From:
William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 147
Summary:
Sends plant and directions to his home so that CD’s gardener may call for another plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 [May 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 39)
Summary:
Response to ARW’s papers on Papilionidae ["On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71; abstract in Reader 3 (1864): 491–3],
and man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
The former is "really admirable" and will be influential.
The idea of the man paper is striking and new. Minor points of difference. Conjectures regarding racial differences; the possible correlation between complexion and constitution. His Query to Army surgeons to determine this point. Offers ARW his notes on man, which CD doubts he will be able to use.
On sexual selection in "our aristocracy"; primogeniture is a scheme for destroying natural selection.
[Letter incorrectly dated March by CD.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79)
Summary:
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 51
Summary:
Thanks HCW for Lythrum specimens.
CD has at last finished his Lythrum paper. ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 107; Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 68
Summary:
Discusses the negative testimonial provided him by James McNab.
Sends testimonial from J. H. Balfour.
Would be glad if offered the sort of colonial opportunity Hooker suggests.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B14–19
Summary:
Argues the antiquity of the human species because natural selection acts differently with respect to men. Changes in man are largely confined to head and brain. Warfare and sex are very uncertain as means of selection.
Gives CD complete credit for theory of natural selection.
Is beginning his narrative of his travels.
Lyell argues against tracing man as far back as Miocene times. R. I. Murchison’s argument that Africa is the oldest existing land implies that Africa is the place to look for early man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 234
Summary:
Forwards two character references for John Scott, for position JDH is arranging in India.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 235
Summary:
Request for climbing plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
31 May 1864
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £242 11s. 10d.
Thanks JH for his kind enquiries about CD’s illness.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
6 May [1864]
Source of text:
Murch 1893, pp. 436–7
Summary:
Thanks WL for his MS on coral and suggests that it be sent to the Geological Society for printing or preserving in the archives.
Comments on his and WL’s bad health and recalls WL’s past kindness to him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 122
Summary:
Writes of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[19 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 186
Summary:
Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Hallowes Miller
To:
unknown
Date:
6 May 1864
Source of text:
MM/14/202, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 May 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/146
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
12 May 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/146
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 May 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/145
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
François Gabriel Alfred Potiquet
Date:
28 May 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F34
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
28 May 1864
Source of text:
IC MS Meldola Papers, Box 7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Hayton Davis
Date:
30 May 1864
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Sarah Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
31 May 1864
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/3/4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Author
- Adams, Walter Marsham3
- Babington, C. C.2
- Bennett, William1
- Berthon, Peter Henry2
- Blackburn, Bewicke1
- Clausius, Rudolf1
- Darwin, C. R.24
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, Emma6
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, Leonard1
- Darwin, W. E.7
- Davis, Richard Hayton1
- Dawes, William Rutter1
- De Morgan, Augustus1
- Faraday, Michael4
- Faraday, Sarah1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Harvey, W. H.1
- Herschel, John9
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Howlett, Frederick1
- Humphrey, Thomas1
- Jenner, William1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Miller, William Hallowes1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von9
- Nasmyth, James2
- Potiquet, Alfred1
- Scott, John3
- Spencer, Herbert1
- Sprigg, George1
- St John, Spenser Buckingham1
- Stokes, George Gabriel1
- Thomas, Fedor1
- Trimen, Henry1
- Tyndall, John7
- Wallace, A. R.2
- Wallace, Alfred Russel6
- Watson, H. C.2
- Wedgwood, Emma4
- de La Rue, Warren1
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