From John Scott [26 July – 2 August 1863]
Summary
His orchid paper limited because he does not give illustrations from distinct genera.
Discusses the self- and cross-fertility of coloured primrose varieties. Thanks CD for tables of unpublished Primula work.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 July – 2 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4175 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4225 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 July 1863]
Summary
Sends "tendrilliferous" plants.
Plans visit to Down.
Naudin’s paper on tendrils [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 9 (1863): 180–203].
T. V. Wollaston snubs Bates’s work.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4226 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1863
Summary
Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.
C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4228 |
From Asa Gray 7 July 1863
Summary
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 127, 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4234 |
From L. E. Becker 8 July [1863]
Summary
Sends seeds of female Lychnis diurna; has found none in hermaphrodites.
On variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in this plant.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4235 |
From George Sigerson 8 July 1863
Summary
Discusses leaf form and phyllotaxy; clarifies a part of his paper ["On a protomorphic phyllotype", Atlantis (1863)].
Author: | George Sigerson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4236 |
From P. H. Gosse 13 July 1863
Summary
On CD’s request to observe bee Ophrys: PHG’s son collected 16 plants – of the 32 flowers, two had lost both pollinia, two had lost one each. He himself found two plants with pollinia adhering to the stigma.
Author: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4240 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 16 July 1863
Summary
He and L. C. Treviranus have repeated many of CD’s orchid observations with the same results. Sends his paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45].
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4242 |
From Roland Trimen 16, 17, and 19 July 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for two letters and his portrait.
CD’s book [Orchids] opened up terra incognita for him.
His work on S. African butterflies continues.
Reports on a moth that punctures peach skins.
Interesting that thoughtful naturalists are forced to admit mutability of species.
Some notes on Oxalis.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16, 17 and 19 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 13–16d, DAR 142: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4243 |
From Daniel Oliver 20 July 1863
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper is unsuitable for the Natural History Review.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4247 |
From Asa Gray 21 July 1863
Summary
Gives some observations on Drosera.
Comments on Richard Owen’s "transmutation theory" in his aye-aye paper [Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 5 (1866): 33–101].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 128, 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4248 |
From Julius von Haast 21 July [– 7? August] 1863
Summary
In a forthcoming paper JvH will show geological age of the world to be "incalculable" and will confirm CD’s theory that "the old system of chronological sequence of formations all over the world must be abandoned in a great degree".
Predicts the links between species, genera, and classes will be found.
CD elected an Honorary Member [of Philosophical Institute of Canterbury].
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July [– 7? Aug] 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 4, 6; Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (G304) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4249 |
From W. E. Darwin 23 July [1863]
Summary
Could not find Anchusa but will go out and find some.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4251F |
From John Scott 23 July [1863]
Summary
Discusses heterostyly in Hottonia.
Criticises L. C. Treviranus’ statements on Primula longiflora’s having short-styled form.
Describes his results with crossing different coloured primroses. Will let CD, when he reads his paper, decide whether his finding white and red varieties perfectly sterile when crossed, yet fertile inter se, ought to be published.
Difficulty in getting his orchid paper published in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4252 |
From Robert Swinhoe 29 July 1863
Summary
Describes the similarity in plumage changes between Japanese and Chinese birds on the one hand and British and continental birds on the other. Suggests the changes are due to the warm gulf streams around both islands.
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 176–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4257 |
From L. E. Becker 31 July [1863]
Summary
Has found seeds produced by an hermaphroditic Lychnis and will send them. On structural obstacles to fertilisation of hermaphrodite Lychnis.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4258 |
From Edward Bradford 31 July 1863
Summary
Doubts CD’s view in Orchids [pp. 236–46] that Catasetum tridentatum is exclusively male and has as its female form the genus Monachanthus. EB has grown many of this type in Trinidad; has never seen that female form.
Author: | Edward Bradford |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 274, DAR 166: 95/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4259 |
From Daniel Oliver [after 20 July 1863]
Summary
Gives a reference to a paper.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 20 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4366 |
From Henry Farncombe Billinghurst [21 July 1863 – August 1870?]
Author: | Henry Farncombe Billinghurst |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1863 – Aug 1870?] |
Classmark: | DAR 80: B18v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5765 |
letter | (20) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Becker, L. E. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Billinghurst, H. F. | (1) |
Bradford, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gosse, P. H. | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Sigerson, George | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |