To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861]
Summary
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3190 |
To Bartholomew James Sulivan 24 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks BJS for account of Mendoza earthquake.
FitzRoy sent CD the last London Review [& Weekly J. Polit.] and he read the article on Genesis, but feels it is an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Date: | 24 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | Sulivan family (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3156 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1861]
Summary
Orchid anatomy. Requests Lindley’s work on orchids [The genera and species of orchidaceous plants (1830–40)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3238 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 3 January [1861]
Summary
Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.
THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.
Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].
In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1861] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041 |
From Asa Gray 31 December 1861
Summary
Discusses dimorphism and suggests CD investigate Valeriana.
Praises CD’s views with respect to the U. S. Civil War and relations with England. Worsening relations between Britain and U. S.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 65, DAR 165: 104–105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3354 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [August 1861]
Summary
Personal regards.
William Darwin will make a botanist.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [Aug 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3231 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Asa Gray 5 June [1861]
Summary
AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].
Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.
Insect fertilisation of orchids.
Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 5 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3176 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13 April 1860]). CD saw the dimorphic condition of Primula as inhibiting self-fertilisation and thus favouring the sexual union of distinct individuals of the same species. CD published the results of his study in 1862 ( Collected papers 2: 45–63). Gray is cited in Orchids as having observed insects visiting Cypripedium , but no mention is made of the experiment suggested by CD. See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to Asa Gray, 31 October [1860] . See also letter to Asa Gray, 11 …
To H. W. Bates 4 April [1861]
Summary
CD urges HWB to write on his travels;
asks for facts on domestic variations;
is pleased by HWB’s acceptance of the theory of sexual selection.
He still believes in migration from north to south during glacial age.
Hopes Bates will publish a paper on mimicry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3109 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 13 July [1856] and [16 October 1856] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 November 1856 ). Hooker also read the ‘abstract’ of this chapter that CD prepared for Origin (see ibid . , vol. 7, letters to J. D. Hooker, 2 March [1859] and 15 March [1859] ). The original manuscript is in DAR 14 and has been published as chapter 11 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (2) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
