To ? 11 March [1862–9]
Summary
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 11 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13877F |
To ? 29 March [1862–9]
Summary
Declines, regretfully, to contribute to or to have his name appear on a new magazine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 29 Mar [1862-9] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13878 |
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 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 |
From C. W. Crocker 13 March 1862
Summary
Informs CD where, at Kew, to find Epipactis palustris.
Has never trusted Donald Beaton.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 256 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3471 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 March [1862]
Summary
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3472 |
To Asa Gray 15 March [1862]
Summary
Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.
"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3473 |
From J. D. Hooker 17 March 1862
Summary
JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.
Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.
Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 23–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3474 |
From M. T. Masters 17 March 1862
Summary
He has only an uncertain memory of the placement of stamens in the [monstrous?] primrose CD asked about.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3475 |
To Richard Kippist 18 March [1862]
Summary
Sends paper to be read ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3476 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 18 March [1862]
Summary
Orchids taking up all his time.
He longs to be at work again on poultry and rabbits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3478 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 March [1862]
Summary
On effect of external conditions: CD thinks all variability due to changes in conditions of life because there is more variability under unnatural domestic conditions than under nature, and changed conditions affect the reproductive organs. But why one seedling out of thousands presents some new character transcends the wildest powers of conjecture.
Not shaken by "saltus" – he had examined all cases of normal structure resembling monstrosities which appear per saltum. Has fought his tendency to attribute too much to natural selection; perhaps he has too much conquered it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3479 |
letter | (34) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Kippist, Richard | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (3) |
Crocker, C. W. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Harris, G. E. | (2) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (2) |
Kippist, Richard | (2) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |