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WCP7218

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
13 February 1866
Source of text:
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5005

From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 150
Summary:

Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5008

From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 212
Summary:

Going to Orient as naturalist aboard the Rifleman. Offers CD his services.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5007

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.313)
Summary:

Thanks CL for Hooker’s letter.

Discussion of Hooker’s views on glacial action and temperature with specific reference to S. America.

His squabbles with Hooker on transport of seeds via water currents,

temperate plants, and preservation of tropical plants during cooler period.

Expresses interest in seeing Agassiz’s letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5008A

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet collection G368 (bound in part of Moggridge 1865–8)
Summary:

Is sending Ophrys plants marked as CD requested as wild or under cultivation. Discusses arrangements for a scheme planned for 1867 and his method for marking his Ophrys specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5008B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
16 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 96
Summary:

Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4317

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
B. W. S. Vallack
Date:
[16 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.417b (C: RS:HS 24.141)
Summary:

Suggests weaknesses in BV's plans for a binocular telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6633

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[16 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.142
Summary:

Main object in translating Homer was to 'wipe off the stigma cast on English hexameters by such people as Tennyson.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5009

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B53–4
Summary:

Suggests two ways of financing what Susan will owe Catherine’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1145

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
17 February 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.88-89, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel6399

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.164
Summary:

Is grateful for the praise JH has given her photographic efforts. Intends to do a series of life-sized head photographs. Is anxious about Henry Taylor, who has been overworking in the colonial cause.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4114

From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.98
Summary:

Informs JH, Charles Babbage, and James South that they are the surviving original members of the R.A S. Requests JH write an account of the R.A.S.'s founding. Discusses the evidence of the 'personal will' of God in creation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5010

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B40–1
Summary:

Division of Catherine’s estate.

Arrangements for EAD’s will.

Wishes CD would pay him another visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1467

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
19 February 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.270, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4965

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 20 Feb 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B52
Summary:

Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5011F

From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
20 Feb 1866
Source of text:
F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 144–7
Summary:

Discusses CD’s and J. D. Hooker’s letters to Lyell concerning Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of the Amazon basin in Brazil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5011

From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 213
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s suggestions. [From CD’s notes on CC’s previous letter, these were (1) means of distribution; (2) domestic animals; (3) gestures of savages.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4289

From:
Goodwin Kilburne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 February 1866]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (63)
Summary:

Announces a committee meeting for a volunteer group.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5481F

From:
Kent Church Penitentiary Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 92
Summary:

Appeal for funds for paying of the Society’s debt, and for an annual subscription.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5012

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
21 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-2)
Summary:

Requests copy of paper read at Amsterdam Horticultural Congress, on graft-hybrids like that of Cytisus adami [see 5018].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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