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From M. T. Masters   14 April 1863

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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 J. D. Hooker   [31 March 1863]

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Owen is the author of the Athenæum article [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19]. JDH dismisses it as vulgar rubbish. W. B. Carpenter intends to write a reply.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 126–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4098

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

From J. D. Hooker   20 April 1863

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Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.

W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.

Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.

JDH evaluates his sons.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4111

From Asa Gray   20 April 1863

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AG’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 165: 134
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4112

From Hugh Falconer   20 April [1863]

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Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.

Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.

Author:  Hugh Falconer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 14
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4113

From H. B. Dobell   20 April 1863

Summary

Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.

Author:  Horace Benge Dobell
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 162: 189
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4115

From H. W. Bates   20 April 1863

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Expresses hope that CD is ready to pronounce sentence on his book;

he relates his financial position and mentions that he hopes to get a position at the British Museum.

Author:  Henry Walter Bates
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 75
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4116

From George Bentham   21 April 1863

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Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.

Author:  George Bentham
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4118

From John Hutton Balfour   22 April 1863

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Thanks for paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

One of his gardeners [John Scott] is also studying such fertilisation and appreciates CD’s encouragement; Scott has paper to read for Edinburgh Botanical Society.

Author:  John Hutton Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4119

From W. E. Darwin   22 April [1863]

Summary

Sent off Corydalis. Observations on Corydalis pistils.

Author:  William Erasmus Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 12)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4120F

From D. T. Ansted   23 April 1863

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Is very grateful for CD’s note and return of the bond for £250; promises to repay CD any profits made from those shares, even in the event of DTA’s death.

Is sorry to hear CD is ill.

Author:  David Thomas Ansted
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 159: 76
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4123

From Hermann Crüger   23 April 1863

Summary

Observations on Catasetum.

Figs require insects in order to set seed.

Author:  Hermann Crüger
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Apr 1863
Classmark:  DAR 161: 276, DAR 205.8: 68 (Letters)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4124

From Hugh Falconer   24 April [1863]

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Further description of the Toxodon-like mammal, Typotherium.

Author:  Hugh Falconer
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  24 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 164: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4125
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