From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 102: 20–1
Summary:
On FitzRoy’s suicide.
The Lyell–Ramsay disagreement [on formation of lakes?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 284
Summary:
Reports on the funeral of Robert FitzRoy.
His own health has deteriorated and he must give up his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 26
Summary:
CD and ED bequeath an annuity of £50 to J. Parslow [the Darwins’ butler].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 and 17 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 165: 147
Summary:
Reports Lincoln’s murder.
The end of Civil War is in sight.
Must look at dimorphism in Plantago.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 202
Summary:
Sends fresh plants from France: Lythrum graefferi, Romulea.
Does CD know Pulmonaria is dimorphic?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 May 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 22–3
Summary:
All overworked at Kew.
Burchell collections enormous.
Lyell has sent MS of Principles p. 111 on changes of temperature. JDH thinks Lyell blunders and is out of his depth.
Charmed with E. B. Tylor’s book on man [Early history of mankind (1865)],
disappointed in Lubbock’s [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 307
Summary:
Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.
Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Allport Leighton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 76: B95–6
Summary:
Describes the floral structure of the lupin and gives his observations on its pollination by bees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 47: 179, 179a; DAR 207: 18
Summary:
Discusses several subjects, including examples of "Unity of coloration",
the origin of gall-producing poison,
Wagner’s theory of viviparous larvae,
and stridulation in insects.
Sends a reference supporting CD’s statement in Origin that flies check propagation of horses and cattle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 243
Summary:
Impressed by Fritz Müller’s argument for natural selection in air-breathing apparatus of crustaceans ["The Darwinian hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 15 (1865): 410–16].
Plans to visit CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 31
Summary:
Requests CD’s photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 285
Summary:
Would like to call on CD for an hour or so before leaving London to settle in Bournemouth.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 308
Summary:
MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 171: 100
Summary:
Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 24–7
Summary:
JDH on the Lyell–Lubbock plagiarism controversy. His view of the true cause of Lubbock’s behaviour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 244
Summary:
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 32
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s photograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 45
Summary:
Delighted at CD’s praise of his book [Prehistoric times (1865)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June 1865
Source of text:
DAR 169: 33
Summary:
CD’s paper on "Climbing plants" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 1–118] has made nature come alive for CK.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 28; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 131)
Summary:
Impressed by Tylor’s book [see 4836].
Encloses admirable note from Huxley on Lyell–Lubbock affair.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
