From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[after July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 84.2: 183, 187, 187v
Summary:
Questions from CD related to bird plumage and sexual differences, with answers by EB.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 July 1868
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1–52/18)
Summary:
Thanks for two small works.
Will read essay on man [Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts] with much interest.
Generelle Morphologie reviewed by G. Bentham ["Anniversary Address", Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1867–8): lviii–c].
Extremely sceptical of hare–rabbit hybrid.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
4 July 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 9485)
Summary:
Thanks for interesting letter. ‘How very curious the case of the bright-coloured birds which conceal themselves in holes!’
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
6 July 1868
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks AdeC for his long letter full of interesting facts, which will be of great use if a new edition [of Variation] is demanded.
As for when CD will publish on variation in a state of nature: he has had the MS almost ready for several years but Variation fatigued him so much
that "I determined to amuse myself by publishing a short essay on the Descent of Man".
AdeC will have plenty of time to publish his views. Asks permission to quote AdeC on a case of inheritance of scalp-muscles [see Descent 1: 20].
Hooker has expressed a view, similar to AdeC’s, "that morals & politics would be very interesting if discussed like any branch of Natural History".
Agrees with AdeC on acclimatisation
and on graft-hybrids.
CD is repeating Hildebrand’s method in producing graft-hybrid potatoes.
As for Pangenesis, very few people approve of it though it has some enthusiastic friends and CD has much faith in its vitality.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 76–7
Summary:
Thinks JDH would be wise not to touch on Pangenesis; it has very few friends. Bentham is doubtful, Carus against, and Alphonse de Candolle likes it least in the book. CD still convinced it will be hereafter looked on as "best hypothesis of generation inheritance & development". If JDH means to cut up Pangenesis he has no word to say in opposition.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 July 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.352)
Summary:
Comments favourably, though often differing, on articles by G. H. Lewes.
Discusses claim of Agassiz [in A journey in Brazil (1868)] that he found evidence of glaciers in Brazil. Suggests sponsoring an expedition to test these claims.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Inland Revenue
Date:
[17–21 July 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 55
Summary:
Cannot fill out a return [for foreign revenue?] until his return home.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 78–9
Summary:
Looks forward to seeing JDH and hearing about address.
Feels better already.
Disappointed in house [they have taken at Freshwater].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
20 July [1868]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks AdeC for correcting an error about thorns, which CD might have quoted.
CD will be cautious in regard to the muscles of the scalp. [Descent 1: 20].
His health has failed again "in the usual manner" and he has been ordered to do no work.
Repeats how interested and pleased he was by AdeC’s last long, remarkable letter.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 July [1868]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 241)
Summary:
Has come to Freshwater for five weeks for his health. Sends regrets to Prof. Kühne at not being able to see him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Darwin
Date:
26 [July 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 1
Summary:
Writes to express his pleasure at Leonard’s success [second in the Woolwich Academy entrance examination].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 80–2
Summary:
Sorry to hear of baby’s illness.
Comments on statement that belief in natural selection is passing away. Common descent of species is almost universally accepted now, and this is more important. In large part acceptance is due to Origin. Discusses reception of and interest in Origin in various countries.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Lewes
Date:
28 July [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 41
Summary:
Thanks GHL for his support of Pangenesis.
Contributor:
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