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DCP-LETT-4986

From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 202
Summary:

Last fascicles of FR’s book Der Mensch [1866] being sent.

Finds roots of human race in Negroes of Africa, Bushmen of South Africa and New Guinea, and short-headed peoples of south Asia.

Has translated natural selection as natürliche Auslese.

Ludwig Rütimeyer active in developing the descent of mammals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6472

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.240
Summary:

Sending a certificate proposing Professor William Selwyn; would JH add qualifications, sign it and send it on to G. B. Airy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4987

From:
Frederic Ward Putnam
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 174: 81
Summary:

Sends a paper on Bombus ["On the habits of some species of humble-bees", Commun. Essex Inst. 4 (1866): 98–104].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10516

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.393
Summary:

Thinks that E. W. L. Tempel's comet may be connected with that of Biela. Comments on this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4993

From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 36
Summary:

Is seeking election to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
1 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/9)
Summary:

Thanks for photographs [of German scientists].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3510

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866?]-2
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.399c
Summary:

Corrects misinformation about refraction and dispersion of mercury ethyl and mercury methyl.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4992

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

Thanks for all five numbers of Der Mensch [1866].

Had not known that Rütimeyer had written on modification of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4091

From:
Isaac Todhunter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.357
Summary:

Makes suggestions for the solution to the three point probability problem using integrals of infinity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4994

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jeffries Wyman
Date:
2 Feb 1866
Source of text:
Jeffries Wyman Jr (private collection)
Summary:

Obliged for JW’s information on variability of size of bees’ cells. Hexagonal cells not always work of several insects. W. H. Miller found great variability in thickness of cell walls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4995F

From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Feb 1866
Source of text:
F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 134–6.
Summary:

Discusses Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of Brazil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4995

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
3 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Australia (MS 5907)
Summary:

Will be pleased to sign FWF’s certificate for the Royal Society if he can send it to CD, who does not have the strength to go to London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4996

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 57–8
Summary:

Asks CD whether he knows of a medicine to check vomiting – for a friend dying from starvation as a result.

Duke of Somerset is looking for two naturalists for survey ship to Korea and Strait of Magellan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4997

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 106: B31–2
Summary:

Looks forward to reading Variation.

Explains how two or more female forms occur in one species through selection. The physiological problem remains of how each produces offspring like the other without intermediates. Is not CD’s case of varieties that will not blend the physiological test of a species needed for "complete proof of the origin of species"?

"Travels" postponed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1869

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 February 1866
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B31-32
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 63
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 168-169]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4998

From:
Frederic William Farrar
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 164: 37
Summary:

Thanks CD for supporting his application to the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-66-02-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 February 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 196-201
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-02-05a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 February 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 195
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel6398

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date:
[5 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.163 & 24.140
Summary:

Cannot give advice on the artistic merits of her photographs as he is not qualified, but offers suggestions and praise on the mechanics of the art.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5003F

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 14–17
Summary:

Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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