From Daniel Oliver 16 September 1862
Summary
Envelope containing specimens (apparently mentioned in the letter from Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863 (S 4015)).
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891G |
To W. E. Darwin [2–3 September 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [2–3 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3673 |
From W. E. Darwin [9? September 1862]
Summary
Asks for advice on where a local chemist can send his brother’s meteorological observations from Missouri.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9? Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3674G |
To W. E. Darwin [10? September 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [10? Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3704 |
To John Lubbock [3 September 1862]
Summary
CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [3 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3705 |
To Daniel Oliver 2 September [1862]
Summary
Exciting work on trimorphism in Lythrum salicaria. Requests Lythraceae from Kew.
Wants to know of plants other than Melastoma and Lythrum with coloured pollen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 35 (EH 88206018) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3706 |
To C. C. Babington 2 September [1862]
Summary
Can CCB get Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds?
Hottonia splendidly dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3707 |
To John Lubbock 2 September [1862]
Summary
Hive-bees and clover.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 2 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3708 |
To Daniel Oliver [17 September 1862]
Summary
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [17 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3709 |
To Asa Gray [3–]4 September [1862]
Summary
Glad AG will publish some separate notes on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 420–9].
Trimorphism in Lythrum.
Bee behaviour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | [3–]4 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (68) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3710 |
From Daniel Oliver 4 September 1862
Summary
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3711 |
From Asa Gray 5 September 1862
Summary
Suggests CD try to get Lythrum hyssopifolia from France.
Dimorphic flowers.
Differences between newly opened and older orchids.
Flowers of Spiranthes and Goodyera.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 111: 81, DAR 165: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3712 |
To John Lubbock 5 September [1862]
Summary
Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 5 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3713 |
To A. C. Ramsay 5 September [1862]
Summary
On ACR’s paper on glacial origin of lakes. CD thinks it is correct. Suggests further investigation to corroborate it. His only doubt has to do with areas of great activity.
On ACR’s view of cause of glacial period: CD did battle with Hooker on same point.
T. F. Jamieson has smashed CD’s Glen Roy marine theory in splendid style.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 5 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 7 (EH 88205980) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3714 |
From Edouard Claparède 6 September 1862
Summary
Acknowledges CD’s approval of his review of Origin in Revue Germanique [16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63]. Praises natural selection;
criticises C.-A. Royer’s [French] translation.
Author: | Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.1: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3715 |
From G. C. Oxenden 11 September 1862
Summary
He collected Splachnum luteum north of Spitzbergen 40 years ago. Now an acquaintance has brought the plant back from the identical spot.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3716 |
To W. D. Fox 12 September [1862]
Summary
WDF’s information on turkeys will be useful when CD resumes his half-finished volume [see Variation 1: 292].
Illness in the family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 12 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3717 |
From Daniel Oliver 13 September 1862
Summary
Has given directions to save seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium.
CD’s diagram of Lythrum salicaria is very remarkable. [See Collected papers 2: 107.]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 111 (ser. 2): 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3718 |
From Edward Cresy 13 September 1862
Summary
Walter White [Asst.-Sec. and Librarian, Royal Society] has introduced EC to Richard Kippist of the Linnean Society, who has made little progress toward accepting Origin.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3719 |
To Daniel Oliver 14 September [1862]
Summary
Asks DO to name enclosed Lythrum received from CD’s sister-in-law [Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 14 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3720 |
letter | (42) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Claparède, Edouard | (1) |
Clarke, W. B. (b) | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (42) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Goubert, E. M. J. M. P. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Johnson, Henry (a) | (1) |
King, P. G. | (1) |
Lindley, John | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (3) |
More, A. G. | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (6) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (3) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |