From B. J. Sulivan 2 October [1862]
Summary
Hopes to visit CD with Mellersh and Wickham the week after next.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3749 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 October 1862
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3750 |
From Hugh Falconer 4 October 1862
Summary
Although their views differ, HF is glad they can discuss those differences without offending.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3751 |
From Asa Gray 4 and 13 October 1862
Summary
Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 and 13 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3752 |
From Henry Johnson 8 October 1862
Summary
Doubts he has a chance of being elected F.R.S. because he is 58.
Will send a skull.
Author: | Henry Johnson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3754 |
From W. E. Darwin 9 October 1862
Summary
Discusses length of pistils, and measuring seeds and pods for botanical work.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3754F |
From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862
Summary
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 294 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3755 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October [1862]
Summary
Thanks for a contribution ["On the so-called ""auditory-sac"" of cirripedes", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 115–16; Collected papers 2: 85–7]. Is sending a proof.
This year’s lecture to working men to be devoted to CD’s book.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 295 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756 |
From W. E. Darwin 11 October [1862]
Summary
Sends comments on Lythrum.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3756F |
From J. D. Hooker [12 October 1862]
Summary
Has sent two Impatiens flowers; curious to know what CD makes of the floral whorls and their vascular bundles.
Cassia is another genus that has different [coloured] anthers in same flower.
Continues to work on Welwitschia.
Feels as CD does about his work, which after a time seems flat and stale. He could never have done what CD did in his Orchids.
CD’s facts about Verbascum have horrible bearing on JDH’s practice of lumping species together.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 59–60, 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3757 |
From B. J. Sulivan 13 October [1862]
Summary
If Wickham remains in town and CD is well enough, BJS thinks they might come about the 22d.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3759 |
From B. J. Sulivan 14 October [1862]
Summary
Arranges to come to Down on the 21st if CD is well enough.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 278 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3763 |
From George Bentham 15 October 1862
Summary
Sends CD the reference for GB’s summary of Targioni-Tozzetti’s work [see 3760].
Hopes for a communication to the Linnean Society from CD "this winter".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3765 |
From C. C. Babington 16 October 1862
Summary
Believes the [Lythrum] seeds have been sent to CD by Stratton [Curator, Cambridge Botanic Garden]. They have none of the others requested.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3767 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 16 October 1862
Summary
Discusses German editions of Origin and Orchids.
Sends publication dealing with leaves.
Relates amusing case of paternity confirmed.
Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3768 |
From H. W. Bates 17 October 1862
Summary
Still working on book and has completed 620 out of 700 pages.
Rewrote memoir [on mimicry in Amazon Lepidoptera] for Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. [23 (1862): 495–566].
Edwin Brown, HWB’s earliest naturalist friend, will have a hard time classifying Carabi as he is unable to travel.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3771 |
From J. D. Hooker [18 October 1862]
Summary
Does CD want Masdevallia?
Sends addresses of persons in S. America who would send Melastomataceae seeds.
Has ordered Matthieu Bonafous on maize [Histoire naturelle du maïs (1836)].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3774 |
From B. J. Sulivan 18 October [1862]
Summary
Confirms arrangements for his trip to Down.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 276 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3775 |
From W. E. Darwin 21 October [1862]
Summary
Effect on seed production of differences in distance between Lythrum plants.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 162.1: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3777 |
From W. E. Darwin 23 October [1862]
Summary
Sends observations on Lythrum. Reports bad health of Maud Atherley.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3777F |
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Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (28) |
Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |