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From Richard Trevor Clarke   [April? 1863]

Summary

Encloses strawberry blossoms used in his crossing experiments.

Author:  Richard Trevor Clarke
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [Apr? 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 161: 164
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4070

From James Anderson   1 April 1863

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Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].

Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.

Author:  James Anderson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 159: 59
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4071

From Arthur Rawson   1 April [1863]

Summary

Conducted crosses on Gladiolus varieties exactly according to CD’s letter. Flowers of same variety are self-sterile, whether from the same plant or not.

Author:  Arthur Rawson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 176: 22
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4072

From John Scott   [1–11] April [1863]

Summary

Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".

Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.

Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.

Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1–11] Apr [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4073

From Arthur Rawson   [6 April 1863]

Summary

Provides evidence of self-sterility in Gladiolus.

Has observed three seed-leaves in some Dianthus seedlings.

Cannot cross, or grow from seed, Dielytra spectabilis.

Author:  Arthur Rawson
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [6 Apr 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 176: 23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4074

From John Lubbock   7 April 1863

Summary

JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".

Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 170: 39
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4077

From Edward Blyth   7 April 1863

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Has seen some curious hybrid ducks and geese of Bartlett’s. Bartlett will do experiments suggested by CD when he has time.

Author:  Edward Blyth
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 205
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4078

From H. W. Bates   8 April 1863

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Preparations under way to move to London account for delay in thanking CD for his review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].

His book is finished, and he is sending a copy to CD; owing to the great expense few copies will be sent to reviewers.

Author:  Henry Walter Bates
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 74
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4079

From Asa Gray   11 April 1863

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The war is nearly finished, "rebeldom is ""gone up"" ".

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 165: 132
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4081

From John Scott   [after 12] April [1863]

Summary

Thanks for CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Has not published much because he would be ignored as a gardener; hence he is looking for a foreign appointment.

Has prepared orchid sterility paper at CD’s suggestion [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [after 12] Apr [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 87
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4087

From David Thomas Ansted   13 April 1863

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Is ready to make some arrangement to repay CD’s bond. Has written to F. Ransome to help arrange repayment and wants CD to write his opinion of a fair scheme.

Author:  David Thomas Ansted
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 159: 74
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4088

From Asa Gray   13 April 1863

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Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.

AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 165: 133
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4089

From M. T. Masters   14 April 1863

Summary

Thanks CD for specimens which show that an abnormality in one genus is normal in another, which bears on CD’s views on descent.

Author:  Maxwell Tylden Masters
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 171: 69
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4092

From Daniel Oliver   14 April 1863

Summary

The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 173: 21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4093

From Robert Swinhoe   14 April 1863

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Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]

Author:  Robert Swinhoe
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 84.1: 18–19
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4094

From George Bentham   [c. 14 April 1863]

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Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.

Author:  George Bentham
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 14 Apr 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 155
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4096

From W. H. Flower   15 April 1863

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Discusses having skull photographed and a cast made.

Author:  William Henry Flower
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 164: 137
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4101

From William Hepworth Dixon   16 April 1863

Summary

Thinks CD’s letter ["The doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80] will appear "with a clearer field and to better effect" if delayed a week, since next issue [of Athenæum] has Lyell’s reply to Hugh Falconer, and W. B. Carpenter’s report on the Abbéville jaw.

Author:  William Hepworth Dixon
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 162: 186
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4102

From D. T. Ansted   17 April 1863

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Was unable to see Ransome [to find out whether DTA’s shares in the patent had earned any income so he could repay CD] but believes Ransome’s work will be profitable. Bemoans his own constant financial misfortune and asks CD to give up the deed of his loan to him, on the promise that if the shares ever yield any income, CD will be paid.

Author:  David Thomas Ansted
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 159: 75
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4104

From P. G. King   19 April 1863

Summary

CD’s photograph evokes PGK’s reminiscence of CD in the Beagle.

Author:  Philip Gidley King
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 169: 27
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4109
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