To M. T. Masters 8 July [1862]
Summary
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3645 |
To J.-B. P. Guépin 14 November 1861
Summary
Has read about JPG’s article on the fertilisation of orchids in Annales de la Societé Linnéenne d’Angers [1853], but has been unable to secure a copy. Seeks information about the role of bees in distributing pollen masses and about the varieties of orchids in Angers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean-Baptiste Pierre Guépin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | Archives Départmentales de Maine-et-Loire (24 J 1, pièce no. 32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3318F |
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- … Daniel Oliver, 3 November [1861] ). CD refers to Orchids. Frederick Bond is cited in Orchids , pp. 35–6, as having sent CD a large number of moths and butterflies with orchid pollinia attached to their proboscises. Virtually all the pollinia came from a single species, Orchis pyramidalis. See also Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 June [1860] …
To John Murray 31 March [1865]
Summary
Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.
Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 31 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4801 |
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To J. D. Hooker 12 [December 1862]
Summary
Maintains his view on crossing. Thinks practical breeders would agree with him; doubts that variability and domestication are at all necessarily correlative.
Identical plants in different conditions a heavy argument against "direct action" [of physical conditions].
His 1000-pigeon case is altered if long-beaked are in least degree sterile with short-beaked.
His work on dimorphism inclines him to believe that sterility is at first a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct.
Case of easy modification of Lythrum pollen to favour or prevent crossing.
Monsters.
Has just finished chapter on variations of cultivated plants.
Edinburgh doctors have sent him Diploma of Medical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 [Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3855 |
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- … Daniel Oliver, 25 November 1862 ). See letter to Pickard & Stoneman, 1 December [1862] . CD required the plant case so that he could work with temperature-sensitive plants like Oxalis sensitiva (a synonym of Biophytum sensitivum ; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 November 1862 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, [after 26] November [1862] ). Cohn 1860 ; …
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1862]
Summary
Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.
Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3548 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 [February 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 [Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3065 |
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- … Daniel Oliver , CD had established the identity of an insectivorous plant that he remembered growing in his father’s garden. Hooker had offered to send him samples of the plant, Apocynum androsaemifolium , a species of dogbane. See Correspondence vol. 8, letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 December [1860] …
To Daniel Oliver [17 September 1862]
Summary
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [17 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3709 |
To Jeffries Wyman 8 October [1865]
Summary
Experiments with string and elastic paper answered well.
Does JW know Ferdinand Cohn’s paper on contraction of stamens of certain Compositae [Edinburgh New Philos. J. n.s. 18 (1863): 190–4]?
Formerly made observations on movement in plants, but weak health has made it impossible to publish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 8 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 December [1862]
Summary
On THH’s Lectures to working men.
Work by Ferdinand J. Cohn on the contractile tissue of plants ["Über contractile Gewebe im Pflanzenreich" Abh. Schlesischen Ges. Vaterl. Cult. 1 (1861)] seems important. CD has come to the conclusion that there must be some substance in plants analogous to the supposed diffused nervous matter in lower animals.
[Part of P.S. missing from original.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 227, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3848 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 July 1863]
Summary
Sends "tendrilliferous" plants.
Plans visit to Down.
Naudin’s paper on tendrils [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 9 (1863): 180–203].
T. V. Wollaston snubs Bates’s work.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4226 |
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- … 1860 and Correspondence vol. 8). Henry Walter Bates , by contrast, had endorsed natural selection, arguing that mimicry in Amazonian butterflies offered ‘a most beautiful proof of the truth of the theory’ ( Bates 1861 , p. 513). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, [13 May 1863] and n. 28. Daniel Oliver …
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1861]
Summary
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3047 |
From C. W. Crocker 31 October 1862
Summary
Difficulties in beginning experiments upon retirement.
Describes his observations on insect pollination of Antirrhinum and the effect of excluding the pollinators.
Has been observing variant forms of Plantago
and comparing local orchids with CD’s observations.
Possibility of an intermediate-styled primrose.
His experiments at Kew and J. B. Lawes’s at Harpenden on deterioration of vegetables and cereals.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 84a–d |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3790 |
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- … letter to Asa Gray of 25 April [1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8), CD mentioned Hooker’s attempts to ‘degenerate our culinary vegetables’, in experiments conducted at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In addition to his duties as librarian and assistant in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Daniel Oliver …
To John Scott 11 December [1862]
Summary
Criticises style of JS’s fern paper [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 16 (1862): 209–27].
JS’s remark on "the two sexes counteracting variability in the product of the one" is new to CD.
Does the female [fern?] plant always produce female by parthenogenesis?
They seem to work on same subjects; CD has much material on Drosera.
Does not understand JS’s objections to natural selection.
Offers to suggest experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 11 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B37, B49–52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3853 |
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- … 1860, CD began to experiment on the sensitivity to various substances of the insectivorous plants, Drosera rotundifolia and Dionaea muscipula (see Correspondence vol. 8). He had hoped to continue and complete the experiments in the summer of 1861, but subsequently decided to postpone them (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 February [1861] , and letter to Daniel Oliver, …
From W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 20 October 1875
Summary
It has been empirically established at Kew that insular plants tend to be heteromorphic, plants with entire leaves tending to produce divided leaves.
Author: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 205–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10206 |
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- … Daniel Oliver was keeper of the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. In Flora Indica ( Roxburgh 1832 , 3: 202), William Roxburgh noted that seeds of Hibiscus tricuspis (now Talipariti hastatum , Tahiti hibiscus) had originally been sent by missionaries from Otaheite (Tahiti) to the botanic garden in Calcutta. William Bell’s letter of 29 March 1863 , describing the sport of Hibiscus tricuspis in botanic garden at Saharunpore, was published in Transactions of the Botanical Society 8 (1860– …
To Charles Lyell 30 July [1860]
Summary
Comments on BAAS meeting: "our side seems to have got on very well". Asa Gray, too, is fighting nobly.
Comments on review [by Samuel Wilberforce] in the Quarterly [Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
Mentions a favourable review in the London Review.
Wonders if German translation [of the Origin] by Bronn has drawn attention to the subject.
The Natural History Review to be edited by Huxley and others.
Expects CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] to be a bombshell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 July [1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.222) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2881 |
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- … 1860] . Lyell was travelling on the Continent (see letter to Charles Lyell, 5 [July 1860] ). CD refers to Bronn trans. 1860. See letters to T. H. Huxley, 20 July [1860] , and to John Lubbock , 20 July [1860]. Thomas Henry Huxley had recently agreed to become general editor of the new series of the Natural History Review ; the board of eleven editors also included John Lubbock , George Busk , William Benjamin Carpenter , Philip Lutley Sclater , and Daniel Oliver . …
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1864]
Summary
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 238a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4525 |
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- … 1860] and 26 [February 1860] . According to his ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 12, Appendix II), CD finished his paper ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ about 25 May 1864. See also letter to A. R. Wallace, 28 [May 1864] and n. 2. The paper was read at the Linnean Society on 16 June 1864. See letter to Daniel Oliver , [ …
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Oliver, Daniel | (24) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (21) |
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