From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 3–4
Summary:
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 343
Summary:
CD should not be discouraged by the bulk of Variation. CD’s suggestion to print technical details in small type is good.
Murray has sent MS to a "man of letters and good information" as an experiment to test its effect. Has no intention of throwing up publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Philip Mansel Weale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 82: A113–14
Summary:
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 166)
Summary:
Relieved by JM’s note and by his agreement on type size. Is alarmed by what the verdict [on Variation] of JM’s friend will be. He is not a man of science. An unscientific reader would have condemned the Origin. An eminent semi-scientific man thought the Journal of researches not worth publishing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Baldwin
Date:
[10 January 1867]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0073; Reel 1054
Summary:
Advice on choosing executors, drawing will, and disposing of MB's property. Sends semiannual dividend from Drummond's.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 288
Summary:
Has given CD’s queries about expression to W. H. Stirling. Thomas Bridges, the catechist, had previously answered some questions incompletely [see 2643]; BJS forwards them [see Expression].
BJS answers CD’s query about when some calves show their adult colour.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Belt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 47: 181–9
Summary:
MS essay "On esculent fruits" [apparently enclosed in a missing letter].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Jan 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 131–4
Summary:
Responds to CD’s criticisms. JDH is sometimes confused as to what he has borrowed from CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 235
Summary:
Will introduce Charles Kingsley to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 76
Summary:
Comments on MS on seed distribution sent by TB.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 5–6
Summary:
More comments on "Insular floras": community of peculiar genera in the Atlantic islands descended from European plants now extinct.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 161)
Summary:
Approves of type [for Variation]. Pleased to hear from Hooker that he is not surprised that MS is big.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks BJS for W. H. Stirling’s answers [to queries about expression]
and for information on cattle and breeding of dogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2)
Summary:
Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ursula Frayne
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 January 1867
Source of text:
P67/710, unit 249, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 January 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.489
Summary:
Discusses Aristotle's and Richard Whately's descriptions of the sensitivity of the eye's lateral areas. Asks JH to review cover sheet and opine whether the predictions described are miracles.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 January 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.285
Summary:
Sends copy of B.A.A.S. resolution regarding telescope in India. ES and R.S.L. colleagues agree to take no further steps in matter.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Frederick Barlee
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 January 1867
Source of text:
Colonial Secretary's correspondence, acc. 49, vol. 39, no, 1267, State Records Office of Western Australia, Perth
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1867
Source of text:
DAR 170: 54
Summary:
JL’s brother-in-law [Robert Birkbeck] would like a note of introduction to John Murray.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
17 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 64 (EH 88206508)
Summary:
Encloses note of introduction to Murray.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project