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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166: 1
Summary:

Will try to procure specimens of native rat and frog for CD. Will be glad to make observations for him.

Cites case of a species of duck that normally nests on ground but builds in trees if disturbed.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
22 Jan 1863
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

Thanks JvH for his address [to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury], his Geological Report [Topographical and geological exploration of the western districts of the Nelson province, New Zealand (1861)],

and for the "honourable" notice of Origin.

CD especially interested in JvH’s facts on the old glacial period.

Asks about fossil remains [of supposed living mammalia] which CD thinks may be like "the Solenhofen bird-creature" [Archaeopteryx].

Urges the recording of rate and manner of spreading of European weeds and plants and observation on which native plants "most fail".

Contributor:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 1–2
Summary:

Sends copy of his December letter [see 3851], which he fears is lost.

Has been in the Southern Alps and has discovered a wonderful pass.

Contributor:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 3
Summary:

Thanks CD for letter [3935].

Encloses report [missing] of his latest expedition [to west coast], which had a grand result.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
18 July [1863]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of JvH’s letters and report of his expedition. Congratulates him on its success.

Has sent Origin.

There is hardly a place in the world as interesting as New Zealand with respect to geographical distribution.

Will quote the case of the ducks that nest in trees.

Is working hard on Variation.

Contributor:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July [– 7? Aug] 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 4, 6; Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (G304)
Summary:

In a forthcoming paper JvH will show geological age of the world to be "incalculable" and will confirm CD’s theory that "the old system of chronological sequence of formations all over the world must be abandoned in a great degree".

Predicts the links between species, genera, and classes will be found.

CD elected an Honorary Member [of Philosophical Institute of Canterbury].

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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 5
Summary:

Sends a map of the province of Canterbury, marking his own and other explorations.

Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
12 Dec [1863]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

CD too unwell to answer JvH’s letter.

He was interested in the "marvellous ground parrot"

and the report on "naturalisation of animals in New Zealand".

Honoured by election to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury.

Contributor:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 7
Summary:

Inquires about CD’s health.

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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept 1865
Source of text:
DAR 166: 8
Summary:

Expects to publish an account of his journeys soon.

Asks CD’s support for his Royal Society candidacy.

Goldfields he discovered are now being worked.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
26 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

Has been ill since April, so has not read all of JvH’s papers.

Encloses his photograph.

Has written to support JvH for Royal Society.

Samuel Butler [returned from New Zealand] is now established in London as an artist.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
5 May [1866]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.

Contributor:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 9
Summary:

Thanks CD for photograph.

JvH will send his notes on origin of species;

he is now writing a paper on glacier period of the New Zealand west coast, and his account of the highly glaciated headwater region of the Rakaia River is being printed.

Contributor:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 10
Summary:

Thanks CD for his efforts on behalf of JvH’s Royal Society candidacy.

Is at work on a large-scale map of the Southern Alps [of New Zealand].

The ever-growing goldfields and their effect on the country.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
27 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

Asks JvH’s assistance in making observations on the expression of emotions. Encloses 17 queries that are being sent to various parts of the world.

Contributor:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May – 2 June 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 11
Summary:

JvH will help with expression queries. Considers CD’s investigation highly important and original. Sends list of men to whom he is sending copies of the questions.

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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1867
Source of text:
DAR 166: 12; DAR 177: 243
Summary:

JvH forwards J. Stack’s replies to CD’s queries about expression [see Expression, p. 20].

Sends photos of skeletons of six species of Dinornis he is assembling for the Museum.

Contributor:
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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:
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From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 13
Summary:

Sends a passage relevant to Pangenesis [on regional accents distinguishable in the speech of those born deaf] from Life, letters, and journals of George Ticknor [ed. G. S. Hillard, vol. 1 (1876)], p. 196.

Tells of the controversy about evolution raging in Dunedin, with clergy playing a prominent part.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
[c. 11 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051)
Summary:

The extract from Ticknor [see 10722] is one of the most curious cases of inheritance CD has met with. He has sent it to Francis Galton as CD is not likely to write on inheritance again.

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