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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
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
Summary
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
Summary
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
Summary
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]
Summary
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
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
Summary
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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Ansted, D. T. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (2) |
Anderson, Isaac | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Ansted, D. T. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (2) |
Anderson, Isaac | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Rawson, Arthur | (2) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Anderson, James (c) | (1) |
Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
Balfour, J. H. | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Clarke, R. T. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Crüger, Hermann | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Dixon, W. H. | (1) |
Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
Flower, W. H. | (1) |
King, P. G. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |