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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Thanks RM for his interesting paper ["Entomological notes bearing on evolution", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. 1 (1878): 155].
Has forwarded CD’s request for wheat specimens to Mr Galkine-Wrasky, Governor of Saratoff in Russia. Asks CD to send his thanks to the Governor and to allow GMA to visit Down to explain the specimens when they arrive.
CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.
Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.
Praise for Descent with slight criticism of CD’s opinion that racial divergence occurred after the continents were settled.
Acknowledges safe return of Chauncey Wright’s letters. Has no objection to JBT’s publishing extracts from CD’s letters to Wright. [See 11338.]
Supports idea to translate C. K. Sprengel, but opposes publishing it together with H. Müller because this would raise price of Müller’s useful book.
Confirms JDH’s observation that only tip of cabbage radicle shows geotropism.
Apologises for taking liberty of request made in previous letter.
Tells CD ways in which large box of wheat specimens might be shipped from St Petersburg.
CD has been informed by G. M. [Asher] that G-W has undertaken the shipment of "Froment des Steppes" for examination. He is most grateful. [See 11361.]
Discusses the difficulty of reconstructing angiosperm phylogeny.
Discovery of polar fossil plants helps explain migrations.
Hooker has identification of GdeS’s Permian fossil.
Wants Trifolium resupinatum for "bloom" experiment.
Heterostyly in Linum perenne. Believes the American form may be a distinct species.
TMR believes rate of limestone formation is same now as in past.
He expects his address [of 10 Oct 1876] on geological time [Proc. Liverpool Geol. Soc. 3 (1878): 211–35], which contradicts William Thomson’s view of the earth’s age, to appear soon.
Will call on addressee when he is next in London.
A Quaker essayist and poet who seeks to reconcile science and religion sends some samples of his work.
Letter from Gaston de Saporta.
Germination of onion.
Discusses various authors’ interpretations of the structure of the embryo of grasses.
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
Reports butterfly species that apparently mimic each other and gives details of some odoriferous species.
[Letter copied in Raphael Meldola’s hand from original sent to Meldola with 11449.]
Doubtful that great heat would favour development of lower organisms.