To George Bentham 22 April [1863]
Summary
Disagrees with GB when he says he is not up to treating the whole subject [the present state of the species question]. He is especially equipped to handle the "great subject of affinities in relation to descent and independent creation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 701) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120 |
To Federico Delpino 25 June [1873]
Summary
Discusses role of insects in crossing varieties of Lathyrus odoratus and other species.
Comments on Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)],
and Anton Kerner ["Die Schutzmittel des Pollens", Ber. Naturwiss. Med. Ver. Innsbruck, 3 (1873): 100–68].
Admires FD’s work on anemophilous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Federico Delpino |
Date: | 25 June [1873] |
Classmark: | Anna Barone (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8951 |
From George Bentham 21 April 1863
Summary
Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4118 |
Bentham, George. 1861c. Flora Hongkongensis: a description of the plants and ferns of the Island of Hong Kong. London: Lovell Reeve.
To George Bentham 7 July [1864]
Summary
Asks for names of plants mentioned in an article in Natural History Review ["South European Floras", n.s. 4 (1864): 369–84] so he can get seeds.
Also would like specimens of the two forms of Aegiphila.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 7 July [1864] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 716) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4554 |
To Edouard Claparède [c. 16 April 1862]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède |
Date: | [c. 16 Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4371 |
To George Bentham 27 September [1866]
Summary
His memory deceived him about GB’s statement [on propagation of thistles].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 27 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 705–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5220 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Dawson’s letter. Doubts his evidence that climate of land was not glacial when upheaved after submergence.
Encloses memorandum of questions for C. V. Naudin.
Expression of the emotions.
Is building a hothouse for plant experimenting.
JDH’s ideas on America are more atrocious than his. What a new idea that struggle for existence is necessary to try to purge a government! Probably true. Slavery draws him one way one day, another the next. Yankees are "detestable toward us". Tocqueville.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3875 |
To George Bentham 12 December 1876
Summary
Has examined the specimens of Boronia pinnata. No evidence of two distinct bodies of individuals.
Asks whether extra-American species of Aegiphila are heterostyled.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 12 Dec 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (GEB/1/3: Correspondence, Vol 3, Daintree–Dyer, (1830–1884) 720) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10714 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11 December 1876 and n. 2, and Forms of flowers , pp. 285–6. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 December 1876 and n. 3. Aegiphila obdurata is a synonym of A. obducta . See letter to George Bentham, …
- … George Bentham, 10 December 1876 and n. 1; CD was trying to ascertain whether the species were heterostyled, and Bentham offered to send flowers in which the difference in stylar and staminal length was more apparent. Gray had sent CD flowers of Amsinckia spectabilis (the seaside fiddleneck) in 1861 ( Correspondence vol. 9, letter to Asa Gray, 11 …
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1864
Summary
Rejoices that CD is beginning "the book of books", Variation.
Suggests that changes in colour of pollen, stigma, and corolla, as Scott reports in his Primula paper, may be related to changes in the insects required for pollination.
Supports Gärtner translation by Ray Society.
Comments on recent addresses by Lyell [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): lx–lxxv], Bentham [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 8 (1864): ix–xxiii], and Murchison [Rep. BAAS 34 (1864): 130–6].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 243–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4614 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 11 December 1854]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 Dec 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 391 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1546 |
To Asa Gray 9 August [1862]
Summary
Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 9 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3685 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 November [1854]
Summary
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Nov [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1601 |
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 11 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B116–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4671 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 17 March 1855]
Summary
JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury’s paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35].
Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups.
Why are flightless insects common in desert?
Australian endemism.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 17 Mar 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 210–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1644 |
To Ernst Haeckel [after 10] August – 8 October [1864]
Summary
Can understand EH’s feelings on death of his wife.
CD was impressed by manner in which species in South America are replaced by closely allied ones, by affinity of species inhabiting islands near S. America, and by relation of living Edentata and Rodentia to extinct species. When he read Malthus On population, the idea of natural selection flashed on him.
Agrees with EH’s remarks on Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Asks EH to thank Carl Gegenbaur [for Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | [after 10] Aug – 8 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631 |
From A. R. Wallace 2 January 1864
Summary
Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells
and Origin.
Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.
Work problems.
His butterfly collection.
Problems with book on Malay journey.
Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.
Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B8–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4378 |
To George Bentham 10 May [1869]
Summary
Sends a letter (and seeds) from Fritz Müller about a strange monstrous form of Begonia found wild in Brazil. Asks GB whether it is worth communicating to Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 10 May [1869] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 680) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6743 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Fritz Müller 18 July [1869]
Summary
Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.
The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.
Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 18 July [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6835 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 May 1864
Summary
JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.
Conversation with Herbert Spencer.
George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 220–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4501 |
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