To J. D. Hooker [13 November 1863]
Summary
Sends Haast’s report; JDH may use any and all of the details in the letter.
Asks identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4341 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [13 November 1863] …
- … DAR 115: 209 Charles Robert Darwin Down [13 Nov 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Bibliography [Forbes, James David. ] 1863. [Review of Charles Lyell’s Antiquity of man and …
- … identity of a reviewer of Lyell’s Antiquity of man [ Edinburgh Rev. 118 (1863): 254–302]. …
- … the Edinburgh Review ( [J. D. Forbes] 1863 ); the author of the review was James David …
- … his research (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [31 July 1863] and n. 2, and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 3 August [1863] ). …
- … D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . Following the interest Hooker had expressed …
- … in the letter from Julius von Haast of 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 (see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 11 November 1863) , CD may have decided to also send the …
- … letter from Julius von Haast of 6 August 1863 , or the map and report that CD mentioned in …
- … his letter to J. D. Hooker of 10 [November 1863] . CD refers to J. F. J. von Haast …
- … fever; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [1 or 3 November 1863] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 . Hooker had asked CD if he could use the …
- … Haast included in his letter of 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 (see letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 and n. 4. CD refers to the review of Antiquity …
- … visited by William Brinton on 3 November 1863. The letter from James Manby Gully , who had …
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1863]
Summary
Health has been poor but eczema is improved.
A "squib" about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 23 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4181 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … To W. D. Fox 23 May [1863] …
- … Correspondence vol. 10), and CD’s health had been poor since the end of February 1863. …
- … Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 139) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 May [1863] William Darwin Fox …
- … about Owen and Huxley on the brain has appeared in Public Opinion [3 (1863): 497–8]. …
- … Letter from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] . See letters from W. …
- … D. Fox, 6 February [1863] and …
- … 12 March [1863] . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwin family visited …
- … III, respectively, from 27 April to 13 May 1863. Caroline Sarah Wedgwood was CD’s sister …
- … D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] and n. 3. …
- … The reference is to the Illustrated Times , 2 May 1863, p. …
- … 317, 9 May 1863, p. …
- … 333, and 16 May 1863, p. 348. The references are to …
- … of which was published in Public Opinion 3 (1863): 497–8, and to Richard Owen and Thomas …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] and n. 6). James Manby Gully was the …
- … see letter from W. D. Fox, [16–22 May 1863] and n. 4). In the event, CD consulted James …
- … Smith Ayerst (see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] ). See letter from W. …
To J. D. Hooker 25 [August 1863]
Summary
CD’s illness: he is vomiting "vegetable" cells.
Dutrochet has published the best of CD’s observations on tendrils [see Climbing plants, p. 1 n.].
Lyell has found Joshua Trimmer’s Arctic shells on Moel Tryfan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 [Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4274 |
Matches: 22 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 25 [August 1863] …
- … DAR 115: 204 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 [Aug 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … between 26 August and 2 September ( Annual register 1863 (pt 2), pp. 131–9). See letter …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 12–13 August [1863] . Emily Catherine Darwin …
- … and Charles Langton were married on 8 October 1863 ( Emma Darwin (1915) , 2: 180–1). …
- … There is no evidence that Hooker visited CD later in 1863. …
- … of public events at home and abroad. N.s. 1863–1946. London: Longman & Co. [and others]. ‘ …
- … Wells, Worcestershire, on 3 September 1863 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and n. 2, …
- … Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, for six weeks beginning 3 September 1863, returning to Down …
- … on 14 October 1863. Emma Darwin …
- … there in advance, arriving on 1 September 1863 to secure lodgings for the family ( Emma …
- … see letter to W. D. Fox, 4 [September 1863] ). John Goodsir was professor of anatomy at …
- … letter from John Goodsir, 21 August [1863] . CD refers to ‘On the climate and vegetation …
- … to Dutrochet 1843 and 1844 (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 12–13 August [1863] ). CD had …
- … begun making observations on climbing plants in June 1863 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 25 [June 1863] , and letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 26 June [1863] ). Hooker sent living specimens of climbing …
- … plants from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, at the end of July 1863 (see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [31 July 1863] ). CD’s observational notes on Bignonia unguis ( …
- … cati ), dated between 23 and 31 August 1863, are in DAR 157.1: 118, 120. CD’s observations …
- … Lyell has not been found; however, see the letter to Charles Lyell, 14 August [1863] . …
- … In 1863, the British Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting …
To J. D. Dana 20 February [1863]
Summary
Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]
and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].
Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.
Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;
Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 20 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4000 |
Matches: 27 hits
- … To J. D. Dana 20 February [1863] …
- … Owen’s conclusions in Falconer 1862 . See also letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 . …
- … Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Feb [1863] James Dwight Dana …
- … of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71]. Fully admits JDD’s objections are …
- … and the letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 . The references are to Dana’s Manual of …
- … Dana 1863a ), Dana 1863c , and the letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 . CD had …
- … apparently received Dana 1863c by 17 February 1863 (see letter to …
- … Charles Lyell, 17 [February 1863] ). Dana had suffered a nervous breakdown in 1859, from …
- … letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 [February 1863] . Falconer had described two Mesozoic fossil …
- … letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 ). CD refers to Dana’s Manual of geology ( Dana …
- … Library–Down. In his letter of 5 February 1863 , though, owing to ill health (see n. 3, …
- … letter from J. D. Dana, 5 February 1863 ); in Origin , CD emphasised ‘the relationship, …
- … pp. 370–1). Since the middle of January 1863, CD had received news of several naturalists …
- … of CD’s support in Germany (see letters to Alphonse de Candolle , 14 January [1863] and …
- … 31 January [1863] , letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] , letter from Camille …
- … Dareste, 8 February 1863 , and letter from …
- … Friedrich Rolle, 26 January 1863 ). In Dana 1863a , pp. 601–2, Dana stated that: With …
- … In his letter to Dana of 7 January [1863] , CD informed Dana that Hugh Falconer had …
- … the letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] . Richard Owen’s description, which was …
- … was not published until the second half of 1863 ( Owen 1862a ; Royal Society, Register of …
- … papers). See letters from Hugh Falconer , 3 January [1863] and …
- … 18 January [1863] . In Antiquity of man , Lyell had written ( C. Lyell 1863a , p. 500): …
- … the letter from Hugh Falconer, 18 January [1863] and n. 12. CD probably refers to Owen’s …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 January [1863] , n. 1). Falconer’s critique of Owen’s …
- … pp. 45–9 (see also letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] , and letter from …
- … Hugh Falconer, 8 January [1863] ). Falconer may also have told CD of his doubts regarding …
To Asa Gray 23 February [1863]
Summary
Recommends Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Quotes praise of AG’s pamphlet [see 2938].
Comments on U. S. politics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4006 |
Matches: 31 hits
- … To Asa Gray 23 February [1863] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (55) Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 Feb [1863] Asa Gray …
- … Recommends Lyell’s book [ Antiquity of man (1863)]. Quotes praise of AG’s pamphlet [see …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . …
- … Letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . The enclosures referred to have not been …
- … identified. Gray’s letter of 27 January 1863 also included a letter from Samuel Hubbard …
- … seeds for crossing experiments (see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n. 9). …
- … With his letter of 27 January 1863 , Gray enclosed a letter he had received from Scudder …
- … Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See enclosures to the letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . See …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] , and letter from …
- … Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . See also n. …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . CD enclosed Gray’s letter with his letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863] , and Joseph Dalton Hooker responded in …
- … his letter to CD of [16 February 1863] . See …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . In …
- … his letter to Gray of 2 January [1863] , CD expressed doubt about the view of the French …
- … two copies of the paper, which was read before the Linnean Society on 5 February 1863, on …
- … 18 April 1863 (see letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] ). C. Lyell 1863a . Chapters 12 to 18 of Charles Lyell’s …
- … probably met Lyell during his stay in London between 4 and 14 February 1863 (see letter to …
- … Charles Lyell, 4 [February 1863] ). CD had supervised the arrangements for the publication …
- … of man in the Parthenon , 21 February 1863, pp. 233–5, the author stated (p. 235): Dr. …
- … Down House for a few days, from 1 to 4 March 1863, but CD became ill with ‘much sickness & …
- … to retract the invitation (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and …
- … 5 March [1863] ). Chapters 20 to 22 of Antiquity of man dealt with theories of …
- … to William Erasmus Darwin of [22 February 1863] , which is in DAR 210.6: 109, Henrietta …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). CD refers to chapter 23 of Antiquity …
- … of the American Civil War during February 1863, The Times adopted a hostile tone towards …
- … the Union cause (see The Times , 7 February 1863, p. …
- … 8, and 20 February 1863, p. 9). CD’s complaint probably refers to the continued …
To H. W. Bates 26 January [1863]
Summary
Congratulations on marriage, which CD considers the best and only chance for happiness in this world.
Glad HWB is near completion of book.
Begs him to thank Wallace for Melastoma information; CD "cannot endure being beaten by a beggarly flower".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3945 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To H. W. Bates 26 January [1863] …
- … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 Jan [1863] Henry Walter Bates …
- … to H. W. Bates, 12 January [1863] , letters from H. …
- … W. Bates, 17 January [1863] and …
- … 24 January 1863 , and letter from A. …
- … R. Wallace, [23 January 1863? ] . See letter from H. …
- … W. Bates, 24 January 1863 and n. 3. …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
- … between this letter and the letter from H. W. Bates, 24 January 1863 . Bates …
- … married Sarah Ann Mason on 19 January 1863 (see letter from H. …
- … W. Bates, 24 January 1863 and n. 4). See letter …
- … from H. W. Bates, 24 January 1863 …
- … Bates 1863 . See letter from H. …
- … W. Bates, 24 January 1863 and n. 5. See letter …
From H. W. Bates 24 January 1863
Summary
Wallace noticed that melastomads in Malay archipelago were visited by small Hymenoptera.
Darwinism discussed at the last meeting of the Zoological Society. The Darwinians had the best of it.
HWB has committed the "folly" of marriage [to Sarah Ann Mason, 15 Jan 1863].
Printing of vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons] is nearly finished.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3941 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … From H. W. Bates 24 January 1863 …
- … DAR 160: 73 Henry Walter Bates London, Hollis Place, 10 24 Jan 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
- … of marriage [to Sarah Ann Mason, 15 Jan 1863]. Printing of vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the …
- … In his letter to Bates of 12 January [1863] , CD asked which insects he had observed …
- … the letter from H. W. Bates, 17 January [1863] . Evidently, CD wrote to Bates again, but …
- … the volume. The last discussion in Bates 1863 (2: 415–17) is an account of his ambivalence …
- … he acknowledged the artists in Bates 1863 , 1: vi. See also letter from H. …
- … W. Bates, 17 January [1863] , and letter to H. …
- … W. Bates, 9 April [1863] . …
- … place | Prince of Wales road | N.W. Jan 24 1863 My Dear M r Darwin Although I cannot …
- … in the Malay Archipelago. See letter from A. R. Wallace, [23 January 1863? ] . For CD’s …
- … letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] and n. 22. Bates wrote about the city …
- … in the first three chapters of Bates 1863 (pp. 1–111). The ‘Pará gentleman’ has not …
- … the Zoological Society of London on 13 January 1863, Wallace read a paper on the birds of …
- … hypothesis. Bates married Sarah Ann Mason on 19 January 1863 ( Woodcock 1969 , p. 254). …
- … The naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ) was published between …
- … 1 and 14 April 1863 ( Publishers’ Circular 26: 193). …
- … The preface to Bates 1863 , 1: iii– …
- … vi, dated January 1863, mentions Wallace’s proposal of the expedition and their choice of …
From S. P. Woodward 5 June 1863
Summary
Has been writing a notice of H. W. Bates’s "capital book" [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
P. M. Duncan’s coral paper [J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 29 (1863): 406–58] strengthens SPW’s belief in the general diffusion of marine forms westward in the course of time.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4204 |
Matches: 22 hits
- … From S. P. Woodward 5 June 1863 …
- … DAR 181: 155 Samuel Pickworth Woodward British Museum 5 June 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of the West Indian Islands’ ( P. M. Duncan 1863–7 ), before the Geological Society. The …
- … capital book" [ Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)]. P. M. Duncan’s coral paper [ J. …
- … Geol. Soc. Lond. 29 (1863): 406–58] strengthens SPW’s belief in the general diffusion of …
- … journal between 17 March 1860 and 1 August 1863 (see Woodward 1881 , pp. 279 and 301 …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
- … vols. London: John Murray. Duncan, Peter Martin. 1863–7. On the fossil corals of the West …
- … Indian Islands. [Read 6 May and 18 November 1863, 11 May 1864, and 4 December 1867. ] …
- … s dredging expedition off the coast of Spain in May 1863 (M’Andrew and Woodward 1864). …
- … On 6 May 1863, Peter Martin Duncan read the first part of his paper, ‘On the fossil corals …
- … of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): 406–58; 20 (1864): 20–44, 358–74; 24 ( …
- … John Murray. 1862. Prestwich, Joseph. 1863. On the section at Moulin Quignon, Abbeville, …
- … recently discovered there. [Read 3 June 1863. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological …
- … to Woodward’s letter to CD of 14 February 1863 , which discussed malicious interference by …
- … scientific papers ). See also letter from S. P. Woodward, 14 February 1863 and n. 10. …
- … Woodward apparently refers to the review of Bates 1863 that appeared in …
- … the Critic 25 (1863): 356–8; see n. 3, above. …
- … of the Geological Society of London on 3 June 1863, at which Joseph Prestwich read a paper …
- … a human jaw and teeth that had been found in March 1863 at Moulin-Quignon quarry, …
- … near Abbeville, France ( Prestwich 1863 ). The jaw was believed by a number of French …
- … the specimens’ authenticity (see J. Prestwich 1863 ). Prestwich’s associate, John Evans , …
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863]
Summary
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4250 |
Matches: 21 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863] …
- … DAR 115: 199 Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 July [1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … Gardens, Kew. Letter from Asa Gray to J. D. Hooker, 6 July 1863 . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] . See …
- … letter from Asa Gray, 7 July 1863 , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] . See letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] . …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] . CD first observed this phenomenon in June …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 [June 1863] and n. 2). CD’s experimental and observational …
- … DAR 157.1: 10–17, dated 21 July – 9 August 1863), Stephanotis floribunda (see the notes in …
- … See letter from G. H. K. Thwaites, 8 June 1863 . William Hugh Gower was foreman of the …
- … DAR 157.1: 37, dated 14–15 July [1863]), and Aristolochia gigas ( a synonym of A. …
- … see the notes in DAR 157.1: 53, dated 22 July [1863]). These species, together with Cissus …
- … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in February 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VI). …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] . A. Gray 1857 , pp. 38–9. There is an …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 July [1863] , n. 3. (Viniferae was one of the synonyms …
- … 1853 , p. 439). In a note dated 20 January 1863, CD observed that in Bignonia speciosa , …
- … See letter from Daniel Oliver, 20 July 1863 and n. 1. The references are to Friedrich …
- … has been found; however, see the letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] , and the letter to …
- … Friedrich Hildebrand, 28 July [1863] . Hildebrand’ …
- … s paper was published in the September 1863 issue of the journal ( Hildebrand 1863b ). …
From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863]
Summary
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3919 |
Matches: 26 hits
- … From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863] …
- … DAR 101: 101–2 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [15 Jan 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … In his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD offered ‘about a dozen little things as …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] , and by the reference to Hooker’s forthcoming …
- … to Paris, which began on 17 January 1863 (see n. 17, below); the intervening Thursday was …
- … With his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD enclosed Asa Gray’s letter of 29 …
- … In his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD reminded him of the ‘memorandum of …
- … or 28 December 1862] , and this volume, letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 January 1863 ). In …
- … his letter to Hooker of 3 January [1863] , CD described Emma Darwin and himself as ‘ …
- … the emancipation proclamation that took effect from 1 January 1863 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and n. 14). The reference is to Thomas Henry Huxley’s six …
- … In his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD praised the lectures but admitted he …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and nn. 5–9, and Correspondence vol. 10, …
- … his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD expressed doubts about Huxley’s statements …
- … 1: 351–4. See also letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n. 17, and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and n. 12. Phyllium is a genus of leaf- …
- … New Guinea. In his letter of 6 January 1863 , Hooker reported that they had hatched some …
- … Murray (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). Hugh Falconer . See letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 January 1863 . Thomas Thomson had been superintendent of the Calcutta …
- … the request to CD (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1863] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). In …
- … his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD told Hooker of the imminent construction of …
- … plants. See also letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n. 24, and Appendix VI. …
- … In his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD reported that he could buy pitcher …
- … Candolle 1862a , see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] , and the letter to …
- … Alphonse de Candolle, 14 January [1863] . Hooker and George Bentham were preparing to …
To John Scott 1 and 3 August [1863]
Summary
Thanks JS for orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on sterility of orchids.
His argument that coloured primroses are not hybrids is good, as is idea of discovering primrose parentage by breeding for colours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 1 and 3 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B24, B27–8, B70; DAR 147: 455 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260 |
Matches: 29 hits
- … To John Scott 1 and 3 August [1863] …
- … DAR 93: B24, B27–8, B70; DAR 147: 455 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Aug 1863 3 …
- … Aug 1863 John Scott …
- … paper [ Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on …
- … papers ). In his letter of 21 September [1863] , Scott stated that he had sent two copies …
- … New Philosophical Journal in July (see letters from John Scott , 21 May [1863] and …
- … 23 July [1863] ); however, the journal only published an abstract. In Scott 1863a , pp. …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … species in Primula ’. See also letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] and nn. 10–11. …
- … portion of the letter written on 1 August 1863 is missing from this point, and the text is …
- … 1862] . Joseph Dalton Hooker . See letters from J. D. Hooker, [21 July 1863] and [ …
- … 31 July 1863] . Hooker was assistant director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( R. …
- … from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] . CD cited Scott 1863a on the self-sterility of …
- … letter from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] . CD refers to Scott’s argument against …
- … primrose. See also letter from John Scott, 23 July [1863] , and Scott 1864a , pp. 98–9 …
- … n. In his letter of 25 [July 1863] CD urged Scott to repeat the experiments. CD discussed …
- … and -styled cowslip in his letter of 21 May [1863] , and enclosed the seed with his …
- … letter of [26 July – 2 August 1863] . CD discussed Scott’s crossing experiments with a red …
- … letter from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] . Scott’s reply has not been found, but …
- … with the letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] , and Scott published them in his paper on …
- … the heteromorphic crosses made before August 1863 are recorded in DAR 108: 67, 69–70. CD …
- … see letter from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] , and n. 15, above). CD was seeking …
- … obtain specimens for further experiments (see letters to Asa Gray , 2 January [1863] , and …
- … 19 January [1863] , letter to John …
- … Scott, 6 June [1863] , and letter from John …
- … Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] ). Asa Gray thought that L. lewisii was …
- … perenne (see letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 ). See also Forms of flowers , p. 101. …
- … from John Scott, [26 July – 2 August 1863] ). The enclosure has been attached to this …
- … the letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] (see n. 21, below). Friedrich Hildebrand …
To Charles Lyell [7 May 1863]
Summary
Falconer’s letter [attacking CL, Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] is most unjust.
Regrets his letter [to Athenæum, on heterogeny] now criticised by Owen.
Comments on article by Samuel Haughton [On the form of cells made by wasps – with an appendix on the origin of species (1863)].
Mentions forthcoming reviews by Asa Gray [in Am. J. Sci.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [7 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4145 |
Matches: 22 hits
- … To Charles Lyell [7 May 1863] …
- … DAR 185: 46 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [7 May 1863] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … s letter [attacking CL, Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] is most unjust. Regrets his …
- … an appendix on the origin of species (1863)]. Mentions forthcoming reviews by Asa Gray [in …
- … 1862a ). See letter from Asa Gray, 13 April 1863 . Asa Gray’s review of A. de Candolle …
- … and the letter from George Maw, 25 April 1863 , and by the address. According to Emma …
- … of Josiah Wedgwood III , from 6 to 13 May 1863; the only Thursday during this period was …
- … Darwin pedigree ). See letter from George Maw, 25 April 1863 . According to Emma Darwin’s …
- … Press. 1927–96. Haughton, Samuel. 1863. On the form of the cells made by various wasps, …
- … diary (DAR 242), the Darwins returned home on Wednesday 13 May 1863. The reference is to …
- … s letter published in the Athenæum , 2 May 1863, p. 586. The letter formed part of an …
- … of Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ) in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459–60, and …
- … s response in the Athenæum , 18 April 1863, pp. 523–5. Falconer’s main complaint was that …
- … evidence of human antiquity. See letters from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] and n. …
- … 5, and [6 March 1863] and n. …
- … 4, and letter from John Lubbock, 7 April 1863 and n. 6. The reference is to the last …
- … s last sentence reads ( Athenæum , 2 May 1863, p. 586): ‘The day has gone by, when …
- … s anonymous letter in the Athenæum , 2 May 1863, pp. 586–7, criticising the views on the …
- … s letter to the Athenæum of 18 April [1863] (see Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix VII). …
- … see the letter to Athenæum , 5 May [1863]. The letter from Lyell has not been found. …
- … is a lightly annotated copy of S. Haughton 1863 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … S. Haughton 1863 was particularly critical of CD’s reasoning in Origin regarding the …
From John Scott 21 September [1863]
Summary
Sends Primula MS, which CD has promised to communicate to Linnean Society [see 4213].
Will soon send results on peloric Antirrhinum.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4301 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … From John Scott 21 September [1863] …
- … DAR 177: 96 John Scott Edinburgh Botanic Gardens 21 Sept [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 17, and letters to John Scott , 24 March [1863] and …
- … 7 November [1863] . Scott published the results of his experiments with Passiflora in …
- … 2 December 1862] . See also Scott 1863a . See letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] . …
- … this letter and the following letter. See letters from John Scott , [3 June 1863] and …
- … 23 July [1863] . Scott refers to the manuscript of Scott 1864a . …
- … See letters to John Scott , 25 and 28 May [1863] and …
- … 6 June [1863] . CD communicated Scott 1864a to the Linnean Society ; it was read on 4 …
- … give to Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] , and letter to …
- … John Scott, 20 [June 1863] ). See letter …
- … to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] . See Correspondence vol. 12, letter from John …
- … 19 December [1862] ; see also this volume, letters from John Scott , 6 January 1863 and …
- … 16 June [1863] , and letters to …
- … John Scott , 6 June [1863] and …
- … 20 [June 1863] ). Scott sent CD the results from his experiments in 1864, but they …
- … See also letter to John Scott, 7 November [1863] . CD had encouraged Scott to carry out …
- … See also this volume, enclosure to letter to John Scott, 6 March 1863 , letters from John …
- … Scott , 21 March [1863] and n. …
- … 4, and 21 May [1863] and n. …
To John Scott 25 and 28 May [1863]
Summary
CD does not think he could be wrong about the stigma of Bolbophyllum.
Will not write up Drosera for years.
Praises JS’s experiments. Invites him to send a paper to Linnean Society.
L. C. Treviranus says all species of Primula present two forms except P. longiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 25 and 28 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B41–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4185 |
Matches: 26 hits
- … To John Scott 25 and 28 May [1863] …
- … DAR 93: B41–4 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 May 1863 28 …
- … May 1863 John Scott …
- … was the curator ( R. Desmond 1994 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [23–7 May 1863] . …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letters from John Scott , 21 May [1863] and …
- … 22 May 1863 . Scott had enclosed a note from his manuscript on …
- … 1863a ) with his letter to CD of 21 May [1863] . Scott’s study had led him to suspect that …
- … in the letter from J. D. Hooker, [23–7 May 1863] . Scott had asked CD’s advice on an …
- … been offered in Darjeeling, India (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , and letter to …
- … John Scott 23 May [1863] ). John Hutton Balfour was the keeper of the Royal Botanic …
- … to the letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] . Scott read a paper, ‘On the propagation and …
- … an abstract was published ( Scott 1862b ; see letter to John Scott, 2 May [ 1863] and n. …
- … and letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] ). CD had carried out a series of experiments on …
- … abstract of his paper on orchids with his letter of 28 May [1863] . The paper, which was …
- … the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 14 May 1863, was later published in full as Scott …
- … letter to John Scott, 1 and 3 August [1863] ); it is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection– …
- … section of his letter to CD of 21 May [1863] . Probably a reference to Donald Beaton’s …
- … Primula in his letter to CD of 21 May [1863] . Scott had been corresponding with CD on …
- … from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863) . CD’s annotated copy of Treviranus 1863a is in …
- … and ‘shortstyled’. However, see the letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] . See …
- … also letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 [February 1863] , and letter from …
- … Daniel Oliver, 27 February 1863 . See …
- … letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] . The oxlips referred to are apparently those …
- … and this volume, letter to John Scott, 25 [July 1863] . CD published his results, based on …
- … and P. vulgaris , dated March–June 1863, are in DAR 108: 50–5 and 165–7. CD eventually …
- … on Passiflora in his letter of 21 May [1863] . CD, wishing to corroborate statements that …
From Hugh Falconer 24 August [1863]
Summary
Sends information about Pliocene fauna of the "Forest Bed" of the Norfolk coast.
A genus described as extinct by Owen is found by E. A. I. H. Lartet to exist in Russia.
Edouard Suess attributes to Oswald Heer and HF the generalisation "That the time during which a new species is formed, is (as a rule) very short in comparison with the time during which it persistently presents the same peculiar specific characters". [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math-naturw. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31.] [See 4277.]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4273A |
Matches: 19 hits
- … From Hugh Falconer 24 August [1863] …
- … DAR 164: 16 Hugh Falconer unstated 24 Aug [1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math-naturw. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31. ] [See 4277 . ] …
- … Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90. Suess, Eduard. 1863. Über die Verschiedenheit und die …
- … this letter and the letter from Hugh Falconer, 29 August 1863 . Erasmus Alvey Darwin . …
- … on the movements of plant tendrils during the summer of 1863 (see letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 25 [June 1863] and nn. …
- … 2 and 3, 1 July [1863], 14 …
- … July [1863], 3 …
- … August [1863], and 12– …
- … 13 August [1863], and letters to …
- … Asa Gray , 26 June [1863] , and …
- … 4 August [1863] and n. 18). Falconer refers to his …
- … of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ) in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459–60 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n. …
- … and letter to Charles Lyell, 18 April [1863] ). Falconer sent CD a draft of a portion of …
- … volume, letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] and nn. 15 and 16. The reference is …
- … the Austrian palaeontologist Eduard Suess and to Suess 1863 . Falconer refers to the Swiss …
- … land faunas in the lowland of Vienna’: Suess 1863 ) may have been a preprint copy; it was …
To H. W. Bates 18 April [1863]
Summary
Has finished vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons]. CD praises book as "best ever published in England".
The review in the Athenæum was cold, as always, and insolent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4107 |
Matches: 18 hits
- … To H. W. Bates 18 April [1863] …
- … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Apr [1863] Henry Walter Bates …
- … The reference is to the Athenæum , 25 April 1863, p. 489. …
- … A favourable review of Bates 1863 appeared in the …
- … Reader , 18 April 1863, p. 378. …
- … on mimetic butterflies’ appeared in the April 1863 number of the Natural History Review. …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
- … The year is established by the reference to Bates 1863 . …
- … Bates 1863 . Bates’s account of his eleven years in South America was published in two …
- … volumes; CD received a presentation copy (see letter to H. W. Bates, 9 April [1863] ). …
- … CD’s annotated copy of Bates 1863 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 35–7). …
- … into the back of the first volume of Bates 1863 ; these include a note relating to p. …
- … Darwin. ] Natural History Review n.s. 3 (1863): 219–24. [ Collected papers 2: 87–92. ] …
- … Tropics’, where Bates described ( Bates 1863 , 1: 54–5): the struggle which necessarily …
- … see also pp. 290–3. See, for example, Bates 1863 , 1: 255–65, in which he discusses the …
- … of the larger subjects and scenes ( Bates 1863 1: vi). The first volume included eighteen …
- … However, each of the two volumes of Bates 1863 bears on its front cover a gold-embossed …
- … a container on his or her head. See letter to J. D. Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n. 15. …
From Roland Trimen 10, 13, and 18 October 1863
Summary
Comments on CD’s paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Sends specimens of dimorphic and trimorphic Oxalis.
Comments on H. W. Bates’s work [Naturalist on the river Amazons].
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10, 13 and 18 Oct 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B122–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4319 |
Matches: 23 hits
- … From Roland Trimen 10, 13, and 18 October 1863 …
- … DAR 109: B122–3 Roland Trimen Cape Town 10 Oct 1863 13 …
- … Oct 1863 18 …
- … Oct 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 23 (1860–2): 495–566. Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A …
- … some local forms of both Insects & Plants. 0.2 1863. ] underl red crayon 1.1 I have … for? …
- … Letter to Roland Trimen, 27 August [1863] . ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ ; for CD’s …
- … and Linum . See letter from Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 , and letters to …
- … Roland Trimen , 23 May [1863] , and …
- … 27 August [1863] and nn. 3 and 6. Trimen sent CD specimens and a sketch of dimorphic O. …
- … Office, | Cape Town. 10 th . October, 1863. My dear Sir, I have today received your very …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
- … with his letter of 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 . The specimens Trimen mentions in this letter …
- … pp. 45–50). See letter from Roland Trimen, 16, 17 and 19 July 1863 , and letter to …
- … Roland Trimen, 27 August [1863] and nn. 7 and 8. …
- … See also letter to [Gardeners’ Chronicle], [after 27 August 1863] . See …
- … letter to Roland Trimen, 27 August [1863] and nn. 12–13. These experiments led CD to …
- … Trimen refers to Henry Walter Bates’s The naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ). …
- … Presumably a reference to Bates 1863 , 1: 48, 71–2, and 108. Trimen was a specialist in …
- … Society of London , Post Office London directory 1863). The specimens have not been found. …
- … Letter to Roland Trimen, 27 August [1863] . The rates of postage from Cape Town had …
- … the rates of postage for mail from London to Cape Town had doubled in April 1863 ( British …
- … postal guide 1863). The official mail service from Cape Town was available monthly; mail …
To John Lubbock 23 [February 1863]
Summary
CD’s comments on JL’s paper [first part of "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 23 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3939 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To John Lubbock 23 [February 1863] …
- … in her diary (DAR 242) that John Lubbock dined at Down House on 22 February 1863. See …
- … also letter from John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 . …
- … 263: 59 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 [Feb 1863] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron …
- … of "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum ", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78]. …
- … Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Lubbock, John. 1863–5. On the development of …
- … Ephemera) dimidiatum. [Read 15 January 1863 and 21 December 1865. ] Transactions of the …
- … is established by the reference to the first part of Lubbock 1863–5 (see n. 2, below). CD …
- … of Chloeon (Ephemera) dimidiatum’ ( Lubbock 1863–5 ), in which he identified over twenty …
- … before the Linnean Society on 15 January 1863, and may have requested CD’s comments on it …
- … when he dined at Down House on 22 February 1863 (see n. 8, below). …
- … see letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 [January 1863] , and Correspondence vol. 10, letter to …
- … are two lightly annotated copies of Lubbock 1863–5 in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. …
- … his introductory remarks ( Lubbock 1863–5 , pp. 61–6), Lubbock noted that entomologists …
- … the genera Meloë and Sitaris ( Lubbock 1863–5 , pp. 63–4), which begin life as active …
- … In his copies of the first part of Lubbock 1863–5 , CD annotated passages dealing with the …
- … with the variety of marine fauna ( Lubbock 1863–5 , pp. 64–5): The Mollusca are far less …
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4227 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1863] …
- … D. Hooker, [2]9 June 1863 and n. 11. …
- … DAR 115: 198 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 July [1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1867): 1–118. Smith, Goldwin. 1863. The Empire. …
- … letters published in ‘The Daily News,’ 1862, 1863. Oxford and London: John Henry & James …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [2]9 June 1863 and nn. 6, 7, and 9. …
- … In his letter to CD of 19 June 1863 Hooker promised to send CD a newspaper account of …
- … letter to Julius von Haast, 18 July [1863] and n. 4. The reference is to Lagerstroemia ; …
- … experiments with Cissus discolor (dated 30 June – 18 July [1863]) in DAR 157.2: 55–6. …
- … numerous experiments on this subject in 1863 and 1864, and his paper entitled ‘Climbing …
- … are given in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 74–7 and 83–4. G. Smith 1863 ; see letter from J. …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] and n. 13, and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [24 May 1863] . Daniel Oliver . See letter to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 25 [June 1863] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [2]9 June 1863 . CD refers to …
- … his experiments on climbing plants, begun in June 1863. There are notes on CD’ …
- … with Echinocystis lobata (dated 16 June – 29 July 1863) in DAR 157.2: 29–51, and on his …
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
Matches: 20 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863] …
- … DAR 115: 205 Charles Robert Darwin Down [28 Aug 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 August 1863 . …
- … In 1863, 28 August was a Friday. Letters from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 26 August 1863 and [ …
- … 27 August 1863] . Hooker had borrowed a Wedgwood portrait medallion of Erasmus Darwin (see …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 12–13 August [1863] , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 26 August 1863 ). There is no evidence that Hooker visited Down after CD’s …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 August [1863] , n. 2). William Hugh Gower was a foreman …
- … Harriet Hooker’s aunt, who was ill (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 August 1863 ). …
- … CD travelled to London on 1 September 1863 with Henrietta Emma Darwin ; they travelled on …
- … to Malvern Wells, Worcestershire, on 3 September 1863, returning to Down …
- … on 14 October 1863 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). George Busk was probably in …
- … Wales at this time (see letter from George Busk , [ c. 27 August 1863]). John Goodsir . …
- … See letter from John Goodsir, 21 August [1863] . The letter to Busk has not been found. …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, [27 August 1863] . CD and Hooker had frequently debated …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] ). Hooker was favourably disposed to the …
- … See letter from J. D. Hooker, 26 August 1863 and n. 14. Chatsworth in Derbyshire was …
- … 814). Hooker promised in his letter of 15 September 1863 to send young Calamus plants. …
- … Since June 1863, CD had been making a series of observations on the movements of climbing …
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Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad
Summary
At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…
Matches: 28 hits
- … At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation …
- … & must write briefly’ ( letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] ), and in a letter of 23 [June …
- … of man and his history' The first five months of 1863 contain the bulk of the …
- … put it in a letter to J. D. Hooker of 24[–5] February [1863] . When Huxley’s book described the …
- … anything grander’ ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] ). In the same letter, he gave his …
- … origins was further increased by the discovery in March 1863 of the Moulin-Quignon jaw, the first …
- … bear ( see letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes, 23 June 1863 ). Although English experts …
- … in learned journals and the press during the first half of 1863 focused attention even more closely …
- … made him ‘groan’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Darwin reiterated in a later letter …
- … separately created’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] ). Public perceptions of creation, …
- … said a word ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin did not relish …
- … guide & master’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] ). Nevertheless, Darwin’s regret was …
- … species change ( letter from Charles Lyell, 11 March 1863 ). The botanist Asa Gray, Darwin’s …
- … would scare them off ( see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 ). In May, Darwin responded to Gray …
- … put him ‘into despair’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 11 May [1863] ). In the same letter, he assured Gray …
- … unaided ’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Hugh Falconer was also preparing a …
- … by others’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [23 February 1863] ). Falconer published his criticisms in …
- … so for a little fame’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). Falconer and Owen were …
- … ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Archaeopteryx Falconer, …
- … his crimes… ?’ ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] , and letter to Hugh Falconer, 20 …
- … reptiles and birds ( letter from Hugh Falconer, 3 January [1863] ). Darwin was delighted by …
- … fossil record ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 5 [and 6] January [1863] ). Only until March did Darwin …
- … attention ( see letter to J. D. Dana, 20 February [1863] , and letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March …
- … Athenæum in response ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ). He later expressed …
- … a good letter (!)’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). At the same time Darwin admitted …
- … on Foraminifera ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] , and Appendix VII). The reviewer, …
- … origin of matter.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] ). Owen’s endorsement of Lamarck …
- … nothing’ ( letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). poor miserable devil of a …
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Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants
Summary
Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863 greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…
Matches: 24 hits
- … , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, 15 January 1863 ). The decision was evidently prompted …
- … experimentation, and the building of the hothouse early in 1863 marked something of a milestone in …
- … mid-February (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] and 15 February [1863] ). It was …
- … a mess of it’ (letter to G. H. Turnbull, [16? February 1863] ). Even before work on the …
- … plants’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] ). Darwin apparently refers to the catalogues …
- … to Nurserymen’ (letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 January 1863] ). Darwin agreed to send Hooker his …
- … have from Kew’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 January [1863] ). Darwin probably gave his list …
- … a school-boy’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863] ). On 20 February, the plants from Kew …
- … like to ask for’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, [21 February 1863] ). He had, he confessed to Hooker, …
- … Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [22 February 1863] in DAR 210.6: 109). There were other …
- … on cultivation (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] ). Darwin derived enormous …
- … each leaf’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] ). Darwin’s aesthetic appreciation of …
- … which they belonged. In his letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] , he announced that the plants …
- … worth trial’ (letter to J. D. Hooker, 21 February [1863] ). Darwin’s hothouse became an …
- … foreground, with pipes clearly visible, is the hothouse of 1863. Over many years, the …
- … book gives an entry under ‘Science’, dated 28 March 1863, for five guineas’ worth of plants bought …
- … not supply (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [16 February 1863] ). However, it can be dated with …
- … this list and in his letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 February [1863]. Secondly, he mentioned in this list …
- … (see letter from L. C. Treviranus, 12 February 1863 ). The second list is headed ‘Stove …
- … to him by Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ), since many of the species listed …
- … from Kew. Darwin said in the letter to Hooker of 5 March [1863] that he had received 165 plants …
- … at Clapton, London ( Post Office London directory 1863). 2. John Cattell was a florist, …
- … p. 10. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and n. 19. 9. Catasetum …
- … with premises at Clapton, London. After Low’s death in 1863 the firm was conducted by his son, …
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Thomas Rivers
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Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
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The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … ‘Textual changes made to C. Lyell 1863c’). On 6 February 1863, Antiquity of man (C. Lyell 1863a) …
- … Busk, Prestwich, and Galton. In February 1863, Lubbock received a letter from Lyell, …
- … Bath in 1864 (C. Lyell 1864). 3 By November 1863 a third edition of Antiquity of …
- … of several aspects of the book. Throughout the first half of 1863, Darwin discussed the book in …
- … aggrieved about Lyell’s failure to support him. In April 1863, in a letter to the Athenæum , he …
- … note on p. 11. Unlike the earlier controversies of 1863 where the disputants had quarrelled …
- … 13). The third edition had originally appeared in November 1863. In spite of Lyell’s 1865 revisions, …
- … (Original version of the last section, printed in November 1863) In conclusion, I wish it to …
- … evidence appealed to. 53 Harley Street: November 1863 Preface, C. Lyell 1863c, pp. …
- … in the interval between the autumn of 1861 and February 1863. In this long interval my thoughts had …
- … 2. Letter from Charles Lyell to John Lubbock, 20 February 1863 (British Library, Add. MSS 49640). …
- … of C. Lyell 1863a, see Darwin's Life in Letters, 1863 , (introduction to Correspondence …
- … vol. 11, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] . On Lyell’s unwillingness to commit …
- … vol. 11, letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n. 7. 9. See Correspondence …
- … University Press. 1985–.: Falconer, Hugh. 1863. Letter. Athenaeum , 4 April 1863, pp. 459 …
- … 13 (1858–63): i–x; 14 (1858–63): 1–34, 129–88; 15 (1863–66): 245–321. Lubbock, John. 1861. …
- … Darwin. London: John Murray. 1859. Owen, Richard. 1863. Ape-origin of man as tested by the …
'An Appeal' against animal cruelty
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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…
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- … (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested …
- … the distribution of the pamphlet in August and September 1863 (see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to …
- … (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [6–27 September 1863], and letter from Emma Darwin to J. …
- … from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [2 September 1863] (DAR 219.1: 77), and Correspondence …
- … (see CD's Classed account book (Down House MS), 20 August 1863, recording a payment of £2 11 s …
- … and letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). There is no surviving record of …
- … alternatives (see letter from E. L. Darwin, 7 September 1863, letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, …
- … to the RSPCA, payments being recorded from 1854 to 1861, in 1863 and 1864, from 1871 to 1875, and in …
- … 1858], and this volume, letter to J. B. Innes, 1 September [1863]). The 'Appeal' …
- … published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 ( Letter no. 4282). The …
- … Jr (see letter from G. B. Sowerby Jr to Emma Darwin, 22 July 1863 and n. 1). 3 This …
- … published in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 ( Letter no. 4282). …
- … Bromley ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1863). 8 The closing words, …
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 9 hits
- … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
- … Letter 4242 - Hildebrand, F. H. G. to Darwin, [16 July 1863] Hildebrand writes to …
- … Letter 4235 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [8 July 1863] Lydia Becker sends Darwin a …
- … Letter 4139 - Darwin, W. E. to Darwin, [4 May 1863] William sends the results of a …
- … Letter 4258 - Becker, L. E. to Darwin, [31 July 1863] Lydia Becker details her …
- … 4233 - Tegetmeier, W. B. to Darwin, [29 June - 7 July 1863] Tegetmeier updates Darwin …
- … 3896 - Darwin to Huxley, T. H, [before 25 February 1863] Darwin offers the results of …
- … Letter 4010 - Huxley, T. H. to Darwin, [25 February 1863] Huxley praises Henrietta’s …
- … Letter 4038 - Darwin to Lyell, C., [12-13 March 1863] Darwin secretly passes on …
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Dining at Down House
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…
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Capturing Darwin’s voice: audio of selected letters
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On a sunny Wednesday in June 2011 in a makeshift recording studio somewhere in Cambridge, we were very pleased to welcome Terry Molloy back to the Darwin Correspondence Project for a special recording session. Terry, known for his portrayal of Davros in Dr…
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- … help him with his research (e.g. to Lydia Becker, 2 August 1863 ; to Mary Treat, 5 January 1872 …
Dramatisation script
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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 7 hits
- … of your darling. BOOKS BY THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN: 1863-1865 In which Drwin struggles …
- … 1860 98 A GRAY TO ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, 16 FEB 1863 99 C DARWIN TO LYELL, …
- … 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 C DARWIN TO J. D. …
- … JULY 1864 160 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 3 JAN 1863 161 TO ASA GRAY 13 …
- … 1862 164 C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, 23 FEBRUARY 1863 165 A Gray TO C Darwin …
- … APRIL 1866 173 C DARWIN TO ASA GRAY 20 APRIL 1863 174 FROM A GRAY TO …
- … STAY 1881 192 C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193 TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST …
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Science, Work and Manliness
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Discussion Questions|Letters In 1859, popular didactic writer William Landels published the first edition of what proved to be one of his best-selling works, How Men Are Made. "It is by work, work, work" he told his middle class audience, …
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- … Letter 4262 - Darwin to Gray, A., [4 August 1863] Darwin tells Gray about his recent …
- … Letter 3901 - Darwin to Falconer, H., [5 & 6 January 1863] Darwin gives feedback on …
- … Letter 4000 - Darwin to Dana, J. D., [20 February 1863] Darwin praises Dana’s latest work …
- … Letter 4185 - Darwin to Scott, J., [25 & 28 May 1863] Darwin praises Scott’s …
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Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … in severity in the years around 1848, 1852, 1859, and 1863. In a letter to Hooker in April of 1861, …
- … 1849 ( Correspondence vol. 4). Throughout the winter of 1863 and spring of 1864, he was sick …
- … pp. 31-2, 47, 98. In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11), …
- … Wells, under James Smith Ayerst, in September and October 1863 (see Correspondence vol. 11, …
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Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
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- … in invisible ink on the germ' ( to J. D. Hooker, 26 [March 1863] ). Years before he …
Darwin as mentor
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Darwin provided advice, encouragement and praise to his fellow scientific 'labourers' of both sexes. Selected letters Letter 2234 - Darwin to Unidentified, [5 March 1858] Darwin advises that Professor C. P. Smyth’s observations are not…
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Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … derivation of Species … Darwin to Charles Lyell, 1863. Permit me again to …
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Darwin and Down
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Charles and Emma Darwin, with their first two children, settled at Down House in the village of Down (later ‘Downe’) in Kent, as a young family in 1842. The house came with eighteen acres of land, and a fifteen acre meadow. The village combined the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … species in the world’. To J. D. Hooker, 25 [June 1863] : describing the light-sensing …
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Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
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Climbing Plants
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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A monograph by which to work After the publication of On the Origin of Species, Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, The Descent of Man, and The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals in…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of tendrils, as described in the following excerpt from an 1863 letter he wrote to the English …
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Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat epilepsy …
- … medical practitioner Darwin contacted around this time. In 1863, Darwin experienced a period of …
- … joints (see, for example, Holland 1855, p. 233, and Garrod 1863, pp. 263-4). The diagnosis of …
- … George Busk, 28 April 1865). In November and December 1863, Darwin had consulted the stomach …
- … vol. 11, Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, 8 December [1863]). In his letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 [November …
2.3 Wedgwood medallions
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< Back to Introduction Despite Darwin’s closeness to the Wedgwood family, he was studiously uninterested in the productions of his maternal grandfather Josiah Wedgwood I, the immensely successful ceramic manufacturer. In a letter to Hooker of January…
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- … ceramic manufacturer. In a letter to Hooker of January 1863, Darwin described himself and his wife …
- … scientists for the museum at Kew, and in the spring of 1863 he borrowed from the Darwin family a …
- … above, Hooker had actually been in touch with Woolner since 1863. However, it was apparently William …
- … museum. Letters from Joseph Hooker to Darwin, 6 Jan. 1863 (DCP-LETT-3902) and [24 March 1863] (DCP …
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John Beddoe
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In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…