To John Murray 22 January [1863]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin be sent to Thomas Rivers.
Curious about sale of Orchids. It is too stiff for the public. "If praise from Botanists would sell, it would go off well."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 22 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3936 |
From Daniel Oliver 22 January 1863
Summary
The number of "aquatic" flowers is reduced if one considers only those that expand under water.
Lecturing at Norwich.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3937 |
From Francis Boott 23 January 1863
Summary
His son wants CD’s opinion about a cub supposed by Frank Buckland to be progeny of a lioness and mastiff.
Lyell working at last proofs [of Antiquity of man]; he is scornful of Owen.
Author: | Francis Boott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3938 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 January 1863
Summary
JDH delivers CD’s letter to C. V. Naudin.
Neither Naudin nor Decaisne appreciates Origin.
Discusses Naudin on physiological causes of species formation;
Decaisne on plant heredity.
JDH on Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 99–100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3940 |
From H. W. Bates 24 January 1863
Summary
Wallace noticed that melastomads in Malay archipelago were visited by small Hymenoptera.
Darwinism discussed at the last meeting of the Zoological Society. The Darwinians had the best of it.
HWB has committed the "folly" of marriage [to Sarah Ann Mason, 15 Jan 1863].
Printing of vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons] is nearly finished.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3941 |
To T. F. Jamieson 24 January [1863]
Summary
Impressed with TFJ’s Glen Roy paper.
TFJ has treated CD’s errors very gently.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Date: | 24 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | McConnochie 1901, pp. 236–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3941F |
To Thomas Rivers 25 January [1863]
Summary
Has received the two trees sent by TR. Is anxious to see the fruit of the double peach.
The Origin is being sent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | 25 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1086) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3942 |
To Hermann Crüger 25 January [1863]
Summary
Asks about insect fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hermann Crüger |
Date: | 25 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 358 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3943 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 26 [January 1863]
Summary
Has WBT ever heard of a case of the regeneration of monstrous (extra) toe on fowls?
Inquires about a curious pigeon reported at the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 26 [Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3944 |
To H. W. Bates 26 January [1863]
Summary
Congratulations on marriage, which CD considers the best and only chance for happiness in this world.
Glad HWB is near completion of book.
Begs him to thank Wallace for Melastoma information; CD "cannot endure being beaten by a beggarly flower".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3945 |
From Thomas Rivers 26 January 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for Origin.
TR has often thought naturalists do not pay enough attention to the effect of site, soil, and climate on animals and plants and "hence has arisen the enormous number of so-called species".
His observations on people of different counties.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3946 |
From Friedrich Rolle 26 January 1863
Summary
Pleased that his book, Ch. Darwin’s Lehre [1863], has CD’s approval.
FR formerly a geologist, now a dealer in natural history objects.
Most active supporter of CD’s theory is Gustav Jäger in Vienna.
FR regards fossil Hipparion as a link between horse and pachyderms.
Author: | Friedrich Rolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3947 |
To Francis Trevelyan Buckland 26 January [1863]
Summary
Asks FB’s help in identifying an article in The Field about the fins of fishes growing again after being cut off, and inquiring whether he has heard of the re-growth of organs in the mammalia or birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
Date: | 26 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (23 June 1993, lot 146) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3948F |
From W. B. Tegetmeier [after 26 January 1863]
Summary
Does not believe in regeneration of monstrous toe.
Pigeon and poultry experiments.
Peculiar pigeon at Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 26 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3949 |
From Asa Gray 27 January 1863
Summary
Discusses the ill-will between England and U. S.
Considers the bases for deciding which plant species are "high" and which "low".
Comments on Alphonse de Candolle’s paper on oaks ["Étude sur l’espèce", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 59–110].
Encloses S. H. Scudder’s letter on Lepidoptera and fertilisation of orchids which identifies a butterfly with Platanthera pollinia adhering to it. Jokingly applies natural selection to butterflies acted on by orchid pollinia.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 129, 130 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3950 |
To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener [before 27 January 1863]
Summary
Remarks on the influence of pollen of one species or variety on the seed and fruit of another while still attached to the female plant. Refers to a remarkable case previously given by D. Beaton and asks whether Beaton will repeat the details.
[CD’s letter is followed by notes by D. Beaton in which he answers CD’s question, dissociating himself from some of his remarks, and in particular denying C. F. v. Gärtner’s claim that colour of one variety of pea can be changed by the direct action of the pollen of a different variety.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 27 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3951 |
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 28 January 1863
Summary
Grateful for CD’s commendation of his Glen Roy paper ["Parallel roads of Glen Roy", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 19 (1863): 235–59].
Reading Justus Liebig [trans. William Gregory, Animal chemistry or organic chemistry (1842)] has suggested that pattern of evolutionary succession might depend on differential need for soil minerals.
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3952 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1863]
Summary
Naudin has not answered CD’s letter.
Reactions of Candolle, Naudin, Decaisne, and Gaston de Saporta to Origin.
CD’s new hothouse.
CD’s Linum paper.
JDH’s work on Welwitschia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3953 |
To Friedrich Rolle 30 January [1863]
Summary
Thanks FR for sketch of progress of evolutionary theory in Germany.
Compliments to Gustav Jäger.
Comments on FR’s book [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Rolle |
Date: | 30 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum, Frankfurt (SNG-Archiv: Malakol.: Nachlass Rolle) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3954 |
From Thomas Rivers 30 January 1863
Summary
Asks CD’s views on TR’s observations that leaves breathe from their under-surfaces.
Peach-trees in hothouses cannot be kept in health unless fresh air is admitted so as to make its way under the leaves.
Continues his observations on the effect of environment on men – those migrating to America gradually assuming Indian-like features.
Author: | Thomas Rivers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3955 |
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Falconer, Hugh | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (3) |
Anderson, Isaac | (3) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (1) |
Anderson, Isaac | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Buckland, Frank | (1) |
Candolle, Alphonse de | (2) |
Crüger, Hermann | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Rivers, Thomas | (5) |
Rolle, Friedrich | (1) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Suchsland, F. E. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (69) |
Rivers, Thomas | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Falconer, Hugh | (6) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (4) |