From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[12 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 318
Summary:
Thanks for information about the weight of water.
Describes experiments on Drosera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 141)
Summary:
THH’s term "Pithecoid Man" is a theory in itself.
CD is convinced that his doctrine of a mundane period of glaciation is correct.
Henrietta’s serious illness.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 316
Summary:
Thanks for pamphlet by A. S. Taylor.
"… we have had a terrible week with my poor girl [Henrietta] on the point of death".
Discusses experiments involving placing solutions of ammonia and other substances on leaves of plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
2 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 317
Summary:
Discusses pamphlet by A. S. Taylor
and note by A. W. v. Hofmann concerning iodine solution.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
3 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 24 (EH 88206008)
Summary:
DO’s candidacy for Professorship of Botany [at University College, London].
Henrietta’s health is better.
Paper in Botanische Zeitung [T. Nitschke, "Über die Reizbarkeit der Blätter von Drosera rotundifolia", 18: 229–34, 237–45, 245–50] missed leading point that plants close longer over animal substances. Carbonate of ammonia works on Lemna and Euphorbia roots.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Medows Rodwell
Date:
5 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 328; Bradford Museums and Galleries: Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley (NH.6.40 p. 641)
Summary:
Comments on relationship between eye-colour and deafness in cats [discussed in Origin]. Asks for more information.
Mentions criticism of Origin.
Thanks for information about horses.
Hopes JMR writes his book on language. Mentions Hensleigh Wedgwood’s work [A dictionary of English etymology, 3 vols. (1859–65)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
7 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 25 (EH 88206009)
Summary:
Congratulations on Professorship.
Homologies between Drosera and Dionaea. Carbonate of ammonia on roots. Wants W. H. Fitch to make drawings of Dionaea. Will copy minute structure of hairs from Trécul [see 2965].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 59
Summary:
Discusses Henrietta’s illness and their plans to return to Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 143)
Summary:
On the prospectus of Natural History Review. Suggests it might offer information on whether subjects that correspondents may wish to investigate have been done already.
Henrietta still very seriously ill.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A83–4
Summary:
The stone hatchets are a great muddle. Would like a copy of Jacques Boucher [de Crèvecoeur] de Perthes’s book [Antiquités Celtiques et antédiluviennes (1847–64)].
Is studying action of carbonate of ammonia on Drosera. Asks if this has been done.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Varenne Reed
Date:
12 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/5)
Summary:
The family was detained at Eastbourne by a setback in Henrietta’s health.
Will send Leonard for tutoring on Thursday morning. Frank is doing capitally at school.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
14 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:
Thanks JP for copy of his Life on the earth [1860].
Is sorry, but not surprised, to see that JP is "dead against" CD on the Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
16 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 26 (EH 88206010)
Summary:
One thirty-thousandth of a grain of human hair inflects a single Drosera hair. Astonished by his results so he is not publishing until next summer. [Not published until 1875, Insectivorous plants. See ch. 2 for observations on inflection.]
Wants to study effects of acids on live Dionaea. Oliver should do their anatomy. Corresponding with chemical physiologists about carbonate of ammonia on roots.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 145)
Summary:
Thanks THH for his lecture ["On the study of zoology", Lay sermons, addresses and reviews (1870), pp. 104–31]. Best exposé and classification of the higher objects of natural history he has ever read. On reading and observation.
Henrietta’s lack of improvement.
R. McDonnell’s work on rays and electric organs of fishes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[21 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 27 (EH)
Summary:
The plant CD’s father called "flycatcher" was not Asclepias.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Nov 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 39 (EH 88206483)
Summary:
Drawing up paper on Drosera but will not publish till results are tested.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
19 Nov 1860
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £244 15s. 11d.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.233)
Summary:
Admires Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions, but it will discourage investigation of distribution.
Mentions Oswald Heer’s proposed map of Atlantis.
Discusses extinction of plants caused by the glacial era. Migration of plants and animals during glacial period.
Encourages CL’s work [on Antiquity of man (1863)].
Comments on unfriendly reviews. Asks CL’s opinion about including a reply to reviewers in next edition of Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.77–78)
Summary:
Hears Origin [2d ed.] was sold out. Next edition will need a good many alterations. Asks JM to provide him with a copy of the second revised U. S. edition. He wants to see how his long corrections look in type.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 75
Summary:
Welcomes JDH home from Middle Eastern expedition.
Contributor:
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