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DCP-LETT-5273

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
10 Nov 1866
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 1–3
Summary:

Expresses gratification that JVC is to undertake new translation and revision of German edition of the Origin.

Has heard many complaints about Bronn’s translation. JVC would be justified in omitting Bronn’s appendix.

Suggests additions and changes, including reference to C. W. v. Nägeli’s Entstehung und Begriff [1865], though he disagrees with it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5273F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 24)
Summary:

Has made will. Discusses financial arrangements and asks whether CD would like a mortgage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5274

From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 175: 4
Summary:

Sends his book [Histoire naturelle des annelés marins et d’eau douce, 2 vols. (1865)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5275

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 312
Summary:

Thanks for 4th ed. of Origin.

What a basting CD gives "our mutual friend" [Owen].

Glad he argrees with THH on Jamaica affair [Gov. Eyre and the "rebellion"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5276

From:
Clair James Grece
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 220 and 220a
Summary:

Sends clipping about a pig that has cast its outer skin.

Identifies himself as having a year or two ago pointed out a passage from Aristotle showing that natural selection was known to the ancients.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE42

From:
H Bailliere
To:
Mr Berkeley
Date:
13 Nov 1866
Source of text:
MSB4, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-5277

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
13 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 375
Summary:

Discusses fertilisation of peas by bees. Asks for seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC146

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
13 November 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.22, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes that he looks forward to Asa Gray's new edition of the MANUAL [OF THE BOTANY OF THE NORTHERN UNITED STATES]. JDH has found revisions to the New Zealand Manual difficult, especially regarding Cryptogams; amongst which only the algae have been well classified thanks to Harvey. Discusses the delay in publishing the manuscript of GENERA OF CAPE PLANTS. Praises Lefever. Complains that Muller is giving his name to pre-existing species & creating synonyms, apparently on the advice of Alphonse De Candolle [ADC] whom JDH finds arrogant & narrow minded. ADC has been unwilling to accept any of JDH's proposed changes to PRODROMUS SYSTEMATIS NATURALIS REGNI VEGETABILIS. Munro's paper on Bambuseae & Triana's paper on Melastoma will be read at the Linnean Society. Morse & Sons of Boston called at Kew. JDH reads THE NATION. Is glad that the Tories will take up 'the Alabama Case', though JDH is 'a Whig myself' (if anything), he thinks the aristocracy had wiser ideas during the 'American War'. He comments on the relative morals, honour & violent tendencies of the upper, middle & lower classes in Britain, with reference to natural selection. Gives his opinion of Malthus' book on population [AN ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION].

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel10917

From:
India Office
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.263
Summary:

R. A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil (Viscount Cranborne) would like JH's opinion on the value of the investigations carried out by Messrs. Schlagintweit in 1854; four volumes have already been published.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE536

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
14 Nov 1866
Source of text:
152, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel8956

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the British Meteorological Society
Date:
[14 November 1866]
Source of text:
Proceedings of the British Meteorological Society, 3 (1867), 273-5
Summary:

Presents in some detail and with an illustration his observations of the meteor shower 13-14 Nov. 1866.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5279

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 54
Summary:

JVC proposes to correct Bronn’s mistakes [in his translation of Origin], but will not add his own notes.

Asks CD to write a note on Nägeli’s pamphlet [Entstehung und Begriff] for the revised edition.

Also requests biographical information for an encyclopedia article he has been asked to write.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13806

From:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
15 November [1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0156; Reel 1087
Summary:

[Printed letter] Collecting poems related to natural history and physical science. Lists 16, including JH's 'On the Herschelean Telescope.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5278

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
15 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 1 (EH 88205926)
Summary:

Asks JL to look up a paper by Thomas Hincks on Polyzoa or Bryozoa [Q. J. Microsc. Sci. 2d ser. 1 (1861): 278–81].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12587

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
D[aniel] Mackintosh
Date:
[15 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.175
Summary:

Has been asked to comment on the writings of Hermann von Schlagintweit, but JH has not yet had time to read them carefully and so cannot comment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP3806

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 November 1866
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5279F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
[16 Nov 1866]
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

[Acknowledges receipt of £252 19s. 2d.]

Thanks JH for his kind invitation to [William Erasmus Darwin, who had inherited the Claythorpe property in Lincolnshire, also managed by JH, from CD’s sister, Susan Elizabeth Darwin?]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11892

From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.254
Summary:

Many thanks for his prompt attention to the proof sheets; sends some more. Miss Elizabeth Drummond is gratified by JH's interest.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8574

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[India Office]
Date:
[16 November 1866]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms.Eng.231(1)
Summary:

Corrects earlier statement that JH has not received vol. 4 of the study of India written by [Robert and Hermann] Schlagentweit

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4371

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.100
Summary:

Compares observations of meteor shower in Orion with JH. Describes methods and observations in detail.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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