From W. E. Darwin [1 August 1862]
Summary
Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585G |
From G. H. Darwin [after 5 August 1862]
Summary
Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 5 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 90.1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3671 |
From W. E. Darwin 1 August 1862
Summary
WED has been collecting Lythrum plants. Numerical proportions of the three forms.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3675 |
From J. O. Westwood 1 August 1862
Summary
Bee with adhering orchid pollinia lent to Charles Daubeny. Pollen-masses shaken off but if CD still interested he is welcome to specimen.
Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3676 |
From W. E. Darwin 2 August [1862]
Summary
Sends specimens of the three forms of Lythrum. Remarks on the numerical proportions of different forms.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3677 |
From Asa Gray 4 August 1862
Summary
Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3679 |
From G. C. Oxenden 4 August [1862?]
Summary
Finds many beautiful Epipactis specimens.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Aug [1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3680 |
From W. E. Darwin 5 August 1862
Summary
Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 32 bis, DAR 162: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3683 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 August 1862
Summary
Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.
Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3684 |
From Thomas White Woodbury 9 August 1862
Summary
Breeding cells of Ligurian bee are larger than those of common bee. Thanks CD for comb.
Author: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3686 |
From Asa Gray 18–19 August 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18–19 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 111, 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3688 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1862
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 52–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3690 |
From Charles Lyell 20 August 1862
Summary
Jamieson has revisited Glen Roy and confirmed his theory of glacier lakes.
A. G. More considers CD the most profound of reasoners.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 358; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3691 |
From A. R. Wallace [after 20 August 1862]
Summary
Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.
Is unwell and dreads the winter.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 20 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3694 |
From J. D. Hooker [26–31 August 1862]
Summary
On microscopes.
Cannot remember any plants but Melastoma with different coloured polliniferous anthers.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26–31 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3697 |
From John Lubbock 23 August 1862
Summary
JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.
Lake-habitations.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3698 |
From A. C. Ramsay 26 August 1862
Summary
Sends his paper [on glacial lakes, see 3450]. Falconer attacked it. Falconer thinks Himalayas confound the theory, but Hooker writes that it explains the absence of lakes there.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3701 |
From M. S. Wedgwood [6 August 1862]
Summary
Looked for Hottonia but with little success.
Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674 |
From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862]
Summary
Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.
Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3681 |
letter | (19) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (1) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Vaughan Williams, M. S. | (2) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
Wedgwood, M. S. | (2) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |
Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Vaughan Williams, M. S. | (2) |