From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 9
Summary:
Trying to persuade CD to visit JL.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Malherbe
Date:
[1862–5?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 58
Summary:
Testimonial for a position as a librarian. Recipient is the author of a great monograph on the Picidae [woodpeckers].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 5
Summary:
Sends plant specimens. William Borrer will be glad to send seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 7
Summary:
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3–14] Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 238
Summary:
Condolences on death of Charlotte Langton [née Wedgwood].
Is waiting to hear from Lord Tankerville [see 3339].
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 64
Summary:
Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.
Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].
On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 23
Summary:
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
8 Jan [1862 or 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 321
Summary:
Obliged for the Theophrastus. Will return it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 96: 11v
Summary:
Announces a meeting of the Society to elect its officers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation
Date:
[after 10 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 11r
Summary:
Asks how much he owes for his annual subscription to the Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 65
Summary:
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Carter Blake
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 198
Summary:
Thanks for note on his Macrauchenia paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 441–3].
Asks for references to descriptions of certain bones found in South America.
Lists four fossil New World monkeys; is CD aware of any others?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 327
Summary:
Apologises for not answering CD sooner about where he will publish review [of Origin]. Review is to appear in his own journal, but will postpone publishing it until the French translation of 3d ed. appears. Expresses substantial agreement with CD’s views.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 290
Summary:
Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.
Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Hutton Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 31
Summary:
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]; will examine some [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden samples in its light.
Huxley visiting Edinburgh and spoke on man’s zoological relations with monkeys [see Man’s place in nature (1863)]. JHB disagrees with his views.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 239
Summary:
Has read CD’s Primula paper.
Regrets to hear that CD and family are victims to the influenza epidemic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 172
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions on Australian flora, bees, geology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 140
Summary:
Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.
Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.
CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.
Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.
Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 58–9
Summary:
Thanks CD for his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Asks if CD has observed the true oxlip (Primula elatior).
Comments on Hottonia and Stellaria graminea. [See Forms of flowers, pp. 72, 313.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Jan 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 8–11
Summary:
JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?
His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.
Genera plantarum is in press.
Contributor:
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