From John Lubbock 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."
JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3549 |
From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 15 May 1862
Summary
Sends CD a quotation from Plato which anticipates the Origin.
Has been enjoying CD’s paper on dimorphism in the Journal of the Linnean Society ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. He has found similar structures [see Forms of flowers, pp. 116, 122].
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B79–80, DAR 171: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3550 |
From M. T. Masters [c. 15 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 15 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3551 |
From George Chichester Oxenden 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for the book [Orchids].
Found thousands of Ophrys aranifera plants.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3553 |
From George Bentham 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3554 |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (1) |