From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 155
Summary:
Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18–30 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 156
Summary:
Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 71
Summary:
Describes plans for new German edition of Origin [1867].
Contributor:
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From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 280
Summary:
Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 329
Summary:
Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.
Contributor:
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From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 281
Summary:
Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 160
Summary:
Thanks for explanation on relative fertility of homostyled and heterostyled crosses in Primula. Sends an intermediate form with small stamens, but stigma only slightly above stamens.
Election as Botanical Lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 272
Summary:
In response to a letter from RS’s father [translation enclosed] Schweizerbart has suggested H. B. Geinitz revise Bronn’s edition of the Origin, but RS doubts he is suitable.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 282, 282b
Summary:
Extensive discussion of Pangenesis in reply to JDH’s comments.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 69–70
Summary:
Reference to description of Begonia phyllomaniaca.
Thanks for the explicit account of Pangenesis. Thinks he now follows CD’s ideas but Pangenesis is very difficult and speculative.
Oliver has lost his little girl.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 157
Summary:
Sends copies of Science gossip and The leisure hour.
Enjoyed visit.
His criticism of Primula fertility referred to table 2 [Collected papers 2: 56] where weight of seeds produced from good pods by long-styled homostylous cross and short-styled heterostylous cross are virtually identical.
Contributor:
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From:
James Samuelson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 27
Summary:
Pleased CD does not consider review of his works prejudiced [Anon., "Darwin and his teachings", Q. J. Sci. 3 (1866): 151–76].
Supports gradual development of species over time.
Confused by the metaphysical view implied in the analogy between a creative power that has made new species and artificial selection governed by human reason (Origin, 3d ed., p. 492).
Doubts natural selection.
Cites his discussion of the origin of Infusoria [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 14 (1865): 546–7].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 284
Summary:
Sad about Oliver’s loss.
JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].
Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 210
Summary:
Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B42–3
Summary:
Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.
Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".
Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].
Contributor:
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From:
William Reeves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 230: 16
Summary:
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 286
Summary:
Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 203
Summary:
Gustav von Leonhard and Hans Bruno Geinitz’s Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie [1862–79] unfriendly to CD’s theory.
Lists various German publications dealing with CD’s theory.
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 211
Summary:
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 273
Summary:
Reports that his father has given up the idea of publishing a new edition of the Origin but points out that H. B. Geinitz of Dresden has, to date, only written against CD’s theory.
Contributor:
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