To Athenæum 5 May [1863]
Summary
Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 5 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 9 May 1863, p. 617 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4142 |
From George Howard Darwin [before 11 May 1863]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 51: 6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3887 |
From J. D. Hooker [23–7 May 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23–7 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 141–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4134 |
From Charles William Crocker 1[–4] May 1863
Summary
Observes Plantago’s out-crossing mechanism.
Observations of style lengths of primroses and cowslips.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1[–4] May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: 28, DAR 161: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4135 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 May [1863]
Summary
Discusses dimorphism in linum and primula. Describes death of Mrs. Ashworth.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4135F |
To John Scott 2 May [1863]
Summary
Impressed by JS’s attempts to fertilise Gongora.
CD has large collection of notes on orchids, but does not know when he will publish on them again.
Asks for JS’s papers on sterility of individual orchids and on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 2 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B25–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4137 |
From H. W. Bates 2 May [1863]
Summary
His satisfaction at CD’s acceptance of book as well as total public acceptance. Murray has given him a £250 advance. His pleasure at Asa Gray’s words.
Next task will be to write on origin [of species] by segregation of local races.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4138 |
From W. E. Darwin 4 May [1863]
Summary
Sends observations on [Anchusa] plants from Isle of Wight.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4139 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 May 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [5 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4140 |
From William Alexander Wooler 5 May 1863
Summary
Encloses plants derived from a cowslip–polyanthus cross.
Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4141 |
From A. C. Ramsay 6 May 1863
Summary
Glad CD likes his Presidential Address to Geological Society [1863].
Will continue the practice [of discussing the break in succession of strata].
Has devised a diagram showing number of genera and species in each geological formation and the number that pass from formation to formation.
Describes the glaciated terrain of S. Wales.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4143 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 May 1863]
Summary
Falconer going to France in defence of his views.
On scientific squabbling.
Herschel’s theory of the earth.
Bates’s book.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 135–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4144 |
To Charles Lyell [7 May 1863]
Summary
Falconer’s letter [attacking CL, Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] is most unjust.
Regrets his letter [to Athenæum, on heterogeny] now criticised by Owen.
Comments on article by Samuel Haughton [On the form of cells made by wasps – with an appendix on the origin of species (1863)].
Mentions forthcoming reviews by Asa Gray [in Am. J. Sci.].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [7 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4145 |
From W. E. Darwin 8 May [1863]
Summary
Describes the structure of Corydalis and its arrangement for making pollen accessible to bees.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B188–90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4147 |
To George Snow 8 May 1863
Summary
Has pleasure in giving GS a testimonial for the office of surveyor for the Bromley District.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Snow |
Date: | 8 May 1863 |
Classmark: | Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (30 April – 2 May 2019, Lot 207) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4147F |
To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [9 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4148 |
From W. H. Flower 9 May 1863
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4149 |
From Charles Lyell 9 May 1863
Summary
Has been to Osborne on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria, who had lots of questions about CD.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 May 1863 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4149F |
To Thomas Rivers [9 May 1863]
Summary
Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.
Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | [9 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4150 |
To W. E. Darwin [10 May 1863]
Summary
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [10 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4151 |
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