From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
1 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/9)
Summary:
Thanks for photographs [of German scientists].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
1 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:
Thanks for all five numbers of Der Mensch [1866].
Had not known that Rütimeyer had written on modification of species.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
2 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Jeffries Wyman Jr (private collection)
Summary:
Obliged for JW’s information on variability of size of bees’ cells. Hexagonal cells not always work of several insects. W. H. Miller found great variability in thickness of cell walls.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
3 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Australia (MS 5907)
Summary:
Will be pleased to sign FWF’s certificate for the Royal Society if he can send it to CD, who does not have the strength to go to London.
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Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[6] [February] [1866]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 64-65
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 169-170]
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Ransome
Date:
[6 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 13
Summary:
Requests repayment of loan as FR promised last spring.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[6 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 64)
Summary:
ARW’s simple explanation of dimorphic forms is satisfactory.
On "non-blending" of certain varieties, CD thinks ARW has not understood him. He does not refer to fertility. He crossed two differently coloured varieties of peas and "got both varieties perfect, but none intermediate". Something like this must occur in ARW’s butterflies.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
7 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.312)
Summary:
Discussion of Mrs Agassiz’s letter [to Mary Lyell, forwarded to CD] regarding S. American glacial action,
with comments on Bunbury’s letter on temperate plants.
Refers to opinions of Agassiz, David Forbes, Hooker, and CD on glacial period and glaciers.
Wishes he had published a long chapter on glacial period [Natural selection, pp. 535–66] written ten years ago.
Tells of death of his sister, Catherine, and other family matters.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 10 February 1866, p. 127
Summary:
Asks botanical readers to inform him "whether in those monoecious or dioecious plants, in which the flowers are widely different, it has ever been observed that half the flower, or only a segment of it, has been of one sex and the other half or segment of the opposite sex, in the same manner as so frequently occurs with insects?"
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
10 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (ASHCOMBE COLLECTION/V/52)
Summary:
Orders Richard Owen’s Anatomy of vertebrates [1866–8],
subscribes to Annals and Magazine of Natural History,
and orders three back numbers of Medical Times and Gazette.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
11 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii;
Summary:
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.313)
Summary:
Thanks CL for Hooker’s letter.
Discussion of Hooker’s views on glacial action and temperature with specific reference to S. America.
His squabbles with Hooker on transport of seeds via water currents,
temperate plants, and preservation of tropical plants during cooler period.
Expresses interest in seeing Agassiz’s letter.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
16 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 96
Summary:
Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
21 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2)
Summary:
Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.314)
Summary:
Comments on errors [in Origin] pointed out in C. J. F. Bunbury’s letters.
Mentions CD’s notes on Drimys, Fuchsia, and fossil mammals of Brazilian caves.
Sorrowful that his work must be put aside because Murray wants a new [4th] edition of Origin. Remarks on changes to be made regarding Organ Mountains and Agassiz’s glacial markings.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 139–142)
Summary:
CD is pleased [about need for a new edition of Origin] but even more grieved – for it will delay his next book [Variation]. Progress of natural history will make many changes necessary in Origin. Nevertheless, proceeds with 32 more woodcuts for Variation.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 31–2
Summary:
Refers to part of JDH letter on glacial period sent on to Lyell. CD will not yield. Cannot think how JDH attaches so much attention to physicists. Has "come not to care at all for general beliefs without the special facts".
His health is improved but not so good as JDH supposes.
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