From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 10–13
Summary:
Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 75
Summary:
Expects R. Caspary’s paper to be published soon.
Reports the conclusions of another of RC’s papers on the movement of tree branches due to cold [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Lond. (1866): 98–117]
and discusses a paper by H. Lecoq on the mountain flora of the Auvergne [Proc. Bot. Congr. (1866): 158–65]. He disagrees with CD on glaciation and its effect on geographical distribution.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 285
Summary:
Thanks for facts about New Zealand flora.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Wentworth Dilke, Jr, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 162: 181
Summary:
Invites CD and wife to dine with Alphonse and Mme de Candolle.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 119
Summary:
Coming to London for Botanical Congress. Requests interview.
Thanks for photograph.
Contributor:
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 230
Summary:
Sorry he missed CD when he called. Suggests a time he can call.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 287
Summary:
Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).
Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.
Was very well on first part of London visit.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 283
Summary:
Asks how many plants are proper to New Zealand for new edition [4th] of Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[14–21 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 59
Summary:
Discusses some observations on, and the fertilisation of, Ophrys.
Contributor:
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From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 10 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 67
Summary:
Mogg [John Traherne Moggridge] wants to visit CD.
Self-fertilising orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 60
Summary:
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 68
Summary:
Asks to visit Down on Saturday.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[21 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 67
Summary:
Mrs Hooker will not come with him to Down on Saturday.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 150
Summary:
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 120
Summary:
Thanks CD for invitation. Solicitous of CD’s health. Will let Hooker decide whether CD’s health will allow his visit.
[Alexander] Braun in poor health.
Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 205
Summary:
Sends a box of orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 72
Summary:
Encloses letter from H. B. Geinitz, who declines to handle translation of new edition of Origin. Recommends Julius Victor Carus. Also suggests Gustav von Leonhard as translator for Origin.
Discusses translation of Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
John Gould
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 20–1
Summary:
Gives CD genus and species names of the singular humming-bird; distressed by specific name made necessary by revised laws of nomenclature.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 203
Summary:
Sending his paper on tristyly in Oxalis.
Cannot attend botanical congress, where CD will be vice-president.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 288
Summary:
Caspary wants to visit Down. CD would like to see him but dreads the exertion.
Pleased that JDH will get D.C.L. at Oxford.
Contributor:
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