To Asa Gray 19 October [1865]
Summary
AG’s article on climbing plants [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 40 (1865): 273–82] is admirable and complimentary.
Reports Fritz Müller’s observations on climbers.
Experiments on dimorphism with Mitchella and Pulmonaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (93) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4919 |
From W. E. Darwin [April–May 1865]
Summary
Sends camera outlines of pollen. Thinks the red longstyled ones are more sterile than the yellow.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4506F |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [February 1865]
Summary
Hildebrand has sent copy of his paper on Pulmonaria in Botanische Zeitung.
How much should CD contribute to Falconer’s bust?
Oswald Heer on alpine and Arctic floras.
A. R. Wallace on geographical distribution in Malay Archipelago.
Lyell’s new edition of Elements. Wishes someone would do a book like it on botany.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [Feb 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4772 |
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
From Clémence Auguste Royer [April–June 1865]
Summary
Notes on the caste system of India; its influences on form and habit.
| Author: | Clémence Auguste Royer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Apr–June 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 80: B44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5339 |
To Charles Kingsley [17 June 1865]
Summary
Did not think anyone would notice case of Lathyrus.
Recalls reading correspondent’s paper on great fir woods of Hampshire.
Thanks for photograph.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Kingsley |
| Date: | [17 June 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877 |
From Edward Cresy 9 June 1865
Summary
Sends Fritz Müller citation as CD requested.
Huxley is boldly proclaiming his Darwinism at Royal Institution ["Methods and results of ethnology", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4: 460–3; also Collected essays 7 (1894)].
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 June 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 244 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4856 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 17 May [1865]
Summary
Sends fresh plants from France: Lythrum graefferi, Romulea.
Does CD know Pulmonaria is dimorphic?
| Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 May [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 202 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4835 |
From W. E. Darwin [14 July 1865]
Summary
Wants to borrow money to buy stock in the bridge over the Itchen.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 July 1865] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4873F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … E. Darwin shr bridge’ in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS). Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) that CD suffered several bouts of vomiting and flatulence throughout May and June 1865, but was somewhat better in July; he had been following John Chapman’s ice treatment since 20 May (see Correspondence vol. 13). The Dublin International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures was held from 9 May until 9 November 1865 ( Dublin exhibition catalogue ; The Times , 11 …
From William Erasmus Darwin [late February–May 1865]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from short-styled yellow primrose and from long-styled yellow and red primroses.]
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [late Feb–May 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 89a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4729 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … E. Darwin, [15 March 1864], 22 March [1864], [30 April 1864], and [after 19 May 1864]). CD believed that differences in pollen size and in the size of some flower structures were an indication of heterostyly (see Forms of flowers , pp. 3, 244). In 1865 and 1866, CD made a series of experimental crosses with red (purple) long-styled primroses ( Primula vulgaris var. rubra ) raised from seed sent by John Scott in 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
| letter | (10) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
| Royer, C. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Kingsley, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
