From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 205
Summary:
Would much like to see Dr Birchfield appointed superintendent of the new asylum at Woking.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 74
Summary:
As Honorary Secretary of the Botanical Congress he asks that CD’s name be listed as a member of its committee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 197
Summary:
Discusses the stinging habits of wasps and bees and whether or not they leave their sting in the wound.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 91: 89–90
Summary:
Feels sure that at times the globe must have been superficially cooler. Believes CD will turn out right with regard to migration across the equator via mountain chains, while the tropical heat of certain lowlands was retained.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1866
Source of text:
ML 2: 158
Summary:
Surprised at Hooker’s introducing "so organic a change as a deviation in the axis of the planet" to explain the cold of the Glacial Period.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1866
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 80–2
Summary:
Thanks CD for German translation of Origin.
Droughts over the summers have brought about changes in the numbers of plants and animals in the area. The small quantity of Orchestia darwinii that has survived the changes no longer includes two previously common male forms. Great changes also take place without such unusual physical conditions. The disappearance of a briefly abundant bryozoan in local caves has made way not for the return of original bryozoan inhabitants but for a completely new fauna.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 153
Summary:
Reviewing C. V. Naudin’s article ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 19 (1863): 180–203] for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 304–13]. Requests references.
Proposes to visit Down on Easter weekend.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Mar 1866
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 408–9
Summary:
Comments on cool-period MS. Still believes geographical changes principal cause of former changes of climate.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 154
Summary:
Thanks for references for his Naudin–hybridism paper [see 5029].
Contributor:
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From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1866
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Summary:
On the "bullae" as constant, regular generic characters in Hymenoptera. Disagrees with Louis Jurine ["Observations sur les ailes des hyménoptères", Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino 24 (1820): 177–214].
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 271
Summary:
Asks, on behalf of his father, whether he might publish a new German translation of the Origin, believing Bronn’s to be inadequate.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 155
Summary:
Forgot to thank CD for his praise of tendril paper [see 4944].
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18–30 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 156
Summary:
Cannot come to Down on weekend because of teaching duties.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Mar 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 68
Summary:
Asks to visit Down on Saturday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 71
Summary:
Describes plans for new German edition of Origin [1867].
Contributor:
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From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 280
Summary:
Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 329
Summary:
Sends CD comb of the Chinese honey-bee, as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albert Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 281
Summary:
Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.
Contributor:
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