To George Bentham 17 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 17 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3186 |
To A. G. More 17 June [1861]
Summary
Would be grateful for observations on orchids.
Believes Spiranthes visited by moths. Asks AGM to repeat experiment on Spiranthes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 17 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3187 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 18 June 1861]
Summary
CD, commenting on a case of peloric flowering in Auricula, urges readers to send in their observations on whether flowers nearest the axis tend to differ from others on the plant. Such a law of variation would be worth discovering.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 18 June 1861] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3188 |
To Frederick Smith 19 June [1861]
Summary
Discusses pollen-masses found on various insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick Smith |
| Date: | 19 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.255) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3189 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861]
Summary
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3190 |
To George Gordon 22 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks GG for his efforts. Corallorhiza would be most valuable.
Leaves for Torquay on 1 July.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gordon |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3191 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1861]
Summary
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3192 |
To George Bentham 22 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].
Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3193 |
From Hugh Falconer 23 June 1861
Summary
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194 |
To Henry Bence Jones 23 June [1861]
Summary
Noting that he is not an M.D., he would be much gratified should the University of Breslau think fit to honour him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Bence Jones |
| Date: | 23 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Walter R. Benjamin Autographs (dealer) (1992) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194A |
To John Lubbock 24 June [1861]
Summary
There have been delays, but William Darwin’s banking position is nearly settled.
Is going to Torquay, where he will write up his work on orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 24 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40d (EH 88206453) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3195 |
To Hugh Falconer 24 [June 1861]
Summary
Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.
Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 24 [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3196 |
From Robert Colgate 25 June 1861
Summary
Notes observations on the spread of bees in New Zealand and their importance as pollinators of clover and other introduced plants.
| Author: | Robert Colgate |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76 (ser. 2): 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3197 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 June [1861]
Summary
Sends MS on fowls for WBT’s inspection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4533 |
From Emma Darwin [June 1861]
Summary
Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [June 1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3169 |
| letter | (35) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Colgate, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Lubbock, John | (4) |
| More, A. G. | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Lubbock, John | (4) |
| More, A. G. | (3) |
| Bentham, George | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Gordon, George (b) | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Unidentified | (2) |
| Bence Jones, Henry | (1) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Colgate, Robert | (1) |
| Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
| Malden, B. S. | (1) |
| Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| The Field | (1) |
| Walford, Edward | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
