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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
V. O. Kovalevsky, Russian translator [of Variation], wishes to hear THH lecture.
Chickens have arrived safely.
Blushing begins as early as the fifth year.
Sends letter from Candolle [6915] proposing an experiment with seeds that seems excellent. CD has little time and strength but will do his best. If the staff at Kew could do it, it would be wisest to hand the whole lot over to JDH.
Mentions views of Sars on species.
EH’s work on Siphonophora.
Has forwarded the horse’s tooth, sent by JO, to Huxley, who may be able to identify it.
Both sexes of Mononychus pseudacori and other Coleoptera stridulate.
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 437–54].
Nectar-sucking birds fertilise tropical flowers.
Writing a "Dualistic apologia for Pangenesis" [see translation in Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 365–7, 391–3, 407–8].
Homology of the orchid rostellum.
Federico Delpino’s book has very nearly all that THF has found and a great deal more.
Writes, as county magistrate, in an attempt to get payment from the Club for a Mr Reeves.
Sympathises with THF at being forestalled by Delpino, but urges him to publish confirmation.
Thanks AdeC for his interesting letter [6915]. The experiment strikes CD as a very valuable one. CD has forwarded the letter to Hooker, who is glad to make the trial. CD will have many experiments in progress next spring but he will open the packet of seeds and if they are numerous, will try a few himself.
Is glad that JDH is willing to try Candolle’s experiment [see 6915]. Encloses all the seeds except a few taken from the Moscow and Palermo packets.
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s cheque in payment of his account.
On the fertilisation of Tacsonia and Passiflora.
Encloses a poem, "The Biological Teleologist", written after reading Delpino.
Sends abstract of her BAAS paper on the role of a parasitic fungus in producing bisexual flowers in Lychnis.
Cautions FD about fluid in labellum of Coryanthes.
T. H. Farrer is enthusiastic about FD’s papers.
Believes humming-birds fertilise many American flowers.
Mentions his reply to FD’s criticisms ["Pangenesis: Mr Darwin’s reply to Professor Delpino", Sci. Opin. 2 (1869): 426; Collected papers 2: 158–60].
Suggests that FD study fertilisation of Gramineae.
Delighted with THH’s review [in Academy (1869)] of Haeckel’s [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868],
but groans about THH’s view of rudimentary organs. Cites Origin and Variation.
Describes expression of her baby when crying.
R. H. Hutton has given a paper about CD at Liverpool Church Congress.
JBI has seen four milk-white partridges among brown ones this year.