From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 205
Summary:
Sends a box of orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 May – 11 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A76
Summary:
Sends flowers of buckthorn [Rhamnus catharticus] collected on Isle of Wight.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 203
Summary:
Sending his paper on tristyly in Oxalis.
Cannot attend botanical congress, where CD will be vice-president.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 71–4
Summary:
Refers to enclosure from Asa Gray
with whom he can talk calmly now that war is over. North had no right to resort to bloodshed.
Startled by CD’s attendance at Royal Society soirée.
Has asked E. B. Tylor to make up questions for consuls and missionaries, through whose wives a lot of most curious information [for Descent?] could be obtained.
Tying umbilical cord has always been a mystery to JDH.
John Crawfurd’s paper on cultivated plants is shocking twaddle ["On the migration of cultivated plants in reference to ethnology", J. Bot. Br. & Foreign 4 (1866): 317–32].
R. T. Lowe back from Madeira.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1866
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 102: 71-4
Summary:
ARW's marriage to Annie Mitten.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 13 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 31
Summary:
Gives CD some references to papers.
Reports improvement in his wife’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 75–6
Summary:
W. H. Harvey is dead. His loss to science.
Will get a copy of Crawfurd’s paper. It was such trash he tore his up.
His letter to Asa Gray was about his [JDH’s] proof that America will have an aristocracy from interbreeding of wealth, intellect, and beauty; and the lower classes, not having time for politics, will leave them to the aforementioned.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 165
Summary:
Will be sure to send the Cytisus and Laburnum blooms when they flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 159
Summary:
Has written his Naudin–hybridism article [Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13]. Would like CD to criticise proofs.
Will return books borrowed from CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 166; 176: 188.1
Summary:
Sends a sketch of the haricot climbing the shoot of the plum-tree [see 4866].
Hopes to see CD at the [Horticultural] Congress on Wednesday [30 May].
Sends data on movement direction of Wisteria shoots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 206
Summary:
Sends plants from France.
J. B. E. Bornet of Antibes, working in G. A. Thuret’s garden, finds Cistus hybrids do not follow the old dictum of having the mother’s foliage and the father’s habit. Bornet is engaged in long-term study.
JTM seeks invitation to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 121
Summary:
Plans to come to Down on 27 May.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 207
Summary:
Accepts invitation for 23 June.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 334
Summary:
Printing [of 4th edition of Origin] nearly complete. Will print 1000 copies which, at present rate of sale, may last three to five years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 77
Summary:
JDH sends a list of the principal confirmatory evidences of CD’s theory which he has prepared at W. R. Grove’s request for Nottingham speech ["Presidential address", Rep. BAAS 26 (1866): liii–lxxxi].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 335
Summary:
On reflection, in view of the extensive additions CD has made to Origin, has decided to print 1500 copies [of 4th ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 78
Summary:
He is not grieved at CD’s omissions of his [JDH’s] work [from Origin, 4th ed.]. It proves nothing – claims only to be illustration of using CD’s methods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 12
Summary:
In London for the Botanical Congress; regrets missing CD.
Lyell and CD have mistaken H. Lecoq’s position on glaciers. He has not denied the possibility of a glacial period, only that decreased temperature is needed for their extension.
Recommends F. J. Ruprecht on vegetable detritus in the black earth chernozem of Russia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 167
Summary:
Sends blooms of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 173: 32
Summary:
Identifies a plant.
CD will not find Hermann Schacht’s Lehrbuch [der Anatomie und Physiologie der Gewächse (1856–9)] at the Linnean Society Library.
Contributor:
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