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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Asks if CD agrees with Carl Claus’s Grundzüge der Zoologie [3d ed. (1876)], in separating tunicates from molluscs.
[Draft of letter for Francis Darwin to write to SF.] CD declines to express an opinion on SF’s query.
Has signed certificates.
Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.
Writes of his admiration for CD and requests an autograph or photo.
Gives his opinion on the education of girls in physiology. Would regret that any girl who wished to learn physiology should be checked.
Wants Francis [Rhodes] Darwin’s address; also asks if CD has heard "the great news".
Remarks on the difference between the sexes in Restionaceae and other subjects – occasioned by reading the introduction [to Forms of flowers].
Introduces his son Casimir, who is visiting England.
Reports on his work. Relationships of shells found at Steinheim; attempts to elucidate the genesis of different forms.
TB is seeking a Government grant through the Royal Society so that he can give up his business and pursue his work on the glacial period; wants CD to support him with a note to Hooker.
Would like Price’s address.
Has "the missing link" been found in New Guinea, as he read in the newspaper?
Offers CD the nest of a foreign bird pressed on him by a neighbour.
A letter in support of [Ann Jane] Cupples’ request to the Royal Literary Fund for assistance. Her talent, industry, and need.
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Thanks AN for telling him of the complex cross among wagtails. CD is surprised that so much close interbreeding does not check their propagation.
CD does not suppose he will ever have strength to work up his data on hybridism, so he will not write to Mr Monk.
TABS is pleased that CD found something of interest in his researches in Crete [Travels and researches in Crete (1869)].
Asks AG not to send his rare specimens [of Leucosmia].
Is glad of the notice about black pigs.
Has great faith in Jeffries Wyman;
thinks A. R. Wallace founds his speculation on a feeble basis.
Suggests that the scarcity of holly berries is owing to the scarcity of bees during the spring, rather than to frost. He does not know what caused the scarcity of bees.
Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.