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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[24 February 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B52
Summary:
Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[6 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 64)
Summary:
ARW’s simple explanation of dimorphic forms is satisfactory.
On "non-blending" of certain varieties, CD thinks ARW has not understood him. He does not refer to fertility. He crossed two differently coloured varieties of peas and "got both varieties perfect, but none intermediate". Something like this must occur in ARW’s butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
1 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/9)
Summary:
Thanks for photographs [of German scientists].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
1 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:
Thanks for all five numbers of Der Mensch [1866].
Had not known that Rütimeyer had written on modification of species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 36
Summary:
Is seeking election to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
2 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Jeffries Wyman Jr (private collection)
Summary:
Obliged for JW’s information on variability of size of bees’ cells. Hexagonal cells not always work of several insects. W. H. Miller found great variability in thickness of cell walls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
3 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Australia (MS 5907)
Summary:
Will be pleased to sign FWF’s certificate for the Royal Society if he can send it to CD, who does not have the strength to go to London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Feb 1866
Source of text:
F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6.
Summary:
Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 57–8
Summary:
Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.
Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 106: B31–2
Summary:
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 164: 37
Summary:
Thanks CD for supporting his application to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
7 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.312)
Summary:
Discussion of Mrs Agassiz’s letter [to Mary Lyell, forwarded to CD] regarding S. American glacial action,
with comments on Bunbury’s letter on temperate plants.
Refers to opinions of Agassiz, David Forbes, Hooker, and CD on glacial period and glaciers.
Wishes he had published a long chapter on glacial period [Natural selection, pp. 535–66] written ten years ago.
Tells of death of his sister, Catherine, and other family matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lionel Smith Beale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 101
Summary:
Sends the numbers [of periodicals?] CD wished to see, and a list of other journals in which his papers have appeared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 10 February 1866, p. 127
Summary:
Asks botanical readers to inform him "whether in those monoecious or dioecious plants, in which the flowers are widely different, it has ever been observed that half the flower, or only a segment of it, has been of one sex and the other half or segment of the opposite sex, in the same manner as so frequently occurs with insects?"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
10 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52)
Summary:
Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],
subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 77
Summary:
Sends a diet for CD’s flatulence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 14–17
Summary:
Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
11 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii;
Summary:
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 79–80
Summary:
Thanks CD for Journal of researches.
Insect genus Elater is an exception to the rule that all luminous organs give out a green light.
Gives some observations on climbing plants at Itajahy.
His study of orchids has convinced him of the value of CD’s book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project