From:
Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr? 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 18
Summary:
Local matters.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 272
Summary:
In response to a letter from RS’s father [translation enclosed] Schweizerbart has suggested H. B. Geinitz revise Bronn’s edition of the Origin, but RS doubts he is suitable.
Contributor:
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From:
John Walton, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 210
Summary:
Reports of a tooth found in the testicle of a horse.
Hares are very fleet in countries in which greyhound coursing is developed, slow in those in which no greyhounds are kept.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 69–70
Summary:
Reference to description of Begonia phyllomaniaca.
Thanks for the explicit account of Pangenesis. Thinks he now follows CD’s ideas but Pangenesis is very difficult and speculative.
Oliver has lost his little girl.
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 157
Summary:
Sends copies of Science gossip and The leisure hour.
Enjoyed visit.
His criticism of Primula fertility referred to table 2 [Collected papers 2: 56] where weight of seeds produced from good pods by long-styled homostylous cross and short-styled heterostylous cross are virtually identical.
Contributor:
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From:
James Samuelson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 27
Summary:
Pleased CD does not consider review of his works prejudiced [Anon., "Darwin and his teachings", Q. J. Sci. 3 (1866): 151–76].
Supports gradual development of species over time.
Confused by the metaphysical view implied in the analogy between a creative power that has made new species and artificial selection governed by human reason (Origin, 3d ed., p. 492).
Doubts natural selection.
Cites his discussion of the origin of Infusoria [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 14 (1865): 546–7].
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 210
Summary:
Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.
Contributor:
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B42–3
Summary:
Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.
Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".
Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].
Contributor:
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From:
William Reeves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 230: 16
Summary:
CD elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.
Contributor:
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From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 203
Summary:
Gustav von Leonhard and Hans Bruno Geinitz’s Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie [1862–79] unfriendly to CD’s theory.
Lists various German publications dealing with CD’s theory.
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 211
Summary:
Tameness of whales and porpoises.
Contributor:
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From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 273
Summary:
Reports that his father has given up the idea of publishing a new edition of the Origin but points out that H. B. Geinitz of Dresden has, to date, only written against CD’s theory.
Contributor:
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From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 10–13
Summary:
Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.
Contributor:
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From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 19 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 160
Summary:
Thanks for explanation on relative fertility of homostyled and heterostyled crosses in Primula. Sends an intermediate form with small stamens, but stigma only slightly above stamens.
Election as Botanical Lecturer at St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 75
Summary:
Expects R. Caspary’s paper to be published soon.
Reports the conclusions of another of RC’s papers on the movement of tree branches due to cold [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Lond. (1866): 98–117]
and discusses a paper by H. Lecoq on the mountain flora of the Auvergne [Proc. Bot. Congr. (1866): 158–65]. He disagrees with CD on glaciation and its effect on geographical distribution.
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From:
Charles Wentworth Dilke, Jr, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 162: 181
Summary:
Invites CD and wife to dine with Alphonse and Mme de Candolle.
Contributor:
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From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 119
Summary:
Coming to London for Botanical Congress. Requests interview.
Thanks for photograph.
Contributor:
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From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 230
Summary:
Sorry he missed CD when he called. Suggests a time he can call.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 60
Summary:
Orchids.
Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.
Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.
Contributor:
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From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 197
Summary:
Observations on a bird that used a stone to break open a snail.
Contributor:
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