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 |
To A. C. Ramsay 18 February [1862]
Summary
Would like to hear ACR’s new views on origin of mountain lakes, but cannot stand the hot, late meetings [at Geological Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 18 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 3 (EH 88205976) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3453 |
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 |
To J. B. Innes 24 February [1862]
Summary
Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.
Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 24 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3457 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 February [1862]
Summary
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3458 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 26 February [1862]
Summary
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 26 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 339 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3459 |
To H. W. Bates 27 [February 1862]
Summary
Writes that [Murray’s] terms are very favourable; has never heard of such terms offered for a first work. HWB can depend on fact that Murray is pleased with it [The naturalist on the river Amazons].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 27 [Feb 1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3460 |
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 |
To H. W. Bates 27 February [1862]
Summary
Thanks for information on domestic animals of Indians.
Glad Murray thinks well of MS of The naturalist on the river Amazons.
CD working on proofs of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 27 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3462 |
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 |
To G. E. Harris 5 March [1862]
Summary
Has directed Murray to send Harris a copy of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Edwin Harris |
Date: | 5 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Mrs Jane Brown (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3466F |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1862]
Summary
CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.
Orchids to appear soon.
Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.
Work on floral dimorphism.
High opinion of Buckle as a writer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3468 |
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 |
To H. G. Bronn 11 March [1862]
Summary
Pleased that new German edition of Origin is wanted. Wishes to make corrections.
Suggests German translation of Orchids.
Comments on HGB’s book [Untersuchungen (1858)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 11 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3470 |
Darwin, C. R. | (251) |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Gray, Asa | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (17) |
Darwin, C. R. | (299) |
Hooker, J. D. | (40) |
Gray, Asa | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (15) |
Bates, H. W. | (13) |