From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
27 Jan 1868
Source of text:
19, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
27 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Summary:
Is sending a copy of Variation [to be published in a few days]. It cost more labour than it is worth.
George Darwin is Second Wrangler.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
28 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
Thanks JvH for J. Stack’s answers [to queries about expression]. Though few, they are the best and clearest he has received. Sends a corrected printed version of queries.
Belatedly thanks JvH for his splendid report on glaciers [missing].
CD lives "in constant state of overwork and fatigue".
Everyone astonished by Dinornis photos.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
29 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 326
Summary:
Thanks for note about George Darwin’s gaining Second Wrangler.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
George Story
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 January 1868
Source of text:
DX19, Cotton/Story papers, University of Tasmania Archives, Hobart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller 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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
30 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.344)
Summary:
Thanks JMH for his congratulations.
Recalls gift of microscope [from JMH in 1831]. [See 99].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
30 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 237)
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations.
Doubts THH’s response to Pangenesis will give him pleasure. "Oh Lord what a blowing up I may receive."
Still thinks THH has been too "sharp sighted" on hybridism.
Sends Mrs Huxley Queries about expression.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
30 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 20)
Summary:
Sends Variation and would like to hear what FM thinks of Pangenesis.
Thanks for information on expression.
Dimorphic plants;
differences in seed production in cross- and self-fertilised plants.
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
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hyndman
Date:
31 January 1868
Source of text:
No. 4125, unit 733, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
31 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (13 September 1984)
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.
George will try for a fellowship at Trinity.
CD believes real education begins after school days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 43
Summary:
Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.
Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.
Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project