To J. D. Hooker 25 April [1864]
Summary
CD thinks JDH takes a hard view of Scott’s character, but will not argue further.
Leersia.
Working on homomorphic and heteromorphic crosses in Primula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 231 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4471 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 or 27 April 1864]
Summary
JDH on John Scott.
Curious about the rationale of pollen prepotence.
Working on variation in New Zealand flora.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 or 27] Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 214–17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4472 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 28 April 1864]
Summary
Forwards a letter from H. W. Bates to JDH announcing HWB’s appointment as Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 28 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4474 |
From William Bennett 29 April 1864
Summary
Will send grasses CD asked about.
Reports observations on brood of Australian chicks he is hatching.
Author: | William Bennett |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4475 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 29 April – 19 May 1864
Summary
Recalls being introduced to CD when [undergraduate] at Cambridge.
Sends CD some of his pamphlets
and expresses support of Origin.
Has discovered there are "3 sexes" in the solitary Cynips as well as social insects.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr – 19 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4477 |
From W. E. Darwin [30 April 1864]
Summary
[Outline sketches of pollen from long- and short-styled yellow cowslips and from red cowslip, magnified 350x.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4478 |
To W. E. Darwin [14–17 May 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [14–17 May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4479 |
To W. E. Darwin 3 May [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 3 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 97: A8, A10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4480 |
To Daniel Oliver 4 May [1864]
Summary
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 4 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4481 |
From E. A. Darwin [15? April 1864]
Summary
Sir Henry Holland wants to see [Erasmus Darwin] Zoonomia.
Snow [F. J. Wedgwood] has gone, hoping to meet Fanny who is in a state of anxiety.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15? Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4482 |
To W. E. Darwin 5 May [1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4483 |
From W. D. Fox 5 [May 1864]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 [May 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4484 |
From John Scott 5 May [1864]
Summary
Encloses MS of his paper ["On individual sterility of Oncidium", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 162–7].
His next will be on Passiflora, Disemma, and Tacsonia [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 197–206].
When he receives proofs of his Primula paper he will add CD’s case about equal-styled cowslip.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4485 |
From W. E. Darwin 6 May 1864
Summary
Diagrams of short- and long-styled Pulmonaria under magnification.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4487F |
From E. A. Darwin 7 May [1864]
Summary
Henry Holland sends thanks for Zoonomia.
Sir Henry would not expect podophyllin to be good for CD.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4489 |
From A. R. Wallace 10 May 1864
Summary
On the Borneo cave exploration.
ARW will send his contribution to theory of origin of man. The vast mental and cranial differences between man and apes, whereas structural differences in other parts of body are small. The problem of explaining diversity of human races along with the stability of man’s form during all historical epochs. Discussion with "Anthropologicals" [following reading of ARW’s paper, "The origin of human races", before the Anthropological Society, 1 Mar 1864].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: B12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4490 |
From Henry Trimen 10 May 1864
Summary
Cannot give information about the box of Oxalis bulbs that his brother [Roland Trimen] has forwarded to CD.
Author: | Henry Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4491 |
From W. E. Darwin 12 May [1864]
Summary
Observations on style length of 150 flowers of Pulmonaria [angustifolia]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 105.]
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 110: A66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4492 |
To Roland Trimen 13 May 1864
Summary
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 13 May 1864 |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4493 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 May 1864
Summary
Is burning to hear CD’s reaction to Wallace’s excellent paper on man ["Origin of human races and the antiquity of man", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
Wallace’s disclaimer of credit for natural selection is high-minded.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4494 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (14) |
Darwin, E. A. | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (202) |
Hooker, J. D. | (39) |
Oliver, Daniel | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Scott, John | (7) |