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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … CD recorded being ill from 22 April until December 1865 (see …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Haeckel 1866 , 2: 303–22), in which he developed arguments …
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [January 1866]
Summary
In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4976 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1865] , [29 July 1865] , and 22 and 28 [October 1865] ). …
From W. B. Tegetmeier 22 January [1866]
Summary
Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].
WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4983 |
To Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1866
Summary
Welcomes ARW’s paper on pigeons ["On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago", Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400].
Influence of monkeys on distribution of pigeons and parrots.
Asks ARW to explain a passage in his paper on Malayan Papilionidae [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71] on how dimorphic forms are produced. CD knows of varieties "that will not blend or intermix", but which produce offspring quite like either parent.
ARW’s remarks on geographical distribution in Celebes "will give a cold shudder to the immutable naturalists".
Presses ARW to work on his travel journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4982 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To Alfred Russel Wallace 22 January 1866 …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Jan 1866 Alfred Russel Wallace …
- … Bromley. | Kent. S.E. Jan 22. 1866 My dear Wallace I thank …
- … letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 September [1865] and n. 3). …
- … understand one point (p. 22) & sh d be grateful for an …
- … A. R. Wallace 1864b , p. 22). In observing wing patterns …
- … 1864b , CD wrote on page 22: ‘just like neuters’. See also …
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 24 January 1866]
Summary
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 Jan 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4979 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 February 1866
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.
Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4996 |
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- … a young lady of some 20–22 who was for 8 years under my …
From A. R. Wallace 4 February 1866
Summary
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4997 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … also letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 January 1866 and n. 7. …
- … In his letter to Wallace of 22 January 1866 , CD noted that …
- … A. R. Wallace 1864b , p. 22), CD had expressed difficulty …
- … see letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 January 1866 and n. 4). …
- … the letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 January 1866 , in which CD …
- … letters to Wallace of 22 September [1865] ( Correspondence …
- … vol. 13) and 22 January 1866. The two-volume narrative, The …
From James Shaw [6–10 February 1866]
Summary
Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.
Author: | James Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6–10 Feb 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 14–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5003F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13, letter to Charles Lyell, 22 January [1865] , and letter …
To A. R. Wallace [6 February 1866]
Summary
ARW’s simple explanation of dimorphic forms is satisfactory.
On "non-blending" of certain varieties, CD thinks ARW has not understood him. He does not refer to fertility. He crossed two differently coloured varieties of peas and "got both varieties perfect, but none intermediate". Something like this must occur in ARW’s butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [6 Feb 1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4989 |
To James Shaw 11 February [1866]
Summary
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Shaw |
Date: | 11 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii; |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5004 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13, letter to Charles Lyell, 22 January [1865] and nn. 5–7. …
From James Shaw 14 February 1866
Summary
Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.
Author: | James Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5005 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of universal knowledge. 22 vols. and 4 supplements. …
From Cuthbert Collingwood 15 February 1866
Summary
Going to Orient as naturalist aboard the Rifleman. Offers CD his services.
Author: | Cuthbert Collingwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 212 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5008 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1866]
Summary
Thanks CL for Hooker’s letter.
Discussion of Hooker’s views on glacial action and temperature with specific reference to S. America.
His squabbles with Hooker on transport of seeds via water currents,
temperate plants, and preservation of tropical plants during cooler period.
Expresses interest in seeing Agassiz’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.313) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5007 |
From C. J. F. Bunbury to Charles Lyell 20 February 1866
Summary
Discusses CD’s and J. D. Hooker’s letters to Lyell concerning Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of the Amazon basin in Brazil.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 Feb 1866 |
Classmark: | F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 144–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5011F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 22 February [1866] , n. 2. The …
From John Murray 21 February [1866]
Summary
Informs CD third edition of Origin is exhausted. Proposes a new edition. Has CD any changes? Since demand is slowing up, proposes printing only 1250 copies and deferring payment of CD’s share until sales have repaid manufacturing costs.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5014 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the letter to John Murray, 22 February [1866] . The print …
To Charles Lyell 22 February [1866]
Summary
Comments on errors [in Origin] pointed out in C. J. F. Bunbury’s letters.
Mentions CD’s notes on Drimys, Fuchsia, and fossil mammals of Brazilian caves.
Sorrowful that his work must be put aside because Murray wants a new [4th] edition of Origin. Remarks on changes to be made regarding Organ Mountains and Agassiz’s glacial markings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.314) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5015 |
To John Murray 22 February [1866]
Summary
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Feb [1866] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5016 |
Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (5) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (5) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (55) |
Hooker, J. D. | (15) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Wallace, A. R. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (110) |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Murray, John (b) | (8) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (8) |