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From Daniel Oliver   [4–8 February 1862]

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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]

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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]

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Sends C. W. Crocker’s address.

Doubts CWC can help with Mormodes.

Will see CD at Lubbock’s.

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

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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]

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Sends dried specimens of Melastomataceae.

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]

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Describes battles among bulls for leadership of the [Chillingham] herd.

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

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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

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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

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Discusses politics in the U. S. and relations between Britain and America.

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?]

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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

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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

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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
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