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
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.383
Summary:
Has not heard from him for a long time; hopes his health is still good. Was sorry to hear of the death of Whewell. Sends a proof that has been puzzling him for a long time, and a French riddle.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 April [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[2 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.150
Summary:
Discusses how to denote the positions of the celestial bodies in solar photographs. Advocates a system that shows differences of heliocentric longitude on the sides of the sun.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
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
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
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.486
Summary:
Limited space precludes use of JH's suggestions for the photographic display. Will continue the series of solar autographs up to 11 years if he can.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
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
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
5 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2342
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Wedgwood, H. E.
Date:
5 and 6 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2343
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[6 April 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 40
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
O. A. Hodgson
Date:
[6 April 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0195; Reel 1054
Summary:
As executor for estate of late [Thomas] Baldwin, JH received OH's certificate and order for payment to Mrs. Baldwin. Concern for Mrs. Baldwin's advanced age and her lax method of writing checks. Disposition of estate after Mrs. Baldwin dies.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[6 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.151
Summary:
Helioautographs are beautiful. Advises keeping original plan for presentation. Says 'Clarke's' [Harvey Carlisle's] article on William Whewell in MacMillan's is satisfactory. Describes an 'absurd paragraph' regarding Whewell in François Moigno's Mondes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
From:
M[ichael] Connal
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.360
Summary:
Regarding his own theory of the determination of heights by the barometer, which has been modified by reading JH's pamphlet on Meteorology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Elizabeth
Date:
9 [April] 1866
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters