From Robert Caspary [after 9 June 1866]
Summary
Data on good and bad pollen-grain yields of different species. Sends sketches of two male Rhamnus catharticus flowers [see Forms of flowers, p. 294].
Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 9 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A81; DAR 111: B45, B48b, B48c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10344 |
To E. F. Lubbock [1 October 1866]
Summary
"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Date: | [1 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | Henry Bristow (dealer) (Catalogue 265) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13863 |
To [H. B. Jones?] 13 April [1866]
Summary
CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 13 Apr [1866] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 December 1973) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13868 |
To H. A. Huxley [before 25 November 1866?]
Summary
Asks if he may call on Sunday at 10 o’clock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
Date: | [before 25 Nov 1866?] |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2797F |
From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1866]
Summary
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B52, 66–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3144 |
From E. F. Lubbock [1 October 1866]
Summary
Herbert Spencer is staying with the Lubbocks and would much like to see CD.
Author: | Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Oct 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4728 |
From Richard Trevor Clarke 6 November [1866]
Summary
Wants to publish his observation on colour changes in Matthiola seeds.
Has been crossing cotton.
Approves of C. V. Naudin and Max Wichura.
Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4932 |
To Edward Blyth 10 December [1866]
Summary
Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Blyth |
Date: | 10 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4950 |
From Harriet Lubbock [April? 1866]
Summary
Local matters.
Author: | Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr? 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4960 |
To George Howard Darwin [1866]
Summary
Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
Date: | [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4961 |
From W. E. Darwin [23 June 1866]
Summary
Ovules of males of two forms [of Rhamnus catharticus?] are abortive and both females have incomplete stamens.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4962 |
To a local landowner [1866?]
Summary
Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4963 |
From Charles John Robinson [1866?]
Summary
Has a small living at Norton Canon.
Will visit Charles Whitley next week.
Author: | Charles John Robinson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1866?] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4966 |
From Emily Catherine Langton to Emma and Charles Darwin [6 and 7? January 1866]
Summary
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
Author: | Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 and 7? Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968 |
To Henry Bence Jones 3 January [1866]
Summary
A report on his somewhat improved health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
Date: | 3 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4968A |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 6 January [1866]
Summary
Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.
Notes improvement in health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 6 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4970 |
To Fritz Müller 11 January 1866
Summary
Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.
Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.
CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4972 |
From Ernst Haeckel 11 January 1866
Summary
Comments on CD’s health.
Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.
Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.
His lectures on CD’s theory.
Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.
Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4973 |
From Jeffries Wyman 11 January 1866
Summary
Has made observations on bees’ cells. Their dimensions are not constant, nor do single bees make single cells; each one is a result of co-operation.
Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4974 |
From Edward Blyth 13 [December] 1866
Summary
Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.
Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 [Dec] 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4975 |
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