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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 69–70
Summary:

Reference to description of Begonia phyllomaniaca.

Thanks for the explicit account of Pangenesis. Thinks he now follows CD’s ideas but Pangenesis is very difficult and speculative.

Oliver has lost his little girl.

Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 157
Summary:

Sends copies of Science gossip and The leisure hour.

Enjoyed visit.

His criticism of Primula fertility referred to table 2 [Collected papers 2: 56] where weight of seeds produced from good pods by long-styled homostylous cross and short-styled heterostylous cross are virtually identical.

Contributor:
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From:
James Samuelson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 27
Summary:

Pleased CD does not consider review of his works prejudiced [Anon., "Darwin and his teachings", Q. J. Sci. 3 (1866): 151–76].

Supports gradual development of species over time.

Confused by the metaphysical view implied in the analogy between a creative power that has made new species and artificial selection governed by human reason (Origin, 3d ed., p. 492).

Doubts natural selection.

Cites his discussion of the origin of Infusoria [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 14 (1865): 546–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
9 and 15 Apr 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6)
Summary:

Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.

Fertilisation of Aristolochia.

FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].

Is preparing new edition of Origin.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 284
Summary:

Sad about Oliver’s loss.

JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].

Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".

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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 210
Summary:

Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.

Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B42–3
Summary:

Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.

Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".

Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].

Contributor:
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From:
William Reeves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 230: 16
Summary:

CD elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 286
Summary:

Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
Date:
4 Apr 1866
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (16 December 2010); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016)
Summary:

Cannot support another edition of Origin, so unable to send English pages. Suggests some of his other works that might be worth translating into German.

Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 203
Summary:

Gustav von Leonhard and Hans Bruno Geinitz’s Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie [1862–79] unfriendly to CD’s theory.

Lists various German publications dealing with CD’s theory.

Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 211
Summary:

Tameness of whales and porpoises.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96)
Summary:

AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].

Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.

New edition [4th] of Origin.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
Date:
21 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (16 December 2010); Kotte Autographs (March 2016)
Summary:

Asks for additional details of Confessions of a Metaphysician.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
16 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, C451: Opuscula
Summary:

F. Hildebrand, in his recent article [Bot. Ztg. 10 (1866): 73–8], describes what GH showed CD about Indigofera’s irritability.

Contributor:
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From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 273
Summary:

Reports that his father has given up the idea of publishing a new edition of the Origin but points out that H. B. Geinitz of Dresden has, to date, only written against CD’s theory.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
[before 19 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 358
Summary:

Describes the pollination of broom by bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 10–13
Summary:

Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
[19] Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 7)
Summary:

CD has followed Lyell’s advice and avoided controversy over Origin but encourages BDW to attack S. H. Scudder and others who argue foolishly or misquote him.

Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 75
Summary:

Expects R. Caspary’s paper to be published soon.

Reports the conclusions of another of RC’s papers on the movement of tree branches due to cold [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Lond. (1866): 98–117]

and discusses a paper by H. Lecoq on the mountain flora of the Auvergne [Proc. Bot. Congr. (1866): 158–65]. He disagrees with CD on glaciation and its effect on geographical distribution.

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