From J. D. Hooker [27 or 28 December 1862]
Summary
Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.
JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.
JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 or 28] Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 93–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3891 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … the reference to John Edward Gray’s letter to the Athenæum (see n. 6, below), and by the …
- … 20 December 1863, p. 806). In a letter to the Athenæum , 27 December 1863, pp. 845–6, …
- … January 1863 with an exchange of letters in the Athenæum between Gray and the publisher …
- … Chaillu 1861 ). In a series of letters to the Athenæum , and in papers in the Annals and …
- … in the Athenæum , 13 December 1862, p. 768, the claim elicited a letter of complaint from …
From Asa Gray 24 November 1862
Summary
Gives reference to his observations on tendrils [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4: 98–9].
Notes cases in which the pollen of the fertilising plant affects the form of the fruit of the fertilised plant, e.g., gourds and maize.
Discusses the Civil War and the attitudes of the English press.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3823 |
To John Murray 18 [June 1862]
Summary
Superb, but exaggerated, review [of Orchids, by M. J. Berkeley] in London Review [& wkly J. Polit. 4 (1862): 553–4]. Asa Gray thinks almost as highly. "I have not been a fool, as I thought I was, to publish." The Athenæum review will hinder sales greatly.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 18 [June 1862] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 123) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3609 |
From J. B. Jukes 30 May 1862
Summary
Elaborates his denudation theory: marine denudation works horizontally, atmospheric works vertically.
Answers point in CD’s letter on Sydney Harbour, N. S. W.
Who is the "goose" who reviews CD’s books in the Athenæum [review of Orchids, 24 May 1862]?
| Author: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3579 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 June [1862]
Summary
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604F |
To Charles Lyell 22 August [1862]
Summary
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 22 Aug [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3695 |
To J. D. Hooker [10–]12 November [1862]
Summary
So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.
Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.
Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.
Is working on cultivated plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10–]12 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 169 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3801 |
To Asa Gray 14 July [1862]
Summary
Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.
Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 14 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3656 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to James Drummond, 20 December [1860] ). Gray included an account of the adaptation for insect pollination of the floral anatomy of this species in the follow-up article to his review of Orchids ( A. Gray 1862b , p. 424). The reference may be to the review of Orchids that appeared in the Athenæum …
- … Athenæum , 24 May 1862, p. 685): the greatest care is taken throughout this vast order, …, that the pollen shall not be wasted; and yet, if we admit all Mr. Darwin’s views, the act of fertilization is, with few known exceptions, left to insects. Gray was Fisher Professor of natural history at Harvard University and lectured at the Lawrence Scientific School ( Dupree 1959 ); for Gray’s comments on his college duties, see the letters …
To Asa Gray 23[–4] July [1862]
Summary
AG’s orchid observations are admirable.
Owen has lectured on birds’ descending from one form.
French criticism of CD’s Primula paper.
Only AG has seen that Orchids was "a ""flank movement"" on the enemy".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23[–4] July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3662 |
From W. E. Darwin 11 October [1862]
Summary
Sends comments on Lythrum.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Athenæum , 20 September 1862, p. 374). William could not have gone to the exhibition on Thursday 16 October because he was at the mayor’s ball that evening (see n. 3, above). He later mentioned meeting Emma Darwin there; she attended the exhibition on 17 and 18 October (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
To Asa Gray 23 November [1862]
Summary
Recommends H. W. Bates’s paper on butterflies of Amazonia ["Insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] is eagerly awaited.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 Nov [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (49) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3820 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Athenæum , 8 November 1862, p. 595). According to his ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix II), CD prepared a draft of the part of Variation dealing with ‘Facts of variation of Plants’ between 7 October and 11 December 1862. The material formed chapters 9 and 10 of the published work ( Variation 1: 305–72). Gray’s reply to these questions was apparently included in the missing portion of the letter …
To Armand de Quatrefages 11 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.
CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".
Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 11 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3653 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 5 December [1859] and n. 5). ) The reference is probably to Richard Owen’s lectures at the Museum of Practical Geology on the ‘Characters, Organisation, Geographical Distribution, and Geological Relations of Birds’. The series of six lectures ran from 14 to 30 May 1862 ( Athenæum , …
To John Murray 13 June [1862]
Summary
CD orders electrotypes for German edition of Orchids.
Asa Gray doubts an American publication is possible but will review it in Sillimans Journal.
[British] botanists have praised it. Other reviews.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 13 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 120–122) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3602 |
From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862
Summary
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3771 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to H. W. Bates, 15 October [1862] . Edwin Brown was manager of the Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire ( Banking almanac 1865). The contents of Brown’s extensive natural history collections at the time of his death are described in the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 13 (1876–7): 116–7, 257–8. Although Brown amassed ‘a large and valuable collection’ of Carabidae, he only published one short paper on the subject (Brown 1869; see Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 13 (1876–7): 116–7). See, for example, Athenæum , …
| letter | (14) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
