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DCP-LETT-5819

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 15
Summary:

Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 43
Summary:

Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.

Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.

Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5821

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 172
Summary:

Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5822

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 290
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5823

From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:

Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].

European converts to CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5824

From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 68
Summary:

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge

and CD’s world-wide reputation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5824F

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 81
Summary:

Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5826

From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A61–4
Summary:

On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5827

From:
J Daly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 195.1: 50
Summary:

Corrections [incorporated in 2d issue of Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb–Apr 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 38
Summary:

Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5830

From:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 70
Summary:

Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5831

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200)
Summary:

Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.

Candolle’s contribution to botany.

Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.

CD’s answer to Greg was capital.

Comments on Variation.

Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5832

From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5833

From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 159: 82
Summary:

Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5834

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30)
Summary:

Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5834A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
1 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Murch 1893, p. 437
Summary:

Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].

Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.

Has finished a large book on variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5835

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 44–9
Summary:

Comments on Wollaston’s troubles

and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.

Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.

Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.

Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5836

From:
Albrecht Bernstorff, Graf von Bernstorff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 177
Summary:

His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5837

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 186
Summary:

Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.

Thanks CD for Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5838

From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 122
Summary:

Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.

Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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