From Francis Walker 24 June [1862]
Summary
Identified two flies as species of Empis that suck flowers, but the females also feed on small Diptera.
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10547 |
From Daniel Oliver 16 September 1862
Summary
Envelope containing specimens (apparently mentioned in the letter from Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863 (S 4015)).
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891G |
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 Robert Bateman [28 January 1862]
Summary
For his father [James Bateman], he sends three more species of orchids and names of others described by CD.
Author: | Robert Bateman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3357 |
From Andrew Smith [November? 1862]
Summary
AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.
Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.
Author: | Andrew Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Nov? 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 184 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3362 |
From W. E. Darwin [2 November 1862]
Summary
Counted seeds by tens. Sends some.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3362F |
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 T. C. Eyton [after 19 May 1862?]
Summary
Sends photograph. Asks CD for his.
Author: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 19 May 1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3364 |
From John Brodie Innes 2 January [1862]
Summary
Quiz has been sent off to Down.
JBI will leave for Scotland on Monday.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 167.1: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3370 |
From J. D. Hooker [1 January 1862]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3373 |
From John Lubbock 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends paper [on ancient Swiss lake-habitations, Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51] for CD’s opinion.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3376 |
From Henry Walter Bates 6 January 1862
Summary
Sends CD ch. 2 of his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons] for suggestions, having accepted CD’s recommendations concerning ch. 1.
Effects of climate on dress in ch. 1 similar to, but independent of, notions expressed by CD in his Journal of researches [p. 381].
On geology, book deals with distribution and theory of deltas of the Amazon.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3377 |
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 Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation 10 January 1862
Author: | Société Impériale Zoologique d’Acclimatation |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 11v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3379 |
From H. W. Bates 11 January 1862
Summary
Grieved to hear of CD’s illness; begs him not to give moment’s thought to his MS until health has returned.
Plans to exhibit mimetic butterflies at Linnean Society.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3381 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 13 January 1862
Summary
Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.
Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 290 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3383 |
From Charles Carter Blake 13 January 1862
Summary
Thanks for note on his Macrauchenia paper [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 441–3].
Asks for references to descriptions of certain bones found in South America.
Lists four fossil New World monkeys; is CD aware of any others?
Author: | Charles Carter Blake |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3384 |
From C. E. Brown-Séquard 13 January 1862
Summary
Apologises for not answering CD sooner about where he will publish review [of Origin]. Review is to appear in his own journal, but will postpone publishing it until the French translation of 3d ed. appears. Expresses substantial agreement with CD’s views.
Author: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3385 |
From John Hutton Balfour 14 January 1862
Summary
Thanks for Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]; will examine some [Edinburgh] Botanic Garden samples in its light.
Huxley visiting Edinburgh and spoke on man’s zoological relations with monkeys [see Man’s place in nature (1863)]. JHB disagrees with his views.
Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3387 |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Gray, Asa | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (17) |
Lubbock, John | (12) |
Darwin, C. R. | (299) |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Gray, Asa | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (17) |