From H. G. Bronn [before 11 March 1862]
Summary
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3363 |
From Charles Lyell [28–31 March 1862]
Summary
Suggests that the height of the water which formed the shelves in Glen Roy was determined not by the height of the blocking glacier but by the height of a col. Notes problems in the idea.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28–31 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.274) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3463 |
From C. W. Crocker [before 13 March 1862]
Summary
Will experiment on hollyhocks as CD suggests.
On desirability of a place for experiments to be set up by Government or a scientific society. Kew is too busy for experiments.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 13 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3464 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 March 1862
Summary
Had it not been for CD, JDH would never have written such papers as his one on Arctic flora. The "evulgation" of CD’s views is the purest pleasure he derives from them.
He too is staggered that Greenland ought to have been depopulated during the glacial period. Absence of Caltha is fatal to its re-population by chance migration.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 17–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3465 |
From George E. Harris 3 March 1862
Summary
GEH, a tailor, wishes to trade some work for a presentation copy of the Origin.
Author: | George Edwin Harris |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.1: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3466 |
From Asa Gray 6 March [1862]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3467 |
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1862]
Summary
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3469 |
From C. W. Crocker 13 March 1862
Summary
Informs CD where, at Kew, to find Epipactis palustris.
Has never trusted Donald Beaton.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3471 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 March 1862
Summary
JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.
Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.
Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 23–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3474 |
From M. T. Masters 17 March 1862
Summary
He has only an uncertain memory of the placement of stamens in the [monstrous?] primrose CD asked about.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3475 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 March 1862]
Summary
Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.
On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 27–9; American Philosophical Society Library (Hooker papers, B/H76.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3480 |
From J. D. Hooker [23–5 March 1862]
Summary
Identifies Calanthe masuca.
Asa Gray would not quarrel with them – "snubbing from us may have done him more good than our sympathy".
If CD means the old Vaucher, he was considered a very accurate, acute, able observer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23–5 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3483 |
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 24 March 1862
Summary
Writes with an important fact about the parallel roads of Glen Roy. The watershed at Makoul corresponds with the lowermost of the Glen Roy lines. Over a stretch of 20 miles from east to west the lowermost of the Glen Roy lines is near parallel with the present sea level.
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2834–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3483F |
From Henry Holland 26 March [1862]
Summary
Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 241 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3485 |
From J. D. Hooker [after 26 March 1862?]
Summary
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 26 Mar 1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3486 |
From H. G. Bronn 27 March 1862
Summary
CD can add revisions since he cannot begin work on 2d German ed. of Origin until May.
Schweizerbart wants to publish translation of Orchids. Asks for woodcuts for illustrations.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3487 |
From Asa Gray 31 March [1862]
Summary
Has been reading J. D. Morell’s new book on psychology [An introduction to mental philosophy, on the inductive method (1862)].
Progress of the Civil War.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 108 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3489 |
From D. F. Nevill [c. 14 March 1862]
Summary
Belated thanks for CD’s photograph.
When in London at Rucker’s wonderful gardens she learned he had sent CD a Mormodes.
Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 14 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 172.1: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3431 |
letter | (18) |
Bronn, H. G. | (2) |
Crocker, C. W. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Harris, G. E. | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Bronn, H. G. | (2) |
Crocker, C. W. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |