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From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1862

Summary

Observations on Welwitschia.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	20 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 101: 52–3
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3690

Matches: 31 hits

… From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1862 …
… DAR 101: 52–3 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 20 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Gnetaceæ. [Read 16 January and 18 December 1862. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
… became ill with scarlet fever on 13 August 1862. Hooker refers to Frances Harriet Hooker , …
… who had been ill in June and July (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 9 June 1862 , 19 [ …
… June 1862] , 28 …
… June 1862 , and …
… 2 July 1862 ). Horace Darwin …
… had been ill during the spring of 1862 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix …
… Geological Society of London on 5 March 1862. For an account of the controversy initiated …
… was a review of J. D. Hooker 1861a (see letter to Asa Gray, 28 July [1862] and n. 11). …
… London 24 (1863–4): 1–48. Jenyns, Leonard. 1862. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, …
… suffering from scarlet fever since June (see letters to W. E. Darwin, 13 [June 1862] and …
… 9 July [1862] , and letter to A. …
… R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] ). The Hookers had travelled to Switzerland in July so that …
… Frances might recover her health (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 28 June 1862 , 2 …
… July 1862 , 10 …
… July 1862 , and [ …
… 24 July 1862] ). Frances Hooker’s late …
… was survived by four sisters ( Jenyns 1862 , p. 5); the reference is probably to the …
… also letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 October 1862 . Hooker had recently been involved in …
… see letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1862] ). He was also examiner for the Society of …
… of London on 16 January and 18 December 1862 ( J. D. Hooker 1862d ). The reference is to …
… their form (see letters to the Journal of Horticulture , [before 10 June 1862] and [before …
… 15 July 1862]). See also letter from T. …
… W. Woodbury, 9 August 1862 . Gustav Mann was botanical collector for the Royal Botanic …
… also letter from T. W. Woodbury, 9 August 1862 . William Henslow Hooker . John Lindley . …
… Vanda Loweii— lowest flowers different from others Gardeners Chronicle 1862. p. 791. …
… The article, published in the 23 August 1862 issue, described a specimen belonging to …
… separate parcels’ in DAR 222). See also letter to Daniel Oliver, 24 July [1862] and n. …
… 9. Ramsay 1862 . Andrew Crombie Ramsay read his controversial paper on the …

From Asa Gray 4 August 1862

Summary

Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.

Author:	Asa Gray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	4 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3679

Matches: 21 hits

… From Asa Gray 4 August 1862 …
… DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 4 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… species, see the letter from Asa Gray, 18–19 August 1862 . …
… Letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] . Leonard Darwin was suffering …
… from scarlet fever (see letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). …
… Cambridge. [Massachusetts] 4 th . August, 1862 My Dear Darwin My pupil, Rothrock, now away …
… the two forms in his letter of [2 June 1862] , and subsequently promised to send further …
… Rothrock (see letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). CD included Rothrock’s observations …
… fertilised if insects were excluded (see letter to Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] and n. 13). …
… See also letters to Asa Gray , 10–20 June [1862] and …
… 1 July [1862] . In …
… the letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] , CD asked Gray to watch how the anthers and …
… in July (see letter from Asa Gray, 29 July 1862 ); for Gray’s further observations on the …
… 132, 254. In his letter to CD of 15 July [1862] , Gray mentioned that Rothrock found only …
… In the letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] , CD asked Gray to help him in his …
… to do so in the summer (see letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] , and letter from …
… Asa Gray, 6 March [1862] ), but experienced difficulties in obtaining specimens (see …
… letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). Meanwhile, CD informed Gray that he was making a …
… from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] and n. …
… 10, and letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] and n. 13). …
… In the letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] , CD asked Gray to compare the position of the …

From M. S. Wedgwood [6 August 1862]

Summary

Looked for Hottonia but with little success.

Author:	Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[6 Aug 1862]
Classmark:	DAR 181
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3674

Matches: 16 hits

… From M. S. Wedgwood [6 August 1862] …
… Wedgwood/Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams Shrewsbury [6 Aug 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
… letter to K. E. S. , L. C. , and M. S. Wedgwood, 4 [August 1862] , and to CD’s notes …
… on Hottonia of 8 August 1862 (see n. 2, …
… intervening Wednesday fell on 6 August 1862. Having learned from Charles Cardale Babington …
… letter from C. C. Babington, 17 January 1862) , CD had been anxious to see flowers of …
… see letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and n. 10). The Darwins intended taking a …
… coast, near Southampton (see letter to W. E. Darwin, [24 July 1862] , and letter to H. …
… C. Watson, 8 [August 1862] ). …
… C. , and M. S. Wedgwood, 4 [August 1862] , CD stated his intention to write a further …
… from M. S. Wedgwood, [before 4 August 1862] , in ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , …
… see letter from W. E. Darwin, 5 August 1862 ). Following their holiday in North Wales ( …
… from M. S. Wedgwood, [before 4 August 1862] ), Margaret and her sisters (Katherine …
… in his letter to K. E. S. , L. C. and M. S. Wedgwood, 4 [August 1862]. CD’s notes on …
… the flowers sent with this letter, dated 8 August 1862, are in DAR 110: 16 (see …
… also letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ). CD later gave a copy of his observations to …

From W. E. Darwin 5 August 1862

Summary

Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	5 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 32 bis, DAR 162: 92
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3683

Matches: 19 hits

… From W. E. Darwin 5 August 1862 …
… 32 bis, DAR 162: 92 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 5 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Oxford: Clarendon Press. Trollope, Anthony. 1862. Orley Farm. 2 vols. London: Chapman and …
… also letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] and n. 7. William’s letter has not …
… in a letter to William of [9 August 1862] (DAR 219.1: 61). The diagrams in the enclosure …
… See letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and nn. 6 and 7. CD refers to Francis and …
… letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] and n. 3). CD had questioned William’s …
… the other two forms (see letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 , and letter to W. …
… E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] ). The reference is to Lythrum hyssopifolia (see letter to …
… W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and n. 9). See enclosure. …
… See letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and n. 8. Orley …
… in monthly shilling parts between March 1861 and October 1862 ( J. N. Hall 1991 , …
… p. 560); it was published in book form in 1862 ( …
… Trollope 1862 ). The letter from Emma Darwin has not been found. Susan Elizabeth Darwin …
… with her (see letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] ). See also letter to W. …
… E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] and n. 3. Muddiford is near Bournemouth in Hampshire. …
… the letter to W. E. Darwin, [24 July 1862] , asking William to inquire about ‘quiet sea …
… area for a holiday (see letter to H. C. Watson, 8 [August 1862] ). In the letter to W. …
… E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] , CD asked William to examine at least 100 plants of Lythrum …

From Asa Gray 18–19 August 1862

Summary

Notes and observations on orchids.

Author:	Asa Gray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	18–19 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 165: 111, 116
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3688

Matches: 22 hits

… From Asa Gray 18–19 August 1862 …
… DAR 165: 111, 116 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 18–19 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Cambridge. [Massachusetts] Aug. 18. 1862 My Dear Darwin The dawn of hope in yours of …
… s gradual recovery from scarlet fever (see letters to Asa Gray , 23[–4] July [1862] and …
… 28 July [1862] ). At CD’s request, Gray had sent a number of stamps …
… for Leonard’s collection (see letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , and letters from Asa …
… Gray , 2–3 July 1862 , 15 …
… July [1862] , and …
… 21 July 1862 ). See also …
… letters to Asa Gray , 23[–4] July [1862] and …
… 28 July [1862] . Gray refers to the botanist and pharmacist, Elias Durand . Gray was …
… and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
… collaborator. In his letter to CD of 2–3 July 1862 , Gray promised to obtain specimens of …
… letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ). Platanthera blephariglottis and P. ciliaris are …
… described in A. Gray 1862b , p. 424. In the letters to Asa Gray , 23[–4] July [1862] and …
… 28 July [1862] , CD argued that Gray’s observations on American species of orchids were …
… CD with the letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] . Gray intended to include some of his …
… of the book ( A. Gray 1862a ; see letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 , and letter to Asa …
… Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ). The plates arrived too late for …
… s review (see letter from Asa Gray, 21 July 1862 and nn. 3 and 4), but appeared in the …
… hyperborea with his letter of 2–3 July 1862 ; although the notes have not been found, it …
… in the letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] , that Gray had told him that the species …

From G. C. Oxenden 4 August [1862?]

Summary

Finds many beautiful Epipactis specimens.

Author:	George Chichester Oxenden
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	4 Aug [1862?]
Classmark:	DAR 173: 57
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3680

Matches: 9 hits

… From G. C. Oxenden 4 August [1862? ] …
… C. Oxenden, 17 September [1862] . …
… 57 George Chichester Oxenden Crowhurst Park, Battle 4 Aug [1862? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
… husband of Oxenden’s sister, Frances Margaret Papillon ( Burke’s landed gentry 1862). In …
… letters written earlier in the summer of 1862, Oxenden discussed various species of …
… send CD specimens later in the season (see letters from G. C. Oxenden, 15 May 1862 , 4 …
… June [1862] , and [before …
… 21 June 1862] ); Oxenden sent specimens of E. …
… palustris with his letter of 8 July 1862 . See also letter from G. …

From J. D. Hooker [26–31 August 1862]

Summary

On microscopes.

Cannot remember any plants but Melastoma with different coloured polliniferous anthers.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[26–31 Aug 1862]
Classmark:	DAR 101: 50–1
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3697

Matches: 17 hits

… From J. D. Hooker [26–31 August 1862] …
… DAR 101: 50–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Glasgow [26–31 Aug 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
… reference to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] , and on the basis of Hooker’s …
… departure from London for Scotland on 23 August 1862 (see letter from J. …
… D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 ). The letter was written after the Monday following 22 …
… instances other than those he mentioned (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] ). …
… below. Letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] . Hooker refers to the antiquarian and …
… at St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Glasgow, on 4 September 1862 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s. …
… 13 (1862): 488). The reference is to Leonard Darwin (see letter to …
… J. D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] ). Gustav Mann was botanical collector for the Royal …
… White Woodbury (see letter from T. W. Woodbury, 9 August 1862 , and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] ). The reference is to Daniel Oliver , librarian and …
… Kew ( R. Desmond 1994 ; List of the Linnean Society of London 1862). See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] . Hooker refers to a spike of Vanda Lowii bearing two …
… mentioned in his letter to CD of 20 August 1862 . Walter Hood Fitch worked as a botanical …
… Botanic Gardens, Kew. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [24 July 1862] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] . The reference is either to the optician and scientific …

From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]

Summary

Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[1 Aug 1862]
Classmark:	Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3585G

Matches: 11 hits

… From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862] …
… Family Papers (DAR 275: 13) William Erasmus Darwin [1 Aug 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
… the relationship between this letter and the letters from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 and …
… 2 August [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). This letter is probably a continuation …
… incomplete letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 ( Correspondence vol. 10). William’s …
… 10, letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 ). Francis and George Howard Darwin were going …
… George’s stay (letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [July 1862? ] (DAR 219.1: 47)). …
… In a letter to William of [late July 1862] (DAR 219.1: 59), Emma Darwin reported that …
… from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [late July 1862] (DAR 219.1: 59)). However, they did not …
… letter from G. H. Darwin, [after 5 August 1862] and n. 3). By ‘MP’, William means ‘middle- …
… vol. 10, letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 ). William was helping CD investigate the …

From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862]

Summary

Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.

Author:	Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[before 4 Aug 1862]
Classmark:	DAR 181: 64
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3681

Matches: 10 hits

… From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862] …
… Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams Llandudno [before 4 Aug 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
… L. C. , and M. S. Wedgwood, 4 [August 1862] , and letter from M. …
… S. Wedgwood, [6 August 1862] . …
… M. S. Wedgwood 2.2 We find … niece 3.1] crossed pencil Top of letter : ‘Aug 4 th 1862’ …
… L. C. , and M. S. Wedgwood, 4 [August 1862] ). CD wanted to know the proportions of the …
… the letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] ), and had evidently asked his nieces, …
… letter from M. S. Wedgwood, [6 August 1862] ; CD quoted the totals in ‘Three forms of …
… to see specimens (see letter from C. C. Babington, 17 January 1862 , and letter to C. …
… C. Babington, 20 January [1862] ). See also letter to K. E. S. , …

From Thomas White Woodbury 9 August 1862

Summary

Breeding cells of Ligurian bee are larger than those of common bee. Thanks CD for comb.

Author:	Thomas White Woodbury
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	9 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 181
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3686

Matches: 12 hits

… From Thomas White Woodbury 9 August 1862 …
… DAR 181 Thomas White Woodbury Exeter 9 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… from West Africa (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 and nn. 8 and 9). …
… See letter to Journal of Horticulture , [before 22 July 1862] and n. 3. See n. 1, above. …
… Mount Radford Terrace, Exeter] 9 th Augt 1862 Dear Sir Accept my warmest thanks for your …
… Alfred Russel Wallace (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 7 April 1862 , and letter to A. …
… R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] ). Woodbury was one of the contributors to the bee-keeping …
… hive-bees (see letters to the Journal of Horticulture , [before 10 June 1862] and [before …
… 15 July 1862]). Woodbury had written privately to CD in response …
… Journal of Horticulture , [before 22 July 1862]); however, Woodbury’s letter has not been …
… on ‘Silk-worms Geese &c’ in the summer of 1862; this chapter included a section on hive- …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] and nn. 5 and 6). No letter from CD to …

From John Lubbock 23 August 1862

Summary

JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.

Lake-habitations.

Author:	John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	23 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 170: 31
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3698

Matches: 10 hits

… From John Lubbock 23 August 1862 …
… William Charles Linnaeus Martin ; see letter to John Lubbock, 21 August [1862] and n. 8. …
… 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury London, Lombard St, 15 23 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… See letter to John Lubbock, 21 August [1862] . See …
… letter to John Lubbock, 21 August [1862] . Lubbock refers to George Atherley , William …
… See letter to John Lubbock, 21 August [1862] . CD, Emma, and Leonard Darwin were …
… letter to John Lubbock, 21 August [1862] ). According to CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence …
… 15, Lombard Street. E.C. 23 August 1862 My dear M r . Darwin I am very sorry to hear so …
… written reports, in a paper for the January 1862 number of the Natural History Review ( …
… Lubbock 1865 , pp. 119–70). In October 1862, Lubbock read an account of this insect, …

From A. C. Ramsay 26 August 1862

Summary

Sends his paper [on glacial lakes, see 3450]. Falconer attacked it. Falconer thinks Himalayas confound the theory, but Hooker writes that it explains the absence of lakes there.

Author:	Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	26 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 176: 9
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3701

Matches: 7 hits

… From A. C. Ramsay 26 August 1862 …
… DAR 176: 9 Andrew Crombie Ramsay London 26 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Ramsay 1862 . Hugh Falconer . …
… of the Geological Society of London in 1862, read his controversial paper on the glacial …
… basins before the society on 5 March 1862. For an account of the controversy initiated by …
… Hooker’s reaction to Ramsay’s paper, see the letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 . …
… London 26 Augt 1862 My dear Sir By this post I send a paper which I hope you may find time …

From A. R. Wallace [after 20 August 1862]

Summary

Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.

Is unwell and dreads the winter.

Author:	Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[after 20 Aug 1862]
Classmark:	DAR 181
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3694

Matches: 6 hits

… From A. R. Wallace [after 20 August 1862] …
… R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] . …
… DAR 181 Alfred Russel Wallace unstated [after 20 Aug 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
… by the relationship to the letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] . See also n. 3, …
… had returned to Britain in the spring of 1862, having been on a collecting expedition in …
… the third edition of Origin in his letter to CD of 30 September 1862 . See letter to A. …

From W. E. Darwin 1 August 1862

Summary

WED has been collecting Lythrum plants. Numerical proportions of the three forms.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	1 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 162: 90
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3675

Matches: 7 hits

… From W. E. Darwin 1 August 1862 …
… DAR 162: 90 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 1 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… 12–13. In the letter from W. E. Darwin, 5 August 1862 , William enclosed camera lucida …
… drawings, dated 1 August 1862, of the two sets of pollen grains from the long and short …
… in the letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] , CD described the crosses he planned to …
… salicaria. See also letter to W. E. Darwin, 9 July [1862] . William’s observations …
… twenty-seven Lythrum plants, dated 26 July 1862, are detailed in his botanical notebook ( …

From J. O. Westwood 1 August 1862

Summary

Bee with adhering orchid pollinia lent to Charles Daubeny. Pollen-masses shaken off but if CD still interested he is welcome to specimen.

Author:	John Obadiah Westwood
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	1 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 181
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3676

Matches: 6 hits

… From J. O. Westwood 1 August 1862 …
… DAR 181 John Obadiah Westwood Oxford 1 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
… Oxford 1 Aug t . 1862 My dear Sir I lent my bee to D r . Daubeny for his lecture on your …
… Bridle Daubeny (see letter from C. G. B. Daubeny, 5 July 1862) . In the letter from J. …
… O. Westwood, 14 May 1862 , Westwood offered to send CD a preserved bee specimen with …

From A. R. Wallace 8 August 1862

Summary

Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.

Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.

Author:	Alfred Russel Wallace
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	8 Aug 1862
Classmark:	DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3684

Matches: 8 hits

… From A. R. Wallace 8 August 1862 …
… Alfred Russel Wallace London, Westbourne Grove Terrace, 5 8 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Microscopical Society of London. London. 1862. Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1905. My life: a …
… see letter to W. E. Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ). Wallace had visited Down House earlier in …
… letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] and n. 1). Wallace refers to the physician …
… s queries concerning the ostrich, see the letter to A. R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] . …
… In the spring of 1862, Wallace had returned home, in ‘a very weak state of health’, from …
… Westbourne Grove Terrace, W. August 8 th . 1862 My dear Mr. Darwin I sincerely trust that …

From G. H. Darwin [after 5 August 1862]

Summary

Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.

Author:	George Howard Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[after 5 Aug 1862]
Classmark:	DAR 162: 90.1
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3671

Matches: 6 hits

… From G. H. Darwin [after 5 August 1862] …
… DAR 162: 90.1 George Howard Darwin Southampton [after 5 Aug 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
… Collected papers 2: 111–12). See also letter from W. E. Darwin, 5 August 1862 and n. 9. …
… Southampton. See also letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] , and letter from W. …
… E. Darwin, 5 August 1862 . This individual has not been identified. The reference is …
… the letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] , CD asked George to observe the insects …

From W. E. Darwin 2 August [1862]

Summary

Sends specimens of the three forms of Lythrum. Remarks on the numerical proportions of different forms.

Author:	William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	2 Aug [1862]
Classmark:	DAR 162: 91
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3677

Matches: 4 hits

… From W. E. Darwin 2 August [1862] …
… DAR 162: 91 William Erasmus Darwin Southampton 2 Aug [1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
… the relationship to the letter from W. E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 . See letter from W. …
… E. Darwin, 1 August 1862 . There is a note, dated ‘Aug 3 d ’, recording CD’s observations …

From Charles Lyell 20 August 1862

Summary

Jamieson has revisited Glen Roy and confirmed his theory of glacier lakes.

A. G. More considers CD the most profound of reasoners.

Author:	Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	20 Aug 1862
Classmark:	K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 358; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3691

Matches: 7 hits

… From Charles Lyell 20 August 1862 …
… Coll-203/B9) Charles Lyell, 1st baronet Freshwater 20 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
… Freshwater Gate, Isle of Wight: August 20, 1862. My dear Darwin,— Mr. Jamieson of Ellon …
… of ages. ’ See also Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1862] . …
… By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
… a second visit to the site in July 1862 (see Jamieson 1863 , p. 240); Lyell subsequently …
… to letter to Charles Lyell, 14 October [1862] ). In addition to assisting CD with a number …

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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

Summary

1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

Matches: 28 hits

… As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
… be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
… him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
… Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
… but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
… but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
… him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
… is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
… with his study of Primula and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
… 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
… in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
… telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
… great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
… labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
… of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
… sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
… case he determined to experiment on Linum in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
… be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
… Linum ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
… complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
… who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
… the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
… pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
… the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
… every flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
… he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
… it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862). Orchids was published on 15 May, …
… all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn. That lost list is recreated here.

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… In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
… edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
… of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
… in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
… from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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… in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
… cause. Tension. THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
… 1856 33 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34 JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
… 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
… 10 JUNE 1861 121 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122 JD HOOKER TO C …
… 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125 A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
… 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153 JD HOOKER TO C …
… 1861 163 C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

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… Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
… vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
… a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing Orchids , he was …
… vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
… over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10) …
… Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1862). 3. Asclepias curassavica. …

I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]

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Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.

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… Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …

Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…

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… towards your doctrines … Huxley to Darwin, 1862. I cannot bear the thought …
… … Darwin to Asa Gray, in Boston, Mass., 1862. I have been greatly …

Clémence Auguste Royer

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Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile Pierre…

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… her translation of Origin. First published in 1862, Royer’s translation of …
… “I received 2 or 3 days ago”, he told Asa Gray in 1862 , “a French Translation of the Origin by a …
… criticisms of her work always made reference to her sex. In 1862, Edouard Claparede wrote to …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

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… Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
… Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
… 3681 - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
… lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
… - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …

Floral Dimorphism

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…

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… Letter 3468 - Darwin to JD Hooker, 7 March 1862 Darwin wishes he could sympathize with Asa …
… Letter 3515 - Daniel Oliver to Darwin, 23 April 1862 Daniel Oliver, an assistant under …
… Letter 3757 - Joseph Dalton Hooker to Darwin, 12 October 1862 J. D. Hooker writes to …

Darwin & Glen Roy

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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology. In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

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… 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …

Have you read the one about....

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... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

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… ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Orchids

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…

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… SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
… 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
… Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
… Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …

Forms of flowers

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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…

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… briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
… of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
… to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
… of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
… of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
… 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …

Dining at Down House

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…

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… Letter 3626 —Emma Darwin to T. G. Appleton, 28 June [1862] Here Emma writes on her husband’s …
… Letter 3597 —Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 11 June [1862] Among bits of family news and …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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… on Verbascum. Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
… vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
… disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
… vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …

Darwin on race and gender

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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…

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… [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …

Darwin and Fatherhood

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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…

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… all of their education in the home, although he noted in 1862 that his fifteen-year-old daughter …
… her own wish’ (Darwin to his son William, 30 [October 1862] ). Darwin frequently discussed the …

Species and varieties

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

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… about whether sterility could be ‘selected’. In 1862, he told Hooker, ‘I am now strongly inclined to …
… species distinct’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). In 1866, Darwin compared the …

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

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… lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …

Sexual selection

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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species. So what…

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… the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …

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