To W. E. Darwin 29 [June 1863?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 [June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3367 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 10 June 1863]
Summary
Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 10 June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 151: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585F |
From W. E. Darwin [28 June 1863?]
Summary
Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 June 1863?] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894F |
To John Scott 20 [June 1863]
Summary
Glad to hear of JS’s orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
Suggests experiments on peloria.
Wants to count seed of the self-fertile red cowslip with equal stamens and styles.
Can send account of Hottonia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 20 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4114 |
From Asa Gray [10–16] June [1863]
Summary
Possible dimorphism in Phlox.
Knows of no U. S. law prohibiting marriage of cousins.
Gives references to papers on phyllotaxy.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10–16] June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4198 |
To P. H. Gosse 2 June [1863]
Summary
Can only conjecture that the problem occurs because the plant is not living in its natural conditions. Refers to what he said on Acropera [in Orchids]. Many plants under culture have sexual functions altered.
Asks PHG to look at bee Ophrys at Torquay to see if pollinia are ever removed. "It is my greatest puzzle."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 2 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4200 |
From J. T. Austen 3 June 1863
Summary
Does not think Dennen’s transaction was dishonest, but can see no satisfactory explanation for it; feels they must inform their fellow trustees.
Author: | John Thomas Austen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 131, 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4201 |
From John Scott [3 June 1863]
Summary
Thanks CD for influence used with Hooker to obtain a colonial position. Has offended J. H. Balfour by refusing the Darjeeling post and James McNab has become unfriendly, although his experiments do not detract from his garden work.
Will write Primula paper for Linnean Society as CD suggests.
His Darwinism is unpalatable at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
Describes results with non-dimorphic Primula species. Such cases do not accord with CD’s view that characters are slowly acquired.
Thanks for criticism of his writing style.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4202 |
From P. H. Gosse 4 June 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for his full reply. Sends additional facts derived from further observation, and a possible solution.
Author: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4203 |
From S. P. Woodward 5 June 1863
Summary
Has been writing a notice of H. W. Bates’s "capital book" [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
P. M. Duncan’s coral paper [J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 29 (1863): 406–58] strengthens SPW’s belief in the general diffusion of marine forms westward in the course of time.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4204 |
To P. H. Gosse 5 June [1863]
Summary
PHG’s hypothesis [regarding the self-fertilising mechanism of Stanhopea] may prove quite true, but CD suggests that PHG should observe another spike to make sure. CD will observe his Stanhopea if it flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Date: | 5 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Lieutenant-Colonel James Innes (private collection); sold at Christie‘s New York (dealers), 15 November 2011, lot 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4205 |
To John Scott 6 June [1863]
Summary
CD has spoken to Hooker of JS’s scientific merit, but has not suggested him for a colonial appointment.
Advice on style of writing.
Making extensive extract of JS’s orchid paper to communicate to Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 6 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B38–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4206 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1863]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".
John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.
Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4207 |
From G. H. K. Thwaites 8 June 1863
Summary
Dimorphism in Linum.
Situation in some of the lower Algae is analogous to that in phaenogams. In some, conjugation occurs between separate filaments, in others between cells of same filament.
Forwards a letter from S. O. Glenie enclosing specimens of Cassia fistula which show the two forms of the anthers.
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4208 |
From G. H. Darwin [9–15 June 1863]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9–15 June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4209 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 June 1863
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 149–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4210 |
From Booth Bacon 10 June 1863
Summary
On CD’s application to pay up at once his shares in the Penarth Harbour Dock and Railway; directors’ policy is to receive payment on only 50% of shares allotted.
Author: | Booth Bacon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4211 |
To John Scott 11 June [1863]
Summary
Hooker is impressed by JS’s MS on closing of stigma.
He will help find him a position. Hooker says if it is known that JS agrees with CD’s views, he will be unpopular in Edinburgh.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 11 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B22–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4212 |
From John Scott 16 June [1863]
Summary
Orchid paper in press.
Asks CD to correct MS of his Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4213 |
From J. T. Austen 17 June 1863
Summary
Gives G. Dennen’s explanation of why he attempted to lend Percival’s savings at 10%: to assist his brother then repaying a loan made at 10%. Meeting [of trustees] to be called soon.
Author: | John Thomas Austen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4214 |
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