To Hugh Falconer 1 October [1862]
Summary
Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].
Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3746 |
To Charles Lyell 1 October [1862]
Summary
Mentions a discussion of man by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his Histoire naturelle générale [1854–62].
Mentions a book by Friedrich Rolle [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].
Cites evolutionary statements on elephants by Hugh Falconer and notes Falconer’s objection to natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.282) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3747 |
To A. G. More 1 October [1862]
Summary
Thanks for information. Asks for more information about labellum of orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 1 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3748 |
From B. J. Sulivan 2 October [1862]
Summary
Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3749 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 October 1862
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3750 |
From Hugh Falconer 4 October 1862
Summary
Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3751 |
To Hugh Falconer 4 October [1862]
Summary
Explains that he returned the MS - part of a paper on fossil and living species of elephant (Falconer 1863) - to Falconer’s house in Park Crescent the previous Thursday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 4 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1345, 2003) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3751F |
From Asa Gray 4 and 13 October 1862
Summary
Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 and 13 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3752 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1862]
Summary
Thanks for opinion on Drosera. After working for a time on a subject he is absolutely incapable of judging its value.
Has found a case in Lythrum of a necessary triple alliance between three hermaphrodites; the strangest case of propagation recorded among plants or animals.
Asks for L. thymifolia to see how a trimorphic form passes or graduates into dimorphic.
Questions JDH on Linum perenne.
Has found 33 hybrids in one field between Verbascum thapsus and V. lychnitis. The perfect series of varieties would have justified running the species together, but every one of the intermediate forms is sterile.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3753 |
To John Murray 7 October [1862?]
Summary
Reports misprint in announcement of his book [Orchids].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 7 Oct [1862?] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (27 March 1985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3753A |
From Henry Johnson 8 October 1862
Summary
Doubts he has a chance of being elected F.R.S. because he is 58.
Will send a skull.
Author: | Henry Johnson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3754 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 October 1862
Summary
Discusses length of pistils, and measuring seeds and pods for botanical work.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3754F |
From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862
Summary
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 294 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3755 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October [1862]
Summary
Thanks for a contribution ["On the so-called ""auditory-sac"" of cirripedes", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 115–16; Collected papers 2: 85–7]. Is sending a proof.
This year’s lecture to working men to be devoted to CD’s book.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 295 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756 |
From W. E. Darwin 11 October [1862]
Summary
Sends comments on Lythrum.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756F |
From J. D. Hooker [12 October 1862]
Summary
Has sent two Impatiens flowers; curious to know what CD makes of the floral whorls and their vascular bundles.
Cassia is another genus that has different [coloured] anthers in same flower.
Continues to work on Welwitschia.
Feels as CD does about his work, which after a time seems flat and stale. He could never have done what CD did in his Orchids.
CD’s facts about Verbascum have horrible bearing on JDH’s practice of lumping species together.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 59–60, 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3757 |
To Daniel Oliver 13 October [1862]
Summary
Requests Linum, for dimorphism study.
Reviewer of Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6]is correct about the organisation of the book; he wonders who the reviewer is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020), 261.10: 66 (EH 88206049) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3758 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 October [1862]
Summary
If Wickham remains in town and CD is well enough, BJS thinks they might come about the 22d.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3759 |
To George Bentham 13 October [1862]
Summary
Asks for reference to GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s book ["Historical notes on the introduction of various plants into the agriculture and horticulture of Tuscany: a summary of a work entitled Cenni storici sulla introduzione di varie piante nell agricultura ed orticultura Toscana by Dr Antonio Targioni-Tozzetti, Florence, 1850", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 9 (1855): 133–81]. [See Variation, 1st ed., 1: 306 n.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 715) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3760 |
To Charles Lyell 14 October [1862]
Summary
Further comments on Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy; paper by Jamieson dealing with glaciation in Scotland ["On the ice-worn rocks of Scotland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 164–84].
Comments on paper by A. C. Ramsay on the glacial formation of lakes ["On the glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204].
Criticises remarks by John Tyndall on glacial formation of Swiss valleys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.267), The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2840–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3761 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Falconer, Hugh | (4) |
Lubbock, John | (4) |