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DCP-LETT-4740

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 38
Summary:

"I return your letter to [William] Sharpey." Grandest eulogium CD has received.

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DCP-LETT-4741

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 183
Summary:

Thanks CD for his Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Tells of the birth of his 16th child. Has five grandchildren.

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DCP-LETT-4742

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 257a–c
Summary:

Has finished long paper on "Climbing plants". Prefers sending it to Linnean Society if Bentham does not think it too long.

For New Zealand flora [1864–7] CD suggests JDH count plants with irregular corollas and compare with England.

Does not quite agree about Reader.

Is Tyndall author of piece on spiritualism?

CD’s illness diagnosed as "suppressed gout".

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DCP-LETT-4743

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8–18 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 4–5
Summary:

Bentham wants "Climbing plants" for Journal of the Linnean Society, however long [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1865): 1–118]. Publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society restricts correspondence.

Reader much improved.

Tyndall did write piece on spiritualism ["Science and the spirits", Reader 4 (1864): 725–6].

"Suppressed gout" annoys him as a term cloaking ignorance.

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DCP-LETT-4745

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 305
Summary:

Thanks for [E. Eudes?] Deslongchamps’ paper.

Henry Huxley born.

Leader in Reader [4 (1864): 821] is by THH. It has got him into trouble with some of his friends.

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DCP-LETT-4747

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 165: 146
Summary:

New herbarium is finished.

Congratulations on Copley Medal.

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DCP-LETT-4748

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 258a–c
Summary:

"Climbing plants" sent off.

Encourages JDH to include notes on gradation of important characters in Genera plantarum or to write a paper on the subject. Has given prominence to gradation of unimportant characters in climbing plants. Believes that it is common for the same part in an individual plant to be in different states. Same may be true of important parts – for example position of ovule may differ.

Two articles in last Natural History Review interested him; "Colonial floras" [n.s. 5 (1865): 46–63]

and "Sexuality of cryptogams" [n.s. 5 (1865): 64–79].

Fact of similarity of orders in tropics is extremely curious. Thinks it may be connected with glacial destruction.

Leo Lesquereux says he is a convert for the curious reason that CD’s books make birth of Christ and redemption by grace so clear to him!

"Not one question [for JDH] in this letter!"

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DCP-LETT-4749

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 6
Summary:

Cannot come until week from Saturday.

Worked to death by Genera plantarum.

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DCP-LETT-4750

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 106: B20–1
Summary:

His distress that his engagement has been broken off.

Sends copies of two papers ["On the parrots of the Malayan region", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1864): 279–97;

"On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 33 (1863): 217–34].

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DCP-LETT-4751

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 114
Summary:

Comments on his Primula paper [see 4213].

Describes his situation in Calcutta.

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DCP-LETT-4753

From:
Henry Denny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 80: B150–1
Summary:

Species of lice and the animals they infest. Different kinds of dogs, fowls, and pigeons are infested by the same species of Pediculi [see Descent 1: 219].

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DCP-LETT-4754

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 7
Summary:

John Scott has arrived in Calcutta and has been given an appointment by Thomas Anderson.

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DCP-LETT-4756

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1865
Source of text:
DAR 160: 79
Summary:

Pleased at receiving CD’s letter.

HWB informs him of favourable notice of the mimetic paper [in Wiegmann’s Arch. Naturgesch. 29 (1863) pt 2: 315–19].

He is pleased with his post [Asst. Sec. of Royal Geographical Society].

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DCP-LETT-4759

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B22–3
Summary:

Sends papers with comments. Convinced that the Aru pig is a species peculiar to New Guinea fauna, not a domestic animal that ran wild.

Admires CD’s paper ["Three forms of Lythrum", Collected papers 2: 106–31].

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DCP-LETT-4762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 259
Summary:

Hugh Falconer’s death great loss to science.

His own health has been especially bad this last week.

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DCP-LETT-4763

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robertson Munro
Date:
3 Feb [1865-6]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 16
Summary:

Is glad MTM is going to experiment on Passiflora.

Is grieved to hear that John Scott has been inaccurate but cannot think he recorded, in his paper, experiments that he never made [see 4485].

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DCP-LETT-4765

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 8–9
Summary:

Falconer’s illness and suffering. His great ability and knowledge.

CD’s paper ["Climbing plants"] went extremely well [at Linnean Society]. M. T. Masters and Bentham commented.

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DCP-LETT-4766

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 71
Summary:

MTM heard part of the abstract of CD’s paper on climbing plants, read at the Linnean Society on 2 Feb. Offers CD his opinion and information on the subject, which he has studied for many years.

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DCP-LETT-4769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Feb [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 260
Summary:

Falconer’s death haunts him. Personal annihilation not so horrifying to him as sun cooling some day and human race ending.

His health has been wretched.

Masters has written his agreement with CD’s "Climbing plants".

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DCP-LETT-4770

From:
August Schleicher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 53
Summary:

Sends a pamphlet and photograph to CD [missing];

announces a botanical congress at Erfurt at which CD’s theory will be discussed.

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