From H. W. Bates [before 25 September 1861]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 63 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3240 |
From George Rolleston 1 September 1861
Summary
The embryology of the vertebrate nervous system may be an exception to the law of inheritance at corresponding ages.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3241 |
From T. F. Jamieson 3 September 1861
Summary
Observations from a fortnight in Lochaber. Found the entrance to Loch Treig to present the clearest evidence of intense glacial action. States, in contradiction of David Milne-Home, that there is glacial scoring in Glen Spean, as Louis Agassiz described, and moraine around the mouth of Loch Treig. There is little sign of water erosion on the rocks crossed by the lines in Glen Roy. Believes the smoothed rocks at the eastern end of Loch Laggan are due to flow from the lake and not tidal action. The lines in Glen Roy are too neat for a lake shore subject to tides. Given the glacial scoring sweeping round from Glen Spean into Glen Treig, and all the boulders, TFJ is astonished that anyone could deny that there had been glaciers there. [See 3247.]
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/A3/7: 75–92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3242A |
To J. O. Westwood 4 September [1861]
Summary
Is certain he never had Morren’s paper from JOW or heard of it before JOW’s note; will write to Gardeners’ Chronicle about it [see 3252].
Thanks for the two Sphinx moths; unfortunately the pollen-masses do not belong to orchids but to Asclepias.
Asks whether R. B. Todd’s Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology [1835–59] has an article on fertilisation of orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Date: | 4 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3243 |
To Charles Hardy? 4 September [1861]
Summary
Has modified the statements about bees visiting clover for honey in 3d ed. of Origin. Can correspondent find out if clover in Lowestoft district was a second crop?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Hardy |
Date: | 4 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Dawsons of Pall Mall (dealers) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3244 |
To George Rolleston 5 September [1861]
Summary
GR’s letter is a gold-mine.
Pleased to have Pierre Gratiolet’s comment on the embryology of greatly modified organs
and GR’s valuable cases of analogous variation.
Doubts craniologists, but recounts his father’s opinion that the shape of CD’s head was altered when he returned from the Beagle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 5 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3245 |
To Charles Lyell 6 September [1861]
Summary
Sends an enclosure [a letter from T. F. Jamieson, see 3247].
"I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.262) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3246 |
To T. F. Jamieson 6 September [1861]
Summary
Has read TFJ’s letter on Glen Roy. His arguments seem conclusive. CD gives up the ghost. "My paper is one long gigantic blunder." How rash it is "to argue that because a case is not one thing it must be some second thing which happens to be known to the writer".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Date: | 6 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS. 5406, ff. 167–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3247 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3248 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 10 September 1861]
Summary
Requests the names of the parents of Gladiolus gandavensis and six varieties for the purpose of determining their probable origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 10 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 453 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3248A |
To Charles Lyell 10 September [1861]
Summary
Absence of organic remains in many deposits.
Discusses presence of marine animals near icebergs.
Comments on former geological state of England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.263) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3249 |
To John Murray 10 September [1861]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin [3d ed.] be sent to Mlle Clémence-Auguste Royer; she has arranged with a publisher for a French translation.
Origin is exciting much attention in Germany.
Surprised to receive a Dutch translation.
Has never seen an advertisement [of 3d ed.], which is a pity. Hopes "Bishop of Oxford & Co." have not made JM sorry he published it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 10 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 104–105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3250 |
To Daniel Oliver 11 September [1861]
Summary
Has put Drosera off while amusing himself with Primula and orchids.
Dionaea is prettily adapted to weight detection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 11 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 30, 66 (EH 88206013, EH 88206049) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3251 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 14 September 1861]
Summary
Requests orchid specimens from Arethuseae division for his investigation of the many contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insect agency.
Asks whether Charles Morren has published on the fertilisation of orchids by insect agency.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 14 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 14 September 1861, p. 831 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3252 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 14 September 1861]
Summary
Two correspondents report fertilising Vinca rosea by imitating the action of an insect inserting its proboscis. Another says his Vinca rosea seed profusely without artificial fertilisation. CD asks what might explain the difference in results. In the latter instance, are the plants kept in a greenhouse with windows left open, so that moths could get access at night?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 14 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 14 September 1861, pp. 831–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3253 |
To Charles Lyell [15 September 1861]
Summary
Discusses CL’s correspondence with T. F. Jamieson. Comments on Jamieson’s theory that the roads of Glen Roy were formed by a glacial lake. Discusses elevation of Scotland during the glacial period.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [15 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.264) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3254 |
To Asa Gray 16 September [1861]
Summary
Is interested in cases of dimorphism like Primula. Discusses Primula and Linum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3255 |
To Asa Gray 17 September [1861]
Summary
U. S. politics and relations with England.
Wants examples of dimorphism similar to Primula.
Structure and function of Spiranthes flower.
Observations and experiments on Drosera.
CD’s views on design.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 17 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3256 |
To Henry Fawcett 18 September [1861]
Summary
Comments on MS of HF’s address ["On the method of Mr Darwin in his treatise on the origin of species", Rep. BAAS (1861) pt 2: 141–3]. "How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service."
Describes his health.
The response to his views in Germany, Holland, and Russia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
Date: | 18 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3257 |
From H. C. Watson 20 September 1861
Summary
The Primula experiments of J. Sidebotham; HCW’s distrust of the results [see J. Sidebotham, "Specific identity of the cowslip and the primrose", Phytologist 3 (1849): 703–5].
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3258 |
letter | (33) |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (2) |
Rolleston, George | (2) |
Westwood, J. O. | (2) |
Fawcett, Henry | (1) |
Greene, J. R. | (1) |
Hardy, Charles | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
More, A. G. | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Watson, H. C. | (1) |