From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1868 – Aug 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B73
Summary:
Sends a bill he thinks is Caroline’s.
Tells CD of officers’ praise of Leonard.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
South Eastern Railway
Date:
[c. Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 49
Summary:
Wishes correspondent to investigate immediately the loss of two boxes in transit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 89–90
Summary:
Athenæum [Owen’s?] attack on JDH [BAAS address] and CD. False statement that CD’s sole groundwork is from pigeons.
Agrees with JDH on foolishness of Red Lion Club.
Huxley’s want of judgment.
JDH’s argument about astronomy and astronomers.
Pall Mall Gazette [8 (1868): 593, 595–6] and Morning Advertiser on JDH’s address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[1 September 1868]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #52
Summary:
Sends back excellent translation of his review with minor corrections. Mentions 'fine display of meteors with long trains' on 10 August. Gives news of his son Lieutenant John Herschel's observations. Acknowledges works received.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[1 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.226
Summary:
Given up idea of translating Dante; comments on meteor shower report; suggests EC write an ode on poverty.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 148: 319
Summary:
Invites JJW to visit Down. Will try to get A. R. Wallace and H. W. Bates also.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Surprised and pleased JBI liked his "big book" [Variation].
Luckily, naturalists do not seem to think he has committed suicide with the work.
CD wants to turn over the school accounts to John Robinson [curate of Down]. Writes of other parish news.
Will vote in person for Sir John Lubbock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Ogle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 173: 1
Summary:
Returns a pamphlet on Salvia [F. Hildebrand, "Über die Befruchtung der Salviaarten" (1865) Jahrb. Wiss. Bot. 4 (1866): 451–78].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
2 Sept 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.354)
Summary:
Thanks GHKT and S. O. Glenie for information about fowls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Sterry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0273; Reel 1087
Summary:
Hoped to succeed late William H. Barton as comptroller and deputy master of Mint, but learned that government plans to make this office a political appointment. Seeks testimonial from JH on CS's behalf.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry Fletcher Hance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 96
Summary:
Sends CD an article [missing] on the early domestication and culture of the goldfish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rider Garrett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
3 September [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.95
Summary:
Is very grateful for his comments on her translation of Dante's Inferno. Will obtain Mr. Ford's version. Intends to continue with her translation though she sees no prospect of it being printed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
3 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Would like information on the first plumage of poultry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.70
Summary:
Comments on communications to R.S.L. by JH's son John in India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 102: 233–4
Summary:
Has met A. J. Gower, Consul at Nagasaki, Japan, who knows all about the Ainus. JDH has given away all the copies of CD’s Queries about expression.
Nettled by Pall Mall Gazette review of BAAS address [see 6342].
Owen is indeed an ass. Carlyle’s comment on Owen’s smile.
The Asa Grays at Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 95–6
Summary:
Sexual differences in plumage of birds; various species compared.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B67
Summary:
Accepts invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 31
Summary:
Strong support for theory of descent.
Observations on palaeobotany of S. France. Most woody angiosperm genera date far back. Magnolia type unchanged. Intermediate fossil species. Ancient species of Quercus persists as variety of modern species. Fossil evidence of ice age.
CD’s works have been an inspiration in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emanuel Bonavia
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 26 September 1868, p. 1013
Summary:
Peloric forms of flowers: Clitoria Ternatea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 Sept 1868
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/46)
Summary:
Appreciates MJB’s address [Rep. BAAS 38 (1868): 83–7]. Has had great respect for MJB’s knowledge since his undergraduate days at Cambridge.
Agrees that Pangenesis gemmules probably do not develop into free cells, but penetrate other cells in a manner analogous to fertilisation, and modify their development.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project