From Fritz Müller [8 October 1867]
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.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Oct 1867] |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5620A |
To Hermann Müller [9 October 1867]
Summary
Müller’s observations on orchids excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | [9 Oct 1867] |
Classmark: | Krause 1884, p. 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5620F |
From Ferdinand von Mueller 8 October 1867
Summary
Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.
Author: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5626 |
From A. R. Wallace 1 October [1867]
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.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B43–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5637 |
To J. T. Moggridge 1 October [1867]
Summary
Hopes JTM’s health will improve.
Asks for information about crosses of peas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 1 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 376 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5638 |
To Charles Lyell 4 October [1867]
Summary
Replies to CL’s further comments [on Variation].
Discusses direct action of the environment as a cause of variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.334) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5640 |
From J. V. Carus 5 October 1867
Summary
Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5641 |
To George Warington 7 October [1867]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Warington |
Date: | 7 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS1001/95) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5642 |
From J. V. Carus 7 October 1867
Summary
Some sheets of Variation have gone astray.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5643 |
To J. V. Carus 8 October [1867]
Summary
CD provides explanations and advice on translating names and descriptions of breeds of fowls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 8 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 14–15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5644 |
To J. V. Carus 10 October [1867]
Summary
Sends a corrected revise to replace a sheet which has been lost in the mail.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 10 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 54–55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5645 |
From J. J. Moulinié 11 October 1867
Summary
Has received more Variation sheets; some are missing. In a few days the first six chapters of the French translation will be printed.
Author: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 268 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5646 |
To George Warington 11 October [1867]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Warington |
Date: | 11 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (15 November 2017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5646F |
To James Samuelson 12 October [1867]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Samuelson |
Date: | 12 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Paul V. Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Technology |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5647 |
To A. R. Wallace 12 and 13 October [1867]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 12 and 13 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434 f. 96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5648 |
To Asa Gray 16 October [1867]
Summary
Sends sheets of first volume of Variation.
Transport of seeds in locust dung.
Pangenesis will be called "a mad dream".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (95) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5649 |
From J. V. Carus 16 October 1867
Summary
Anxious to read the second volume [of Variation].
Appreciates "the way in which you [CD] teach us all how to look on, and how to study, nature".
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5650 |
From J. D. Hooker 18 October 1867
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 180–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5651 |
From William Houghton 18 October 1867
Summary
Studying freshwater Planariae. Did CD find they had nervous systems?
News of T. C. Eyton and [William?] Owen.
Author: | William Houghton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5652 |
To J. V. Carus 19 October [1867]
Summary
Concerning German translation of Variation. Fears chapter 27 Pangenesis is very wild, but believes physiologists will some day be compelled to admit some such doctrine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julius Victor Carus |
Date: | 19 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 27–28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5653 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
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Gray, Asa | (1) |
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Lyell, Charles | (2) |
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