From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 36
Summary:
Is seeking election to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 57–8
Summary:
Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.
Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 106: B31–2
Summary:
Looks forward to reading Variation.
Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?
"Travels" postponed.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 February 1866
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B31-32
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 63
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 168-169]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 164: 37
Summary:
Thanks CD for supporting his application to the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 14–17
Summary:
Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 99: 26–7
Summary:
Is compelled to ask for postponement of payment of principal. His invention is gaining ground. Will pay interest until payment is made.
Contributor:
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From:
Lionel Smith Beale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 101
Summary:
Sends the numbers [of periodicals?] CD wished to see, and a list of other journals in which his papers have appeared.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 77
Summary:
Sends a diet for CD’s flatulence.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederick Ransome
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 99: 21
Summary:
Thanks CD for his kind expressions [of sympathy] and for his consideration. Encloses cheque for £5 interest.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 79–80
Summary:
Thanks CD for Journal of researches.
Insect genus Elater is an exception to the rule that all luminous organs give out a green light.
Gives some observations on climbing plants at Itajahy.
His study of orchids has convinced him of the value of CD’s book.
Contributor:
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From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 150
Summary:
Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.
Contributor:
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From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 212
Summary:
Going to Orient as naturalist aboard the Rifleman. Offers CD his services.
Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet collection G368 (bound in part of Moggridge 1865–8)
Summary:
Is sending Ophrys plants marked as CD requested as wild or under cultivation. Discusses arrangements for a scheme planned for 1867 and his method for marking his Ophrys specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B53–4
Summary:
Suggests two ways of financing what Susan will owe Catherine’s estate.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B40–1
Summary:
Division of Catherine’s estate.
Arrangements for EAD’s will.
Wishes CD would pay him another visit.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B52
Summary:
Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.
Contributor:
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From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 213
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s suggestions. [From CD’s notes on CC’s previous letter, these were (1) means of distribution; (2) domestic animals; (3) gestures of savages.]
Contributor:
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From:
Kent Church Penitentiary Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 92
Summary:
Appeal for funds for paying of the Society’s debt, and for an annual subscription.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 59, 62–4
Summary:
Had Busks and Lyells to dinner.
Examines and criticises evidence for CD’s hypothesis that the glacial period was not one of universal cold. Physicists deny its possibility.
Contributor:
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