From Armand de Quatrefages [after 11 July 1862]
Summary
Their views on transformism differ a great deal, as CD says, but perhaps not as much as CD thinks. Sending his [Physiologie comparée: métamorphoses de l’homme et des animaux (1862)].
Author: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 11 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 175: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3524 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 July [1862]
Summary
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3635 |
From John Murray [1 July – 23 August 1862]
Summary
Account of Orchids.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 July – 23 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 525 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3635F |
From J. D. Hooker 2 July 1862
Summary
Will see to Masdevallia and Bonatea.
Domestic matters.
Lyell’s health.
CD’s eczema.
Hopes CD will solve the mystery of Melastoma.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3636 |
From Asa Gray 2–3 July 1862
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.
Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.
Reports the recent events of the Civil War.
[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2–3 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3637 |
From E. A. Darwin 2 July [1862]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3638 |
From Frederick Currey 3 July 1862
Summary
G. B. Wollaston [in "British Orchideae", Phytologist n.s. 1 (1855–6): 225–7] says Ophrys arachnites is a hybrid, which contradicts CD, who says it is a new species.
Author: | Frederick Currey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3639 |
From William Alexander Wooler 5 July 1862
Summary
Believes, contrary to CD, that when anthers arise from petals the development of the pollen is affected by the amputation of the petal.
Believes interbreeding can be used to combine desirable characters, but that, carried beyond narrow limits, it leads to deterioration of the breed.
Has been experimenting on crossing polyanthus.
Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3642 |
From Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny 5 July 1862
Summary
Sends concluding part of his recent lecture on orchids so CD may see how his inquiries were represented in one of the great centres of clerical influence.
Asks whether insects are attracted to one species of orchids more than another.
Author: | Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3643 |
From George Maw 7 July 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for sending Orchids.
Reports observations by his uncle relating to the successful breeding of a male mule with a horse.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3644 |
From W. E. Darwin 8 July [1862]
Summary
WED reports on studying the pollen of grass and Valerian through his microscope.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3644F |
From G. C. Oxenden 8 July 1862
Summary
Has not found insects visiting Epipactis palustris either at night or in the day.
Reality of hybrid plants and birds in nature is controversial.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3647 |
From G. C. Oxenden 8 July [1862]
Summary
Has misplaced CD’s forwarding address.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3648 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1862
Summary
JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.
Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.
Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.
JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3651 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 11 July 1862
Summary
Relates death of H. G. Bronn.
Discusses publication of German edition of Orchids [1862].
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3654 |
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1862
Summary
Will be sending information on peloric plants from his father [William Masters] soon.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3655 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 July 1862
Summary
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 23, 41–2, 81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3657 |
From Friedrich Hermann Gustav Hildebrand 14 July 1862
Summary
Offers to translate Orchids, since H. G. Bronn has died.
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3658 |
From Asa Gray 15 July [1862]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3659 |
From Bernard Peirce Brent 15 July 1862
Summary
Continues breeding guinea-pigs to test effects of warmth on gestation period. Concludes period is ten weeks and warmth has no influence. Offers CD the specimens.
Awaits Variation.
Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3660 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |