To Roland Trimen 27 August [1863]
Summary
Discusses methods of pollination in orchids.
Thinks RT should investigate Physianthus to see if it requires insect aid for fertilisation as the Asclepiadaceae do.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4279 |
To [Gardeners’ Chronicle] [after 27 August 1863]
Summary
[Roland] Trimen of the Cape of Good Hope sends evidence that a moth [Achaea chamaeleon] is capable of perforating the skin of a peach with its delicate proboscis. Have any readers observed moths or butterflies sucking any fruit of which the skin was not previously broken?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [after 27 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 70: 172 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4279F |
To J. D. Hooker [28 August 1863]
Summary
Admits, at last, that New Zealand must have been connected to some continent, but not Australia.
Climbing plants: asks for more plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4280 |
From John Goodsir 28 August [1863]
Summary
The phial of fluid sent by CD is acid. Sends his microscopical examination.
| Author: | John Goodsir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 75 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4281 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 29 August 1863]
Summary
On the cruelty of setting steel traps to catch vermin. Requests suggestions for putting an end to the practice. [This item is mentioned in Correspondence 11: 781 n.6. (Appendix IX)]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 29 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 29 August 1863, pp. 821–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4282 |
From John Brodie Innes 29 August [1863]
Summary
Duke of Argyll has been dubbed "Duke Darwinii" by papers.
Large number of toads have been found in railway cuttings; wishes a scientific observer had taken pains to explain where they came from.
Comments on Scottish schools and on the morals of the adult poor.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 167: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4283 |
From Hugh Falconer 29 August 1863
Summary
HF will send E. Suess’s paper [Edouard Suess, "Über die Verschiedenheit und die Aufeinanderfolge der tertiären Landfaunen in der Niederung von Wien", Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien (Math–nat. Klasse) 47 (1863): 306–31] which deals directly with natural selection.
| Author: | Hugh Falconer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Aug 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4284 |
From George Busk [c. 27 August 1863]
Summary
Discusses and suggests treatments for CD’s stomach complaint. Recommends he consult William Brinton.
| Author: | George Busk |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 27 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 378 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4315 |
From Henrietta Emma Darwin [1 August 1863]
Summary
A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.
| Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1 Aug 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 189: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4260F |
| letter | (29) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Goodsir, John | (3) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Busk, George | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (3) |
| Becker, L. E. | (1) |
| Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (29) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (3) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (3) |
| Goodsir, John | (3) |
