To W. E. Darwin 29 [June 1863?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 [June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3367 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 10 June 1863]
Summary
Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 10 June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 151: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585F |
To John Scott 20 [June 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of JS’s orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
Suggests experiments on peloria.
Wants to count seed of the self-fertile red cowslip with equal stamens and styles.
Can send account of Hottonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 20 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4114 |
To P. H. Gosse 2 June [1863]
Summary
Can only conjecture that the problem occurs because the plant is not living in its natural conditions. Refers to what he said on Acropera [in Orchids]. Many plants under culture have sexual functions altered.
Asks PHG to look at bee Ophrys at Torquay to see if pollinia are ever removed. "It is my greatest puzzle."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 2 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4200 |
To P. H. Gosse 5 June [1863]
Summary
PHG’s hypothesis [regarding the self-fertilising mechanism of Stanhopea] may prove quite true, but CD suggests that PHG should observe another spike to make sure. CD will observe his Stanhopea if it flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 5 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold at Christie‘s New York (dealers), 15 November 2011, lot 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4205 |
To John Scott 6 June [1863]
Summary
CD has spoken to Hooker of JS’s scientific merit, but has not suggested him for a colonial appointment.
Advice on style of writing.
Making extensive extract of JS’s orchid paper to communicate to Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 6 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B38–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4206 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1863]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".
John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.
Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4207 |
To John Scott 11 June [1863]
Summary
Hooker is impressed by JS’s MS on closing of stigma.
He will help find him a position. Hooker says if it is known that JS agrees with CD’s views, he will be unpopular in Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 11 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4212 |
To George Bentham 19 June [1863]
Summary
GB’s address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] pleased him as much as Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] disappointed him on species question. GB has done a "real good turn to the right side".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 19 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 709–10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4217 |
To C. T. Whitley 20 June [1863]
Summary
Recalls the long walks in Cambridge with the "expectant senior wrangler". Cannot accept invitation (related to meetings of the BAAS) because of continuing bad health, his own and that of his children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Thomas Whitley |
Date: | 20 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4217A |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4218 |
To Charles Loring Brace 24 June [1863]
Summary
Discussion of, and thanks for, CLB’s new work, Races of the Old World [1863]. Special interest in p. 388 on colour and constitution; CD mentions questions sent previous year to surgeons serving in tropical countries regarding diseases and colour of hair and skin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Loring Brace |
Date: | 24 June [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.310) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4220 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 [June 1863]
Summary
CD describes first observation of gyratory motion of tendrils: explains its adaptive function is to find objects to hold on to.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4221 |
To Asa Gray 26 June [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for references about phyllotaxy
and information on marriage laws.
Has been looking for dimorphism in Phlox and Euonymus.
Has observed the irritability of tendrils of Echinocystis with great interest. Was also struck by the rotating movements of the leading shoots, which he proposes to investigate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 26 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4222 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 June [1863]
Summary
Has caught a frog and examined its possibly rudimentary toe. Asks THH if he will dissect it.
Has heard THH is abused in Edinburgh Review and in Anthropological Review [reviews of Man’s place in nature, Edinburgh Rev. 117 (1863): 541–69 and Anthrop. Rev. 1 (1863): 107–17].
Owen on heterogeny and the aye-aye.
Has been very ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 225) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4223 |
To Arthur Rawson 6 June [1863]
Summary
CD thanks the sender of a Cypripedium. He finds its pollination contrivances interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Rawson |
Date: | 6 June [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5563 |
letter | (16) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Scott, John | (3) |
Gosse, P. H. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Brace, C. L. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Scott, John | (3) |
Gosse, P. H. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |