From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2027 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin 21 [January 1863]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3399 |
From George Howard Darwin [before 11 May 1863]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 51: 6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3887 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1863]
Summary
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3892 |
From Daniel Oliver [26 March 1863]
Summary
Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894 |
From W. E. Darwin [28 June 1863?]
Summary
Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 June 1863?] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894F |
From Hugh Falconer 3 January [1863]
Summary
Describes an astounding "sort of mis-begotten-bird-creature", the Archaeopteryx, a grand Darwinian case.
His elephant paper is out in Natural History Review [(1863): 43–114].
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3899 |
From J. D. Hooker 6 January 1863
Summary
Falconer’s elephant paper.
Owen’s conduct.
Falconer’s view of CD’s theory: independence of natural selection and variation.
JDH on Tocqueville,
the principles of the Origin,
and the evils of American democracy.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 88–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3902 |
From John Lubbock 6 January [1863]
Summary
Is pleased by CD’s praise of his article.
Hugh Falconer’s is certainly interesting.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3903 |
From John Scott 6 January 1863
Summary
Sends Primula scotica and P. farinosa.
So far cannot fertilise Gongora atropurpurea although it is similar to Acropera luteola.
Experimenting on intergeneric hybrids to test CD’s view that sterility is not a special endowment.
Scott’s personal history.
Acropera capsule grows.
Plans for experiments CD has suggested on Primula, peloric Antirrhinum, and Verbascum.
Asks about Gärtner’s experiments on maize.
Aware of Anderson-Henry’s failures.
Through kindness of J. H. Balfour and James McNab, enjoys facilities for research. JS is in charge of the propagating department. Balfour almost engaged him to be superintendent of the Madras Horticultural Garden.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 81, 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3904 |
From Hugh Falconer 8 January [1863]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3908 |
From Hugh Falconer 9 January 1863
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3909 |
From George Varenne Reed 12 January 1863
Summary
Sorry CD considers Horace Darwin unfit for school.
Author: | George Varenne Reed |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3912 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 14 January [1863]
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3915 |
From J. P. Thom 14 January 1863
Summary
Thanks for a gift of £20.
Author: | John Pringle Thom |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3916 |
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 |
From George Bentham 16 January 1863
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3920 |
From John Scott 16 January 1863
Summary
Experiments to cut Laelia stigma from rostellum and then to fertilise rostellum are baffled by "a latent instinctive power". Somehow the pollen-tubes find their way to the style.
Suggests CD study variation in ferns.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3921 |
From Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure 17 January 1863
Summary
His work on Mexico has some geology, which might interest CD.
He is currently at work on the "filiation des genres des espèces et des moeurs des guepes [hornets]".
Author: | Henri Louis Frédéric (Henri) de Saussure |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3923 |
From H. W. Bates 17 January [1863]
Summary
Has sent copy of his paper to Asa Gray.
Melastomad flowers are strikingly neglected by pollinators.
Murray has ordered many illustrations for HWB’s Naturalist on the river Amazons.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 67 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3925 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (32) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Gray, Asa | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
Falconer, Hugh | (10) |