From T. W. Woodbury 17 March 1863
Summary
Bee species of different sizes build cells the same size.
Author: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4049 |
From Alfred Newton 21 March 1863
Summary
Sends tuber of Chilean wild potato, requested through Hooker and P. L. Sclater.
Plans to exhibit a bird’s foot with a large ball of clay attached. This phenomenon supports CD on seed dispersal.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4054 |
From John Scott 21 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s answers on Passiflora
and Asa Gray review.
Has observed gradation of sterility in Oncidium species.
Has observed rostellar germination and fertilisation in Laelia. The latter was prevented in Bletia by covering the stigma with plaster of Paris.
Gongora atropurpurea capsules are swelling.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4055 |
From Asa Gray 22–30 March 1863
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s article on the supernatural [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Has heard that the Incas married their sisters; this may be worth investigating as a case of inbreeding.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22–30 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4056 |
From Edward Blyth 27 March 1863
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4062 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 March 1863]
Summary
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4064 |
From Armand de Quatrefages 25 March 1863
Summary
Charles Martins of Montpellier will collect the varieties of silkworm for CD.
QdeB is battling with the polygenists in the Société d’Anthropologie.
Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4066 |
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 Armand de Quatrefages [28 March] – 11 April 1863
Summary
Continues to support, in debates at the Société d’Anthropologie, the view that variability of animals and anatomical modifications are produced by environment. Wishes to use CD’s niata cattle example from Journal of researches [2d ed., pp. 145–6].
Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar] – 11 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4082 |
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 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (32) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Gray, Asa | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
Falconer, Hugh | (10) |