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DCP-LETT-5159

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1866
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Summary:

On H. A. Dubois’ attack on "Darwin, Huxley and Lyell"

and H. J. Clark’s Mind in nature [1865].

BDW’s work [on Cynipidae].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5160

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1866
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 149–150); DAR 159: 80
Summary:

Appleton’s cannot alter their plates so as to reproduce revised work [Origin, 4th ed.]. Has made it clear that CD could not do otherwise than object strenuously to course they intend to pursue, and has asked them to return the sheets. Wishes CD’s publisher would supply U. S. market with large numbers of copies, as the English edition could well compete with any American one. Encloses [statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin to 1 February 1866].

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DCP-LETT-5161

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 336
Summary:

Proposes to delay issue [of 4th ed. of Origin] until November to obtain better market conditions. Now printing 1250 copies.

Explains practice of not cutting pages is due to propensity of English public to read books without buying them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5162

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [July 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 293
Summary:

Asks help in naming a lupin, enclosed. Nurseryman said parties who make experiments should find the names. He might have added "and not trouble their friends".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5163

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
22 July [1866?]
Source of text:
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Nachlass Ehrenberg, Nr. 321)
Summary:

Thanks CGE for two papers and for his assistance of many years ago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5163F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
22 July [1866]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:

Points out an error in proof-sheets of Hildebrand’s paper on Corydalis cava (Hildebrand 1866d) and suggests some improvements to the English.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5164

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 337
Summary:

Will attend to CD’s wishes regarding six presentation copies [of Origin, 4th ed.] for England and America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5165

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2 (letters): 239
Summary:

Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].

Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.

Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.

Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5166

From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 204; DAR 49: 150
Summary:

Assures CD of his belief in descent from his first reading of Origin.

Describes a case of dichogamy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 294, 294b
Summary:

His reasons for rejecting Atlantis hypothesis connecting Madeira and Canary Islands.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5168

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 81–6
Summary:

Questions for his lecture on "Insular floras".

Comments on CD’s criticism of Atlantis. Has no fixed opinion on continental extensions. Great objections to hypotheses of CD and Forbes: botanical to CD’s; geological to Forbes’s. Will point out that natural selection is necessary to both hypotheses.

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WCP1871

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B33-38
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 66-69
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 170-174]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 July [1866]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 70-72
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 174-176]
Summary:

No summary available.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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