From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 262
Summary:
Cannot find his Chalk or Gault formation Pollicipes. Inquires how CD sent these back.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 173: 62, 66
Summary:
Spent two days watching Epipactis palustris in a bog. Never saw a moth.
Thinks "Suddenism" and not "Graduality" is the great Law of Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 177: 113
Summary:
Thanks CD for loan of £10.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–]6 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 109
Summary:
Replies to CD’s queries on climbing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 67
Summary:
A minute black beetle visits the flowers of Epipactis grandiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 38
Summary:
Sends photographs of himself and his late wife [Anna Sethe]. Describes death of his wife.
Plans trip to the Alps.
Thanks CD for biographical information about himself.
Mentions Goethe as early evolutionist.
Cites Kant as early supporter of epigenesis.
Mentions criticism of CD’s theory by R. A. von Kölliker ["Über die Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Beete Jukes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 168: 93
Summary:
CD’s support in JBJ’s controversy with Hugh Falconer is welcome. R. I. Murchison supports Falconer, and Lyell does not support their side strongly enough. Falconer and Jukes remain friends in private.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Jenner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 168: 50
Summary:
CD’s urine sample was probably alkaline when passed. The deposit was phosphate of lime. Prescribes a new antacid and continuation of podophyllin. He can judge CD’s state as described by his letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 232–3
Summary:
Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Varenne Reed
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 176: 79
Summary:
Horace Darwin making progress, but tires easily and does not like drudgery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 176: 13
Summary:
R. I. Murchison has criticised ACR’s glacial lake theory in his Presidential Address to Royal Geographical Society [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 34 (1864): cix–cxcii].
ACR has finished his Geology of N. Wales.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 320
Summary:
Is sending CD an article which he hopes will make him see that there are more causes than ice to account for the structure and wearing away of rocks. [Possibly "On the relative powers of glaciers and floating ice-bergs in modifying the surface of the earth", Can. Nat. 2 (1865): 21–33.] [J. of R. Geog. Soc. London 34 (1864)]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 234–5
Summary:
Hookers and Lyells will visit Lubbocks so he cannot see CD in London.
Will CD sit for Woolner?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 236–7
Summary:
John Scott has sailed.
Concurs with Lyell that CD need not reply to Kölliker.
CD’s Bignonia plants cannot be told apart without flowers.
Contributor:
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