To Asa Gray 28 May [1864]
Summary
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 28 May [1864] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4511 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … J. D. Hooker, 20 April 1864 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 April [1864] and n. 6. ‘ …
- … III. See also letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and n. 7, and 22 [May 1864] and …
- … 56–9). See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n. 13. CD discussed the …
- … and n. 22, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 22. CD discussed Mohl’s …
- … Oliver] 1864a). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1864] and nn. 9–10, and letter …
- … board, see letter to J. D. Hooker, 26[–7] March [1864] and n. 17. CD also refers to …
- … J. D. Hooker, 27 [November 1863] , and this volume, letter from Asa Gray, 16 February 1864 …
To Hugh Falconer 4 December [1864]
Summary
Much pleased by Edward Sabine’s address.
Grateful to HF for his interest [in the award of Copley Medal to CD].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4698 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4225 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 February 1864]
Summary
Compares Clematis and Tropaeolum with respect to touch response. Tropaeolum shows a momentary response and quick recovery. Clematis takes hours to respond, and shows no recovery.
CD can show the gradations between leaves and tendrils, but how a branch passes into a tendril utterly puzzles him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 Feb 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4403 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [8 February 1864] …
- … pp. 111–14. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and nn. 19–23. CD later …
- … letter and the letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 ; in 1864, 8 February fell on a …
- … plants’ , p. 32, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 16). CD’s notes for …
- … pp. 27 and 33–4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 5 April [1864] and n. 17, and letter to G. …
- … see also letter to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] and n. 22). CD’s experimental notes …
- … 34, 112. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 5 February 1864 and n. 4. CD describes dried …
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … as ‘spiny shrubs or small trees’ ( J. D. Hooker 1864–7 , p. 43). In his letter to Haast …
- … the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (J. D. Hooker, 1864–7, p. 12). In late 1862, Canterbury …
- … to Hooker’s forthcoming Handbook of the New Zealand flora ( J. D. Hooker 1864–7 ), which …
- … pp. 295–8. In the preface to J. D. Hooker, 1864–7, p. 12, Hooker paid tribute to the …
- … a handbook of New Zealand flora ( J. D. Hooker 1864–7 ) was discussed in his letter to …
To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864]
Summary
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 and 12 Jan 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4389 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [10 and 12 January 1864] …
- … and John Hardcastle (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 , and Journal of the …
- … known, but see the letters from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 and nn. 10 and 11, and [ …
- … 1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 9 February 1864] . Alfred Russel Wallace …
- … and elsewhere’ ( J. D. Hooker 1864a ), published in the January 1864 issue of the …
- … January 1864 issue of the Natural History Review contains annotations on J. D. Hooker …
- … J. D. Hooker to Emma Darwin, 11 November 1863 and n. 4. CD wrote the first section of the letter in pencil; Emma Darwin wrote and signed the second section of the letter. For 11 January 1864, …
To Daniel Oliver 13 July [1864]
Summary
If CD understood Nepenthes, he would understand every class of climbers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 13 July [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 50 (EH 88206033) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4564 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 21 July 1864 . See letter from J. D. Hooker, 9 [March] 1864 and n. 22. In ‘Climbing …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 10 June [1864] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 June 1864 ). In ‘ …
- … J. D. Hooker, [22–3 November 1863] , and letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 November 1863 , and CD’s note in DAR 157.2: 96). Mohl 1827 . Hugo von Mohl’s account of homologies is discussed in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 48–9. An annotated copy of Mohl 1827 is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 590–4). See letter to Daniel Oliver, 15 June [1864] …
From Henry Holland 4 November [1864]
Summary
Congratulations on the Copley Medal.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4659 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 June 1864
Summary
Will be glad to do diagram for CD;
asks whether he has read a Hugo von Mohl paper [see 4349].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4534 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1864]
Summary
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4474 |
From Fritz Müller [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865]
Summary
FM’s comments on Climbing Plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 and 31 Aug 1865 and 10 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | Notes on some of the climbing-plants near Desterro, in South Brazil. By Herr Fritz Müller, in a letter to C. Darwin. [Read 7 December 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1866): 344–9. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Hooker (see Correspondence vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 and n. …
- … 10, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] ). In Climbing plants 2d ed. , p. 37 …
- … 1864] , and letters to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] , [8 February 1864] , and 3 …
- … vol. 12, letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n. 13, and 10 December [1864] …
From J. D. Hooker [4 April 1864]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4448 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … D. Hooker, [10 and 12 January 1864] , and 3 November [1864] ; letters to J. D. Hooker, …
- … CUL. See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 6 April 1864 and n. 5. See Correspondence …
- … 1: 770). See also letter from J. D. Hooker, 24 January 1864 and n. 8, Spencer 1864–7 , …
- … see, for example, letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 November [1864] , and n. 20, above). At …
To Daniel Oliver 18 March [1864]
Summary
Thanks for information on Tecoma.
Cannot believe DO’s statement about Catasetum; is sure C. tridentatum sets seeds in its native country.
CD erred on Acropera, but how is it naturally fertilised?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 18 Mar [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 59 (EH 88206042) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4430 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … sent CD a new supply of climbing plants (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 March 1864 ). …
- … book from Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [5 August 1864] and n. 6). …
- … J. D. Hooker, 23 [June 1863] ); Oliver probably discussed it in a missing portion of the letter from Daniel Oliver, [17 March 1864] , …
To Daniel Oliver 17 September [1864]
Summary
Glad that Oliver is to review John Scott’s paper in the Natural History Review (Scott 1864a). Apologises that his enclosed references (now missing) are so paltry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 17 Sept [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4615F |
To A. R. Wallace 28 [May 1864]
Summary
Response to ARW’s papers on Papilionidae ["On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71; abstract in Reader 3 (1864): 491–3],
and man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
The former is "really admirable" and will be influential.
The idea of the man paper is striking and new. Minor points of difference. Conjectures regarding racial differences; the possible correlation between complexion and constitution. His Query to Army surgeons to determine this point. Offers ARW his notes on man, which CD doubts he will be able to use.
On sexual selection in "our aristocracy"; primogeniture is a scheme for destroying natural selection.
[Letter incorrectly dated March by CD.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 28 [May 1864] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4510 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] and n. 12). See …
- … Lythrum salicaria ’ (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] and n. 16). Wallace sent …
- … islands of the Malayan Archipelago. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1864 and n. …
- … 3, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 [May 1864] and n. 12. …
To Daniel Oliver [22 July 1864]
Summary
Will DO observe whether leaf [of Nepenthes] with pitcher ever wound round a stick? CD’s plant is improving.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [22 July 1864] |
Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection); in September 2020 owned by ZHANG, Lun Xia (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4566 |
From Fritz Müller 5 November 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for the copy of Orchids and papers on Linum and Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 93–105; 106–31].
Intends to travel to the River Itajahy and will make observations on climbing plants. Is not sure whether Dalbergia is a winding plant.
CD has changed FM’s whole perception of nature.
CD has helped him to understand distribution of coastal flora.
The vegetation on Desterro is changing.
Louis Agassiz is seeking evidence against transmutation in the distribution of the fish in the Amazon.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 76–7. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929A |
From Maxwell Tylden Masters 19 September 1864
Summary
Explains several monstrous flowers sent by CD.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4617 |
To John Lubbock 21 December [1864]
Summary
The Copley medal. Sabine’s Presidential Address and Huxley’s response.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 Dec [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 60 (EH 88206504) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4721 |
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Scott, John | (13) |
Oliver, Daniel | (6) |
Wallace, A. R. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (201) |
Hooker, J. D. | (78) |
Oliver, Daniel | (12) |
Gray, Asa | (11) |
Lyell, Charles | (10) |