From Francis Walker 24 June [1862]
Summary
Identified two flies as species of Empis that suck flowers, but the females also feed on small Diptera.
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10547 |
From G. C. Oxenden [before 21 June 1862]
Summary
Sad that CD is quitting his studies of orchids.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 21 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3584 |
From W. E. Darwin June 1862
Summary
Found 27 flowers of Orchis latifolia and in 16 of them were dead flies of one particular kind.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3585 |
From Asa Gray [2 June 1862]
Summary
Discusses heterostyly in Houstonia.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3588 |
From G. C. Oxenden 4 June [1862]
Summary
Sends orchids.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 53 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3589 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 7 June 1862
Summary
Discusses publication of second German edition of Origin [1863] and German edition of Orchids [1862].
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3590 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 June 1862
Summary
Oliver has written able paper on dimorphism for Natural History Review [n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
CD’s account of Viola is novel and interesting.
Has finished Cameroon mountain plants.
Jury work at exhibition.
Domestic problems – wife is ill, no cook, etc.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 40–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3593 |
From Frederick Currey 12 June 1862
Summary
Offers rare Irish orchid (Spiranthes).
Author: | Frederick Currey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3598 |
From George Howard Darwin [12 June 1862]
Summary
Leonard Darwin has scarlet fever so GHD has said he should be sent home and has asked E. A. Williams to call at Down.
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3598F |
From Alphonse de Candolle 13 June 1862
Summary
Has read the Origin several times. His position is like Asa Gray’s: he wishes to believe in descent, but proofs of natural selection are lacking.
Looks forward to CD’s promised large book.
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Did CD sow the seeds of his crosses? One would like to know whether the two forms reappear at random.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.1: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3603 |
From John Higgins 13 June 1862
Summary
Sorry he did not meet CD in London.
Discusses investment in land as compared with railway shares.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1862 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/104) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3603F |
From H. W. Bates 14 June 1862
Summary
Sends answer to Wedgwood’s query
and is sorry to hear CD is again unwell.
His book is progressing very slowly.
Asks that CD not make use of any of the facts about generative organs in beetles for he finds "such a chaos of statements" that facts are not to be depended upon.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 June [1862]
Summary
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3604F |
From Charles Pritchard 17 June [1862]
Summary
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
Author: | Charles Pritchard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 174.2: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3607 |
From J. D. Hooker 19 [June 1862]
Summary
Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.
Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 [June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 38–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3611 |
From E. A. Darwin 20 June [1862]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3614 |
From W. B. Clarke 20 June 1862
Summary
Has received Australian government grant to collect and publish on fossils. Has collected thousands of fossils.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3616 |
From G. C. Oxenden 21 June 1862
Summary
Yesterday found hundreds of [Ophrys] apifera and [Ophrys] arachnites in bloom in the same area. The two species grow in clumps and do not mix with each other.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3618 |
From H. G. Bronn 21 June 1862
Summary
L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.
Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3619 |
From C. V. Naudin 26 June 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Plans to publish soon on hybrids.
Author: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 172.1: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3621 |
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Oxenden, G. C. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Smith, Frederick (a) | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |