From T. C. Eyton [after 19 May 1862?]
Summary
Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.
| Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 19 May 1862?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 40 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3364 |
From H. G. Bronn 19 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for revisions in 2d ed. of Origin. Suggests correction regarding species numbers in the Tertiary.
Comments on pages of Orchids and problems of German translation.
Believes CD’s theory not yet proven, but that it will finally lead to truth.
| Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 321 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3561 |
From Henry Holland 19 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
| Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3562 |
From Edward Cresy 19 May 1862
Summary
Comments on presentation copy of Orchids: bee Ophrys self-fertilisation; origin of nectar; odour of orchids. Book gives strong cases for special creationists.
| Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3563 |
From H. W. Bates 19 May 1862
Summary
Miocene glacial period a remarkable discovery; if it is true, enlargement of Tertiary period necessary.
Received German monograph on Chilean Carabi that does not answer where isolated species came from.
HWB finds genital modifications of Chrysomela strong support for the theory.
Thanks for copy of Orchids.
| Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3564 |
| letter | (5) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
| Holland, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bates, H. W. | (1) |
| Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
