To ? 25 November [1861–8]
Summary
Has read correspondent’s notice on bent cleavage. Refers him to observations on the same fact in South America, p. 160. CD has also suggested a conjectural explanation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 25 Nov [1861-8] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS F/1/M) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13881 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 3 November 1861]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before Nov 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 225–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3039 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3304 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1861]
Summary
Orchid homologies.
Sensitive responses in Catasetum.
Acropera becoming clear.
T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3305 |
To John Lindley 1 November [1861]
Summary
CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.
Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 1 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 195) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3306 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 November [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3307 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 [November 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 [Nov 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3308 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 [November 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 [Nov 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3309 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 November [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3310 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 November [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 126, 129b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3311 |
From Daniel Oliver 8 November 1861
Summary
Refers CD to a paper which he ought to know: Ch. Fermond, "Faits pour servir à l’histoire générale de la fécondation chez les végétaux", Recueil des travaux de la Société d’émulation pour les sciences pharmaceutiques 3 (1859).
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 91: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3312 |
From Asa Gray 9 November 1861
Summary
Discusses observations of his own and of John Torrey on dimorphism, especially in Amsinckia.
Is trying to find specimens of Houstonia for CD.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3313 |
To George Bentham 9 November [1861]
Summary
Thanks GB for arranging for his paper ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63] and for his photograph.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 9 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 693) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3314 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 November [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 128, 129a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3315 |
To George Robert Waterhouse 12 November [1861]
Summary
Returns a letter from a Mr Walsh – "a clear-headed man on my side". What he says about sea trout in lochs would make a good case for CD if borne out by professional ichthyologists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 12 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3317 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3318 |
To J.-B. P. Guépin 14 November 1861
Summary
Has read about JPG’s article on the fertilisation of orchids in Annales de la Societé Linnéenne d’Angers [1853], but has been unable to secure a copy. Seeks information about the role of bees in distributing pollen masses and about the varieties of orchids in Angers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean-Baptiste Pierre Guépin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | Archives Départmentales de Maine-et-Loire (24 J 1, pièce no. 32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3318F |
To W. E. Darwin 15 November [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 15 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3319 |
From W. E. Darwin [17 November 1861]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Nov 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.5: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3320 |
To John Lindley 16 November [1861]
Summary
CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 16 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3321 |
letter | (39) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gower, W. H. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Bentham, George | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Lindley, John | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (39) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Bentham, George | (6) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |