it "Darwinism tested by Carcinology" or "Carcinology as bearing on the origin of species".
Says any profit should go to CD for his trouble and expense with the translation.
Thanks for seeds of Eschscholtzia.
Gives observations on number of climbing plants, including Dilleniacea, Marantacea, Catasetum.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 141–3; W. S. Dallas trans. 1869, pp. 119–21 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6248A |
From J. J. Weir [before 18 June 1868]
Author: | John Jenner Weir |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 18 June 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 141–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6249 |
To J. J. Weir 18 June [1868]
Summary
CD thanks JJW for letter about the crimson breast of linnets
and the fate of a pugnacious female bullfinch.
Refers to JJW’s pointing out the number of Jenners and Weirs who have been naturalists, and cites some writings by men of those families about striking cases of birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 18 June [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6250 |
From J. B. Innes 18 June [1868]
Summary
Further discussion of the difficulties with S. J. O’H. Horsman [curate at Down].
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6251 |
From John Lubbock 19 June [1868]
Summary
JL’s Royal Institution lectures.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6252 |
From Osbert Salvin 20 June 1868
Summary
Shot a sandpiper in Norway, the hind toe of which was clasped by a freshwater bivalve.
Sends replies to CD’s queries about sex ratios in humming-birds.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 18, DAR 205.3: 288 (Letters), DAR 84.2: 79-82, 85–6, DAR 86: C22, C24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6253 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
From Ernst Haeckel 22 June 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for article by G. H. Lewes ["Mr Darwin’s hypotheses, pt 1", Fortn. Rev. n.s. 3 (1868): 353–73]. Comments on article.
Describes hybridisation experiment carried out on rabbits and hares by Dr Conrad.
Encloses description of Monera
and a phylogenetic table of vertebrates.
Mentions work on Medusae.
The controversy over CD in Germany.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6255 |
From Oskar Schmidt 22 June 1868
Summary
Has received copy of Variation.
Sends copy of his book [Die Spongien der Küste von Algier (1868)]. Comments on it.
Author: | Eduard Oskar (Oskar) Schmidt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6256 |
From George Cupples 22 June 1868
Summary
Weighing ten deerhound puppies for CD each week.
Author: | George Cupples |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 284 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6257 |
To George Bentham 23 June 1868
Summary
Expresses thanks and pleasure at what GB has said about his book [Variation] in GB’s [Presidential] Address [to the Linnean Society, 1868, Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1868): lvii–c]. "What you say about Pangenesis quite satisfies me".
CD discussed "bud-variation" to show that it was an error to believe all variability is due to sexual generation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 23 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 677) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6258 |
To Osbert Salvin 23 June [1868]
Summary
CD thanks OS for answering his questions and especially for giving the case of the sandpiper; "such little facts are my delight". [See 6253.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 23 June [1868] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6258A |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Salvin, Osbert | (2) |
Weir, J. J. | (2) |
Bates, Frederick | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Weir, J. J. | (4) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |
Salvin, Osbert | (3) |