To Journal of Horticulture [before 18 June 1861]
Summary
CD, commenting on a case of peloric flowering in Auricula, urges readers to send in their observations on whether flowers nearest the axis tend to differ from others on the plant. Such a law of variation would be worth discovering.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 18 June 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3188 |
To Daniel Oliver 7 December [1861]
Summary
Trusts DO’s opinion on Acropera ovules.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 7 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 3 (EH 88205987) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3340 |
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 4 January 1861
Summary
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Jan 1861 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041A |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [October 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3286 |
To Daniel Oliver 22 January [1861]
Summary
Thanks for mentioning J. G. Kurr on nectaries [Untersuchungen über die Bedeutung der Nektarien in den Blumen (1833)]. Requests observations on flowers with curved pistils. Finds they curve toward nectary, thus lying in path of insect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 22 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 5 (EH 88205989) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2661 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 [April 1861]
Summary
Lieut. F. W. Hutton’s original review [Geologist 4 (1861): 132–6, 183–8] understands that mutability cannot be directly proved.
CD met Bentham at Linnean Society and asked him to write up his views on mutability.
Opinion of Owen.
Conversation with Lyell on antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3098 |
From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]
Summary
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [13 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046F |
To H. W. Bates 3 December [1861]
Summary
Thanks HWB for references.
Praises his paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", read before Linnean Society, 21 Nov 1861, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862) : 495–566] which solves "one of the most perplexing problems which could be given to solve".
Discusses the difficulties of writing and expresses disappointment at Wallace’s book [Travels on the Amazon (1861)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 3 Dec [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3338 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 November [1861]
Summary
JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.
Faunal distribution and the glacial period.
Orchid homologies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Nov [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3322 |
To Journal of Horticulture [17 May 1861]
Summary
Thanks Mr Beaton for his answer [to 3147].
Asks further questions on points raised in Beaton’s previous papers: whether crossing white and blue varieties of Anemone apennina produced many pale shades; whether the Mathiola incana and M. glabra which crossed freely were artificially or naturally crossed.
CD is delighted by Beaton’s assertion that "not a flower in a thousand is fertilised by its own immediate pollen".
Recounts his experiments with Leschenaultia formosa to show insect fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [17 May 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3162 |
To John Lindley 25 October [1861]
Summary
Sends thanks for an informative letter;
would be grateful for any orchids; names some he would particularly like.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 25 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 194) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3299 |
To [Robert Chambers?] 13 April [1861]
Summary
Since his previous letter, has unexpectedly arranged to go to London next Tuesday.
Hopes to call on recipient.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
Date: | 13 Apr [1861] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (item 25007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3117F |
To J. D. Hooker 4 February [1861]
Summary
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3057 |
letter | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Watson, H. C. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Journal of Horticulture | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Chambers, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Journal of Horticulture | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |