From George Howard Darwin [before 11 May 1863]
Summary
Notes, calculations, and diagrams on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 11 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 51: 6–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3887 |
To W. E. Darwin [10 May 1863]
Summary
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [10 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4151 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] and nn. 7 and 8). …
- … Daniel Oliver of 12 [April 1862] and 15 April [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). Further …
- … 12, letter to W. E. Darwin, 14 May [1864] . For CD’s conclusions on P. angustifolia , see Forms of flowers , pp. 105– 10. …
To W. E. Darwin [5 May 1863]
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4140 |
To John Scott 2 May [1863]
Summary
Impressed by JS’s attempts to fertilise Gongora.
CD has large collection of notes on orchids, but does not know when he will publish on them again.
Asks for JS’s papers on sterility of individual orchids and on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 2 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B25–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4137 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 12] April [1863]. Scott and CD had been discussing the difficult pollination and small stigmatic openings of Gongora and the related Acropera since November 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
- … 12] April [1863] ); the paper was published as Scott 1863a (see n. 8, above). The second reference is to Scott’s paper on Drosera and Dionaea ( Scott 1862b ), read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 11 December 1862, abstracts of which appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 10 …
To Asa Gray 31 May [1863]
Summary
AG’s review of Alphonse de Candolle’s paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 430–44] is excellent.
Does not AG consider that orchids oppose Oswald Heer’s view that species arise suddenly by monstrosities?
Infers that AG cannot explain the angles of phyllotaxy; has been looking at Carl Nägeli on the subject.
Reports Gaston de Saporta’s belief that natural selection will ultimately triumph in France.
Is working slowly at Variation.
Reports his observations on the imperfect flowers of Viola and Oxalis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 31 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (84) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4196 |
From John Scott 22 May 1863
Summary
J. H. Balfour has arranged a position for him at a Cinchona nursery. Reluctant to take this position in part because of his experiments for CD.
Asks CD’s advice and solicits his aid in finding a better colonial position. James McNab mistreats him.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4177 |
From John Scott 21 May [1863]
Summary
Supports, in his orchid paper, CD’s view that sterility occurs at random [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
Cannot get his Drosera paper published [abstract in Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 17 (1863): 317–18].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 181, DAR 177: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4174 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, letters to John Scott , 19 November [1862] , and 11 December [1862] and n. 21). CD wanted to corroborate statements that some species of Passiflora could be pollinated more readily by different species than by their own pollen; Scott’s results, which provided the experimental evidence, were published in Scott 1864d . See letter to John Scott, 2 May [1863] . See also letter to John Scott, 12 …
From J. D. Hooker [7 May 1863]
Summary
Falconer going to France in defence of his views.
On scientific squabbling.
Herschel’s theory of the earth.
Bates’s book.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 135–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4144 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12). The reference is to Bates 1863 , and to Maria and William Jackson Hooker . Hooker was describing the plants collected by Gustav Mann between 1860 and December 1862 in the Cameroons Mountains and islands off the coast of West Africa (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 March 1863] and n. 21). Hooker’s initial findings provided support for CD’s view that temperate plants had migrated to tropical regions during the glacial period (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
From Asa Gray 26 May 1863
Summary
Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].
Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.
Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4186 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12, above. Alexander Agassiz was a zoologist, and since 1859 had been employed as an assistant in the United States Coastal Survey ( EB ). An offprint of ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ was sent to Gray on 18 April 1863; Gray’s name appears on CD’s presentation list for the paper (see letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] , and Appendix IV). Gray had sent CD live roots of the North American species of the orchid genus Cypripedium in December 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10, …
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Scott, John | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Scott, John | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
