To ? 11 March [1862–9]
Summary
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 11 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877F |
To ? 29 March [1862–9]
Summary
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13878 |
To G. E. Harris 5 March [1862]
Summary
Has directed Murray to send Harris a copy of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Edwin Harris |
Date: | 5 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Mrs Jane Brown (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3466F |
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1862]
Summary
CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.
Orchids to appear soon.
Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.
Work on floral dimorphism.
High opinion of Buckle as a writer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3468 |
To H. G. Bronn 11 March [1862]
Summary
Pleased that new German edition of Origin is wanted. Wishes to make corrections.
Suggests German translation of Orchids.
Comments on HGB’s book [Untersuchungen (1858)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 11 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3470 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 March [1862]
Summary
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3472 |
To Asa Gray 15 March [1862]
Summary
Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.
"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3473 |
To Richard Kippist 18 March [1862]
Summary
Sends paper to be read ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3476 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 18 March [1862]
Summary
Orchids taking up all his time.
He longs to be at work again on poultry and rabbits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3478 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 March [1862]
Summary
On effect of external conditions: CD thinks all variability due to changes in conditions of life because there is more variability under unnatural domestic conditions than under nature, and changed conditions affect the reproductive organs. But why one seedling out of thousands presents some new character transcends the wildest powers of conjecture.
Not shaken by "saltus" – he had examined all cases of normal structure resembling monstrosities which appear per saltum. Has fought his tendency to attribute too much to natural selection; perhaps he has too much conquered it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3479 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [March 1862]
Summary
Asks JDH to correct names of two species of Calanthe.
Note from Asa Gray ends "Yours cordially", so CD hopes he is forgiven.
His Catasetum paper will be read 3 Apr [Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Plants and seeds sent will be of great use, especially Lythrum, which according to J. P. E. Vaucher seems grand case of trimorphism. Asks what sort of man Vaucher is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3481 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1862]
Summary
Both JDH’s and Bates’s letters are excellent. JDH has said all that can be said against direct effect of conditions, but CD still sticks to his own and Bates’s side. CD should have done what JDH suggests (since naturally he is pleased to attribute little to conditions) – viz., started on the fundamental principle that variation is innate and stated that afterwards, perhaps, this principle would be made explicable. Variation will show that "use and disuse" have some effect. Does not believe in perfect reversion. Demurs at JDH’s "centrifugal variation"; the doctrine of the good of diversification amply accounts for variation being centrifugal.
The wonderful mechanism of Mormodes ignea.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3484 |
To T. F. Jamieson 27 March [1862]
Summary
Will forward TFJ’s letter to Charles Lyell.
Gives up the marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] for ‘ever & ever’, but ‘with a groan’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Date: | 27 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | McConnochie 1901, p. 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3487G |
To George Bentham 30 March [1862]
Summary
Will try to come to Linnean Society to read his paper, but has been "extra headachy". Fears his paper ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70] will not be worth Lindley’s attendance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 30 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 699) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3488 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 March – 15 May 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Mar – 15 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3884 |
To Richard Kippist 18 March [1862]
Summary
Asks that referee of his [Catasetum] paper be informed that if it is ordered to be printed he will borrow woodcuts. But if referee thinks fit, he will withdraw it, for almost all will be published in Orchids. He is not willing to spare time to condense it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3477 |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Kippist, Richard | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Kippist, Richard | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Harris, G. E. | (1) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |