From Roland Trimen 10 February 1868
Summary
Sends prospectus of forthcoming work by his brother [Henry Trimen] and W. T. Thiselton-Dyer [Flora of Middlesex (1869)]. Hopes CD will subscribe.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 186, DAR 84.1: 135b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5857 |
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 |
To Roland Trimen 12 February [1868]
Summary
Is interested in the relative numbers of males and females of all animals; wants any instances of males, or females, being in excess.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 12 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5867 |
From Henry Trimen 10 May 1864
Summary
Cannot give information about the box of Oxalis bulbs that his brother [Roland Trimen] has forwarded to CD.
Author: | Henry Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4491 |
To Roland Trimen 13 May 1864
Summary
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 13 May 1864 |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4493 |
To Editor of the Natural History Review [December? 1864]
Summary
Forwards a communication from A. Fonblanque for possible publication in Natural History Review. [See "Notice of mule breeding", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 5 (1865): 147–8.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Natural History Review |
Date: | [Dec? 1864] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.286a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4686 |
From Roland Trimen 16 March 1863
Summary
RT has sent his observations on orchids to CD. Has found only one case of an insect with a pollinium adhering to it.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 180, DAR 178: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4046 |
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 Roland Trimen 25 November [1863]
Summary
CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.
Thanks RT for orchid specimen.
Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.
Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.
Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 25 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4347 |
To J. P. M. Weale 23 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for information on expression.
Poor progress of civilisation in South Africa. CD’s doubts and fears about democracy.
JPMW’s views on glaciation in S. Africa will discredit him unless supported by clearest evidence.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 23 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5795 |
Trimen, Roland. 1887–9. South-African butterflies: a monograph of the extra-tropical species. With the assistance of James Henry Bowker. 3 vols. London: Trübner.
To Roland Trimen 27 August [1863]
Summary
Discusses methods of pollination in orchids.
Thinks RT should investigate Physianthus to see if it requires insect aid for fertilisation as the Asclepiadaceae do.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 27 Aug [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4279 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 ; Trimen had said that he would collect seeds of dimorphic species of Oxalis for CD. CD had been investigating dimorphism in species of Oxalis since 1861 (see Correspondence vols. 9 and 10). ‘ …
- … Roland Trimen, 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 . In his letter of 16, 17, and 19 July 1863 , Trimen remarked that he had verified CD’s explanation of pollination in this orchid genus. CD described pollination in Cypripedium in Orchids , pp. 270–6, where he hypothesised that the pollinating insect would insert its proboscis at the base of the labellum directly over an anther. See Correspondence vol. 10, …
To Roland Trimen 23 May [1863]
Summary
CD has drawn up a paper from RT’s orchid notes on the fertilisation of Disa grandiflora for the Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 7 (1863): 144–7].
CD would welcome seeds of any Cape Oxalis for his investigation of dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 23 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4179 |
From James Philip Mansel Weale 9 January 1867
Summary
Sends paper on new species of Bonatea, to which he has given the name Darwinii.
Has now an extensive collection of insects.
Has discovered moths whose larva cases resemble perfectly the thorns of the Acacia horrida.
Has asked for the head of a Bushman murderer. Difficult to convince authorities of interest of science.
Author: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5355 |
To Edward Alfred Smith [before 30 June 1869]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Alfred Smith |
Date: | [before 30 June 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 35–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7051 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 [June 1863?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 [June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3367 |
From William Henry Harvey 3 February 1863
Summary
Is pleased that CD has [Roland] Trimen to collect specimens of Cape orchids. Suggests directions for securing dry specimens of what he draws.
Identifies Disa barbata and D. Cornuta of the Ophridiae.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3966F |
From T. H. Huxley 12 September 1868
Summary
BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 314 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6363 |
From Roland Trimen 26 March 1868
Summary
Coloration in moths.
Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 81: 76, DAR 85: B61–2, DAR 84.1: 134–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6055 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 10: pl. 21, fig. 4, which shows both sides of the wings of the moth, Gastrophora henricaria. In Descent 1: 397, CD cited Trimen for informing him about moths referred to in Guenée 1857 . Trimen had probably visited CD on 25 March 1868 (see letter to Roland …
- … 10 of Histoire naturelle des insectes: species général des lépidoptères , by Jean Baptiste Alphonse Boisduval and Achille Guenée. Paris: Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret. Kitching, Ian J. 1984. An historical review of the higher classification of the Noctuidae (Lepidoptera). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology series 49: 153–234. Trimen, Roland. …
To J. D. Hooker 24[–5] February [1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24[–5] Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4009 |
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