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From John Murray   [1 July – 23 August 1862]

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Account of Orchids.

Author:  John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 July – 23 Aug 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 171: 525
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3635F

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  • 27 4 768 Sold Viz 〃 Entering Stationers’ Hall 5 358 Trade 25 as 24 6/ 103 4 410 D o 〃  〃 6/5 126 8 2 768 229 12

From Daniel Oliver   10 April 1862

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Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.

Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].

Observations on Campanula dimorphism.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Apr 1862
Classmark:  DAR 173.1: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3502

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  • … 1861] , 27 May [1861] , and 11 September [1861] ). See letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April  …

To Asa Gray   6 November [1862]

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Agrees Max Müller’s book [see 3752] is interesting but cannot see how it will further his "cause".

A book by J. W. Colenso [The Pentateuch and book of Joshua critically examined, pt 1 (1862)] has just appeared and will "make a noise".

Would like some observations made on Cypripedium.

Will not publish yet on Lythrum as he must make many more crosses; the mid-styled is fertile with half of its own stamens.

Would like to try a few experiments on tendrils.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  6 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (78)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3796

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  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and nn.  11 and 12. [J.  D.  Hooker] 1862c. …

To J. D. Hooker   24 [November 1862]

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Sends Asa Gray letter: "nearly as mad as ever in our English eyes".

Bates’s paper is admirable. The act of segregation of varieties into species was never so plainly brought forth.

CD is a little sorry that his present work is leading him to believe rather more in the direct action of physical conditions. Regrets it because it lessens the glory of natural selection and is so confoundedly doubtful.

JDH laid too much stress on importance of crossing with respect to origin of species; but certainly it is important in keeping forms stable.

If only Owen could be excluded from Council of Royal Society Falconer would be good to put in. CD must come down to London to see what he can do.

Falconer’s article in Journal of the Geological Society [18 (1862): 348–69] shows him coming round on permanence of species, but he does not like natural selection.

Sends Lythrum salicaria diagram.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24 [Nov 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 173, 279b; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Hooker letters 2: 46 JDH/2/1/2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3822

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  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and nn.  11 and 12, letter to W.  E.  Darwin, …

To W. E. Darwin   [10? September 1862]

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Gives advice as to whether certain meteorological observations would be worth making.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [10? Sept 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3704

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  • 12 September; the intervening Wednesday was 10 September. However, William visited them again on 20 and 27  …

To Thomas Rivers   23 December [1862]

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CD is collecting [for Variation] all accounts of what some call "sports" and what he calls "bud-variations". He asks whether very slight variations in fruit appear suddenly by buds, or whether only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Rivers
Date:  23 Dec [1862]
Classmark:  Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3874

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  • 27, 76, 244–5, and 364); CD kept the relevant numbers of the journal in separate parcels (see DAR 222 and DAR 75: 1–12; …

From Asa Gray   18 February 1862

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Discusses politics in the U. S. and relations between Britain and America.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Feb 1862
Classmark:  DAR 165: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3451

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  • 27 January 1862 . The reference appears to be to the Roman administrator, Junius Annaeus Gallio , who refused to pass judgment on the apostle Paul (Acts 18: 12– …

From J. D. Hooker   2 November 1862

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Stupefied by CD’s five forms of Lythrum.

Asa Gray busy with Cypripedium. JDH offers some to CD if he wants to challenge Gray.

J. W. Dawson’s review of JDH’s paper on Arctic plants.

Louis Lucien Bonaparte’s views on Basque and Finnish language [Langue basque et langues finnoises (1862)] suggest to JDH that Basques are Finns left behind after the glacial period, like the Arctic plants!

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 66–7, 70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3792

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  • 12, and the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 November [1862] and n.  9. In his letter to Hooker of 27 [ …

From J. D. Hooker   26 November 1862

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Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3831

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  • 27 [October 1862] , CD asked Hooker to provide him with specimens of Oxalis sensitiva (a synonym of Biophytum sensitivum ) for use in experiments on the sensitive reactions of plants. See also letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 November [1862] and [10–]12  …

From Asa Gray   27 October 1862

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Sends Nesaea seeds for CD

and stamps for Leonard Darwin.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Oct 1862
Classmark:  DAR 165: 121
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3785

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  • 27 Oct.  1862. My Dear Darwin This heavy mail for you is merely for the purpose of carrying a 30 cents stamp for Leonard, so you must distribute the contents to oblige him. Do not prepay the continental letters, unless required, as I think is not the case. Enclosed is a cent stamp, the like of which is new to me, & perhaps to the young gentleman. Tell him, also, that I have to-day bought stamps on envelopes, of 12, …

From August Wilhelm von Hofmann   27 June 1862

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Forwards carbonate of ammonia and gelatine free of chlorine.

Author:  August Wilhelm von Hofmann
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 June 1862
Classmark:  DAR 166.2: 232
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3623

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  • 27, dated 22 April 1862) and on Drosera (see the note in DAR 54: 75, dated 21 May 1862). The effects of carbonate of ammonia on the hairs of Drosera rotundifolia are detailed in Insectivorous plants , pp.  141–8. In Insectivorous plants , pp.  110–12, …

From J. D. Hooker   [21 December 1862]

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"Throttled off" Welwitschia paper at Linnean Society [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 1–48].

Has read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America [1835–40] – disagrees with it. Tocqueville says democracy in America is a success. Democracy has persisted because there has been no cause for its overthrow (i.e., no struggle for existence, too much mobility).

Sends J. W. Dawson’s unsatisfactory letter.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [21 Dec 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 80–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3856

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  • 27 or 28 December 1862] and R.  Desmond 1994 ). In his letter of 4 November [1862] , CD had asked Hooker for assistance in tracing a reference to Australian aborigines preparing and eating poisonous plants during times of famine (see also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [10–]12  …

To J. D. Hooker   [10–]12 November [1862]

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So JDH did write the Gardeners’ Chronicle review [of Orchids]! CD guessed it from the little slap at R. Brown.

Dawson’s lecture has nothing new. Absurd to assume Greenland under water during whole of glacial period. Suggests absence of certain plants in Greenland due to seeds not surviving in sea-water. Suggests an experiment on vitality in sea-water of plants that might be in Greenland. Is more willing to admit a Norway–Greenland land connection than most other cases.

Urges JDH to warn Tyndall on his glacial theory of valleys in Switzerland.

Is working on cultivated plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [10–]12 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 169
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3801

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  • 27 [October 1862] , and letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 2 November 1862 ). Lindley was secretary of the Horticultural Society of London ( Fletcher 1969 ). Lindley was principal editor of the Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette ( DNB ); CD’s annotated copy of the magazine from 1841 to 1871 is in the Cory Library, Cambridge Botanic Garden. In DAR 222 there is a ‘List of the numbers of special interest to Darwin and kept by him in separate parcels’, and CD’s abstracts of the journal are in DAR 75: 1–12. …

From Henrietta Emma Darwin   [29 October 1862]

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Instinct in cats.

Author:  Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [29 Oct 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 162: 68
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3787

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  • 12), Henrietta recalled that, as a child, she would sit ‘for long hours’ watching her cats, and ‘sympathising with the cat’s admiration of her kittens’. Henrietta refers to the period from 2 to 16 July 1858 when the Darwin children stayed at The Ridge in Hartfield, Sussex, the home of their aunt, Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also n.  3, below). The Darwins were on holiday in Shanklin on the Isle of Wight from 27  …

To W. D. Fox   20 [September 1862]

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Would like to go to Cambridge [for BAAS meeting]. Reminisces about his student days.

Pleased that WDF likes his book [Orchids]. At one time CD agreed with Lyell that he was an ass to publish it.

Working on dimorphism and sensibility of other plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  20 [Sept 1862]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 135)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3732

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  • 12 (1862): 638); Harriet Emma Overton also gave birth in 1862 to her first child, Frederick Arnold Overton ( Alum. Oxon. , s.v. Overton, Frederick Arnold; Darwin pedigree , pp.  15–16). CD’s surviving sisters were Caroline Sarah, Emily Catherine, and Susan Elizabeth Darwin . CD may be referring to Susan Elizabeth Darwin , as she was a close friend of one of Fox’s own sisters (see Correspondence vol.  5, letter to W.  D.  Fox, [27  …
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