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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1866 or 1865?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 38
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 271
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 272
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 273
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 275
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
[January 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 623
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Johnathan
Date:
[late 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1716
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[1866]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 1
Summary:
Asks GHD what the chances are against squinting and non-squinting children coming alternately in a family of ten.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 27
Summary:
Requests that correspondent take some action regarding the state of horses on his farm. Robert Ainslie of Tromer Lodge, Down, was fined in 1852 following CD’s complaints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles John Robinson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 188
Summary:
Has a small living at Norton Canon.
Will visit Charles Whitley next week.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd; Emily Caroline (Lena) Langton; Emily Caroline (Lena) Massingberd
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 and 7? Jan 1866]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 202)
Summary:
CL is aware that she is dying and so says her farewells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 86
Summary:
A report on his somewhat improved health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
6 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.311)
Summary:
Discussion of ducks. CD asks for information on a domestic Chinese race about which Robert Swinhoe wrote to CD. Compares Chinese duck with Anas poecilorhyncha and Boschas.
Notes improvement in health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5)
Summary:
Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.
Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.
CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 41
Summary:
Comments on CD’s health.
Discusses origin of life and differentiation of principal classes of plants and animals.
Discusses Generelle Morphologie and its chapter on embryological development.
His lectures on CD’s theory.
Asks CD for larger portrait of himself and for several copies of the small photograph. Will send photographs of German scientists in exchange.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jeffries Wyman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 181: 191
Summary:
Has made observations on bees’ cells. Their dimensions are not constant, nor do single bees make single cells; each one is a result of co-operation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 280
Summary:
In despair: has lost his copy of Verlot’s memoir on variations of flowers [Sur la production et la fixation des variétés (1866)]. Has JDH borrowed it?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
16 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
What progress has been made with pigeon drawings for Variation?
Can WBT persuade Mr Zurhorst to repeat a pigeon experiment?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Samuelson
Date:
19 Jan [1866?]
Source of text:
Dreweatts Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (25 September 2014)
Summary:
CD is happy to sign photograph. He will only require one copy of the journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project