To John Murray 4 April [1865]
Summary
Discusses proposed publication of Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 434 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3494 |
To Asa Gray 19 April [1865]
Summary
Congratulates AG on the "grand news of Richmond".
Still interested in dimorphism and would welcome new cases.
Working on Variation
and correcting proofs of Climbing plants.
Would like seed of AG’s dimorphic Plantago.
Cannot understand how the wind could fertilise reciprocally dimorphic flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4467 |
To E. P. Wright 3 April [1865]
Summary
Did not know that the Arnee had been called a Bubalus.
Thanks for information about shrimps.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Perceval Wright |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Malmö Museer (MM 031993) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4802F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 April [1865]
Summary
Instructions for Luke Wells about woodcuts for Variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4804 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 April [1865]
Summary
Asks to borrow Botanische Zeitung (1860) with Friedrich Alefeld on Pisum [pp. 204–5].
JDH should ask George Busk whether he knows a better doctor than William Jenner "for giving life to a worn out poor devil".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4805 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [7 April 1865]
Summary
Fowl MS has arrived safely.
Sends pigeon MS for WBT’s perusal.
Further instructions for Luke Wells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4806 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [April 1865]
Summary
Roguery at Kew.
Who wrote reviews of Linnean Society’s Transactions, of Planchon, and of subspecies in Natural History Review [Apr 1865]?
Is rereading Origin for second French edition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 [Apr 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4809 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 April [1865]
Summary
Strelitzia has arrived
but no books or bottles from G. H. K. Thwaites.
Hopes his own judgment about Origin is as good as Hooker’s about his own papers.
Strelitzia’s neat mechanism for exposing pollen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 266 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813 |
To John Murray 14 April [1865]
Summary
Thanks for advertisement, and pleased Murray likes title (of Variation).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (2005, item 20910) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4813F |
To J. D. Hooker 17 April [1865]
Summary
On Lubbock’s plans.
Visited by Antoine Auguste Laugel.
Guessed right on Bentham’s "Planchon".
Much struck by Thomson’s article on nomenclature [see 4812]; importance of this subject.
Sorry best scientists read so little; few read any long papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Apr [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 265 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4814 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Wright, E. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
