From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 66
Summary:
Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 186: 50
Summary:
Thanks CD for present [of Variation].
Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 228
Summary:
Gives his speculative thoughts on geographical, political, and biological factors in the origin and development of human races.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 7
Summary:
Thanks for Variation. Expects to be made more ashamed by his ignorance of the "influence of inheritance on the variations and mixtures of disease".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 313
Summary:
Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 61
Summary:
Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 15
Summary:
Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 176: 172
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending him Variation and for honouring his name by its frequent mention in the work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 290
Summary:
Congratulations on George Darwin’s performance at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 168: 68
Summary:
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge
and CD’s world-wide reputation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 81
Summary:
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Spence Bate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A61–4
Summary:
On the proportion of sexes in crabs; coloration and structural differences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
J Daly
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 195.1: 50
Summary:
Corrections [incorporated in 2d issue of Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200)
Summary:
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Bernstorff, Graf von Bernstorff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 177
Summary:
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 186
Summary:
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 122
Summary:
Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 213
Summary:
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
