From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[after 12 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 2
Summary:
Instructions on paying a bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[22 Nov 1866 – 14 Dec 1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (L DC AL 1/2)
Summary:
CD asks if he can call tomorrow (Friday) at 9: 30, and offers to come on Saturday if that would suit CL better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
[1 Oct 1866]
Source of text:
Henry Bristow (dealer) (Catalogue 265)
Summary:
"… Mr Herbert Spencer. I will call tomorrow about half past 12".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
13 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 December 1973)
Summary:
CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:
[before 25 Nov 1866?]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:
Asks if he may call on Sunday at 10 o’clock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
10 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks for reference to EB’s article about tame deer on island in Aral Sea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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 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:
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
20 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/8)
Summary:
Sends copies of photographs of himself. Asks for photographs of German naturalists.
Comments on EH’s account of Protogenes primordialis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 281
Summary:
Has found Verlot.
His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].
His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.
JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.
Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Jan 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 61)
Summary:
Welcomes ARW’s paper on pigeons ["On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago", Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400].
Influence of monkeys on distribution of pigeons and parrots.
Asks ARW to explain a passage in his paper on Malayan Papilionidae [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71] on how dimorphic forms are produced. CD knows of varieties "that will not blend or intermix", but which produce offspring quite like either parent.
ARW’s remarks on geographical distribution in Celebes "will give a cold shudder to the immutable naturalists".
Presses ARW to work on his travel journal.
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