From Daniel Oliver [4–8 February 1862]
Summary
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4–8 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.8: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2916 |
From James Bateman [1 February 1862]
Summary
Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
Author: | James Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3356 |
From John Lubbock 7 [February] 1862
Summary
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 [Feb] 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3378 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 15 February 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 15 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 7v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3429 |
From J. E. Gray 1 February 1862
Summary
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3433 |
From J. D. Hooker [8 February 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3434 |
From Henry Holland [1 or 8 February 1862]
Summary
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 or 8] Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3435 |
From Charles Augustus Bennet, Lord Tankerville [9 February 1862]
Author: | Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [9 Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 83: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3441 |
From Maurice Alberts 10 February 1862
Summary
Has received diploma from the University of Breslau [honorary doctorate in medicine and surgery]. Should he forward it or will CD pick it up in London? [See 3226a and 3446.]
Author: | Maurice Alberts |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 230: 9a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3442A |
From W. E. Darwin 12 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses his new microscope.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3443F |
From John Lubbock 13 February 1862
Summary
Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3444 |
From Maurice Alberts 13 February 1862
Summary
Has forwarded a diploma from the University of Breslau [Honorary Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery].
Author: | Maurice Alberts |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 2v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3445 |
From Charles William Crocker 17 February 1862
Summary
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Separation of sexes in Billbergia.
Offers to experiment under CD’s direction, now that he has retired from Kew.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3449 |
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 17 February 1862
Summary
In his paper for Geological Society ["Glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204] he will prove that all the lake-basins of the Alps were scooped out by glaciers.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3450 |
From Asa Gray 18 February 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 106 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3451 |
From Searles Valentine Wood 18 February 1862
Summary
Variation in Mollusca. The most abundant forms vary most.
Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3452 |
From J. B. Innes 19 February [1862]
Summary
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3454 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1862?]
Summary
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3455 |
From J. E. Gray 21 February 1862
Summary
Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3456 |
From J. D. Hooker 27 February 1862
Summary
Pleased at CD’s opinion of his Arctic plants paper. CD has caught great blunder.
Lack of Arctic–Asiatic species in mountains of tropical Asia does not trouble him. Species seem to indicate some "current of migration" from Europe and W. Asia southeastward to Ceylon – an awful staggerer to bridge migrations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 15–16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3461 |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Alberts, Maurice | (2) |
Gray, J. E. | (2) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Bateman, James | (1) |
Alberts, Maurice | (2) |
Bateman, James | (1) |
Bennet, C. A. (b) | (1) |
Crocker, C. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Gray, J. E. | (2) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Wood, S. V. | (1) |