To ? 28 April [1863?]
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Apr [1863?] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866 |
To Athenæum 18 April [1863]
Summary
Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.
Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4108 |
To Charles Turner [1 April – 16 June 1863?]
Summary
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Turner |
Date: | [1 Apr – 16 June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3886 |
To Arthur Rawson 2 April [1863]
Summary
Discusses unusual primula flowers and asks for details of Rawson’s experiments with gladioli. Asks for loan of Cypripedium but admits he will probably mutilate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Rawson |
Date: | 2 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (10 December 2013); Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Autumn 2017 lot 2184) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4072F |
To John Lubbock 5 April [1863]
Summary
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 5 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4075 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 6 April [1863]
Summary
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 6 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4076 |
To H. W. Bates 9 April [1863]
Summary
Thanks HWB for his book [Naturalist on the river Amazons]. Feels sure it will often be alluded to in other works.
Asa Gray is fascinated by the "Butterfly paper" ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 9 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4080 |
To Daniel Oliver [12 April 1863]
Summary
Working on monstrous Primula. Is ovule anatropous as Asa Gray says, or amphitropous? Does he know natural path of pollen tubes in Primula. Can the tube enter the ovule by the chalaza?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [12 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 46 (EH 88206029) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4083 |
To John Scott 12 April [1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to publish on sterility of orchids and to experiment on Passiflora.
Doubted Hooker’s poppy case.
Describes case of primrose with three pistils: when pulled apart allowed pollen to be placed directly on ovules. This supports JS’s explanation of H. Crüger’s case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 12 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B59, B77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4084 |
To William Henry Flower 13 April [1863]
Summary
Asks WHF to obtain photographs of skull of ox for J. L. A. Quatrefages de Bréau.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 13 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4090 |
To M. T. Masters [8–13 April 1863]
Summary
Sends two spikes of Corydalis.
Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [8–13 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4091 |
To Armand de Quatrefages [14 April 1863]
Summary
The niata is a very good case because the race is well established and must originate in South America. There is a description of the head by [Richard] Owen in the Descriptive catalogue of the osteological collection of the College of Surgeons.
Has observed modifications in the skeletons of rabbits, ducks, poultry, and pigeons. There is an extract about modifications in pigeons in the first chapter of Origin. Encloses a woodcut of crested or polish fowls; there is a change in the brain as well as in the exterior bones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | [14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 4 (1863): 378–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094F |
To Daniel Oliver [after 14 April 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [after 14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4095 |
To D. T. Ansted 15 April 1863
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
Date: | 15 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4099 |
To George Bentham 15 April [1863]
Summary
Sends GB a selection of reviews of the Origin from his collection of about 90, with his opinion of some of them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 15 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4100 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1863]
Summary
Likes JDH’s review of Alphonse de Candolle [Mémoires et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)].
Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. What led to the question?", Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe.
CD has written a letter to the Athenæum "to say, under the cloak of attacking Heterogeny, a word in my own defence" [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Bates’s Travels [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4103 |
To Charles Lyell 18 April [1863]
Summary
Describes a letter he has written to the Athenæum in which he mentions CL’s views on species modification ["Doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Comments on criticism of Lyell’s book [Antiquity] by Falconer and others.
Mentions his eczema.
Invites the Lyells to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.294) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4106 |
To H. W. Bates 18 April [1863]
Summary
Has finished vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons]. CD praises book as "best ever published in England".
The review in the Athenæum was cold, as always, and insolent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4107 |
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
To H. B. Dobell 21 April [1863]
Summary
CD thinks HBD’s tables would be a considerable gain because "the importance of hereditary transmission can hardly be exaggerated from every point of view". Makes suggestions.
Asks him to send any remarkable cases of inheritance to him and, as well, any case of regrowth of amputated additional digit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 21 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 6 (photocopy); Legends (dealers) (catalogue 2, 1990) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4117 |
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Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |