From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Stephen Paul Engleheart
Date:
[Apr 1867?]
Source of text:
Provenance unknown
Summary:
Asks for a note about sling for Leonard’s arm, as he is about to leave for school.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 110: B111–12; DAR 81: 167
Summary:
Cites cases of difference in coloration between the sexes of some species of Crustacea, annelids, and spiders.
Discusses dimorphic plants and self-sterility.
Outlines some experiments involving the crossing of different species of orchids.
Encloses extract from Carl Claus, Die freilebenden Copepoden [1863].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 289
Summary:
Thanks for "Climbing plants" offprint and for references on fertilisation of flowers.
Considering the bounty of work already done, he is looking for something original to do.
Subularia does not grow in Westphalia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Norman Macleod
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1867-4
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 14/1.200 verso; Reel 10
Summary:
Second National Portrait Exhibition will open to public on 3 May. Invites JH to private viewing on 2 May.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
William Smith
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 April 1867
Source of text:
No. 3241, unit 733, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 April [1867?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.312
Summary:
Asks JH to send an actinometer to Kew. It will be forwarded with other meteorological instruments to the Paris Exhibition.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alexander Kennedy Smith
Date:
2 April 1867
Source of text:
No. 3241, unit 733, VPRS 3181/P Town Clerk's file series 1, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
H. Temple Humphreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 April 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.77
Summary:
Is grateful for his information. Believes he has found a way of overcoming the difficulties. Outlines his scheme for railway axles. Believes it will prove a great boon to the railways.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 169: 72
Summary:
On whether to make woodcuts for Variation in Russia or use Murray’s stereotypes. He has similar advance publication agreements with Carl Vogt, E. A. Rossmässler and Theodor Billroth.
The Russian version of Origin is translated from Bronn’s German edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 30–1)
Summary:
Asks if he should give the clichés of Variation to E. Schweizerbart.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
2 April 1867
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 159: 67
Summary:
Will find out identity of Robert Trail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 102: 157–8
Summary:
Begins to hope baby may survive; description of symptoms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James McCulloch
Date:
4 April 1867
Source of text:
67/5646, unit 98, VPRS 44 inward registered and unregistered correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 19–20
Summary:
Rejoices over baby’s improvement.
Horace Darwin has intermittent fever.
Thanks JDH for page of the Farmer, a great service.
R. Trail’s potato grafting case would be of extreme value for demonstrating Pangenesis. [See Variation 1: 395.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 April 1867
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 37-39
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 21-23]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff. 32–33)
Summary:
Asks JM not to send stereotypes [of Variation] to Schweizerbart until he has heard that Carus will translate it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Sarah Faraday
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer
Date:
4 April 1867
Source of text:
TNA MT10 / 128, file H721
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Blunt
Date:
5 Apr [1867]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Albert Stephens Borgman autograph collection MS Am 1631: 95)
Summary:
Congratulates TB on his son’s success in scientific studies.
Susan Darwin’s death [Oct 1866] has severed last ties of family with Shrewsbury.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 58
Summary:
JVC is willing to translate [Variation], especially because of his conviction that progress of biology depends on proving CD’s theory.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] will do mischief because EH is so immoderate. Suggests CD tell EH that he has done him a bad service. CD is the only one to whom EH would listen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project