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To H. B. Dobell   17 July [1864]

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Thanks HBD for his note. The analogy of surnames had not occurred to CD – only that of language generally, as shown so well by Lyell. Fears HBD’s argument about progression would not have much weight.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Horace Benge Dobell
Date:  17 July [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 221.5: 8 (photocopy)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4239

From Charles Parker   1 July 1864

Summary

Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.

Author:  Charles Parker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 174: 18
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4549

From J. D. Hooker   5 July 1864

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JDH pursues the coffee plantation job for Scott.

Wrote 14 letters today. JDH’s work load.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 101: 230–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4552

To George Bentham   7 July [1864]

Summary

Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.

Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Bentham
Date:  7 July [1864]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4554

From Ernst Haeckel   9 [July 1864]

Summary

No book has made such a powerful impression on EH as the Origin. Most older German scholars opposed to it, but number of supporters growing among the young. Fortunately strength of religious dogmas now small among educated Germans. Situation in Jena especially favourable. Defended CD’s theory last year at Congress of German Scientists in Stettin.

Intends special study of jellyfish.

Plans general work on natural history.

Hard fate [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel] has made EH indifferent to criticism.

Colleagues August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also convinced by CD’s theory.

Author:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 [July 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 166: 35
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4555

From George Bentham   10 July 1864

Summary

Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.

Author:  George Bentham
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 110: B107–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4556

From Andrew Crombie Ramsay   10 July 1864

Summary

Sends 2d ed. of his Physical geology [1864]; hopes that he will burn the 1st because of its errors.

ACR is convinced he is right about denudation of the Weald.

Author:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 176: 12
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4557

From Asa Gray   11 July 1864

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Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.

Comments on some climbing plants.

Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].

Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.

Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4558

To A. C. Ramsay   12 July [1864]

Summary

Thanks for his book [Physical geology and geography of Great Britain, 2d. ed. (1864)].

Pleased that ACR’s glacial lake theory is progressing. New Zealand lakes support the view. Suggests he write to Charles Gould in Tasmania, calling his attention to glacial action.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:  12 July [1864]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Ramsay 306: 8)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4560

To J. D. Hooker   12 July [1864]

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Ernst Haeckel writes that young German scientists are enthusiastic for natural selection.

Did JDH write the article in Natural History Review on trees not producing flowers ["Botanical lesson books", (1864): 355–69]?

Encourages Harvey to publish on his "disagreeable" monster plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  12 July [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 241
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4561

To George Bentham   12 July [1864]

Summary

Thanks GB for specimens [of Aegiphila] and his information.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Bentham
Date:  12 July [1864]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 708)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4562

To J. T. Moggridge   1[7] July [1864]

Summary

Discusses dimorphism in flowers. Describes his experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Traherne Moggridge
Date:  1[7] July [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 373
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4563

To Daniel Oliver   13 July [1864]

Summary

If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  13 July [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4564

To Daniel Oliver   [22 July 1864]

Summary

Will DO observe whether leaf [of Nepenthes] with pitcher ever wound round a stick? CD’s plant is improving.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  [22 July 1864]
Classmark:  Edward Ford (private collection); in September 2020 owned by ZHANG, Lun Xia (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4566

From J. T. Moggridge   15 July [1864]

Summary

Sends seeds of Trichonema and bulb and leaves of Romulea rollii, plus specimens showing two forms of Primula marginata.

Author:  John Traherne Moggridge
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 110: A29–30
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4567

From Horace Benge Dobell   15 July 1864

Summary

Suggests man’s original mode of walking and running is similar to that of quadrupeds.

He also suggests CD answer critics who say no new species has ever been unequivocally traced to its origins, by pointing out that there is no unequivocal account of the origin of surnames.

Author:  Horace Benge Dobell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 162: 190
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4568

To Ernst Haeckel   19 July [1864]

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Thanks for praise [of Origin].

Comments on EH’s Die Radiolarien.

Grieved EH has suffered calamity [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel].

CD recovering from long illness.

Doing easy botanical work.

Mentions variability.

Discusses reception of CD’s views in Germany.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:  19 July [1864]
Classmark:  Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1-52/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4569

From J. T. Moggridge   19 July [1864]

Summary

Offers notes on Romulea rollii with sketch of a dissection.

Author:  John Traherne Moggridge
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 July [1864]
Classmark:  DAR 110: A25a, A25b
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4570

From Daniel Oliver   21 July 1864

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Reports his limited observations on climbing of Nepenthes.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 July 1864
Classmark:  DAR 157.2: 105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4571

From J. D. Hooker   [21 July 1864]

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Returned from Ireland, JDH wishes to visit Down.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 July 1864]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 265
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4572
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