To William Pamplin 4 [July 1862]
Summary
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Pamplin |
Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
Classmark: | Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13871 |
To John St Barbe [before 3 July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Union Bank |
Date: | [before 3 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3358 |
To John St Barbe [16 July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John St Barbe |
Date: | [16 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 3r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3360 |
To W. E. Darwin [24 July 1862]
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3632 |
To Asa Gray 1 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for notes on Cypripedium and Platanthera hookeri, which is really beautiful and quite a new case.
His son, George, has been observing the insect fertilisation of orchids.
CD has been crossing peloric flowers of Pelargonium, but doubts he will get good results with respect to sterility of hybrids.
Rhexia glandulosa does not appear to be dimorphic. Lythrum is trimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3634 |
To George Maw 3 July [1862]
Summary
Thinks GM’s Pelargonium is a case of true correlated characters. Feels secondary sexual characters are only accidental correlations; does not see the same necessity for close simultaneous development of certain characters as GM does.
Will forward a copy of his Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 3 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3640 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 3 July [1862]
Summary
Can AdeQ verify the statement that the moths of the several races of the common silkworm are very similar?
When the female moth comes out of the cocoon, are her wings less developed than those of a male moth at the same stage?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 3 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 68–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3640F |
To W. E. Darwin 4 [July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3641 |
To M. T. Masters 8 July [1862]
Summary
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3645 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 July [1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 9 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3649 |
To W. E. Darwin [after 14 July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3650 |
To H. G. Bronn 11 July 1862
Summary
Sends additional notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 11 July 1862 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3652 |
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 |
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 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 15 July 1862]
Summary
Is obliged for information concerning differences in the bees of Britain. Relates case of the Jamaican bees which were introduced long ago and have remained the same in size and character except that the diameter of the cells is larger, the wax tougher, and the walls of the hive thicker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 15 July 1862] |
Classmark: | Christie’s East, New York (catalogue 26 April 1995: the Philip M. Neufeld collection, pt 2); Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3658A |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 17 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Hildebrand’s offer to translate Orchids into German, but H. G. Bronn had finished his translation before his death (Bronn trans. 1862). Has not yet received Hildebrand’s work on the distribution of coniferous trees (Hildebrand 1861). Asks that his compliments be presented to L. C. Treviranus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 17 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3660F |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 22 July 1862]
Summary
Confesses to having made a gross blunder with reference to the size of bee cells in West Indian combs [see 3658a].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 22 July 1862] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 323 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3661A |
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 |
To M. T. Masters 24 July [1862]
Summary
CD grateful to have had the distinction of the two sorts of peloria pointed out to him.
His very sick son rallied; is out of danger, thanks to port wine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 24 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3663 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 July [1862]
Summary
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3664 |
letter | (24) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Journal of Horticulture | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Pamplin, William | (1) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
St Barbe, John | (1) |
Union Bank | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |