From A. R. Wallace 23 May 1862
Summary
Acknowledges Orchids with its disclosures of "wonderful adaptations".
Warns that CD aids critics by overstating the difficulties.
Did Owen write the article in the Quarterly Review? [Review of Origin by Samuel Wilberforce, Q. Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 2–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3568 |
To A. R. Wallace 24 [May 1862]
Summary
Quarterly Review piece written by Bishop Wilberforce with aid of Owen.
Other reviews mentioned.
Health.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 24 [May 1862] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3570 |
From Joseph Beete Jukes 25 May 1862
Summary
JBJ explains his theory of atmospheric denudation of Irish river valleys, to be published [as "On the river valleys in the south of Ireland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 378–403], and suggests its application to the Weald. This slow process would make the Weald far older than CD’s 300 million years.
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3571 |
From G. C. Oxenden 26 May 1862
Summary
Reminisces about Andrew Knight, whom he knew as a young man.
Praises Orchids for its "analogies of Creation".
Will send lizard orchid.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3572 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 May 1862]
Summary
Sends two flowers of Vanilla and two Melastomataceae.
Has worked on Cameroon list ["Mountain flowering plants and ferns of the Cameroons", in Burton, Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains (1863) 2: 270–7]
and Genera plantarum.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3574 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1862]
Summary
Has received Melastoma and Vanilla.
Has seen again the two sets of plants of Heterocentron raised from two lots of pollen from same flower – a marvellous difference in stature.
"But oh Lord what will become of my book on variation: I am involved in a multiplicity of experiments."
Observations on Viola.
CD’s fancied dimorphism of Oxalis is all a confounded mistake; only great variability in length of pistils.
Found Henslow’s life [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will think it dull.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3575 |
From G. C. Oxenden 30 May [1862]
Summary
Awaits instructions for sending lizard orchid.
Asks for a coloured plate of Malaxis paludosa so that he can find specimens for CD.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3577 |
From George Dickie 30 May 1862
Summary
Reports observations on Listera cordata in accordance with CD’s wishes.
Agrees with what CD says about adaptations [in Orchids, p. 28–31], but cannot comprehend how they can be explained by natural selection.
Author: | George Dickie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 162.2: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3578 |
From J. B. Jukes 30 May 1862
Summary
Elaborates his denudation theory: marine denudation works horizontally, atmospheric works vertically.
Answers point in CD’s letter on Sydney Harbour, N. S. W.
Who is the "goose" who reviews CD’s books in the Athenæum [review of Orchids, 24 May 1862]?
Author: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3579 |
To W. E. Darwin [31 May 1862]
Summary
Wants WED to forward dried Malaxis to G. C. Oxenden.
Has been dissecting Viola flowers.
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED, verso p. 3.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [31 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3580 |
From G. C. Oxenden 31 May [1862]
Summary
Sends plants.
The disappearance of rare plants from localities where they have been abundant can be explained.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3581 |
From D. F. Nevill [16? May 1862]
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids].
Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16? May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 172.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3552 |
To Leonard Jenyns 24 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks LJ for Memoir of Henslow; thinks it will be invaluable as an example to other clergymen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 24 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3569 |
From Leonard Jenyns 28 May 1862
Summary
Pleased with CD’s opinion of the Henslow Memoir [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)]
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3573 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (5) |
Jukes, J. B. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (54) |
Hooker, J. D. | (10) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (5) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |