To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1862]
Summary
Has received Melastoma and Vanilla.
Has seen again the two sets of plants of Heterocentron raised from two lots of pollen from same flower – a marvellous difference in stature.
"But oh Lord what will become of my book on variation: I am involved in a multiplicity of experiments."
Observations on Viola.
CD’s fancied dimorphism of Oxalis is all a confounded mistake; only great variability in length of pistils.
Found Henslow’s life [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will think it dull.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3575 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1862
Summary
Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."
Details of U. S. orchids.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3559 |
To W. D. Fox [17 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks WDF for interesting letter about turkeys. Would be grateful for information on fertility of the hybrids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [17 May 1862] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 133) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3555 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, Appendix II), CD recorded spending 15 to 22 May 1862 at Leith Hill Place, the Surrey home of his sister Caroline Sarah Wedgwood and her husband Josiah Wedgwood III , Emma Darwin’s brother. Fox’s letter has not been found. CD had asked Fox for information about crosses between wild and domestic turkeys in the letter to W. D. Fox, 12 …
To W. D. Fox 12 May [1862]
Summary
Asks if WDF has ever crossed wild and common turkeys. Would like to quote his authority [see Variation 1: 292].
Also curious whether WDF has known the so-called japanned peacock to appear from common peacock [Variation 1: 290].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 12 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 132) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3544 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, Appendix II)), he described several cases of the ‘japanned’ or ‘black-shouldered’ peacock ‘suddenly appearing in flocks of the common kind kept in England’, and expounded his belief that the phenomenon was ‘evidence of the first appearance of a new variety’ ( Variation 1: 290–2). See also letter to Philip Lutley Sclater, 12 …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
