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From Edwin Brown   14 February 1863

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Sends copy of his second paper on mutability of race forms ["On the mutability of species", Proceedings of the Northern Entomological Society, 22 December 1862, pp.4–26].

On tactics of his opponents.

He and Bates have divided up Carabidae and Vanessa for studying relationship of forms.

Author:  Edwin Brown
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 160: 325
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3983

From S. P. Woodward   14 February 1863

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Points out some errata in the Origin.

Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.

Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.

Author:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 181: 154
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3984

CD memorandum   14 February 1863

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Agreement to cancel the bond of D. T. Ansted, dated 19 April 1855. Prof. Ansted is arranging to pay CD what he can.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  David Thomas Ansted
Date:  14 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 210.10: 24
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3985A

To J. D. Hooker   15 February [1863]

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Asa Gray on democracy of plants.

Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 181
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3986

To T. H. Huxley   16 February [1863]

Summary

It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.

Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.

Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.

[P.S. missing from original.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  16 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3987

To Roland Trimen   16 February [1863]

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Further discusses RT’s observations on Cape [of Good Hope] orchids and asks whether it would be possible for him to send some specimens to Kew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Roland Trimen
Date:  16 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 55)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3988

From J. D. Hooker   [16 February 1863]

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British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [16 Feb 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 103–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3989

To Horace Benge Dobell   16 February [1863]

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Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].

Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.

How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.

Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Horace Benge Dobell
Date:  16 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3990

To John Scott   16 February [1863]

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Tells JS Acropera capsule should be left to grow.

JS was correct on "bud-variation" in fern frond.

Does not believe Primula structure necessarily related to dioecism, but the difference in fertility of the two forms forced him to admit the possibility.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  16 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B55, B81–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3991

To Camille Dareste   16 February [1863]

Summary

Thanks for letter and pamphlet.

His approbation of Origin is extremely gratifying, especially since Origin produced no effect whatever in France.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
Date:  16 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 368
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3992

To J. J. Briggs   16 February [1863]

Summary

Sends belated thanks for the useful facts which he plans to quote. [See 3963.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Joseph Briggs
Date:  16 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  Mrs H. Codd (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3992A

To T. H. Huxley   [after 16 February 1863]

Summary

A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  [after 16 Feb 1863]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3992F

To Charles Lyell   17 [February 1863]

Summary

Criticises Dana’s classification of man and his use of fore-limbs as a basis for systematic classification.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  17 [Feb 1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.288)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3993

From Richard Frean   17 February 1863

Summary

Discusses his reading and understanding of Origin.

Author:  Richard Frean
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Feb 1863
Classmark:  Launceston Library (State Library of Tasmania): Local Studies Collection – Manuscripts (Robert Norman Smith Diaries and correspondence LMSS 0020)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3993F

From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites   17 February 1863

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Replies to CD’s letter: dimorphism common in Ceylon Rubiaceae. [See Forms of flowers, p. 286.]

Author:  George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 109: A94
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3994

From W. B. Tegetmeier   18 February 1863

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Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.

Author:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 178: 57
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3995

To T. H. Huxley   18 [February 1863]

Summary

Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].

Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  18 [Feb 1863]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3996

From John Scott   18 February [1863]

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Sends Acropera capsule for CD to dissect.

Will try to raise Acropera from seed (never done before in Britain) to examine its sexual forms.

Studying primroses, parthenogenesis, and reproduction of some cryptogams.

Received maize varieties from CD.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 177: 84
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3997

To W. B. Tegetmeier   19 February [1863]

Summary

Discusses experiments that WBT will undertake to investigate whether particular pigeon and poultry crosses produce sterile hybrids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:  19 Feb [1863]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3998

From George Maw   19 February 1863

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Discusses the structure and particular uniformities of the Shropshire coal-seams and surrounding strata; speculates on their origins.

Author:  George Maw
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Feb 1863
Classmark:  DAR 171: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3999
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