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 |
From George Maw 19 February 1863
Summary
Discusses the structure and particular uniformities of the Shropshire coal-seams and surrounding strata; speculates on their origins.
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3999 |
From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1863
Summary
Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4001 |
From John Lubbock 20 February 1863
Summary
Dining arrangements.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4002 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 February 1863]
Summary
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 105–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4007 |
From Hermann Crüger 23 February 1863
Summary
Will observe fertilisation of melastomads as CD requests.
Observations on fertilisation by ants.
Detailed observations on sexes in Catasetum, which were made before he received Orchids and which differ from CD’s findings.
| Author: | Hermann Crüger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4008 |
From T. H. Huxley 25 February 1863
Summary
Pleads guilty to both criticisms of "Miss Henrietta Minor Rhadamanthus Darwin" [see 3896] of points in his Lectures [to working men].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 299 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4010 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1863]
Summary
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 108–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4011 |
From George Maw 25 February 1863
Summary
Discusses the deposition of coal and considers the possibility of coal aggregating into seams after deposition.
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4012 |
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| Scott, John | (16) |
| Gray, Asa | (11) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (10) |
