From Henry Holland [c. April 1862]
Summary
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3490 |
To Charles Lyell 1 April [1862]
Summary
Explains how melting of ice in Glen Spean could have successively freed two lower cols, thus establishing the water-levels that determined the two lower shelves in Glen Roy.
Plans to read a paper to the Linnean Society ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.275) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3491 |
To Octavian Blewitt 2 April [1862]
Summary
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
Date: | 2 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/16 1862 file 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3491F |
From George Busk 1 April 1862
Summary
E. A. Parkes informs him there will be difficulty about the Army returns [on CD’s Query to Army surgeons, see Freeman, Works of Charles Darwin, p. 111] owing to official obstructions by Director General. [Enclosed letter from Parkes to GB says that the Director General does not think that Army surgeons could be asked to collect information systematically for CD, but perhaps some informal, voluntary arrangement could be made.]
Author: | George Busk |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 377, DAR 174.1: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3492 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 April 1862]
Summary
Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.
How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3495 |
From Alfred Russel Wallace 7 April 1862
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3496 |
From Edward Newman 6 April 1862
Summary
Has several specimens illustrating dimorphism in insects that he would be happy to leave where CD could examine them.
Discusses the ant genera Formica and Atta, and the origin of the two forms of workers commonly found in the species of these genera.
Author: | Edward Newman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 172.2: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3497 |
From Edmund Alexander Parkes 8 April 1862
Summary
Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and suggests it be limited to malaria, yellow fever, and dysentery.
Author: | Edmund Alexander Parkes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 174.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3498 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 [April 1862]
Summary
On Vanilla.
Asks JDH to observe whether he has both long- and short-styled form of Menyanthes
and whether he has "Saxifrages with long hairs glandular at the tip".
The Linnean Society session made him vomit all night. Fears he must give up trying to read papers or speak. "It is a horrid bore. I can do nothing like other people."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3500 |
To John Murray 9 April [1862]
Summary
JM is a bold man to print 1500 copies [of Orchids].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 116–117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3501 |
From Daniel Oliver 10 April 1862
Summary
Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.
Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Observations on Campanula dimorphism.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3502 |
To Andrew Murray 10 April [1862]
Summary
Did CD lend AM a pamphlet on cave insects by S. Scudder ["On the genus Raphidophora", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8 (1861–2): 6–14]? CD much wants it and remembers lending it to someone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Date: | 10 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3503 |
To Daniel Oliver 12 [April 1862]
Summary
DO’s observations on polymorphism in Primula and Campanula. CD recognises three classes of dimorphism, as in Primula, Thymus, and Campanula and violets.
DO’s Campanula paper and Royal Institution lecture [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 431–3].
CD’s interest in Fumariaceae from A. Gray’s comments on "selfing".
Bees bite holes in flowers when same species grows in high density.
Organisation of CD’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 12 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 1 (EH 88205985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3504 |
From Andrew Murray 12 April 1862
Summary
AM did not borrow a Samuel Scudder pamphlet from CD; in fact he was not aware of its existence.
Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.2: 325 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3505 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 April 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3506 |
To H. W. Bates 16 April [1862]
Summary
Invitation to visit; Hooker will be present. Gives directions to Down. Also plans to invite John Lubbock over for an evening.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 16 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3507 |
To C. E. Brown-Séquard 16 April [1862]
Summary
French translation of 3d edition of Origin has been greatly delayed.
Very pleased with CEB-S’s intent to write a review and with his near agreement. CD believes that so many really good judges concur with him in the main that his views will ultimately prevail. Continental reviews have been more positive than British ones. Édouard Claparède’s ["M. Darwin et sa théorie de la formation des espèces", Rev. Ger. 16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63] is too favourable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
Date: | 16 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3508 |
From John Lubbock 17 April 1862
Summary
JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3510 |
From H. W. Bates [17 April 1862]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3511 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 [April 1862]
Summary
Requests Oxalis acetosella, which he suspects is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 56 (EH 88206039) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3512 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Parkes, E. A. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Blewitt, Octavian | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Oliver, Daniel | (7) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Murray, Andrew | (2) |
Parkes, E. A. | (2) |
Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
Blewitt, Octavian | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Brown-Séquard, C. É. | (1) |
Busk, George | (1) |
Claparède, Edouard | (1) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Newman, Edward | (1) |
Seemann, B. C. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |