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DCP-LETT-5639

From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 78
Summary:

CD’s sudden temporary failure of memory and his eczema are not serious and would be relieved by rest and good diet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 376
Summary:

Hopes JTM’s health will improve.

Asks for information about crosses of peas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13055

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
1867-10
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0467; Reel 1055
Summary:

Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13056

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
1867-10
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0468 (C: 0469 & 0470); Reel 1055
Summary:

Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5637

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B43–4
Summary:

Informs CD of his reply to Argyll and the North British Review criticisms [in "Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. Cites "the predicted Madagascar moth" and Angraecum sesquipedale.

Birth of Herbert Spencer Wallace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.334)
Summary:

Replies to CL’s further comments [on Variation].

Discusses direct action of the environment as a cause of variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5641

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 61
Summary:

Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5643

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 62
Summary:

Some sheets of Variation have gone astray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5642

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warington
Date:
7 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (MS1001/95)
Summary:

Admires his paper ["On the credibility of Darwinism", J. Trans. Victoria Inst. 2 (1867): 39–62, and discussion 63–125].

Ridicules William H. Ince and Admiral FitzRoy on their naive ideas about Noah’s ark.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
8 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 14–15)
Summary:

CD provides explanations and advice on translating names and descriptions of breeds of fowls.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5626

From:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 11
Summary:

Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5620A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Oct 1867]
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 132
Summary:

Has CD ever considered that the colour of seeds of Amarantaceae would attract the attention of birds?

Describes case of a climbing Chamissoa of the local flora.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5620F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
[9 Oct 1867]
Source of text:
Krause 1884 , p. 18
Summary:

Müller’s observations on orchids excellent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
10 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 54–55)
Summary:

Sends a corrected revise to replace a sheet which has been lost in the mail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000001

From:
Justus Liebig
To:
JLW Thudichum
Date:
10 October 1867
Source of text:
MM/1/1, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-5646

From:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 171: 268
Summary:

Has received more Variation sheets; some are missing. In a few days the first six chapters of the French translation will be printed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5646F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warington
Date:
11 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (15 November 2017)
Summary:

Thanks recipient for the pamphlet, but he had already procured the Transactions.

Does not think that his views on Origin bear in any way on the question whether some one organic being was originally created by God, or appeared spontaneously through the action of natural laws.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Samuelson
Date:
12 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology
Summary:

Thanks for Quarterly Journal of Science 4 (1867). Has just read Wallace’s admirable article in last number ["Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. He is a master of clear argument.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 and 13 Oct 1867
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434 f. 96)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s "Creation by law", especially the Angraecum sesquipedale and the predicted Madagascar moth.

ARW’s argument on beauty strikes CD as good.

Wishes ARW had made more clear the assumption of the reviewer [in North Br. Rev.] that each variation is a strongly marked one.

The Duke of Argyll’s argument on beauty is not candid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2595

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.493
Summary:

Lack of circularity in some solar autographs is due to clouds. Discusses a quote regarding stars in the Southern Hemisphere. Also, Aristotle's examination of the eye.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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