From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1861–82]
Source of text:
Famous Notables (dealers) (no date)
Summary:
Last page of a letter with a five-line P.S. concerning pen-holders.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
22 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989)
Summary:
Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[1861]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134)
Summary:
Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6)
Summary:
Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.
THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.
Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].
In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205)
Summary:
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 5 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 5 January 1861, pp. 4–5
Summary:
Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
7 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 18–21
Summary:
Responds to CD’s inquiries about rattlesnake.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
9 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 126)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.
Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 117
Summary:
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115.2: 85
Summary:
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
21 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.98–99)
Summary:
Thinks third edition of Origin should advertise "additions and corrections", for the additions are important. They will add 30 pages to the book; there will also be a short historical sketch. Asks for some copies for friends.
Also curious to know how Journal of researches has sold. The new issue seemed a rash venture to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
22 Jan 1861
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (MS 29)
Summary:
Orders one pint of tincture of henbane.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 [Jan 1861]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12)
Summary:
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[24 Jan 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 61
Summary:
Writes of Henrietta’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Duppa Crotch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1861
Source of text:
DAR 47: 173–4
Summary:
Physiological changes in Shetland ponies and seagulls resulting from change in diet.
Reports on the discovery of eyeless beetles in cellar [i.e., not caves]. How did they get there, and whence?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
To:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
Date:
16 January 1861
Source of text:
MM/19/76, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
28 Jan 1861
Source of text:
HS 16.364, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Andrew Graham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.111
Summary:
Has been urged to apply for the Headmastership of Sir Joseph Williamson's School at Rochester and would like JH's opinion on his suitability. Encloses a note from Edward Cooper.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Frederick Howlett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.14
Summary:
Expressing sympathy on the illness of Margaret Louisa Marshall (JH's daughter). Would like to hear the latest news by the bearer. Would JH append his name to the enclosed form.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Addressee
- Baxter, W. W.1
- Bentham, George1
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph3
- Brodie, Benjamin Collins1
- Darwin, C. R.2
- Darwin, W. E.3
- Dawes, Mary Helen1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gray, Asa1
- Herschel (son), John1
- Herschel, John21
- Hirst, Thomas1
- Hooker, J. D.2
- Howlett, Frederick1
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Kippist, Richard1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Oliver, Daniel1
- Pollock, William Frederick1
- Portlock, Major-General Joseph Ellison1
- Richardson, Benjamin Ward1
- Sabine, Edward1
- Stewart, James Calder1
- Tyndall, John5
- Williams & Norgate1
- [Adam and Charles Black]1
- [Robinson?, Thomas Romney]1
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