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 Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox [6–27 September 1863]
Summary
Encloses a four-page printed pamphlet on the cruelty of steel traps [see Collected papers 2: 83–4].
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [6–27 Sept 1863] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 142a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4294 |
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 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
From J. D. Hooker 15 September 1863
Summary
Pleased CD accepts continental extension for New Zealand, whose flora has many genera like Rubus with great diversity and connecting intermediates. Suggests geological uplifting creates more space, hence opportunities for preservation of intermediates. Sees clash with CD on causes of extreme diversity of form in a group.
JDH’s attitude toward democratisation of science.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Sept 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 163–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4306 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Desmond, Ray. 1994. Dictionary of British and Irish botanists and horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers. New edition, revised with the assistance of Christine Ellwood. London: Taylor & Francis …
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