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DCP-LETT-5137

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
[July–Sept 1866]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 714)
Summary:

Asks GB to consider whether it is necessary for the Linnean Society to be so strict about the number of books members may borrow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5138

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 52
Summary:

Returns [Fritz?] Müller’s work [probably Für Darwin (1864)]. It is a remarkable memoir.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Admiralty
Date:
[2–4 July 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 25–6
Summary:

Petition earnestly requesting that a ship surveying the Strait of Magellan collect fossil bones in the south of Patagonia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5139

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 79–80
Summary:

Suggests a memorial from Huxley, Murchison, and other geologists on the Gallegos fossils. He will speak privately to Duke of Somerset.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5140

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 106: B33–8
Summary:

Lengthy analysis of sources of misunderstanding of natural selection. Advocacy of Spencer’s term "survival of the fittest" instead of "Natural Selection". ARW urges CD to stress frequency of variations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5141

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 151
Summary:

Is trying to arrange a new American edition of Origin.

Gives notes on Passiflora acerifolia [on cover].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 July [1866]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 231)
Summary:

Sends a draft of memorial to Admiralty [to be signed by geologists and palaeontologists] requesting that an expedition to survey Strait of Magellan collect fossils discovered by Admiral B. J. Sulivan [see 5142].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5143

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 178: 72
Summary:

All the blocks [for Variation] are now engraved except the rock-dove.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5146

From:
Frederick Currey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 307
Summary:

Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5147

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 and 6 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 171: 209
Summary:

Sends onion and mint seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 July [1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f.70)
Summary:

CD considers "the survival of the fittest" as alternative term to "Natural Selection". Reflections upon misunderstanding and his own ambiguity.

Health improved; can now work "some hours daily".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5149

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 311
Summary:

Has taken memorial to G. H. Richards, the Hydrographer. He favours the proposal and will instruct Capt. Mayne. THH will communicate with Dr Cunningham, the naturalist for the expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5151

From:
George Stacey Gibson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 40
Summary:

Asks CD if he can explain the results of an experiment that produced barley from oats that had been cut down to prevent their flowering.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
9 July [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

WBT’s fowls’ skulls are being engraved; will see pigeon illustration proofs when he can.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5154

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1866
Source of text:
DAR 169: 34
Summary:

Asks for CD’s opinion of the manner of migration of the eye of flatfish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel232

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[13 July 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.412.220
Summary:

A note to accompany forwarding of papers and letters relating to Charles Rümker's observations [see GA's 1866-5-31].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1360

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
14 July 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.152, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-5155F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
15 July [1866]
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (6 April 2022, lot 237)
Summary:

Thanks for information about the publication of CK’s lectures.

Discusses the migration of the eye in flatfish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
15 July [1866]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 145–146)
Summary:

4th edition of Origin will soon be bound. Suggests sending copies to scientific periodicals that might notice it. Hopes JM will specify in advertisements that the work is corrected and enlarged. Hopes pages will be cut. Only insanity accounts for this not being done in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10398

From:
Wilfred Heeley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 July 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.277
Summary:

Thanks for the parliamentary papers, which the Committee have found very useful. Will soon forward his report, which recommends the metric system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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