From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 81
Summary:
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Blenkiron, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 184
Summary:
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
February 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 333
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Otago Acclimatisation Society
Date:
February 1868
Source of text:
MS 378/A Otago Acclimatisation Society minute book, Archives and Manuscripts, Hocken Library, Dunedin
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb–Apr 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 38
Summary:
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30)
Summary:
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 159: 82
Summary:
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200)
Summary:
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
1 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Murch 1893, p. 437
Summary:
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project