From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 14
Summary:
Sends school subscription to CD as treasurer. Hopes Henrietta will assist in teaching there.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Lee
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: 1
Summary:
Table of numbers of trout taken for ova; includes males counted. [See Descent 1: 308].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Commission générale des ordres royaux
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 230: 19A
Summary:
CD made a knight of the Royal Orders.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 79
Summary:
Congratulations on success of CD’s son [George].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charlotte Maria Cooper Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 34–5
Summary:
Expresses her pleasure at seeing George Darwin’s name as Second Wrangler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 187–8
Summary:
T. V. Wollaston’s financial misfortunes.
CD’s son George’s success [at Cambridge].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry (Carter, Henry Bonham) Bonham-Carter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 245
Summary:
Congratulates CD on George’s success at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 185
Summary:
Congratulates CD on George’s success.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 195
Summary:
Congratulates CD on George’s success at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 250
Summary:
Congratulations on George’s being Second Wrangler at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 248
Summary:
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Has still not discovered the author of "Darwinian theory examined".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 66
Summary:
Queries concerned with translating vol. 2 of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 189–190
Summary:
Wollaston’s situation hopeless; he must go to Boulogne or Jersey to live. A friend will keep his collection and books together.
JDH’s opinion of Wollaston’s Coleoptera Hesperidum [1867].
Cannot read Duke of Argyll.
CD’s view of Asa Gray as foreign member of Royal Society; compares him to Candolle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 228
Summary:
Gives his speculative thoughts on geographical, political, and biological factors in the origin and development of human races.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 186: 50
Summary:
Thanks CD for present [of Variation].
Congratulates CD on success of his son George in mathematical tripos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 174: 7
Summary:
Thanks for Variation. Expects to be made more ashamed by his ignorance of the "influence of inheritance on the variations and mixtures of disease".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 30 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 313
Summary:
Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 15
Summary:
Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 170: 61
Summary:
Many thanks for the book [Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Boyd Dawkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 120
Summary:
Thanks for copy of CD’s latest book [Variation].
European converts to CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project