From M. T. Masters 14 April 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for specimens which show that an abnormality in one genus is normal in another, which bears on CD’s views on descent.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4092 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1863
Summary
The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4093 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
From George Bentham [c. 14 April 1863]
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4096 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 March 1863]
Summary
Owen is the author of the Athenæum article [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19]. JDH dismisses it as vulgar rubbish. W. B. Carpenter intends to write a reply.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 126–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4098 |
From W. H. Flower 15 April 1863
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4101 |
From William Hepworth Dixon 16 April 1863
Summary
Thinks CD’s letter ["The doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80] will appear "with a clearer field and to better effect" if delayed a week, since next issue [of Athenæum] has Lyell’s reply to Hugh Falconer, and W. B. Carpenter’s report on the Abbéville jaw.
Author: | William Hepworth Dixon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4102 |
From D. T. Ansted 17 April 1863
Summary
Was unable to see Ransome [to find out whether DTA’s shares in the patent had earned any income so he could repay CD] but believes Ransome’s work will be profitable. Bemoans his own constant financial misfortune and asks CD to give up the deed of his loan to him, on the promise that if the shares ever yield any income, CD will be paid.
Author: | David Thomas Ansted |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4104 |
From P. G. King 19 April 1863
Summary
CD’s photograph evokes PGK’s reminiscence of CD in the Beagle.
Author: | Philip Gidley King |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4109 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
From Asa Gray 20 April 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4112 |
From Hugh Falconer 20 April [1863]
Summary
Has been in France, conveys good wishes from Quatrefages.
Describes the fossil of an unusual mammal head from Brazil.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4113 |
From H. B. Dobell 20 April 1863
Summary
Sends CD a form he has devised of a proper genealogical table of three or four generations of the families of medical cases, so that hereditary transmission may be more accurately and fully recorded.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4115 |
From H. W. Bates 20 April 1863
Summary
Expresses hope that CD is ready to pronounce sentence on his book;
he relates his financial position and mentions that he hopes to get a position at the British Museum.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4116 |
From George Bentham 21 April 1863
Summary
Has not yet read the pamphlets [selection of reviews of Origin, sent by CD at GB’s request]. Though GB does not go so far as Hooker in accepting all of CD’s hypotheses and does not feel up to a thorough discussion of his views, he hopes in his Linnean Anniversary Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1863): xi–xxix] to speak on the present state of the [species] question.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4118 |
From John Hutton Balfour 22 April 1863
Summary
Thanks for paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
One of his gardeners [John Scott] is also studying such fertilisation and appreciates CD’s encouragement; Scott has paper to read for Edinburgh Botanical Society.
Author: | John Hutton Balfour |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4119 |
From W. E. Darwin 22 April [1863]
Summary
Sent off Corydalis. Observations on Corydalis pistils.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4120F |
From D. T. Ansted 23 April 1863
Summary
Is very grateful for CD’s note and return of the bond for £250; promises to repay CD any profits made from those shares, even in the event of DTA’s death.
Is sorry to hear CD is ill.
Author: | David Thomas Ansted |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4123 |
From Hermann Crüger 23 April 1863
Summary
Observations on Catasetum.
Figs require insects in order to set seed.
Author: | Hermann Crüger |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 276, DAR 205.8: 68 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4124 |
From Hugh Falconer 24 April [1863]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4125 |
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Scott, John | (16) |
Gray, Asa | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |
Falconer, Hugh | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (264) |
Hooker, J. D. | (32) |
Scott, John | (16) |
Gray, Asa | (11) |
Darwin, W. E. | (10) |