From:
Charles Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 174: 18
Summary:
Returns CD’s £5 as the school subscription has failed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 230–1
Summary:
JDH pursues the coffee plantation job for Scott.
Wrote 14 letters today. JDH’s work load.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 [July 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 35
Summary:
No book has made such a powerful impression on EH as the Origin. Most older German scholars opposed to it, but number of supporters growing among the young. Fortunately strength of religious dogmas now small among educated Germans. Situation in Jena especially favourable. Defended CD’s theory last year at Congress of German Scientists in Stettin.
Intends special study of jellyfish.
Plans general work on natural history.
Hard fate [death of Anna Sethe Haeckel] has made EH indifferent to criticism.
Colleagues August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also convinced by CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: B107–9
Summary:
Sends specimens of two species of Aegiphila [see Forms of flowers, p. 123]. Discusses similar forms in other plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 176: 12
Summary:
Sends 2d ed. of his Physical geology [1864]; hopes that he will burn the 1st because of its errors.
ACR is convinced he is right about denudation of the Weald.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 143, DAR 111: A82
Summary:
Discusses CD’s and Mrs Gray’s health.
Comments on some climbing plants.
Praises Wallace’s article applying natural selection to man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Discusses the reported sterility of the flowers of Voandzeia and Amphicarpaea.
Feels the ending of slavery is worth the cost of the Civil War.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 162: 190
Summary:
Suggests man’s original mode of walking and running is similar to that of quadrupeds.
He also suggests CD answer critics who say no new species has ever been unequivocally traced to its origins, by pointing out that there is no unequivocal account of the origin of surnames.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A29–30
Summary:
Sends seeds of Trichonema and bulb and leaves of Romulea rollii, plus specimens showing two forms of Primula marginata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A25a, A25b
Summary:
Offers notes on Romulea rollii with sketch of a dissection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 265
Summary:
Returned from Ireland, JDH wishes to visit Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 105
Summary:
Reports his limited observations on climbing of Nepenthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 178: 117
Summary:
Observations on insects visiting Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 170: 46
Summary:
Has obtained microscopes for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 161: 242
Summary:
Requests letter of introduction to Asa Gray.
Went to Linnean Society to hear CD’s Lythrum paper read [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 July 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 264
Summary:
The Kew agent has looked into ships to Calcutta for Scott, who should come to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 112
Summary:
Asks for additional financial aid for trip to India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project