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DCP-LETT-4960

From:
Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr? 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 18
Summary:

Local matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5045

From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 272
Summary:

In response to a letter from RS’s father [translation enclosed] Schweizerbart has suggested H. B. Geinitz revise Bronn’s edition of the Origin, but RS doubts he is suitable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5054F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
Date:
4 Apr 1866
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (16 December 2010); Kotte Autographs (dealers) (March 2016)
Summary:

Cannot support another edition of Origin, so unable to send English pages. Suggests some of his other works that might be worth translating into German.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5046

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 282, 282b
Summary:

Extensive discussion of Pangenesis in reply to JDH’s comments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13851

From:
John Walton, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 210
Summary:

Reports of a tooth found in the testicle of a horse.

Hares are very fleet in countries in which greyhound coursing is developed, slow in those in which no greyhounds are kept.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 286
Summary:

Queries for John Smith [Kew curator] on crossing a cucumber variety.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5047

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 69–70
Summary:

Reference to description of Begonia phyllomaniaca.

Thanks for the explicit account of Pangenesis. Thinks he now follows CD’s ideas but Pangenesis is very difficult and speculative.

Oliver has lost his little girl.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5048

From:
George Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 157
Summary:

Sends copies of Science gossip and The leisure hour.

Enjoyed visit.

His criticism of Primula fertility referred to table 2 [Collected papers 2: 56] where weight of seeds produced from good pods by long-styled homostylous cross and short-styled heterostylous cross are virtually identical.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5049

From:
James Samuelson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 27
Summary:

Pleased CD does not consider review of his works prejudiced [Anon., "Darwin and his teachings", Q. J. Sci. 3 (1866): 151–76].

Supports gradual development of species over time.

Confused by the metaphysical view implied in the analogy between a creative power that has made new species and artificial selection governed by human reason (Origin, 3d ed., p. 492).

Doubts natural selection.

Cites his discussion of the origin of Infusoria [Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 14 (1865): 546–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5052

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 210
Summary:

Invites CD to dine and meet Alphonse de Candolle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 284
Summary:

Sad about Oliver’s loss.

JDH’s reference to odd Begonia at same time as an article about it came out in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1866): 313–14].

Is astonished that Pangenesis seems perplexing to JDH. Pleads guilty to its being "wildly abominably speculative (worthy even of Herbert Spencer)".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
9 and 15 Apr 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6)
Summary:

Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.

Fertilisation of Aristolochia.

FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].

Is preparing new edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5053

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B42–3
Summary:

Has been offered proof impressions of Maguire’s portrait of CD.

Sorry to hear of CD’s "heap of maladies".

Georgina [Tollet?] wants to see the review in the Quarterly Journal of Science [3 (1866): 151–76].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5053A

From:
William Reeves
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 230: 16
Summary:

CD elected honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5055

From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 203
Summary:

Gustav von Leonhard and Hans Bruno Geinitz’s Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie [1862–79] unfriendly to CD’s theory.

Lists various German publications dealing with CD’s theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13868

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
13 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 December 1973)
Summary:

CD’s plans have changed. He will be in London the following week and therefore able to call on correspondent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5056

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 211
Summary:

Tameness of whales and porpoises.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5074

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[14–21 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 59
Summary:

Discusses some observations on, and the fertilisation of, Ophrys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5057

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (96)
Summary:

AG’s second article on Climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 41 (1866): 125–30].

Fritz Müller’s observations on Rubiaceae.

New edition [4th] of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
16 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, C451: Opuscula
Summary:

F. Hildebrand, in his recent article [Bot. Ztg. 10 (1866): 73–8], describes what GH showed CD about Indigofera’s irritability.

Contributor:
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