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 |
To W. E. Darwin [8 May 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [8 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3525 |
From G. C. Oxenden [before 30 May 1862]
Summary
Has looked for [Ophrys] arachnites for CD, but it is too early in the season.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3526 |
From J. D. Hooker [17 May 1862]
Summary
Discusses Leschenaultia, finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium.
Gives information on where to obtain paper for drying plants and where to obtain a microscope.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 28 (EH 88206079) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3527 |
To J. B. Innes 1 May [1862]
Summary
Quiz has had to be killed because he became vicious.
Horace Darwin strangely ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 1 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3528 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 May [1862]
Summary
Asks JDH to look at stigma of Leschenaultia biloba; it seems certain there is no stigma within the bud. Case would be important.
Singular case of peculiar structure now remodified into the functional condition of a Campanula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3529 |
From J. D. Hooker [16 May 1862]
Summary
Has dissected Leschenaultia biloba flowers. Finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium. Describes what is the apparent stigma but has found no pollen-tubes to confirm it as the real one.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 27 (EH 88206079)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3530 |
To John Murray 2 May [1862]
Summary
Has returned last page of index [of Orchids]. Hopes JM will reconsider price – 10s seems high. Suggests two reviewers likely to be favourable. Sends list for presentation copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 2 May [1862] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 118–119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3531 |
To H. W. Bates 4 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for letter and "valuable" extracts.
If S. American Carabi differ more from other species than do those from other distant locations (e.g., Siberia, Europe, etc.), CD agrees that difference would be too great to have occurred in the recent glacial age; CD also rejects independent origin. Plants seem to migrate more readily than animals. HWB should not underrate length of glacial period; CD also believes they will be driven to an older glacial period.
Sorry about news of British Museum – hopeless to contend against anyone supported by Owen.
CD dearly wishes HWB could find a situation in which he could give time to science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 4 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3532 |
From J. B. Innes 5 May [1862]
Summary
About Quiz and [Horace Darwin’s] health.
Asks whether CD has tried W. B. Tegetmeier’s beehives.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3534 |
From T. H. Huxley 6 May 1862
Summary
Glad to receive CD’s pat on back for address.
Wants to know what CD thinks of the argument on geological contemporaneity.
On his poor health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3535 |
From J. D. Hooker [5 May 1862]
Summary
Household problems – stolen silver, maids. His house for some months has had reputation for being not a little disreputable.
On Cameroon plants.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [5 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 33, 134a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3537 |
From Hugh Falconer 7 May [1862]
Summary
Wanted to talk with CD about the astonishing new Pliocene fossil discoveries in North America reported by Leidy. One horse fossil’s dentition, if it could be believed, would be of great interest to CD’s views.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 380 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3538 |
To Hugh Falconer [8 May 1862]
Summary
Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [8 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3539 |
To H. W. Bates 9 May [1862]
Summary
Referring to conversation with Lyell, CD is certain that there was a Miocene glacial period.
Compliments HWB on the mimetic display at the British Museum. Those at the Museum readily accepted HWB’s "doctrine".
Was shown genital organs of closely allied Chrysomelidae.
Albert Günther is candidate for position at Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3540 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.
Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.
"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".
Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3541 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 May [1862]
Summary
Nearly agrees on contemporaneity, but THH pushes his ideas too far. Would require strong evidence before believing that the so-called Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous strata could be contemporaneous. Thinks THH’s case on advancement of organisation is strong. But he should read Bronn, before publishing again, and say more on other side. Cannot help hoping he is not as right as he seems to be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 171) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3542 |
To Philip Lutley Sclater 12 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about japanned peacocks from Hudson [John Henry?] Gurney’s flock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 12 May [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.276) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3543 |
To W. D. Fox 12 May [1862]
Summary
Asks if WDF has ever crossed wild and common turkeys. Would like to quote his authority [see Variation 1: 292].
Also curious whether WDF has known the so-called japanned peacock to appear from common peacock [Variation 1: 290].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 12 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 132) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3544 |
To P. L. Sclater 14 May [1862]
Summary
Asks for information about peacocks, especially Pavo nigripennis. Suggests a crossing experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
Date: | 14 May [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3545 |
letter | (54) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Dickie, George | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Jukes, J. B. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (5) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Tollet, Georgina | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Innes, J. B. | (2) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
Jukes, J. B. | (2) |
Sclater, P. L. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
Dickie, George | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
More, A. G. | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Tollet, Georgina | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |