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DCP-LETT-13808

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 205
Summary:

Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5022

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 74
Summary:

As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5023

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 197
Summary:

Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5024

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 91: 89–90
Summary:

Feels sure that at times the globe must have been superficially cooler. Believes CD will turn out right with regard to migration across the equator via mountain chains, while the tropical heat of certain lowlands was retained.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5026

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
4 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 92: A38–9
Summary:

Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5029

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 153
Summary:

Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.

Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5033

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 154
Summary:

Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5035

From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 271
Summary:

Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5036

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 155
Summary:

Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5037

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18–30 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 156
Summary:

Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5038

From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 71
Summary:

Describes plans for new German edition of Origin [1867].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5039

From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 280
Summary:

Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5041

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 329
Summary:

Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5043

From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 281
Summary:

Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5077

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 68
Summary:

Asks to visit Down on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5078

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 67
Summary:

Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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