From Robert Caspary [after 9 June 1866]
Summary
Data on good and bad pollen-grain yields of different species. Sends sketches of two male Rhamnus catharticus flowers [see Forms of flowers, p. 294].
Author: | Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 9 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A81; DAR 111: B45, B48b, B48c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10344 |
From W. E. Darwin [23 June 1866]
Summary
Ovules of males of two forms [of Rhamnus catharticus?] are abortive and both females have incomplete stamens.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4962 |
From W. E. Darwin [18 June 1866]
Summary
Sends some specimens of three kinds of buckthorn.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [18 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5109 |
From J. D. Hooker [2 June 1866]
Summary
He is not grieved at CD’s omissions of his [JDH’s] work [from Origin, 4th ed.]. It proves nothing – claims only to be illustration of using CD’s methods.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5110 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 3 June 1866
Summary
In London for the Botanical Congress; regrets missing CD.
Lyell and CD have mistaken H. Lecoq’s position on glaciers. He has not denied the possibility of a glacial period, only that decreased temperature is needed for their extension.
Recommends F. J. Ruprecht on vegetable detritus in the black earth chernozem of Russia.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5111 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for Asa Gray’s letter, enclosed.
Knew JDH would not care about omissions but was vexed at his own forgetfulness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 291 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5112 |
To William Turner 5 June [1866]
Summary
Thanks for WT’s papers, especially ["The present aspect of the doctrine of cellular pathology", Edinburgh Med. J. 8 (1863): 873–97].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner |
Date: | 5 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5113 |
From Thomas Rivers 6 June 1866
Summary
Sends blooms of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5114 |
To Thomas Rivers 8 June [1866]
Summary
Examined the Cytisus and forwarded to Caspary. The C. adami case "gets more and more perplexing", asks for report if Cytisus purpureus-elongatus produces any pods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 8 June [1866] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5115 |
From Daniel Oliver 9 June 1866
Summary
Identifies a plant.
CD will not find Hermann Schacht’s Lehrbuch [der Anatomie und Physiologie der Gewächse (1856–9)] at the Linnean Society Library.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5116 |
From George Henslow 11 June [1866]
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On hybridization among plants", Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13].
Regrets delay in returning CD’s books.
Encourages CD to make "disparaging remarks".
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5117 |
To George Henslow 12 June [1866]
Summary
Returns proofs of GH’s paper ["On hybridization among plants", Pop. Sci. Rev. 5 (1866): 304–13] with his criticisms. Prefers that GH not state that CD has read the proofs.
Does C. V. Naudin really say that ovules (not seed) of hybrid Luffa and Cucumis are imperfect?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | 12 June [1866] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5118 |
To Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli 12 June [1866]
Summary
Comments on CWvN’s Die Entstehung und Begriff [der Naturhistorischen Art (1864)].
Discussion of beauty of flowers in new edition of Origin not based on CWvN’s article.
Comments on CWvN’s argument that flower structures are not due to natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli |
Date: | 12 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5119 |
From George Henslow [13 or 14 June 1866]
Summary
Thanks for criticism of proofs of his paper [see 5117].
Not sure whether CD believes in reversion and would like a positive statement as this is the one point C. V. Naudin especially observed. Naudin offers his remarks on ovules as a matter to be proved ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1 (1865): 25–176].
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 or 14] June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5120 |
From J. T. Moggridge 14 June [1866]
Summary
Will take earlier train to Down.
Author: | John Traherne Moggridge |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5121 |
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 15 June [1866]
Summary
Thanks for Geological survey of North Wales [1866]. Longs to return to the mountains with which he was once familiar, but did not understand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 15 June [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 8 (EH 88205981) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5123 |
To George Henslow 15 [June 1866]
Summary
CD believes most strongly in reversion. J. G. Kölreuter’s, K. F. v Gärtner’s, and some of Charles Naudin’s cases leave no doubt in his mind. Forgets whether Herbert gave cases but in conversation he certainly believed in it. Thinks Gärtner is right to say reversion occurs only rarely in plant hybrids which have not been cultivated. [See 5120.]
Variation
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henslow |
Date: | 15 [June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR Library: tipped into George Henslow’s copy of Variation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5123A |
From George Maw 18 June 1866
Summary
In response to CD’s request for bud-sports, he sends a piece of a fern-leaved beech.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5124 |
To W. E. Darwin 19 [June 1866]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 19 [June 1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5125 |
From George Henslow 19 June 1866
Summary
Has altered paper according to CD’s comments.
Returns books.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 June 1866 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5126 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
Henslow, George | (3) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Caspary, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Henslow, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Maw, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
Henslow, George | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Maw, George | (2) |
Rivers, Thomas | (2) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (1) |
Caspary, Robert | (1) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (1) |
Nägeli, C. W. von | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Turner, William | (1) |