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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
The date-palm seed case is important for Pangenesis.
Reports experiments on pollination of Ipomoea.
"Insular floras": A. Murray’s paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle is poor.
John Scott’s work on acclimatisation of plants.
The anomaly of the Azores flora on the migration theory.
Intends to begin a journal reviewing the botanical literature.
Sends his book [Die Geschlechter-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
Agrees that new title of Variation is an improvement. Now thinks 1500 copies a safe number to print.
Sends Naudin’s letter.
Pangenesis.
Benjamin Clarke is mad.
Interested in CD’s Ipomoea experiment.
Scott’s experiments are all in CD’s favour.
Clarifies a sentence in "Insular floras".
Suggests change in sentence of JDH’s "Insular floras" to make meaning clear.
Naudin’s letter about hybrids.
Pangenesis.
On whether to make woodcuts for Variation in Russia or use Murray’s stereotypes. He has similar advance publication agreements with Carl Vogt, E. A. Rossmässler and Theodor Billroth.
The Russian version of Origin is translated from Bronn’s German edition.
Agrees to publish German edition of Variation.
Discusses publication of third German ed. of Origin.
Thanks CD for portrait.
At the request of his sister, Marion Bell, he sends a copy of his essay on the nervous system. It contains a view of the development of the animal kingdom in illustration of Charles Bell’s classification of the nerves. Human powers are held to be more dependent upon the structure of the mouth than that of the hand.
The Origin converted him from a Linnean interpretation of flowers and mosses.
Glad that CD appreciates his continuing work on mosses, in support of natural selection.
Plans to repeat CD’s orchid experiments.
Sends interpretation of the floral anatomy of Lopezia miniata.
Returns Charles Naudin’s letter with its case in support of CD’s view of impregnation.
Twits JDH for trying to wriggle out of error made in his lecture and admires his "candour in letting the rat out of the bag". [See 5449 and 5451.]
Discusses the practice of exogamy; asks if any animals have an instinctive repugnance to inbreeding.
Thanks for subscription.
Reports experiments with wheat.
Sends notes on producing varieties by pruning.
Sends CD a Cardigan Jacket, ‘one of the most delightful inventions of the age’.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll.
Will be glad to have seeds of plants and CD’s climbing plant, which he has no doubt is Siphocampylus.
Anxious about his baby [Reginald Hooker].
Has printed copies of CD’s queries [on expression] and will distribute them.
Close inbreeding and factors acting against it.
On Hottentot ideas of beauty in women; their preference for women with large posteriors. [See Descent 2: 345–6.]
Thanks WED for a present.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law [1867].
Is busy revising proofs [of Variation].
Forwards some plant specimens to CD for his comments.
Discusses the orchid specimens received from MTM. Remarks on the self-sterility of Cypripedium and other orchids.
