To an editor 24 March [1863?]
Summary
Encloses a dialogue on species from a New Zealand newspaper [S. Butler’s First dialogue on evolution, from the Christchurch Press].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863?] |
Classmark: | Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4058 |
To Daniel Oliver 24–5 March [1863]
Summary
Observation on morphology of Primula ovarium sent for DO’s use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24–5 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 42 (EH 88206025) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4059 |
To John Scott 24 March [1863]
Summary
Enthusiastic about JS’s work on Passiflora self-incompatibility.
CD quotes JS on rostellar pollen germination [in "Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 77–8]. H. Crüger attributes it to ants’ carrying stigmatic secretion to pollen.
Homomorphic cowslip seedlings are, sadly, showing variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B72–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4060 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.
Latent characters and reversion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4061 |
From Edward Blyth 27 March 1863
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4062 |
From Joseph Wolstenholme to William Erasmus Darwin [27 March 1863?]
Summary
Responds belatedly with advice about Cambridge colleges with particular reference to mathematics. Of the large ones Trinity stands out. Of the small ones Christ’s or possibly Caius.
Author: | Joseph Wolstenholme |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [27 Mar 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 140 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4062F |
To Daniel Oliver 28 March [1863]
Summary
Nectar secretion in Edwardsia. Could the stamen protect stigma?
Sends monstrous Primula with three pistils.
Had never heard of Robert Caspary, but what DO thinks is the placenta could be a whorl of pistils without stigmas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 28 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 43 (EH 88206026) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4063 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 March 1863]
Summary
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4064 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 March 1863]
Summary
CD regrets he used "creation" in Origin when he meant "appeared".
An Oken-like article in "Owenian style" in Athenæum.
Tropical plants continue to be troublesome.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4065 |
From Armand de Quatrefages 25 March 1863
Summary
Charles Martins of Montpellier will collect the varieties of silkworm for CD.
QdeB is battling with the polygenists in the Société d’Anthropologie.
Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4066 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 30 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks GHKT for specimens of Sethia. Discusses functions of their dimorphism for insect fertilisation.
Discusses polymorphism and fertilisation in Lythraceae.
Asks for seed of Limnanthemum.
Describes his interest in galls.
Discusses curious specimens of Gomphia and Lesemia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 30 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.293) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4067 |
To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener [17–24 March 1863]
Summary
Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [17–24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4069 |
From Armand de Quatrefages [28 March] – 11 April 1863
Summary
Continues to support, in debates at the Société d’Anthropologie, the view that variability of animals and anatomical modifications are produced by environment. Wishes to use CD’s niata cattle example from Journal of researches [2d ed., pp. 145–6].
Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar] – 11 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4082 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 March 1863]
Summary
Owen is the author of the Athenæum article [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19]. JDH dismisses it as vulgar rubbish. W. B. Carpenter intends to write a reply.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 126–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4098 |
From Daniel Oliver [27 March 1863]
Summary
Sends some specimens for CD.
Is busy with W. African Amomum, whose floral structure he discusses.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4328 |
To Alfred Newton 24 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for potatoes, which may be useful in crossing.
Germination of seeds in earth on partridge’s foot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Newton |
Date: | 24 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 9839/1D/53) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4435 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 27 March [1863]
Summary
Specimens obtained from Charles Martins will be most interesting.
Comments on QdeB’s book [Physiologie comparée (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 27 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 76–7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4437 |
To William Bowman 10 March [1863]
Summary
Will send portion of copied manuscript [of Variation 2: 8–10] for WB to examine. Asks about inherited abnormalities of the eye.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5030 |
To James Paget 11 March [1863]
Summary
Sends a sentence, quoting JP, on inherited peculiarities in eye-brows. Asks whether he may use it in his chapter on inheritance [Variation, ch. 12].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 11 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5436 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (58) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |