From Hugh Falconer 18 January [1863]
Summary
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3926 |
From Thomas Rivers 21 January 1863
Summary
Sends some trees to CD.
Would be pleased to receive the copy of Origin offered by CD as gift.
Will give CD any tree or shrub he may want.
Refers to curious strawberry hybrids noticed in Journal of Horticulture [I. Anderson-Henry, "Crossing strawberries", J. Hortic. n.s. 4 (1863): 45–6].
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3933 |
From Daniel Oliver 22 January 1863
Summary
The number of "aquatic" flowers is reduced if one considers only those that expand under water.
Lecturing at Norwich.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3937 |
From Francis Boott 23 January 1863
Summary
His son wants CD’s opinion about a cub supposed by Frank Buckland to be progeny of a lioness and mastiff.
Lyell working at last proofs [of Antiquity of man]; he is scornful of Owen.
Author: | Francis Boott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3938 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1863
Summary
JDH delivers CD’s letter to C. V. Naudin.
Neither Naudin nor Decaisne appreciates Origin.
Discusses Naudin on physiological causes of species formation;
Decaisne on plant heredity.
JDH on Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3940 |
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 |
From Thomas Rivers 26 January 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin.
TR has often thought naturalists do not pay enough attention to the effect of site, soil, and climate on animals and plants and "hence has arisen the enormous number of so-called species".
His observations on people of different counties.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3946 |
From Friedrich Rolle 26 January 1863
Summary
Pleased that his book, Ch. Darwin’s Lehre [1863], has CD’s approval.
FR formerly a geologist, now a dealer in natural history objects.
Most active supporter of CD’s theory is Gustav Jäger in Vienna.
FR regards fossil Hipparion as a link between horse and pachyderms.
Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3947 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 26 January 1863]
Summary
Does not believe in regeneration of monstrous toe.
Pigeon and poultry experiments.
Peculiar pigeon at Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 26 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3949 |
From Asa Gray 27 January 1863
Summary
Discusses the ill-will between England and U. S.
Considers the bases for deciding which plant species are "high" and which "low".
Comments on Alphonse de Candolle’s paper on oaks ["Étude sur l’espèce", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 59–110].
Encloses S. H. Scudder’s letter on Lepidoptera and fertilisation of orchids which identifies a butterfly with Platanthera pollinia adhering to it. Jokingly applies natural selection to butterflies acted on by orchid pollinia.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 129, 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3950 |
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 28 January 1863
Summary
Grateful for CD’s commendation of his Glen Roy paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–59].
Reading Justus Liebig [trans. William Gregory, Animal chemistry or organic chemistry (1842)] has suggested that pattern of evolutionary succession might depend on differential need for soil minerals.
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3952 |
From Thomas Rivers 30 January 1863
Summary
Asks CD’s views on TR’s observations that leaves breathe from their under-surfaces.
Peach-trees in hothouses cannot be kept in health unless fresh air is admitted so as to make its way under the leaves.
Continues his observations on the effect of environment on men – those migrating to America gradually assuming Indian-like features.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3955 |
From Henry Holland [10 February 1863]
Summary
Cites [C. F.?] Burdach as the source of a note on atavism in alternate generations.
Wants to talk to CD about inheritance.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3959 |
From F. T. Buckland [before 1 February 1863]
Summary
Invites CD to visit offices of the Field; editor wishes CD to place natural history inquiries there.
Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 356 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3960 |
From Thomas Rivers [3 February 1863]
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3965 |
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 Bartholomew James Sulivan 4 February [1863]
Summary
Thinks he may be appointed Commodore commanding the Squadron on the west coast of S. America. Wishes to leave England for his health’s sake.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3968 |
From J. D. Dana 5 February 1863
Summary
Hopes CD has received a copy of his [Manual of] Geology [1862]; justifies his assertion that geology provides no evidence to support the view that life has evolved through a method of development from species to species.
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3969 |
From W. D. Fox 6 February [1863]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3970 |
From James Paget 7 February 1863
Summary
Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3971 |
letter | (264) |
Hooker, J. D. | (32) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Gray, Asa | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
Falconer, Hugh | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (264) |
Hooker, J. D. | (32) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Gray, Asa | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |