From J. D. Hooker [27 or 28 December 1862]
Summary
Hostile to Spencer’s application of natural selection to society.
JDH on J. E. Gray’s views on collecting.
JDH collecting Wedgwood ware.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 or 28] Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 93–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3891 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … the reference to John Edward Gray’s letter to the Athenæum (see n. 6, below), and by the …
- … 20 December 1863, p. 806). In a letter to the Athenæum , 27 December 1863, pp. 845–6, …
- … January 1863 with an exchange of letters in the Athenæum between Gray and the publisher …
- … Chaillu 1861 ). In a series of letters to the Athenæum , and in papers in the Annals and …
- … in the Athenæum , 13 December 1862, p. 768, the claim elicited a letter of complaint from …
From Asa Gray 24 November 1862
Summary
Gives reference to his observations on tendrils [Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 4: 98–9].
Notes cases in which the pollen of the fertilising plant affects the form of the fruit of the fertilised plant, e.g., gourds and maize.
Discusses the Civil War and the attitudes of the English press.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3823 |
From J. B. Jukes 30 May 1862
Summary
Elaborates his denudation theory: marine denudation works horizontally, atmospheric works vertically.
Answers point in CD’s letter on Sydney Harbour, N. S. W.
Who is the "goose" who reviews CD’s books in the Athenæum [review of Orchids, 24 May 1862]?
| Author: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3579 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 June [1862]
Summary
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 June [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604F |
From W. E. Darwin 11 October [1862]
Summary
Sends comments on Lythrum.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Athenæum , 20 September 1862, p. 374). William could not have gone to the exhibition on Thursday 16 October because he was at the mayor’s ball that evening (see n. 3, above). He later mentioned meeting Emma Darwin there; she attended the exhibition on 17 and 18 October (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862
Summary
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3771 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to H. W. Bates, 15 October [1862] . Edwin Brown was manager of the Burton, Uttoxeter, and Ashbourne Union Bank in Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire ( Banking almanac 1865). The contents of Brown’s extensive natural history collections at the time of his death are described in the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 13 (1876–7): 116–7, 257–8. Although Brown amassed ‘a large and valuable collection’ of Carabidae, he only published one short paper on the subject (Brown 1869; see Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 13 (1876–7): 116–7). See, for example, Athenæum , …
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| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
