To Athenæum 1 January 1867
Summary
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Athenæum |
| Date: | 1 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | Athenæum, 5 January 1867, pp. 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343F |
From Lydia Ernestine Becker 6 February 1867
Summary
Thanks CD for Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31] and "Climbing plants" sent to Manchester Ladies’ Literary Society. Comments on Lythrum.
| Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5391 |
From J. D. Hooker 23 March 1867
Summary
More on Naudin’s hybrid; the wonder lessened slightly.
JDH’s view that insular plants [distantly] related to those of continents are common came to him only after the lecture was in print; has not yet thought it out fully.
Moroccan flora may throw some light on Madeira flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 102: 151–3; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 143: 643) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5456 |
To J. P. M. Weale 27 August [1867]
Summary
CD finds the case of Muraltia with irritable stamens curious.
Thanks JPMW for his help with expression queries and would be grateful for any more information. Believes the action of the so-called "grief muscles" is a result of combined action of two muscles.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5617 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 [March 1867]
Summary
Returns Charles Naudin’s letter with its case in support of CD’s view of impregnation.
Twits JDH for trying to wriggle out of error made in his lecture and admires his "candour in letting the rat out of the bag". [See 5449 and 5451.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24 [Mar 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5457A |
From Fritz Müller 4 March 1867
Summary
Reports observations on fertility of orchids he has self-pollinated and crossed with pollen of other species.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 142: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5429 |
To Paul Rohrbach 23 February [1867]
Summary
Thanks PR for his memoir on Epipogium ["Über den Blüthenbau von Epipogium" (1866)]. The structure and manner of fertilisation are new to CD;
he has long suspected that the classification of orchids requires considerable modification.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Paul Rohrbach |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 228–229 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5414 |
From J. P. M. Weale 7 July 1867
Summary
Has distributed CD’s questions on expression. Observations on the natives.
Floral structure encouraging cross-pollination in Polygala.
| Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5581 |
To A. R. Wallace [12–17] March [1867]
Summary
Asks to be kept informed on gaudy caterpillars.
Problems of his work on man; scope and role of sexual selection.
Indulgence of interest in expression is simply a "hobby-horse". Will see whether he can get queries inserted in an Indian newspaper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [12–17] Mar [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434 ff. 80–83v) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5440 |
From John Scott 22 January 1867
Summary
Position as Curator allows no time for experiment.
Describes plans for vast new layout of Calcutta Botanic Garden according to natural orders.
Himalayan and Scottish plants are doing well.
Hopes to experiment on temperate plants in tropics, to test CD’s views of migration during glacial periods.
Sends observations on acclimatisation of English cultivated plants.
Leersia CD sent are growing and fertile.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Jan 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 117, DAR 111: A91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5376 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Rohrbach, Paul | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Weale, J. P. M. | (2) |
| Athenæum | (1) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
