To P. L. Sclater 14 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 14 May [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3545 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3546 |
From John Obadiah Westwood 14 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Has captured a bee with pollinia adhering to its head. Will send it to CD if he likes.
Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3547 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
From John Lubbock 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."
JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3549 |
From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 15 May 1862
Summary
Sends CD a quotation from Plato which anticipates the Origin.
Has been enjoying CD’s paper on dimorphism in the Journal of the Linnean Society ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. He has found similar structures [see Forms of flowers, pp. 116, 122].
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B79–80, DAR 171: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3550 |
From M. T. Masters [c. 15 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 15 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3551 |
From D. F. Nevill [16? May 1862]
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids].
Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16? May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 172.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3552 |
From George Chichester Oxenden 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for the book [Orchids].
Found thousands of Ophrys aranifera plants.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3553 |
From George Bentham 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3554 |
To W. D. Fox [17 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks WDF for interesting letter about turkeys. Would be grateful for information on fertility of the hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [17 May 1862] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 133) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3555 |
From Georgina Tollet 17 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Georgina Tollet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3556 |
From C. W. Crocker 17 May 1862
Summary
Comments on presentation copy of Orchids. Has CD studied the orchid Sobralia?
Cannot get material for hollyhock experiment.
Sends his notes on Primula sinensis.
He is experimenting on Ranunculus.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 133, DAR 161.2: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3557 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 May 1862]
Summary
Leschenaultia seems very odd. Will try with pollen left on for 48 hours. Illustrates diversity of structures for same purpose.
Bentham’s and Oliver’s good opinion of Orchids is reassuring.
Anxious to experiment on Melastomataceae; thinks it will give important results.
Wants Leschenaultia formosa to try whether viscid outside surface can be fertilised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3558 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1862
Summary
Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."
Details of U. S. orchids.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3559 |
To Alexander Goodman More 18 May [1862]
Summary
Asks AGM to experiment on Epipactis palustris.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 18 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3560 |
From H. G. Bronn 19 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for revisions in 2d ed. of Origin. Suggests correction regarding species numbers in the Tertiary.
Comments on pages of Orchids and problems of German translation.
Believes CD’s theory not yet proven, but that it will finally lead to truth.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3561 |
From Henry Holland 19 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3562 |
From Edward Cresy 19 May 1862
Summary
Comments on presentation copy of Orchids: bee Ophrys self-fertilisation; origin of nectar; odour of orchids. Book gives strong cases for special creationists.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3563 |
From H. W. Bates 19 May 1862
Summary
Miocene glacial period a remarkable discovery; if it is true, enlargement of Tertiary period necessary.
Received German monograph on Chilean Carabi that does not answer where isolated species came from.
HWB finds genital modifications of Chrysomela strong support for the theory.
Thanks for copy of Orchids.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3564 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (5) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Jukes, J. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Innes, J. B. | (3) |