From Henry Holland [10 February 1863]
Summary
Cites [C. F.?] Burdach as the source of a note on atavism in alternate generations.
Wants to talk to CD about inheritance.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3959 |
From F. T. Buckland [before 1 February 1863]
Summary
Invites CD to visit offices of the Field; editor wishes CD to place natural history inquiries there.
| Author: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 356 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3960 |
From Thomas Rivers [3 February 1863]
Summary
His observations of "selection" in growth of seedling trees.
| Author: | Thomas Rivers |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 95 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3965 |
From William Henry Harvey 3 February 1863
Summary
Is pleased that CD has [Roland] Trimen to collect specimens of Cape orchids. Suggests directions for securing dry specimens of what he draws.
Identifies Disa barbata and D. Cornuta of the Ophridiae.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 78) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3966F |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 4 February [1863]
Summary
Thinks he may be appointed Commodore commanding the Squadron on the west coast of S. America. Wishes to leave England for his health’s sake.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 280 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3968 |
From J. D. Dana 5 February 1863
Summary
Hopes CD has received a copy of his [Manual of] Geology [1862]; justifies his assertion that geology provides no evidence to support the view that life has evolved through a method of development from species to species.
| Author: | James Dwight Dana |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3969 |
From W. D. Fox 6 February [1863]
Summary
Hopes they might meet as WDF has to come to town.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 176 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3970 |
From James Paget 7 February 1863
Summary
Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3971 |
From Camille Dareste 8 February 1863
Summary
Has read Origin with satisfaction. He had long ago come to consider the fixity of species as contrary to the facts, but could see no suitable alternative. The Origin has brought the light to guide him.
Sends CD a copy of his latest work ["Mémoire sur la production artificielle des monstruosités", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 243–76]. Hopes to explain a great number of anomalies by his experimental work on artificially produced monstrosities.
| Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3974 |
From B. J. Sulivan 10 February [1863]
Summary
Sends some tickets so that CD’s son might see [an unspecified] model.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 281 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3976 |
From Frederick Smith 11 February 1863
Summary
Has been unable to find a book [unspecified] wanted by CD.
| Author: | Frederick Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 196 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3978 |
From W. D. Fox [11 February 1863]
Summary
Plans to meet CD in town.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3979 |
From Ludolph Christian Treviranus 12 February 1863
Summary
Sends his paper ["Über Dichogamie nach C. C. Sprengel und Ch. Darwin", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 1–7, 9–16].
| Author: | Ludolph Christian Treviranus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 182 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3980 |
From Edwin Brown 14 February 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his second paper on mutability of race forms ["On the mutability of species", Proceedings of the Northern Entomological Society, 22 December 1862, pp.4–26].
On tactics of his opponents.
He and Bates have divided up Carabidae and Vanessa for studying relationship of forms.
| Author: | Edwin Brown |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 325 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3983 |
From S. P. Woodward 14 February 1863
Summary
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3984 |
From J. D. Hooker [16 February 1863]
Summary
British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 103–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3989 |
From Richard Frean 17 February 1863
Summary
Discusses his reading and understanding of Origin.
| Author: | Richard Frean |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | Launceston Library (State Library of Tasmania): Local Studies Collection – Manuscripts (Robert Norman Smith Diaries and correspondence LMSS 0020) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3993F |
From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 17 February 1863
Summary
Replies to CD’s letter: dimorphism common in Ceylon Rubiaceae. [See Forms of flowers, p. 286.]
| Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 109: A94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3994 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 18 February 1863
Summary
Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3995 |
From John Scott 18 February [1863]
Summary
Sends Acropera capsule for CD to dissect.
Will try to raise Acropera from seed (never done before in Britain) to examine its sexual forms.
Studying primroses, parthenogenesis, and reproduction of some cryptogams.
Received maize varieties from CD.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3997 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Maw, George | (2) |
| Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (2) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
| Brown, Edwin | (1) |
| Buckland, Frank | (1) |
| Crüger, Hermann | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Frean, Richard | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Paget, James | (1) |
| Powell, H. G. | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
| Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
| Smyth, H. G. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Treviranus, L. C. | (1) |
| Walker, Francis | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
| Wright, Thomas | (1) |
