From:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72?]
Source of text:
DAR 195.4: 104
Summary:
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John William Salter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 11
Summary:
Thanks CD for his kindness and hopes one day to return it.
Finds more and more observations fall in with CD’s theory but still finds it difficult to account for the sudden leaps in the fossil record and to explain why some organisms first appear as such high forms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Jan 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 134a–d
Summary:
On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Jan 1867
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 104–9; DAR 157a: 104
Summary:
Describes his experiments in fertilising Oncidium flexuosum and comparison with Notylia.
Has been examining Catasetum.
Encloses seeds of two species of Gesneria and describes hairs in the seed capsule. Hairs in other plants seem to have a different function.
Starting tomorrow for a botanical excursion on the Continent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 342
Summary:
William Clowes [printer for J. Murray] estimates that Variation will come to a first volume of 648 pages and a second volume of 624 pages – which is too much for volumes the same size as Origin. Murray proposes a larger size.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 343
Summary:
CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.
Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: A113–14
Summary:
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 288
Summary:
Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].
BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Jan 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 131–4
Summary:
Responds to CD’s criticisms. JDH is sometimes confused as to what he has borrowed from CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 47: 181–9
Summary:
MS essay "On esculent fruits" [apparently enclosed in a missing letter].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 235
Summary:
Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 170: 54
Summary:
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 56
Summary:
Asks CD questions relating to the revised translation of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 135–7
Summary:
His view of CD’s hypothesis that Atlantic island genera are descended from extinct European plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 22–5
Summary:
Suggests that, in some birds, plumage of males is less colourful than that of females; the reason is that the males perform the duties of incubation [see Descent 2: 204 n.].
Contributor:
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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 117, DAR 111: A91
Summary:
Position as Curator allows no time for experiment.
Describes plans for vast new layout of Calcutta Botanic Garden according to natural orders.
Himalayan and Scottish plants are doing well.
Hopes to experiment on temperate plants in tropics, to test CD’s views of migration during glacial periods.
Sends observations on acclimatisation of English cultivated plants.
Leersia CD sent are growing and fertile.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 74
Summary:
Describes progress in preparation of third German edition of the Origin. Asks about use of photograph for edition.
Contributor:
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From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 226, 226/1, 227
Summary:
Encloses letter written a week ago. Letter and enclosure speculate on origins of human races in relation to geological and political changes, according to a theory of progressive development.
Was sorry CD wrote so little on man in Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 344
Summary:
JM will publish [Variation] "coute qui coute", paying CD half the profits.
Thinks he can count on 500 purchases of what he calls the "Pièces Justificatives" of the Origin and will print 750 copies.
His literary friend found it "difficult of digestion".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 345
Summary:
First portion of Variation MS has been set up. Murray will not decide on number to be printed until he has read a good portion. The agreement applies only to the first edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project