To William Pamplin 4 [July 1862]
Summary
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Pamplin |
Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
Classmark: | Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13871 |
To John St Barbe [before 3 July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Union Bank |
Date: | [before 3 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3358 |
To John St Barbe [16 July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John St Barbe |
Date: | [16 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 3r |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3360 |
From Armand de Quatrefages [after 11 July 1862]
Summary
Their views on transformism differ a great deal, as CD says, but perhaps not as much as CD thinks. Sending his [Physiologie comparée: métamorphoses de l’homme et des animaux (1862)].
Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3524 |
To W. E. Darwin [24 July 1862]
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [24 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3632 |
To Asa Gray 1 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for notes on Cypripedium and Platanthera hookeri, which is really beautiful and quite a new case.
His son, George, has been observing the insect fertilisation of orchids.
CD has been crossing peloric flowers of Pelargonium, but doubts he will get good results with respect to sterility of hybrids.
Rhexia glandulosa does not appear to be dimorphic. Lythrum is trimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3634 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 July [1862]
Summary
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3635 |
From John Murray [1 July – 23 August 1862]
Summary
Account of Orchids.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 July – 23 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 525 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3635F |
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1862
Summary
Will see to Masdevallia and Bonatea.
Domestic matters.
Lyell’s health.
CD’s eczema.
Hopes CD will solve the mystery of Melastoma.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3636 |
From Asa Gray 2–3 July 1862
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.
Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.
Reports the recent events of the Civil War.
[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2–3 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3637 |
From E. A. Darwin 2 July [1862]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3638 |
From Frederick Currey 3 July 1862
Summary
G. B. Wollaston [in "British Orchideae", Phytologist n.s. 1 (1855–6): 225–7] says Ophrys arachnites is a hybrid, which contradicts CD, who says it is a new species.
Author: | Frederick Currey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3639 |
To George Maw 3 July [1862]
Summary
Thinks GM’s Pelargonium is a case of true correlated characters. Feels secondary sexual characters are only accidental correlations; does not see the same necessity for close simultaneous development of certain characters as GM does.
Will forward a copy of his Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 3 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3640 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 3 July [1862]
Summary
Can AdeQ verify the statement that the moths of the several races of the common silkworm are very similar?
When the female moth comes out of the cocoon, are her wings less developed than those of a male moth at the same stage?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 3 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 68–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3640F |
To W. E. Darwin 4 [July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3641 |
From William Alexander Wooler 5 July 1862
Summary
Believes, contrary to CD, that when anthers arise from petals the development of the pollen is affected by the amputation of the petal.
Believes interbreeding can be used to combine desirable characters, but that, carried beyond narrow limits, it leads to deterioration of the breed.
Has been experimenting on crossing polyanthus.
Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3642 |
From Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny 5 July 1862
Summary
Sends concluding part of his recent lecture on orchids so CD may see how his inquiries were represented in one of the great centres of clerical influence.
Asks whether insects are attracted to one species of orchids more than another.
Author: | Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3643 |
From George Maw 7 July 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for sending Orchids.
Reports observations by his uncle relating to the successful breeding of a male mule with a horse.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3644 |
From W. E. Darwin 8 July [1862]
Summary
WED reports on studying the pollen of grass and Valerian through his microscope.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3644F |
To M. T. Masters 8 July [1862]
Summary
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3645 |
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Oxenden, G. C. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
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Masters, M. T. | (2) |
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Gray, Asa | (8) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (4) |
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Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
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Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Currey, Frederick | (1) |
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