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DCP-LETT-5557

From:
Frederick F. Geach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 165: 21
Summary:

Encloses observations on Malays who have not had communication with Europeans [in answer to CD’s queries about expression].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5560

From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 267
Summary:

Has received the first four sheets of Variation. Reinwald has received the stereotypes and is ready for printing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5559

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 110: B113–14
Summary:

Discusses dimorphism in plants, especially the Rubiaceae.

Gives observations on orchids; notes varying degrees of self-sterility and a varying success at crossing distinct species.

Mentions local ferns he is collecting

and considers the phenomenon of apparently mimetic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5561

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 2
Summary:

Has asked a classics scholar about a word for Pangenesis. He suggests "atomogenesis".

Is getting in rather a fright about the coming exams.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5564

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 248
Summary:

Returns Hooker’s paper [unidentified].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5565

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 35
Summary:

Criticises the Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)], particularly on sexual selection.

But CD overlooks God’s intention to instruct man by nature’s beauty.

Criticism of anonymous article in North British Review [by Fleeming Jenkin, 46 (1867): 277–318].

CK supports large sports in response to large environmental changes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5570

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 167–8
Summary:

Has been reading [H. C. Fleeming Jenkin’s] review in North British Review. Would answer it if not so lazy.

Has read Mount Sorel [A. Marsh-Caldwell (1845)] and Disraeli’s life of Lord G. Bentinck [1852]. Bad science, bad literature, bad politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5571

From:
John William Salter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 14
Summary:

Offers to send parts of J. Syme, English botany [1863–86] in appreciation of CD’s aid.

Comments on CD’s species theory.

Will exhibit Cambrian fossil at next meeting of Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5634

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 June 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B41–2
Summary:

CD is invited to see ARW’s collections at Bayswater.

ARW has written an answer to the Duke of Argyll and North British Review criticisms.

Contributor:
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WCP4102

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19?] [June?] [1867?]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B41-42
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 94
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 187-188]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5576

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 45
Summary:

Is engaged to marry Agnes Huschke. Will make wedding trip to Switzerland and Italy in autumn; therefore cannot visit CD as hoped.

Discusses present research. Comments on Protoamoeba with respect to origin of life. Says it makes question of common or separate origin of phyla unimportant.

CD to receive honorary diploma from Imperial Zoological Botanical Society in Vienna.

Sends photograph of Viennese botanist, August Kanitz.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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