From W. E. Darwin 12 March [1863]
Summary
Discusses partnership in bank and whether Atherley would like to retire.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4035F |
From J. D. Hooker [6 March 1863]
Summary
Lyell’s position on mutability.
Directions for care of hothouse plants.
Falconer hostile to Lyell’s book.
JDH’s Wedgwood ware collection.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 114–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4036 |
From W. D. Fox 12 March [1863]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4037 |
To Charles Lyell 12–13 March [1863]
Summary
[On Antiquity of man] CD is "convinced that at times … you have … given up immutability". "A clear expression from you, if you could have given it, would have been potent with the public."
Objects to CL’s description of CD’s view "as a modification of Lamarck’s doctrine". Quotes Henrietta [Darwin]’s observations on this description.
Comments on CL’s controversy with Owen concerning the human brain.
The controversy between Falconer and CL.
The "wretched" review of CL [Antiquity of man, Athenæum 14 Feb 1863, pp. 219–21] and Huxley [Man’s place in nature].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12–13 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.290) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4038 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [March 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4039 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 March 1863]
Summary
JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 117–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4040 |
From Charles Lyell 15 March 1863
Summary
Lyell has received compliments for letting readers draw own inferences [on species question]. Now feels he earlier did Lamarck injustice. [CD’s] substitution of variety-making power for volition [as in Lamarck] in some respects only a change of names.
Thinks Huxley taking on too many responsibilities.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 364–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4041 |
To [Thomas White Woodbury] 15 March [1863]
Summary
TWW should look at bee and comb specimens received by CD from Africa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Date: | 15 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | B. Altman & Co. (New York Times, 12 October 1975, p. 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4042 |
To the secretary, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 16 March 1863
Summary
Thanks Academy on his election as a Corresponding Member.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences |
Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (II–III–120: 67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4043 |
To W. D. Fox 16 [March 1863]
Summary
If WDF should hear what ram was put to the ewes, CD would like to add it [see Variation 2: 30].
Will add "cautiously" that WDF believes white and slate muscovy ducks breed true [Variation 2: 40].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 16 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 137) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4044 |
From James Paget 16 March 1863
Summary
Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4045 |
From Roland Trimen 16 March 1863
Summary
RT has sent his observations on orchids to CD. Has found only one case of an insect with a pollinium adhering to it.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 180, DAR 178: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4046 |
To Charles Lyell 17 March [1863]
Summary
His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].
Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.
Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].
Notes negative reaction of entomologists.
Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].
Mentions work of Hooker.
Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]
and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4047 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
From T. W. Woodbury 17 March 1863
Summary
Bee species of different sizes build cells the same size.
Author: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4049 |
To T. W. Woodbury [after 17 March 1863]
Summary
Thanks for the artificial comb.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Date: | [after 17 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | International Bee Research Association, Eva Crane Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4050 |
To Asa Gray 20 March [1863]
Summary
Discusses the meaning of C. K. Sprengel’s term "dichogamy". Dichogamous plants are functionally monoecious; Primula is functionally dioecious.
Reports Hermann Crüger’s observations of Cattleya and of bees pollinating Catasetum. Crüger will observe Melastomataceae.
Has built a hothouse.
Fears Amsinckia cannot be dimorphic.
Ill health slows his work on Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4053 |
From Alfred Newton 21 March 1863
Summary
Sends tuber of Chilean wild potato, requested through Hooker and P. L. Sclater.
Plans to exhibit a bird’s foot with a large ball of clay attached. This phenomenon supports CD on seed dispersal.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4054 |
From John Scott 21 March [1863]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s answers on Passiflora
and Asa Gray review.
Has observed gradation of sterility in Oncidium species.
Has observed rostellar germination and fertilisation in Laelia. The latter was prevented in Bletia by covering the stigma with plaster of Paris.
Gongora atropurpurea capsules are swelling.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4055 |
From Asa Gray 22–30 March 1863
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s article on the supernatural [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Has heard that the Incas married their sisters; this may be worth investigating as a case of inbreeding.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22–30 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4056 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Scott, John | (4) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (4) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (3) |
Woodbury, T. W. | (3) |
Dobell, H. B. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Newton, Alfred | (2) |
Paget, James | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Bowman, William | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |