From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]
Summary
Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585G |
To H. C. Watson 8 [August 1862]
Summary
Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Date: | 8 [Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3646 |
From G. H. Darwin [after 5 August 1862]
Summary
Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 5 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 90.1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3671 |
From M. S. Wedgwood [6 August 1862]
Summary
Looked for Hottonia but with little success.
| Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674 |
From W. E. Darwin to Emma Darwin 8 August [1862]
Summary
WED thinks Bournemouth a suitable holiday destination for ED and CD.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674F |
From W. E. Darwin 1 August 1862
Summary
WED has been collecting Lythrum plants. Numerical proportions of the three forms.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3675 |
From J. O. Westwood 1 August 1862
Summary
Bee with adhering orchid pollinia lent to Charles Daubeny. Pollen-masses shaken off but if CD still interested he is welcome to specimen.
| Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3676 |
From W. E. Darwin 2 August [1862]
Summary
Sends specimens of the three forms of Lythrum. Remarks on the numerical proportions of different forms.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3677 |
To W. E. Darwin [2–3 August 1862]
Summary
Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.
Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [2–3 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3678 |
From Asa Gray 4 August 1862
Summary
Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3679 |
From G. C. Oxenden 4 August [1862?]
Summary
Finds many beautiful Epipactis specimens.
| Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Aug [1862?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3680 |
From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862]
Summary
Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.
| Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 4 Aug 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 64 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3681 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 August 1862
Summary
Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 32 bis, DAR 162: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3683 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 August 1862
Summary
Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.
Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3684 |
To Asa Gray 9 August [1862]
Summary
Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3685 |
From Thomas White Woodbury 9 August 1862
Summary
Breeding cells of Ligurian bee are larger than those of common bee. Thanks CD for comb.
| Author: | Thomas White Woodbury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3686 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 12 August [1862]
Summary
WBT’s "too kind and flattering" article on Orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3687 |
From Asa Gray 18–19 August 1862
Summary
Notes and observations on orchids.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18–19 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 111, 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3688 |
To A. R. Wallace 20 August [1862]
Summary
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 20 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3689 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1862
Summary
Observations on Welwitschia.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3690 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
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| Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, M. S. | (2) |
| Westwood, J. O. | (1) |
| Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
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