To Hermann Kindt 17 September 1864
Summary
Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Date: | 17 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (11 and 12 June 2002); Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Harland Collection, vol. 1, p. 67, GB127.MS f 091 H15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13874 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 September 1864]
Summary
CD continues to have trouble reconciling the Veitch’s names for Bignonia plants and Kew names.
Lyell and Falconer called on CD in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 248 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4605 |
From John Lubbock 2 September 1864
Summary
Wishes to borrow volumes 1 and 3 of Narrative [vol. 1 by Capt. P. P. King, vol. 3 by CD].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4606 |
From B. P. Brent 2 September 1864
Summary
Did not get appointment to poultry department of the Field; W. B. Tegetmeier has the position.
His lawsuit concluded well but expensive. Thanks CD for aid during his distress; encloses cheque.
Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4607 |
To Auguste Laugel 4 September [1864]
Summary
Thanks for a copy of AAL’s Problèmes de la nature 1864 (Problems of Nature; Laugel 1864).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Antoine Auguste (Auguste) Laugel |
Date: | 4 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | Librairie du Manoir de Pron (dealers) (January 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4607F |
From J. D. Hooker 5 September 1864
Summary
R. I. Murchison’s address [see 4595] smashes Ramsay’s glacial theory.
JDH defends his view that CD should not answer Kölliker.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 238–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4608 |
From Hermann Kindt 5 September 1864
Summary
Requests permission, for a friend, to publish extracts of Orchids in German translation.
Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4609 |
To Hermann Kindt 7 September [1864]
Summary
Explains that Orchids has been translated into German (Bronn trans. 1862); and that Living Cirripedia can now be purchased at Hardwicke’s, 192 Piccadilly, London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Date: | 7 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig (Autographensammlung Kestner: Slg. Kestner/II/C/II/125/Nr. 1, Mappe 125, Blatt Nr1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4609G |
To Asa Gray 13 September [1864]
Summary
Has finished Climbing plants;
resuming work on Variation.
Sends abstract of John Scott’s paper [see 4332].
Has received review of Herbert Spencer but cannot believe AG wrote it unless he has muddled his brains with metaphysics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (89) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4611 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased that Bentham is cautious about Naudin’s view of reversion. CD can show experimentally that crossing of races and species tends to bring back ancient characters.
Suggests Gärtner’s Bastarderzeugung [1849] be translated
and that Oliver review Scott’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126] for a future issue of Natural History Review.
Is working on Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 249a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4612 |
To John Hutton Balfour 15 September [1864]
Summary
Inquires which nurserymen near Edinburgh cultivate coloured primroses and cowslips. Wants to repeat John Scott’s remarkable experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Hutton Balfour |
Date: | 15 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (Balfour papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4613 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
From Hermann Kindt 16 September 1864
Summary
CD’s views go hand-in-hand with those of Ludwig Büchner.
He requests an autograph for a friend.
Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4615 |
To Daniel Oliver 17 September [1864]
Summary
Glad that Oliver is to review John Scott’s paper in the Natural History Review (Scott 1864a). Apologises that his enclosed references (now missing) are so paltry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 17 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4615F |
From J. D. Hooker [19 September 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 240–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4616 |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 19 September 1864
Summary
Explains several monstrous flowers sent by CD.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4617 |
To M. T. Masters 20 September [1864]
Summary
CD sends thanks for MTM’s note on monsters. Adds comment on MTM’s point that some species become monstrous more frequently than others.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 20 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4618 |
From Hermann Kindt 20 September 1864
Summary
Thanks for autograph.
Author: | Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4619 |
From J. H. Balfour 22 September 1864
Summary
Does not know an Edinburgh nurseryman who can supply the cowslips and primroses CD wants; will try to get them from the Botanic Garden.
Hears from Hooker that CD is also examining Lythrum.
Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4620 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 September [1864]
Summary
Pleased with news of BAAS meeting
and Scott’s possible position as Thomas Anderson’s curator.
Suggests Wallace is due for a Royal Medal.
Agrees with JDH’s criticism of Lyell’s address [see 4614].
Bentham’s Linnean Society address treats continuity of life in a vague non-natural sense.
Rereading his old MS [Natural selection] CD is impressed with work he had already done.
Writing Variation much harder than Climbing plants.
Encloses request to JDH to propose, or suggest on his behalf, that the Ray Society publish a translation of C. F. von Gärtner’s Versuche und Beobachtungen über die Bastarderzeugung im Pflanzenreich (1849).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 14; DAR 115: 250a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4621 |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Kindt, Hermann | (3) |
Balfour, J. H. | (1) |
Brent, B. P. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Kindt, Hermann | (2) |
Balfour, J. H. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Kindt, Hermann | (5) |
Balfour, J. H. | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |