From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
1 Jan 1867
Source of text:
Athenæum , 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19
Summary:
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
3 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 158–160)
Summary:
Sorry about enormous size of Variation MS, but cannot shorten it now. If JM is afraid to publish, CD will consider agreement cancelled. Suggests he ask someone with judgment to read the MS. Has written concluding chapter on man. Whether it will be included depends on size of volume.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
6 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Returns some of WBT’s skulls.
His MS is with printer, but book [Variation] will probably not be out until November.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233)
Summary:
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
8 Jan 1867
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/12)
Summary:
Comments on EH’s "great work" [Generelle Morphologie].
An English translation "hopeless".
Asks about EH’s expedition.
MS of Variation sent to printers.
Fritz Müller working on plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
8 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 155–157)
Summary:
CD annoyed at large size of Variation. Suggests printing detailed parts in small type. JM can, of course, decline to publish altogether.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 3–4
Summary:
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 166)
Summary:
Relieved by JM’s note and by his agreement on type size. Is alarmed by what the verdict [on Variation] of JM’s friend will be. He is not a man of science. An unscientific reader would have condemned the Origin. An eminent semi-scientific man thought the Journal of researches not worth publishing.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 76
Summary:
Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 5–6
Summary:
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 161)
Summary:
Approves of type [for Variation]. Pleased to hear from Hooker that he is not surprised that MS is big.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks BJS for W. H. Stirling’s answers [to queries about expression]
and for information on cattle and breeding of dogs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2)
Summary:
Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 64 (EH 88206508)
Summary:
Encloses note of introduction to Murray.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
19 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 87
Summary:
Seeks explanation of the case of the Rhynchaea, of which the female is more beautiful than the male, with the young resembling the latter. Wallace has told CD that at Nottingham AN explained this by the male being the incubator.
Does the male black Australian swan, or the black and white S. American swan, differ from the female in colour of plumage?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Middleton
Date:
20 [Jan-Dec] 1867
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (in Middleton’s copy of Origin 4th ed., BB.5.6)
Summary:
Sorry he cannot remember where S. Filippe [San Felipe?] is.
Doubts that bones of ox, sheep, and horse could have been deposited in guano [on coast of Chile], but they would be worth examination.
[Tipped in copy of Origin (1866) with CHM’s bookplate.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 7
Summary:
On recent instalment of "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 50]. Approves of JDH’s abstract of argument for transport of species [i.e., migration, as opposed to continental extension hypothesis].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
22 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 64–65)
Summary:
Answers JVC’s questions about the rock-thrush, the tortoise-shell cat, and the logger-headed duck.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Jan 1867]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (4 December 2019, lot 51)
Summary:
Would like Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel’s photograph, but JDH should give CD’s address to FAWM.
Thanks for letter and glad Frances Harriet Hooker goes on well.
Do not send St Helena earth.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
23 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 88
Summary:
Thanks for the information about the male plumage. [See 5374.] Will look to the papers in Ibis to which AN has referred him. He finds AN’s theory captivating.
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