From J. D. Hooker [24 March 1863]
Summary
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2027 |
From Daniel Oliver [26 March 1863]
Summary
Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3894 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 March 1863]
Summary
John Lubbock’s lecture on man a success [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 4 (1863): 29–40].
JDH on the effect of the Civil War on Asa Gray.
JDH’s opinion of Lyell on glaciers is improving.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 111–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4019 |
From Smith, Elder and Company 3 March 1863
Summary
Sum due to CD is £11 13s 1d. Offer £5 for remaining stock of South America and Volcanic islands.
Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181:1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4020 |
From John Scott 3 March 1863
Summary
JS criticises natural selection as based on an innate "continuously watchful selective principle".
Seeks seed of wild Rocky Mountain maize.
What is CD’s view on origin of maize?
Seeks information on self-sterility of Passiflora and Lobelia.
Weeping habit of trees.
Intended to say bisexual plants presented more established varieties than unisexual, not that they are more variable.
Explains his opinion that homomorphically fertilised Primula will produce only their own form. Is trying homomorphic crosses with different coloured Primula varieties.
Asks to read Asa Gray’s 2d review of Orchids.
Has finally successfully fertilised Gongora, but it was done by unnatural means.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4021 |
From Julius von Haast 5 March 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his December letter [see 3851], which he fears is lost.
Has been in the Southern Alps and has discovered a wonderful pass.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4026 |
From H. B. Dobell 5 March 1863
Summary
At CD’s request HBD has traced the quotation; it is on regeneration from Charles White in W. B. Carpenter’s Comparative physiology (1854), p. 480.
Is gratified that CD thinks some of the arguments in his book [Lectures on the germs of disease (1861)] are satisfactory.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4027 |
From John Lubbock 6 March 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for his review [of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic butterflies, Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Is glad Hooker approved of his [JL’s] lecture.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4029 |
From Smith, Elder and Company 9 March 1863
Summary
Cheque for books, stamps for CD’s son.
Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181:6v) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4032 |
From Charles Lyell 11 March 1863
Summary
Defends position he takes on species [in Antiquity of man]. CD overestimates CL’s capacity to influence public. Will not dogmatise on descent of man; prepared to accept it, but it "takes away much of the charm from my speculations on the past". Cannot go to Huxley’s length with regard to natural selection. Responds to CD’s comments on Antiquity of man.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 362–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4035 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (2) |