From Edwin Brown 14 February 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his second paper on mutability of race forms ["On the mutability of species", Proceedings of the Northern Entomological Society, 22 December 1862, pp.4–26].
On tactics of his opponents.
He and Bates have divided up Carabidae and Vanessa for studying relationship of forms.
Author: | Edwin Brown |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 325 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3983 |
From S. P. Woodward 14 February 1863
Summary
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3984 |
CD memorandum 14 February 1863
Summary
Agreement to cancel the bond of D. T. Ansted, dated 19 April 1855. Prof. Ansted is arranging to pay CD what he can.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3985A |
To J. D. Hooker 15 February [1863]
Summary
Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3986 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 February [1863]
Summary
It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.
Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.
Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.
[P.S. missing from original.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3987 |
To Roland Trimen 16 February [1863]
Summary
Further discusses RT’s observations on Cape [of Good Hope] orchids and asks whether it would be possible for him to send some specimens to Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3988 |
From J. D. Hooker [16 February 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3989 |
To Horace Benge Dobell 16 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].
Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.
How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.
Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3990 |
To John Scott 16 February [1863]
Summary
Tells JS Acropera capsule should be left to grow.
JS was correct on "bud-variation" in fern frond.
Does not believe Primula structure necessarily related to dioecism, but the difference in fertility of the two forms forced him to admit the possibility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B55, B81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3991 |
To Camille Dareste 16 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks for letter and pamphlet.
His approbation of Origin is extremely gratifying, especially since Origin produced no effect whatever in France.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 368 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3992 |
To J. J. Briggs 16 February [1863]
Summary
Sends belated thanks for the useful facts which he plans to quote. [See 3963.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Joseph Briggs |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Mrs H. Codd (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3992A |
To T. H. Huxley [after 16 February 1863]
Summary
A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [after 16 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3992F |
To Charles Lyell 17 [February 1863]
Summary
Criticises Dana’s classification of man and his use of fore-limbs as a basis for systematic classification.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.288) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3993 |
From Richard Frean 17 February 1863
Summary
Discusses his reading and understanding of Origin.
Author: | Richard Frean |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | Launceston Library (State Library of Tasmania): Local Studies Collection – Manuscripts (Robert Norman Smith Diaries and correspondence LMSS 0020) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3993F |
From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 17 February 1863
Summary
Replies to CD’s letter: dimorphism common in Ceylon Rubiaceae. [See Forms of flowers, p. 286.]
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3994 |
From W. B. Tegetmeier 18 February 1863
Summary
Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.
Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3995 |
To T. H. Huxley 18 [February 1863]
Summary
Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 18 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3996 |
From John Scott 18 February [1863]
Summary
Sends Acropera capsule for CD to dissect.
Will try to raise Acropera from seed (never done before in Britain) to examine its sexual forms.
Studying primroses, parthenogenesis, and reproduction of some cryptogams.
Received maize varieties from CD.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3997 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 19 February [1863]
Summary
Discusses experiments that WBT will undertake to investigate whether particular pigeon and poultry crosses produce sterile hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 19 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3998 |
From George Maw 19 February 1863
Summary
Discusses the structure and particular uniformities of the Shropshire coal-seams and surrounding strata; speculates on their origins.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3999 |
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