From John Brodie Innes 2 January [1862]
Summary
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3370 |
From C. C. Babington 30 January 1862
Summary
Encloses seeds.
Lecoq’s work mentions instances of apparent dimorphism. [H. Lecoq, Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe, 9 vols. (1854–8).]
| Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3422 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 January 1862]
Summary
JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?
His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.
Genera plantarum is in press.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 8–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3395 |
To Asa Gray 22 January [1862]
Summary
Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".
U. S. politics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3404 |
From J. D. Hooker [25 January 1862]
Summary
Will send an Arethusa; offers other specimens.
Dimorphism.
Falconer contradicts Sumatra and Ceylon elephant story.
Lyell as rabid as ever about America.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Jan 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 6–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3394 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … see, for example, Correspondence vol. 9, letter from Asa Gray, 31 December 1861 , and …
- … Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). An article on the elephants of Sumatra and Ceylon, by the German naturalist Hermann Schlegel , appeared in the January issue of the Natural History Review ( Schlegel 1862 ). Schlegel claimed that these elephants constituted a species distinct from that found in mainland India. Hugh Falconer , an authority on fossil and living elephants, subsequently published his objections to Schlegel’s claim ( Falconer 1863 , pp. 81–96). CD had returned the Catasetum plants he borrowed from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 16 January [1862]
Summary
Entire family down with influenza. Has done nothing for three weeks.
Asks for Haast reference on New Zealand glacial deposits.
CD’s view of the North since Trent case. Can no longer write with sympathy to Asa Gray.
Encourages JDH about his son, Willy.
Problem of relation of colour to external conditions. Hopes JDH will undertake the investigation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3391 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] , and letter …
- … n. 5), about which CD and Asa Gray had corresponded (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter …
- … Asa Gray, 31 December 1861 ). Hooker had mentioned his concern that his eldest child, William Henslow Hooker , was ‘singularly backward & childish of his years’ in his letter …
From C. E. Brown-Séquard 13 January 1862
Summary
Apologises for not answering CD sooner about where he will publish review [of Origin]. Review is to appear in his own journal, but will postpone publishing it until the French translation of 3d ed. appears. Expresses substantial agreement with CD’s views.
| Author: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 327 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3385 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [and 26] January [1862]
Summary
His answer to Asa Gray.
On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection.
Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing.
Huxley on Owen.
Feeble letter from J. H. Balfour against Huxley’s lectures ["Relation of man to lower animals", pt 2 of Man’s place in nature (1863)].
Has received the "astounding" Angraecum sesquipedale with nectary 1ft long: "what insect could suck it?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 [and 26] Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3411 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … D. Hooker, [19 January 1862] . See letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] and nn. 8 and …
- … letter, which was one of the pleasantest I ever received in my life. We are all pretty well redivivus, & I am at work again. I thought it best to make a clean breast to Asa Gray & …
- … Asa Gray. On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection. Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing. Huxley on Owen. Feeble letter …
To D. F. Nevill 22 January [1862]
Summary
Thanks for orchids and other flowers.
Will send photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3405 |
From Charles Kingsley 31 January 1862
Summary
CK defended CD’s theory at a shooting party with the Bishop of Oxford, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Ashburton. The discussion started as a result of shooting some blue rock-pigeons which were different from blue rocks of other localities. CK held that all pigeons were descended from one species.
CK proposed that mythological races, e.g., elves and dwarfs, were intermediate species between man and apes, and have become extinct by natural selection; i.e., by competition with a superior white race of man.
| Author: | Charles Kingsley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 169.1: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3426 |
From Francis Boott 27 January 1862
Summary
Has sent CD the published part of his work on Carex [Illustrations of the genus Carex (1858–67)]. Hopes to add 200 more figures. Comments on great variability among the 600–odd species, and on their geographical distribution.
| Author: | Francis Boott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 252 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3418 |
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| Boott, Francis | (1) |
| Brown-Séquard, C. É. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
| Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
| Boott, Francis | (1) |
| Brown-Séquard, C. É. | (1) |
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
Summary
Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
