From Edward Bradford 31 July 1863
Summary
Doubts CD’s view in Orchids [pp. 236–46] that Catasetum tridentatum is exclusively male and has as its female form the genus Monachanthus. EB has grown many of this type in Trinidad; has never seen that female form.
| Author: | Edward Bradford |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 July 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 274, DAR 166: 95/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4259 |
From the secretary of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand 14 September 1863
Summary
CD elected an honorary member of the Society.
| Author: | Philosophical Institute of Canterbury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4298A |
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- … r . 1863. I have the honor to inform you, that at the Ordinary Meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, held on the 7 th of August last—you were unanimously—elected an Honorary Member of the Society. I have the honour to be, | Your most obedient Servant, | E. C. J. Stevens Hon. Secretary. Charles Darwin …
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
From Alfred Newton 30 October 1865
Summary
CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.
| Author: | Alfred Newton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4927 |
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- … C. Darwin and Wallace 1858), he communicated his favourable impression in a letter of 24 August 1858 to a fellow ornithologist, Henry Baker Tristram (the letter is reproduced in part in A. F. R. Wollaston 1926, pp. 115–17). Newton commented favourably on Origin in A. Newton 1860 , and supported CD’s dispersion theory in A. Newton 1863 . …
From Roland Trimen 16 March 1863
Summary
RT has sent his observations on orchids to CD. Has found only one case of an insect with a pollinium adhering to it.
| Author: | Roland Trimen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 70: 180, DAR 178: 184 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4046 |
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- … 1863 , p. 145. Trimen’s original labelling of these diagrams was altered, in an unknown hand, to a more sophisticated scheme used in publication. On the verso of the enclosure is an annotation, also in an unknown hand, which states: ‘No. 1558. | Drawings on wood to be | made by M r . Fitch. | A/c. for drawing & cutting | block to be sent to M r . Darwin. | …
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
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