From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [24 September – 10 October 1868]
Summary
Has talked with J. J. Sylvester [Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich] and thinks Leonard [Darwin] should call on him.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Sept – 10 Oct 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6339 |
To the Traffic Manager, South Eastern Railway [c. September 1868]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | South Eastern Railway |
Date: | [c. Sept 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6341 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 September [1868]
Summary
Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.
Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.
Huxley’s want of judgment.
JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.
Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 89–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6342 |
To J. J. Weir 1 September 1868
Summary
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
Date: | 1 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6343 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 2 September 1868
Summary
Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.354) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6344 |
To J. B. Innes 2 September 1868
Summary
Surprised and pleased JBI liked his "big book" [Variation].
Luckily, naturalists do not seem to think he has committed suicide with the work.
CD wants to turn over the school accounts to John Robinson [curate of Down]. Writes of other parish news.
Will vote in person for Sir John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6345 |
From William Ogle 2 September 1868
Summary
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
Author: | William Ogle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6346 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 3 September [1868]
Summary
Would like information on the first plumage of poultry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 3 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6347 |
From Henry Fletcher Hance 3 September 1868
Summary
Sends CD an article [missing] on the early domestication and culture of the goldfish.
Author: | Henry Fletcher Hance |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6348 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1868
Summary
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 233–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6349 |
From A. R. Wallace 5 September [1868]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6350 |
From H. B. Tristram 5 September 1868
Author: | Henry Baker Tristram |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6351 |
From Gaston de Saporta 6 September 1868
Summary
Strong support for theory of descent.
Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.
CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.
Author: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6352 |
From Emanuel Bonavia [before 7 September 1868]
Summary
Peloric forms of flowers: Clitoria Ternatea.
Author: | Emanuel Bonavia |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Sept 1868] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 26 September 1868, p. 1013 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6352F |
To M. J. Berkeley 7 September 1868
Summary
Appreciates MJB’s address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7]. Has had great respect for MJB’s knowledge since his undergraduate days at Cambridge.
Agrees that Pangenesis gemmules probably do not develop into free cells, but penetrate other cells in a manner analogous to fertilisation, and modify their development.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | 7 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6353 |
From M. T. Masters 7 September 1868
Summary
Thanks for Emanuel Bonavia’s letter on a Laburnum monster.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6354 |
From J. J. Moulinié 7 September 1868
Summary
Pleased to have met the Darwins.
Sends his photograph.
Printers are past the index in vol. 2 of Variation.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6355 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 September [1868]
Summary
Asks about the differences in colour of plumage of adult male, female, and young birds. Suggests pile game as subject.
Asks about relative proportion of sexes in ducks and fowls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 8 Sept [1868] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6356 |
To H. B. Tristram 8 September 1868
Summary
Thanks for answers to questions, but declines loan of specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
Date: | 8 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6356F |
To J. D. Hooker [8–10 September 1868]
Summary
Has written to A. J. Gower.
Sends more copies of Queries about expression.
Pall Mall Gazette article [see 6342] is monstrous to say religion did not attack science. Should scientific men ignore whole subject of religion?
Sends French journal with article on JDH and one (weak) by Agassiz on geographical distribution.
M. J. Berkeley has sent his address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7].
CD differs with JDH on Owen; could hardly bear to shake hands with him.
Wallaces, Blyth, Jenner Weirs are coming to stay on Sunday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8–10 Sept 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 91–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6357 |
letter | (65) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Farrer, T. H. | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Farrer, T. H. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (65) |
Farrer, T. H. | (7) |
Wallace, A. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Blyth, Edward | (3) |