From A. R. Wallace 26 September 1863
Summary
Encloses flowers of Melastoma from Singapore.
Acclimatisation of plants.
Striped horses in London.
Bees’ cells; has been promised information from the East.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 146–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4308 |
From Louis Agassiz 29 September 1863
Summary
Introduces J. P. Lesley, "the most accomplished geologist of the United States".
| Author: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4311 |
To John Price [8 September – 13 October 1863]
Summary
Comments on JP’s work [Old Price’s remains (1863–4)].
Anglo-American relations. Progress of the Civil War.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Price |
| Date: | [8 Sept – 13 Oct 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4286 |
From John Lubbock 4 September 1863
Summary
Has returned from trip to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Has been made President of the Ethnological Society.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4291 |
From Hugh Falconer 10 September 1863
Summary
Is having E. Suess’s essay [see 4284] translated; will forward it as soon as it is done.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4298 |
From Edward Blyth 21 September 1863
Summary
Sends some original observations on British ferns [not found].
Has secured a small pension and hopes to acquire a house near Kew.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 206 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4300 |
From Edward Levett Darwin 7 September 1863
Summary
Glad to find they are cousins.
Sends his book [High Elms (pseud.), The game-preserver’s manual (1858)].
| Author: | Edward Levett Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 17–18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4295 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 [September 1863]
Summary
Sends address.
Comments on BAAS meeting at Newcastle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4293 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1863]
Summary
Grieves over the death of his second daughter [Maria Elizabeth].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4309 |
From John Scott 21 September [1863]
Summary
Sends Primula MS, which CD has promised to communicate to Linnean Society [see 4213].
Will soon send results on peloric Antirrhinum.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 96 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4301 |
From W. D. Fox 7 September [1863]
Summary
Gives directions to CD’s daughter’s [Anne’s] grave.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4296 |
From Joanna Baillie Horner 24 September 1863
Summary
News of C. J. F. Bunbury and the Lyells.
| Author: | Joanna Baillie Horner |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 269 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4305 |
To A. R. Wallace [29? September 1863]
Summary
Baffling problems with Melastoma. Appreciates ARW’s help with it and the "gorze case".
Has read report of ARW’s paper [to Newcastle BAAS meeting, "On the geographical distribution of animal life"] in the Reader [2 (1863): 352–3].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [29? Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS. 46434: 36–7b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4310 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [c. 26 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a cutting from the Field: C. R. Bree on zebra-striped asses.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 26 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4314 |
From G. H. K. Thwaites 24 September 1863
Summary
Sends information on the flowers of Cassia roxburghii; will send flowers of all the species of Cassia for CD to study with a view to discovering the law which operates to bring about the differences.
| Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 48: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4303 |
To W. D. Fox 4 [September 1863]
Summary
His bad health has caused him to return to Malvern.
Emma cannot find the gravestone of their child, Anne. Asks WDF whether he can remember its location.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 4 [Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 140) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4292 |
From the secretary of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, New Zealand 14 September 1863
Summary
CD elected an honorary member of the Society.
| Author: | Philosophical Institute of Canterbury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4298A |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Philosophical Institute of Canterbury Darwin, C. R. …
- … r . 1863. I have the honor to inform you, that at the Ordinary Meeting of the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, held on the 7 th of August last—you were unanimously—elected an Honorary Member of the Society. I have the honour to be, | Your most obedient Servant, | E. C. J. Stevens Hon. Secretary. Charles Darwin …
To J. B. Innes 1 September [1863]
Summary
Family and local news, and memories of old times.
CD’s youngest son, Horace, is too delicate to go to school.
CD has had a bad summer, is still ill, can do very little work – "Botany … is all that I am good for".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4287 |
From W. F. Kirby 8 September [1863]
Summary
Describes some cases of geographical distribution of butterflies. Raises the perplexing question of the distribution of Pyrameis atalanta in Europe and P. calliroe in the Canaries.
| Author: | William Forsell Kirby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3 (Letters): 280 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4297 |
From J. J. Aubertin 3 September 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter and geological report on the stones JJA sent.
Encloses postage stamps for CD’s son.
| Author: | John James Aubertin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4289 |
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