From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 157–8
Summary:
Begins to hope baby may survive; description of symptoms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 58
Summary:
JVC is willing to translate [Variation], especially because of his conviction that progress of biology depends on proving CD’s theory.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] will do mischief because EH is so immoderate. Suggests CD tell EH that he has done him a bad service. CD is the only one to whom EH would listen.
Contributor:
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From:
Robert Trail
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 178: 175
Summary:
Reports on an experiment in crossing potato varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 159–60
Summary:
JDH has left for Paris with Thomas Thomson.
Baby is better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 173: 33
Summary:
Arrangements for obtaining Carl Nägeli a set of British Hieracium specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
Carl Vogt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 180: 10
Summary:
Asks whether he may have right to translate Variation into German.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 161–2
Summary:
Trail’s case is interesting, hopes it is true.
Has little faith in I. Anderson-Henry’s exactness.
Pleased with Paris exposition.
Contributor:
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 59
Summary:
Asks CD to decide which translator he would prefer for Variation. JVC frankly thinks Carl Vogt not the best man to introduce CD to the German public, though he has a greater name than JVC.
Vogt now preaches materialism in its most absurd form.
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 348
Summary:
On cost of electrotypes from woodcuts for Variation and price to charge Schweizerbart.
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From:
Carl Vogt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 180: 11
Summary:
Will send CD a memoir on Les microcéphales [1867]; CV believes microcephalism is an atavistic abnormality.
Recommends H. von Nathusius’ work on domestic pig [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
Contributor:
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From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 211
Summary:
Sends Orchis.
Is coming to London.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis (Frank) Parker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 174: 19
Summary:
Sends £600 bequeathed by Susan Darwin to CD’s younger children.
Contributor:
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From:
Carl Vogt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 180: 12; DAR 176: 90
Summary:
Asks whether his former pupil, J. J. Moulinié, might translate Variation into French for Reinwald. CV would provide a preface. Encloses letter from Moulinié to Reinwald.
Contributor:
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From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 73
Summary:
Agrees to use Murray’s stereotypes.
Offers to send rug made from a black Russian bear he shot.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 176: 170
Summary:
Sends a root of a wild oat-grass from California and the root of a variety of barley that came from it. Several varieties of barley, all differing from English varieties, came up in the same bed of oat-grass. "The transmutation of a genus seems almost incredible" but TR has seen so many changes he has ceased to doubt strongly.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 32–5
Summary:
Describes his view on colour [of plumage] of males and females – i.e., that absence of brilliant colour in either sex is due to need for protection in incubation, rather than to sexual selection.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Loring Brace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 272
Summary:
Letter of introduction to CD for CLB’s friend Robert S. Rowley.
Contributor:
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From:
Peter Skene Robertson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 76: B49–51
Summary:
Describes his attempts to cross different varieties of borecole, and the results of the crosses.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles-Ferdinand Reinwald
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 210.11: 35
Summary:
Writes about the Carl Vogt and J. J. Moulinié translation [of Variation].
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May 1867
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 36–7
Summary:
Never imagined that the facts about sexual selection could be new to CD. Thought fact that brightly coloured females build concealed nests and almost all those in which sexes differ remarkably build exposed nests might be new to him. Some problems remain. Sends his notes for CD to use if he wants.
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