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
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
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
From:
Alfred Brothers
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.300
Summary:
Would like to publish his letter on the hyposulfite fixing process.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
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
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[10 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.152
Summary:
Comments on JH's health, the death of William Whewell, and extended comments on a mathematical proof provided by AD [see AD's 1866-4-1].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.384
Summary:
Considers JH's account of his own health tolerably good. The Odyssey will set him up entirely. Sends proof of one of his theorems. New professorship of International Law. Should jot down biographical details of William Whewell for the R.S.L.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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
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
Text Online
From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
13 April [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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
Text Online
From:
Charles Renard
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 April 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M199, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.412.155
Summary:
Criticizes Charles Rümker's catalogue of southern stars.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[16 April 1866]
Source of text:
JHS 1.123
Summary:
Mostly talks about having been offered some money to pay for the reduction of William Herschel's [JH's father] double star observations in preparation for publication.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Georg Rudolf Emil (Rudolf) Suchsland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 273
Summary:
Reports that his father has given up the idea of publishing a new edition of the Origin but points out that H. B. Geinitz of Dresden has, to date, only written against CD’s theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project