From Isaac Anderson-Henry 26–7 January 1863
Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26–7 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3948 |
From W. S. Dallas 28 February 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for second issue of Variation.
Is glad CD is satisfied with his translation of Piderit.
Will not start on Müller [Für Darwin] until CD has communicated with the author.
Author: | William Sweetland Dallas |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5955 |
From W. H. Flower to Francis Darwin 16 February 1880
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12486 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1866]
Summary
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (letters): 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5165 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 and 22 May [1863]
Summary
The Lyell–Falconer squabble.
Discusses island vs continental floras and their degree of modification.
Critical of Wallace.
CD’s observations on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 and 22 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 193 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4167 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 April 1844
Summary
Answer to CD’s query on genera and species ranges.
Comments on typical forms.
Preparing first part of Galapagos plants for printing.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-745 |
From Thomas Whitelegge 21 May 1878
Author: | Thomas Whitelegge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11522 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 March 1863]
Summary
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4064 |
From George Bentham 10 December 1876
Summary
Sends specimens of Boronia.
Discusses the section on diclinous trees and herbs in CD’s new book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 411–13]. CD’s theory that diclinism preceded hermaphroditism seems confirmed.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10708 |
From Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker 6 July 1863
Summary
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 July 1863 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232F |
From Charles William Crocker 1[–4] May 1863
Summary
Observes Plantago’s out-crossing mechanism.
Observations of style lengths of primroses and cowslips.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1[–4] May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: 28, DAR 161: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4135 |
From St G. J. Mivart 20 May 1868
Summary
Answers CD’s queries on sexual characters and differences among the Urodela.
Is interested in the relationship of pectoral and pelvic limbs in man and apes and has looked at reptiles and amphibians to find traces of the earlier conditions of the limbs.
Asks whether CD knows any instances of deformities or pathological conditions occurring simultaneously in both sets of limbs.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 May 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6193 |
To J. T. Moggridge 1 October [1867]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Date: | 1 Oct [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 376 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5638 |
From Charles James Fox Bunbury 7 February 1856
Summary
Has heard CD is much interested in questions relating to varieties and species. Mentions a case of a seminal variety of Colletia spinosa, described by John Lindley, which appears identical with another wild species of Colletia from S. America. Hopes CD will one day "enlighten us very much" on "the laws of species". There are many different views on the limits of species; M. F. Dunal made 50 species of Solanum which George Bentham considers are all varieties of S. nigrum.
Author: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 374, DAR 205.4: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1830 |
From John Traherne Moggridge 6 March [1867]
Summary
Observations on Ophrys plants and Thymus vulgaris. Encloses sketch of different forms of T. vulgaris [see Forms of flowers, p. 302].
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A90–1, DAR 111: B47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5433 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1863]
Summary
Likes JDH’s review of Alphonse de Candolle [Mémoires et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)].
Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. What led to the question?", Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe.
CD has written a letter to the Athenæum "to say, under the cloak of attacking Heterogeny, a word in my own defence" [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Bates’s Travels [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4103 |
To John Scott 1 and 3 August [1863]
Summary
Thanks JS for orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on sterility of orchids.
His argument that coloured primroses are not hybrids is good, as is idea of discovering primrose parentage by breeding for colours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 1 and 3 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B24, B27–8, B70; DAR 147: 455 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260 |
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