From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 81
Summary:
Notes on the taxonomy of Primula.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Blenkiron, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Feb 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 184
Summary:
Answers for father, who is ill, on difference between manes of stallions and mares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Feb–Apr 1868?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 38
Summary:
Suggests, if further notice is to be taken of Variation, that the reviewer grapple with the subject of Pangenesis. Thanks him for his fair and friendly spirit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
1 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 29–30)
Summary:
Questions arising in German translation of Variation; its sales prospects. CD from the first has said it was very doubtful that the book was worth translating.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
D. Appleton & Co
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 159: 82
Summary:
Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 191–4; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 19, f. 200)
Summary:
Amazed that Hugo von Mohl and E. M. Fries are not foreign members of Royal Society; Thomson going over the whole matter.
Candolle’s contribution to botany.
Lubbock shocked about Wollaston.
CD’s answer to Greg was capital.
Comments on Variation.
Charles Murchison’s work on Falconer’s Memoirs [Palaeontological memoirs and notes of the late Hugh Falconer (1868)] and JDH on Falconer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
1 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Murch 1893, p. 437
Summary:
Thanks WL for sending congratulations [on George Darwin’s attaining Second Wrangler].
Relays news about Sedgwick’s condition.
Has finished a large book on variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Bernstorff, Graf von Bernstorff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 177
Summary:
His Majesty the King of Prussia has conferred upon CD the Order, Pour le Mérite, for Sciences and Arts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 186
Summary:
Congratulates [G. H. Darwin] on being Second Wrangler.
Thanks CD for Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 44–9
Summary:
Comments on Wollaston’s troubles
and his book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].
Mohl’s claim to foreign membership in Royal Society very strong.
Has been in despair about Variation – not worth a fifth part of the labour it cost him.
Is reading F. A. W. Miquel’s Flora du Japon [Prolusio florae Japonicae (1866–7)]; wonders whether A. Murray could be correct in his view that an area of the sea prevented Asiatico-Japan flora colonising western N. America.
Comments on A. Murray’s book [Geographical distribution of mammals (1866)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 210
Summary:
Recommends J. Scott’s paper on crossing varieties of Verbascum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 213
Summary:
Discussion of the pig in light of CD’s Variation.
Work of Hermann von Nathusius [Die Racen des Schweines (1860)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 181: 122
Summary:
Sends some Australian boiled beef for CD to sample.
Congratulations on George Darwin’s success at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Moultrie Salt
Date:
5 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:
Forwards a letter from John Horner of Market Drayton, Shropshire, concerning £2000 he considers due to him from CD under the terms of the will of Sarah Bayley.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
5 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (17–18 October 2013)
Summary:
Thanks for congratulations on Francis Darwin’s success in the tripos examinations at the university of Cambridge.
The king of Prussia has awarded him the order Pour le Mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 February 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.497
Summary:
Will assume trusteeship if he is named in the document. Discusses trying to find Neptune with his telescope.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Feb 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 46
Summary:
Describes his lectures on CD’s theory.
Thanks CD for copy of Variation. Comments on book.
Describes work of two protégés in Jena: Nicolas von Miklucho[-Maclay] and Anton Dohrn.
His cousin, Wilhelm Bleek, is sending an article about the origin of language.
Asks to keep book a few months longer but will return it if CD needs it [Webb and Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries, vol. 3, pt 1: Géographie botanique (1840)].
Describes research on Siphonophora.
Describes life in Jena. Mentions alpine accident during wedding trip.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 160: 212
Summary:
Discusses the origin and characters of sheep breeds, particularly the merino.
Reports observations on reversion to wild type in canary mules
and lists some animals that show a unique development restricted to one side of their bodies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 11
Summary:
Forwards a letter from Secretary of Yorkshire Philosophical Society. Hopes CD will honour them by accepting.
Has heard nothing of Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project