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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:
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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:
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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:
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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-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-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:
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 283
Summary:

Asks how many plants are proper to New Zealand for new edition [4th] of Origin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5059F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henslow
Date:
[before 19 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 358
Summary:

Describes the pollination of broom by bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5061

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
Date:
[19] Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 7)
Summary:

CD has followed Lyell’s advice and avoided controversy over Origin but encourages BDW to attack S. H. Scudder and others who argue foolishly or misquote him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5062A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
20 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Morristown National Historical Park (Lloyd W. Smith MS 698)
Summary:

Is obliged to receive FH’s papers. The cases of Lopezia and Schizanthus are new to him.

In 1860 CD watched Bombus lapidarius sucking the flowers of Pedicularis sylvatica and saw what FH has described.

Has not yet read the paper on Salvia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5063

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Rolle
Date:
21 Apr 1866
Source of text:
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle)
Summary:

Thanks for information about publications.

Hopes Hans Geinitz will take care in correcting Bronn’s translation [of Origin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5057F

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

Asks for additional details of Confessions of a Metaphysician.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 285
Summary:

Thanks for facts about New Zealand flora.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5064A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
[23 Apr 1866?]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (Bence Jones autograph letter file)
Summary:

Had hoped to call, but cannot do so comfortably, so will HBJ call on CD instead, for a consultation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5006

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
[23 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.317)
Summary:

Thanks for sending facts on birds admiring themselves; mentions use in new edition [4th] of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5069

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
[26 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS GR/1a/99)
Summary:

Makes arrangements to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5070

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
27 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997)
Summary:

Asks for racemes of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus and C. adami for comparison, because Robert Caspary argues that C. adami is not a common hybrid.

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