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To Asa Gray   2 May [1856]

Summary

Suggests affinities of the U. S. flora that he considers would be worth investigating. Wants to know the ranges of species in large and small genera.

Questions AG on naturalised plants; whether any are social in U. S. which are not so elsewhere and how variable they are compared with indigenous species. Would like to know of any differences in the variability of species at different points of their ranges and also the physical states of plants at the extremes of their ranges.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  2 May [1856]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1863

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From J. D. Hooker   10 June 1863

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JDH lays hard treatment of John Scott to J. H. Balfour’s anti-Darwinism.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 June 1863
Classmark:  DAR 101: 149–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4210

Matches: 43 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   10 June 1863
  • … DAR 101: 149–50 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 10 June 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … in the Christchurch Press , 1 April  1863, pp.   …
  • … 1–2, and 2 April 1863, pp.  2–3 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 19 June 1863 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 23 [June 1863] ). …
  • … Haliburton 1863 . …
  • … Bibliography Beer, Joseph Georg. 1863. Beiträge zur Morphologie und Biologie der Familie …
  • … der Orchideen. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. Bentham, George. 1863. [ …
  • … Anniversary address, 25 May 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society ( …
  • … CD sent the enclosure to the letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] , with his letter to …
  • … Hooker of 8 [June 1863] . Hooker refers to John Hutton Balfour , regius professor of …
  • … See letter to J.  D. Hooker, 8 [June 1863] . Sigismund Rucker was a leading amateur …
  • … discussed by CD in his letter to Hooker of 23 [June 1863] . See also letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 19 June 1863 . …
  • … Beer 1863 . …
  • … Bentham 1863 . The reference is …
  • … to the letter from Julius von Haast, 5 March 1863 , and probably to Haast’s article …
  • … Academic Press. Haliburton, Robert Grant. 1863. New materials for the history of man, …
  • … In his letter to Hooker of 8 [June 1863] , CD mentioned his intention to communicate one …
  • … Society . CD had enclosed the letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 , with his letter to …
  • … Hooker of 8 [June 1863] . Hooker and Asa Gray held radically different views on the …
  • … the matter in their letters (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [1 March 1863] and n.  7). …
  • … refers to John Evans’s letter in the Athenæum , 6 June 1863, pp.  747–8, in which Evans …
  • … jaw and flint implements found in March 1863 at Moulin-Quignon quarry, near Abbeville, …
  • … letter from S.  P.  Woodward, 5 June 1863 , n.  9. CD had become interested in phyllotaxy …
  • … 1863a , p.  80 (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 January [1863] , letter to Daniel …
  • … Oliver, 20 [February 1863] , and letter from …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 17 February 1863 ). He carried out …
  • … and measurements on the subject in May 1863, requesting references from Hooker (see …
  • … letters to J.  D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] and …
  • … 29 May [1863] , and letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [13 May 1863] and [ …
  • … 24 May 1863] ; see also CD’s notes on this subject in DAR 51: 6–32). Hooker’ …
  • … subject in his letter to CD of 26 May 1863 (see n.  6, above). Spencer 1860–2  constituted …
  • … remaining four parts, published between 1863 and 1896 ( DNB ), dealt with its application …
  • … began publication in numbers in January 1863 ( ibid. , p. [v]). CD’s annotated copy of …
  • … by Gustav Mann (see, for example, letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 March 1863] , [7  …
  • … May 1863] , [13  …
  • … May 1863] , and [ …
  • … 24 May 1863] ); his paper on the subject was read …
  • … before the Linnean Society on 5 November 1863 ( J.  D.   Hooker 1863b ). CD was interested …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 May 1863] ). Hooker discussed the significance of his …

From J. D. Hooker   [13 May 1863]

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Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.

Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.

Cameroon plants.

JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [13 May 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 137–40
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4165

Matches: 48 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [13 May 1863] …
  • … 5544). See also n.  25, above, and letter to Charles Lyell, 17 March [1863] and n.  16. …
  • … DAR 101: 137–40 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [13 May 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … but relied on a small private income (see letter from H.  W.  Bates, 20 April 1863 ). For …
  • … the direction of Bates’s career after 1863, see Woodcock 1969 , pp.  255–61. Bates’s …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
  • … during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Bentham, George. 1863. [ …
  • … Anniversary address, 25 May 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society ( …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … between this letter, the letter to Osbert Salvin, 11 [May 1863] , and the letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] . The intervening Wednesday was 13 May. …
  • … See letter to Osbert Salvin, 11 [May 1863] , and letter from …
  • … Osbert Salvin, 12 May 1863 . Osbert Salvin and Frederick Du Cane Godman had returned from …
  • … in Central America that began in the autumn of 1861 and ended in January 1863 ( DNB ). In …
  • … his letter to CD of [8 May 1863] , Hooker wrote of Salvin’s interest in collecting natural …
  • … at Guayaquil in Ecuador was George Fagan ( British imperial calendar 1863). CD enclosed …
  • … the letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 , with his letter to …
  • … Hooker of [9 May 1863] . Charles Lyell ; …
  • … see letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] . George Bentham worked independently in the herbarium of the …
  • … his anniversary address, to be read before the society on 25 May 1863; see letters from …
  • … George Bentham , 21 April 1863  and …
  • … 21 May 1863 , and …
  • … Bentham 1863 . ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’ was published in …
  • … the Linnean Society (Botany) issued on 13 May 1863 ( General Index to the Journal of the …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n.  3, and Appendix VIII. George and …
  • … Ellen Busk (see Correspondence vol.  11, Appendix VIII). Bates 1863 . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n.   …
  • … 15. Bates 1863  was a narrative of Henry Walter Bates’s travels in the Amazon between …
  • … 1859. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] . The reference is to Daniel Oliver and …
  • … references on phyllotaxy (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 17 February 1863 , and letter to …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 20 [February 1863] ). Hooker refers to a series of articles on phyllotaxy …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] and n.  11. The reference is to Asa Gray . …
  • … 1863b ). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n.  11, and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] . Hooker refers to Clarence Peak, Fernando Po; Mann’s collections …
  • … off the west coast of Africa were made between 1860  and 1863 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n.  11). …
  • … Mann married Mary Anne Stovell on 12 November 1863 (Register of marriages, …
  • … registration district of Chichester, 1863, no.  60 (General Register Office)). See …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] and n.  15. Hooker refers to CD’s discussion of the …
  • … also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] . CD and Hooker had frequently debated …
  • … Charles Lyell . See letter to Charles Lyell, [7 May 1863] , nn.  5 and 6. See letter to …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] and n.  5. Hooker had sent CD a cart-load of plants …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [21 February 1863] ). See also Appendix VI. Bentham favourably …
  • … Society (see n.  6, above, and Bentham 1863 , p.  xv–xvi). Hooker refers to CD’s list of …
  • … out’ (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] ). John Edward Gray was the keeper of the …
  • … over 8000 of them being new ( Bates 1863 , 1: v). See also Gunther 1975 , p.  177. Bates …
  • … letter from H.  W.  Bates, 20 April 1863 . At this time Bates had no regular employment, …

From Asa Gray   23 November 1863

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CD’s poor health.

Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Nov 1863
Classmark:  DAR 165: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4346

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  • … From Asa Gray   23 November 1863
  • … DAR 165: 141 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 23 Nov 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography Brougham, Henry Peter. 1863. Opening address. …
  • … Promotion of Social Science, Edinburgh, 1863 , pp. 1–25. Cantor, Geoffrey. 1991. Michael …
  • … from CD is the letter to Asa Gray, 4 August [1863] , but Gray responded to this with …
  • … his letter to CD of 1 September 1863 . Maria Elizabeth, Joseph Dalton …
  • … Hooker’s daughter, had died aged 6 on 28 September 1863 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [28 September 1863] ). Francis Boott , an American-born physician and botanist …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [31 July 1863] ). The appendix of Samuel Haughton’s paper ( …
  • … popular lectures, that appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862  and 1863 (see letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 26 May 1863  and n.  12). …
  • … preface to Agassiz 1863a , dated 22 August 1863, Agassiz noted that his indirect intention …
  • … against the transmutation theory’ ( ibid. , p.  iii). Trimen 1863 . For CD’s role in the …
  • … of this paper, see letter to Roland Trimen, 23 May [1863] . Gray often sent stamps for …
  • … Leonard Darwin’s collection (see letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n.  15). …
  • … of Harvard University. Haughton, Samuel. 1863. On the form of the cells made by various …
  • … s University Press. Loring, Charles Greely. 1863. Neutral relations of England and the …
  • … William Vernon Harcourt] dated November 4th, 1863; printed in the London ‘Times’, November …
  • … John Murray. 1859. Trimen, Roland. 1863. On the fertilization of Disa grandiflora , …
  • … C. Darwin, Esq. , FLS, &c. [Read 4 June 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … reprint of S.  Haughton 1862b ( S.  Haughton 1863 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection– …
  • … through natural selection ( Wallace 1863 , pp.  305–7). Wallace noted that many of …
  • … s neutrality policy (see letter to Asa Gray, 26 June [1863] and n.  14). In a series …
  • … and William Schaw Lindsay in October and November 1863, Historicus published and discussed …
  • … two firms that were to build the ships. See, especially, The Times , 23 October 1863, p.   …
  • … 7, and 28 October 1863, p.  9. See also Loring 1864 , and Jenkins 1974–80 , 2: 202, 209– …
  • … containing Loring’s articles to CD (see letter from Asa Gray, 1 September 1863  and n.   …
  • … 12, and Loring 1863 ). These would have reached CD at about the same time as two letters …
  • … built vessels for the American Confederacy (see The Times , 11 September 1863, p.   …
  • … 7, and 18 September 1863, p.  7, and n.  6, above). The legality of …
  • … at peace was in question during 1862 and 1863, particularly after depredations against the …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [1 or 3 November 1863] , n.  21). Historicus had become an authority …
  • … foreign secretary (see letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863  and n.  27, and Jenkins 1974– …
  • … 80 , 2: 264). On 27 October 1863, the British authorities confiscated two iron-clad …
  • … the American Confederacy (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [1 or 3 November 1863] and n.   …
  • … 21, and The Times , 29 October 1863, p.  9). Gray may also be referring to newspaper …
  • … British-built Confederate ship (see, for example, The Times , 6 November 1863, p.   …
  • … 11, and 7 November 1863, p.  8). The seizure of John Laird’s two ships (see n.  8, above) …
  • … Enlistment Act, clearly supported this action (see The Times , 28 October 1863, p.   …
  • … 8, 4 November 1863, p.   …
  • … 6, 7 November 1863, p.  8). See n.  9, above. Gray may also be referring to the Alexandra …
  • … n.  7, above). During the month of October 1863, The Times quoted newspapers from cities …
  • … state elections took place on 13 October 1863, including gubernatorial contests in Ohio …
  • … Brougham on America’, Spectator , 10 October 1863, pp.  2596–7. The article examined and …
  • … of Social Science in Edinburgh ( Brougham 1863 ). Gray refers to Louis Agassiz and Michael …

To J. D. Hooker   [17 April 1863]

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Likes JDH’s review of Alphonse de Candolle [Mémoires et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)].

Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. What led to the question?", Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe.

CD has written a letter to the Athenæum "to say, under the cloak of attacking Heterogeny, a word in my own defence" [Collected papers 2: 78–80].

Bates’s Travels [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [17 Apr 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 190
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4103

Matches: 43 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [17 April 1863] …
  • … DAR 115: 190 Charles Robert Darwin Down [17 Apr 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … on the power of movement in Oxalis , dated 31 March – 9 April 1863, in DAR 66: 1 and 2. …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
  • … What led to the question?" , Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe. CD has written a …
  • … papers 2: 78–80]. Bates’s Travels [ Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent. …
  • … Hooker had been on a trip to Jersey and Guernsey from 2 to 17 April 1863 (see letter from …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 14 April 1863 , and letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [28 March 1863] and …
  • … 20 April 1863 ). Daniel Oliver assisted Hooker in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic …
  • … Candolle 1862a that appeared in the April 1863 number of the Natural History Review . CD’s …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [29 March 1863] . See n.  9, above, and Appendix VII. …
  • … See letter from George Bentham , [ c. 14 April 1863], and letter to …
  • … George Bentham, 15 April [1863] . CD had long been interested in George Bentham’s reaction …
  • … period, see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 5 March [1863] and n.  17. CD had urged Hooker not to …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [21 February 1863] , and Appendix VI. CD mentioned heterostyly in ‘ Oxalis …
  • … Falconer’s letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp.  459–60, accused Charles Lyell of …
  • … discussion of fossil human relics in C.  Lyell 1863a ( Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  460). …
  • … See also letter from John Lubbock, 7 April 1863  and n.  6. Jacques Boucher de Perthes was …
  • … criticising C.  Lyell 1863a appeared in the Athenæum , 21 February 1863, pp.  262–3. …
  • … Lyell’s letter in the Athenæum , 18 April 1863, pp.  523–5, which was written in response …
  • … letter from W.  H.  Dixon, 16  April 1863 . CD did not usually subscribe to the Athenæum ( …
  • … see letter to J.  D. Hooker, [29 March 1863] ), but had recently become interested in the …
  • … see, for example, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 [March 1863] ). See n.  3, above. …
  • … the issue of the Athenæum for 4 April 1863, p.  461, William Benjamin Carpenter responded …
  • … which appeared in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp.  417–19 (see Correspondence vol.   …
  • … In his letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  461, Carpenter defended himself against …
  • … vol.  11, Appendix VII). See letter from John Lubbock, 7 April 1863  and nn.  7 and 8. …
  • … anonymous review in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, p.  418, Owen had accused Carpenter of …
  • … prototype. Carpenter replied ( Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  461): After quoting my general …
  • … 4] July [1862] and n.  18). See letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863]. See letter from W.   …
  • … H.  Dixon, 16 April 1863 . CD’s …
  • … letter appeared in the Athenæum , 25 April 1863, pp.  554–5. C.   …
  • … Lyell 1863b . See letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863] and n.   …
  • … 11. Bates 1863 . …
  • … Bates 1863  was reviewed in …
  • … the Athenæum , 11 April 1863, pp.  488–9. The anonymous review concluded: We have already …
  • … of world’ (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 17 March [1863] ). See also letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [24 March 1863] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 26 [March 1863] ). Jules Emile Planchon had assisted in the herbarium of …
  • … IV). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26 [March 1863] and n.  14. This plant probably …
  • … Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in February 1863, to stock CD’s new hothouse. See letter to …

From J. D. Hooker   [24 May 1863]

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Flora of Cameroons shakes JDH’s faith in ability to explain past or present migrations. Sees need for a major novel explanation such as natural selection, glacial cold, or continental connections.

Lyell in a bad way about feud with Falconer.

JDH’s opinion of Wallace, Bates, J. E. Gray, Owen, Asa Gray, Lubbock, and Bentham.

Bentham’s Linnean Society address [see 4118].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 May 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 143–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4169

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  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [24 May 1863] …
  • … DAR 101: 143–6 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [24 May 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … part in the scientific community ( DNB ). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 29 May [1863] . …
  • … Press. 1922–54. Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record …
  • … Club of the Royal Society on 21 May 1863 (see n.  18, below); the following Sunday was 24  …
  • … see the letter to J.  D. Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] and n.  7. CD apparently sent …
  • … on phyllotaxy (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] ). See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] and n.  13. Lubbock, aged 29, helped to manage the family …
  • … during eleven years of travel. 2 vols. London: John Murray. Bentham, George. 1863. [ …
  • … Anniversary address, 25 May 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society ( …
  • … his letter to Hooker of 15 and 22 May [1863] . George Busk and Philip de Malpas Grey- …
  • … Egerton. See letters from J.  D. Hooker, [7 May 1863] and [ …
  • … 13 May 1863] , and Appendix VIII. The reference is to the Scottish botanist William …
  • … mechanism (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [13 May 1863] , and letter to J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [13 May 1863] and n.  20, and letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] . To account for the present distribution of animals and …
  • … letter from J.  D. Hooker, [13 May 1863] ). Hooker had been working on a collection of …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n.  11). Frederick Du Cane Godman and …
  • … the Galápagos Islands (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [8 May 1863] ). CD had written to …
  • … them (see letter to Osbert Salvin, 11 [May 1863] ). Hugh Falconer and Charles Lyell had …
  • … been involved in a public dispute since the beginning of April 1863 (see letter to …
  • … Charles Lyell, [7 May 1863] and n.  5). Hooker was encouraging them to resolve …
  • … their differences (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [13 May 1863] ). Lyell was staying at …
  • … East Cowes, Isle of Wight, in early May 1863 (K.  M.  Lyell ed.  1881, 2: 366–72). Hooker …
  • … South America ( Wallace 1853  and Bates 1863 ); CD considered Wallace’s book to be …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] ). John Edward Gray and Richard Owen ; CD …
  • … a ‘malignant fool’ in his letter to Hooker of 15 and 22 May [1863] . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] and n.  12. …
  • … of the Anthropological Review , published in May 1863. Hooker refers to George Bentham’s …
  • … address as president of the Linnean Society , which was to be delivered on 25 May 1863 ( …
  • … Bentham 1863 ). Bentham had evidently discussed his address, which assessed the impact of …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [13 May 1863] ). Falconer, George Busk , William Benjamin …
  • … in the Moulin-Quignon gravel pit near Abbeville, France, in March 1863 ( Athenæum , …
  • … 23 May 1863, p.  682). See also letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n.  5. Hooker refers to the meeting of the …
  • … of London 12: 567). During April and May 1863, Falconer had been pressing the claims of …
  • … 1863a ; see letter to Charles Lyell, [7 May 1863] , nn.  5 and 6). Hooker probably refers …
  • … of his findings in the Athenæum , 13 June 1863, pp.  779–80. Carpenter and, initially, …
  • … 1868 , 2: 602, and Athenæum , 18 April 1863, p.  523). However, on closer examination of …
  • … the jaw, Falconer pronounced the find to be spurious (see Athenæum , 2 May 1863, p.  587, …
  • … and letter from Hugh Falconer, 24 April [1863] ). See nn.  17 and 19, above. Falconer and …
  • … in which it was found (Falconer et al. 1863, p.  462). The palaeontologist Edouard Lartet …
  • … that took place in Abbeville and Paris between 9 and 13 May 1863 (Falconer et al. …
  • 1863). Opinions on the authenticity of the remains had divided along Anglo-French lines ( …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n.  5). John Lubbock’ …
  • … was reported in the Athenæum , 6 June 1863, p.  748. Lea Hurst, near Matlock, Derbyshire, …

To Asa Gray   20 April [1863]

Summary

Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".

Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.

Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?

Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?

Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].

Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.

Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  20 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4110

Matches: 43 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   20 April [1863] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (51) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Apr [1863] Asa Gray …
  • … 6  April 1863] ). CD’s …
  • … note describing this experiment, dated 12 April [1863], is in DAR 70: 112–13. …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
  • … on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [ …
  • … the relationship between this letter and the letters from Asa Gray , 22–30 March 1863  and …
  • … 11 April 1863 . Letters …
  • … from Asa Gray , 22–30 March 1863  and …
  • … 11 April 1863 . In his …
  • … letter to CD of 22–30 March 1863 , Gray had discussed the article by George Douglas …
  • … examined Campbell’s review. See letter from Asa Gray, 11 April 1863 . CD’s fear of war may …
  • … See also letter to Daniel Oliver, [12 April 1863] , and letter from …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 14 April 1863 . After reading Gray’s observations of American species of …
  • … Gray , 10–20 June [1862] and this volume, letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n.  7. …
  • … The reference is to Arthur Rawson (see letters from Arthur Rawson , 1 April [1863] and [ …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … have been in part a response to The Times , 16 April 1863, p.   …
  • … 14, and 17 April 1863, p.  9, which reported a speech made in New York on 2 April by …
  • … 1862 ). In his letter to Gray of 23 February [1863] , CD expressed his interest in the …
  • … See letter from Asa Gray, 22–30 March 1863  and nn.  5–7. CD evidently refers to notes he …
  • … pages appeared from 1 April to 16 June 1863 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.  11, …
  • … before the Linnean Society on 5 February 1863 and published in the second part of volume …
  • … Society , this part was issued on 13 May 1863. Gray’s name appears on CD’s presentation …
  • … had been observing live specimens (see letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n.  11). …
  • … Experimental notes dated 23 March and 1 April 1863 record his growing conviction that …
  • … See letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] . A.  Gray 1857 , pp.  72–5. There is an …
  • … 1: 347). Falconer 1863a , p.  80. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 January [1863] and n.   …
  • … 22, and letter from Daniel Oliver, 17 February 1863 . CD refers to …
  • … s letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp.  459–60, which was critical of Charles Lyell’ …
  • … of man ( C.  Lyell 1863a ). See letter to Charles Lyell, 18 April [1863] , and letter to …
  • … Hugh Falconer, 22 April [1863] . Richard Owen’s anonymous …
  • … review of Carpenter 1862  appeared in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp.  417–19. …
  • … Benjamin Carpenter responded in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  461. Both articles are …
  • … See letter to the Athenæum , 18 April [1863]. The reference is to C.  Lyell 1863b , p.   …
  • … 469. See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] , and letter to …
  • … Charles Lyell, 18 April [1863] . CD’s …
  • … letter was published in the Athenæum , 25 April 1863, pp.  554–5 (see letter from W.   …
  • … H.  Dixon, 16 April 1863) . CD refers to Henry …
  • … naturalist on the river Amazons ( Bates 1863 ). Gray had been puzzled by the type of self- …
  • … Edinburgh ( R.  Desmond 1994 ). See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . See …
  • … letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and n.  13. …
  • … CD’s notes on this experiment, dated 26 March – 11 April 1863, are in DAR 108: 165 v. …

To J. D. Hooker   29 May [1863]

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CD’s encouragement of John Scott, who has found a case of self-incompatibility in orchids, like William Herbert’s in Crinum.

Nägeli on phyllotaxy.

CD’s observations on broom fertilisation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  29 May [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 195
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4191

Matches: 36 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   29 May [1863] …
  • … DAR 115: 195 Charles Robert Darwin Down 29 May [1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … pp.  163–4. See also letter to Asa Gray, 31 May [1863] . CD refers to the first volume …
  • … of Alexander William Kinglake’s history of the Crimean War ( Kinglake 1863–87 ). …
  • … is to John Scott (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [23–7 May 1863] ). The note has not been found; it was sent to CD with the …
  • … letter from J.  D. Hooker, [23–7 May 1863] , and forwarded with the letter to …
  • … John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . The note gave Scott advice concerning the post …
  • … he had been offered in Darjeeling, India (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 ). See …
  • … Ridgway & Sons. Kinglake, Alexander William. 1863–87. The invasion of the Crimea: its …
  • … mechanisms (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [13 May 1863] , and letter to J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] ), and to Cytisus scoparius , the common broom. These …
  • … letter from John Scott, 26 May [1863] . The reference is to John Hutton Balfour . …
  • … See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . In his …
  • … letter to CD of [23–7 May 1863] , Hooker implied that the friction between Scott and James …
  • … has not been found. See letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863  and nn.  23 and 24. …
  • … these experiments in his letter to CD of [1–11] April [1863]; CD responded in his letter …
  • … to Scott of 12 April [1863] with the suggestion that he publish his work. Scott …
  • … to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 14 May 1863; this was published in the society’s …
  • … for the Edinburgh Evening Courant (see letter from John Scott, 26 May [1863] ). See …
  • … letters from John Scott , 21 March [1863] and [1– …
  • … 11] April [1863] . The reference is to the first part of Nägeli 1858– 68 . …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [24 May 1863] . The reference is to Hugh Falconer and his remark on phyllotaxy …
  • … in Falconer 1863a , p.  80 (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 [February 1863] , n.  2). …
  • … CD was actively pursuing research on phyllotaxy during April and May 1863 (see letters to …
  • … Asa Gray , 20 April [1863] and …
  • … 11 May [1863] , letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] , and memorandum from G.   …
  • … H.  Darwin, [before 11 May 1863]). Asa Gray’s work endorsed CD’s conclusion that …
  • … exaggerated (see letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863  and n.  25). A.  Gray 1863d and 1863e. …
  • … Hooker, [19 January 1862] , and this volume, letters to Asa Gray , 2 January [1863] and …
  • … 23 February [1863] , and letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 11 April 1863 . Letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [24 May 1863] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [24 May 1863] . John Lubbock was the ‘closest of CD’s younger friends’ and had …

To J. D. Hooker   23 [June 1863]

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Herbert Spencer’s work disappointing – "all words & generalities".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 [June 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 196
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4218

Matches: 30 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   23 [June 1863] …
  • … DAR 115: 196 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 [June 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Gardens, Kew ( R.  Desmond 1994 , List of the Linnean Society of London 1863); CD refers …
  • … to Beer 1863 . …
  • … Bibliography Beer, Joseph Georg. 1863. Beiträge zur Morphologie und Biologie der Familie …
  • … der Orchideen. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn. Bentham, George. 1863. [ …
  • … Anniversary address, 25 May 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society ( …
  • … of his chronic illness. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 5 March [1863] . Letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 10 June 1863  and …
  • … 19 June 1863 . See letter to John Scott, …
  • … 11 June [1963] , and letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] . See …
  • … letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] and n.  9. …
  • … Taylor & Francis. Haliburton, Robert Grant. 1863. New materials for the history of man, …
  • … See also letter from John Scott, [after 12] April [1863] . Scott 1863a . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] , and letter to …
  • … John Scott, 20 [June 1863] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [30 April 1863] and n.  2. …
  • … the letter from Julius von Haast, 5 March 1863 , which enclosed a copy of his letter to CD …
  • … of 9 December 1862 (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 19 June 1863 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 19 June 1863  and n.   …
  • … 3. Haliburton 1863 ; see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 19 June 1863  and n.  6. In his pamphlet, Robert Grant Haliburton explained …
  • … exposed the soul ‘to the influence of unseen enemies’ ( Haliburton 1863 , p.  14). …
  • … address to the Linnean Society ( Bentham 1863 ), of which Bentham had sent him a …
  • … see letter to George Bentham, 19 June [1863] and n.  2). In his address Bentham criticised …
  • … anonymous review of Carpenter 1862 , which appeared in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp.   …
  • … 417–19 (see Bentham 1863 , pp.  xxvi–xxvii). …
  • … See also letters to Athenæum , 18 April [1863] and …
  • … 5 May [1863], and Appendix VII. CD refers to Spencer 1860–2 , the first volume of a …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 10 June 1863  and n.  10). There is a copy of this work in …

From J. D. Hooker   [1 or 3 November 1863]

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Anxious to see Haast’s letter.

JDH’s views on Poles and Franco-Prussian conflict.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 or 3] Nov 1863
Classmark:  DAR 101: 173–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4325

Matches: 39 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [1 or 3 November 1863] …
  • … DAR 101: 173–5 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 1 Nov 1863 3 …
  • … Nov 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 10 [November 1863] . Hooker dated the letter either Sunday or …
  • … the most likely date 1 or 3 November 1863. Only the second letter, ‘u’, of this word is …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [30 October 1863] . CD discussed this climbing palm in Origin …
  • … 6th ed. , p.  158. See letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 August [1863] , n.   …
  • … 2, and [28 August 1863] and n.  10, and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 15 September 1863 . See also CD’s note in DAR 157.1: 66. …
  • … refers to the letter from Julius von Haast, 21 July [– 7? August] 1863 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [30 October 1863] ). James Hector ; see the letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 23 October 1863  and n.  9. …
  • … In his letter of 23 October 1863 , Hooker discussed the geology of New Zealand, having …
  • … Crombie Ramsay’s statement at the 29 October 1863 meeting of the Philosophical Club of the …
  • … 164–5). See n.  3, above. On 15 and 16 August 1863 seven British navy warships bombarded …
  • … Clarendon Press. Gladstone, William Ewart. 1863. Wedgwood: an address … Delivered at the …
  • … at Burslem, Staffordshire, October 26, 1863. London: John Murray. Huxley, Leonard, ed. …
  • … of Hector’s sketches at the 29 October 1863 meeting of the Philosophical Club of the Royal …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 23 October 1863 ). Hooker describes an approximately three- …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 23 October 1863  and n.  4). Andrew Crombie Ramsay . Hooker …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 23 October 1863 and n.  6. William Henslow Hooker was Hooker’s …
  • … s industry, and the beauty and quality of the ware (see The Times , 27 October 1863, pp.   …
  • … 5–6, and Gladstone 1863 ). …
  • … In 1863, Poland attempted to achieve independence from Russia by a prolonged insurrection. …
  • … its own constitution. In his 5 November 1863 address to the new legislature, the French …
  • … on the Polish side in the war with Russia ( EB ; The Times , 2 November 1863, p.   …
  • … 6, 5 November 1863, p.  6). The reference is to the industrialist and MP for Birkenhead, …
  • … Jenkins 1974–80 , 2: 121–2). During October 1863 the firm was also completing two armour- …
  • … the question of his earlier intentions for the Alabama ( The Times , 27 October 1863, p.   …
  • … 7, 28 October 1863, p.   …
  • … 8, and 29 October 1863, p.  9). See Jenkins 1974–80 , …
  • … 2: 289–306. See also letters from Asa Gray , 26 May 1863  and n.   …
  • … 27, and 23 November 1863  and nn.  8 and 9. Peccavi : ‘I have sinned’; an acknowledgment …
  • … envoy at Turin, who had resigned in April 1863. Though the two men were not themselves …
  • … whether he had been forced from office by Russell ( The Times , 25 August 1863, 24  …
  • … October 1863, p.   …
  • … 8, 28 October 1863, p.   …
  • … 5, 29 October 1863, p.  8; DNB ). Thomas Henry Huxley’s letter has not been found; …
  • … see the letter from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [28 October 1863] . Hooker refers to …

To Hugh Falconer   [25–6 August 1863]

Summary

Thanks for information about Pliocene mammal. Interested in relating process of formation to duration of the species. Oswald Heer’s view that species suddenly formed surely false.

Bad summer with much sickness. Going to Malvern [for water-cure] for a month.

Muddled over phyllotaxy and made out nothing.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hugh Falconer
Date:  [25–6 Aug 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 144: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4277

Matches: 29 hits

  • … To Hugh Falconer   [25–6 August 1863] …
  • … DAR 144: 32 Charles Robert Darwin Down [25–6 Aug 1863] Hugh Falconer …
  • … Lyell 1863a ) in the Athenæum . See letter from Hugh Falconer, 29 August 1863  and n.  10. …
  • … London: Garland Publishing. 1990. Suess, Eduard. 1863. Über die Verschiedenheit und die …
  • … between this letter, the letter from Hugh Falconer, 24 August [1863] , and the letter from …
  • … Hugh Falconer, 29 August 1863 , and by the reference to CD’s visit to Malvern (see n.   …
  • … Darwin dated this letter 26 August [1863] ( LL 3: 51), but there is no corroborating …
  • … See letter from Hugh Falconer, 24 August [1863] . CD refers to Richard Owen and to Owen  …
  • … and made a series of detailed observations in May and June 1863 (see, for example, letter …
  • … to Daniel Oliver, 20 [February 1863] , letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [9 May 1863] , and letters to …
  • … Asa Gray , 11 May [1863] and …
  • … 26 June [1863] ). CD’s phyllotaxy notes are in DAR 51: 6–32; there are also notes by …
  • … in DAR 192: 1–7. See memorandum from G.  H.  Darwin, [before 11 May 1863], letters to Asa …
  • … Gray , 11 May [1863] and …
  • … 31 May [1863] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 29 May [1863] . The opening paragraph of the letter, which is now missing, …
  • … letter from Hugh Falconer, 24 August [1863] ). There is an annotated copy of Owen 1846b in …
  • … CUL (see Marginalia 1: 649–52). The references are to Eduard Suess and to Suess 1863 . …
  • … In Suess 1863 , Suess had linked Falconer’s views on species with those …
  • … see letter from Hugh Falconer, 24 August [1863] , and n.  5, below). Working mostly with …
  • … Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 363–6). By 1863, Heer’s view of new species formation was …
  • … on Heer’s theory of species change, see letters to Asa Gray , 31 May [1863] and n.   …
  • … 4, and 7 July 1863. …
  • … On 1 September 1863, CD went to London with his daughter Henrietta Emma Darwin , and the …
  • … Henrietta travelled from London to Malvern Wells on 3 September 1863. See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 12–13 August [1863] , and following letter and n.  5. It is not clear when …
  • … 1862] , and this volume, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 29 May [1863] ). Falconer’s paper …
  • … the Natural History Review in January 1863 ( Falconer 1863a ), his comments on phyllotaxy …

From J. D. Hooker   20 April 1863

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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

Matches: 51 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   20 April 1863
  • … 1854–1900): 281–2) Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated 20 Apr 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 25. See letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863  and n.  2. William Jackson Hooker . …
  • … was the agent at the Canterbury Emigration Office ( Post Office London directory 1863). …
  • … Attacks by Falconer [ Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell. W. …
  • … conflict. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press. Bentham, George. 1863. [ …
  • … Anniversary address, 25 May 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society ( …
  • … Between 2 and 17 April 1863, Hooker and his wife, Frances Harriet, travelled to the Dorset …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [28 March 1863] ). Hooker refers to the convict prison on …
  • … the Isle of Portland ( EB ). Letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] . Hooker refers to …
  • … Falconer’s letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp.  459–60, which criticised Charles …
  • … of its leaves (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] and nn.  22–4). See letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 26 [March 1863] and n.  14. Haast was on an expedition travelling across New …
  • … See also Haast’s letter to CD of 5 March 1863  and n.  2. Hooker’s letter to Haast of 18  …
  • … See letter from John Lubbock, 7 April 1863  and n.  6. Hooker also refers to Richard …
  • … Lyell answered Falconer’s criticisms in the Athenæum , 18 April 1863, pp.  523–5. Hooker …
  • … in Falconer’s letter to the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  460, which reads: ‘I need hardly …
  • … of Carpenter 1862 , which appeared in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp.  417–19, and …
  • … Carpenter’s reply ( Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  461). Both articles are reproduced in …
  • … Appendix VII. See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n.  9. …
  • … See also letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863], letter to Charles …
  • … Lyell, 18 April [1863] , and Appendix VII. …
  • … See Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  461. The Royal Medals were instituted by George IV, and …
  • … 38). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n.  18. George Bentham had asked CD …
  • … address as president of the Linnean Society , which was to be delivered on 25 May 1863 ( …
  • … Bentham 1863 ). See letters from George …
  • … Bentham , [ c. 14 April 1863] and …
  • … 21 April 1863. Bentham’s stated intention in regard to CD and Origin was to ‘ascertain …
  • … the publication of his work’ ( Bentham 1863 , p.  xvi). Two old men’s tales: the deformed, …
  • … Society in Manchester on 17 March 1863, James Prince Lee , bishop of Manchester, was …
  • … In a letter published in The Times , 2 April 1863, p.  10, Colenso argued that nothing …
  • … expertise in textual criticism ( The Times , 4 April 1863, p.  9). See enclosure. Haast …
  • … see enclosure to letter from Julius von Haast, 5 March 1863 ). See also letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [30 April 1863] and n.  2. William Henslow Hooker (see n.  1, above). Charles …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n.  19. The reference is to Welwitsch  …
  • … and animal distribution (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] and n.  17). …
  • … In his letter to Hooker of [17 April 1863] , CD had asked for the address of the French …
  • … which he also sent to CD (see letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863 ). Haast did …
  • … not arrive at Christchurch until 12 May 1863, but he sent a preliminary report, dated 3  …
  • … Province; the report was published in the Christchurch Press , 1 April 1863, pp.   …
  • … 1–2, and 2 April 1863, pp.  2–3. Haast also wrote a shorter report entitled ‘Report, map, …
  • … Province of Canterbury, on 18 August 1863. The handwritten report and the map, but not the …
  • … See letter from Julius von Haast, 13 May 1863 . A description of the expedition was later …
  • … east of Jackson’s Bay, on 20 February 1863 ( ibid. , p.  55). Haast’s interest in glacial …
  • … letter to J.  F.  J.  von Haast, 22 January 1863 and nn.  4 and 5, and Origin 4th ed. , …
  • … See letter from Julius von Haast, 5 March 1863  and n.  12. Hooker sent Haast’s letter of …
  • … letter from Julius von Haast of 5 March 1863 . For the confusion regarding the sending of …
  • … letter from Julius von Haast, 5 March 1863  and n.  5. Mr Harris has not been identified. …
  • … was discussed in his letter to CD of 6 January 1863 . David Monro was the speaker of New …
  • … of the Linnean Society of London 24 (1863–4): 1–48. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1864–7. …

To Charles Lyell   18 April [1863]

Summary

Describes a letter he has written to the Athenæum in which he mentions CL’s views on species modification ["Doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80].

Comments on criticism of Lyell’s book [Antiquity] by Falconer and others.

Mentions his eczema.

Invites the Lyells to visit.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  18 Apr [1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.294)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4106

Matches: 21 hits

  • … W.  Bates, 18 April [ 1863] . …
  • … To Charles Lyell   18 April [1863] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.294) Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Apr [1863] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A record of …
  • … of man ( C.  Lyell 1863b ) was published between 15 and 30 April 1863 ( Publishers’ …
  • … Circular 26 (1863): 218). …
  • … See letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863]. The ‘monstrous article’ to which …
  • … Owen’s anonymous review ( Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp.  417–19) of Carpenter 1862 (see …
  • … Benjamin Carpenter responded in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  461. See letter to …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24–5 February [1863] ), but were unable to do so. Emma Darwin …
  • … on those days (DAR 242). There is no evidence that they visited Down House later in 1863. …
  • … Bates 1863 . See letter to H.   …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] and nn.  9–10. CD refers to the question regarding …
  • … islands (see letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863]). Owen and Carpenter discussed the same …
  • … p.  469; see letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863] and n.  11). CD was concerned that Lyell …
  • … 1863a , see, for example, the letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [17 April 1863] and n.  3. …
  • … The reference is to Hugh Falconer’s letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp.  459–60. …
  • … was printed in the Athenæum , 18 April 1863, pp.  523–5. In it, Lyell pointed out that he …
  • … see, for example, letter from John Lubbock, 7 April 1863  and n.  6). See also L.   …
  • … 1996a for correspondence during April 1863 between Lyell and William Pengelly regarding …

To J. D. Hooker   [9 May 1863]

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Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.

Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.

CD working on divergence of leaves.

Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.

Survival of island relics.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [9 May 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 192
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4148

Matches: 34 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [9 May 1863] …
  • … DAR 115: 192 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [9 May 1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … 454–70, in his letter to CD of 20 April 1863 . CD discussed variation and design in his …
  • … vol.  9). In his letter to CD of 20 April 1863 , Gray had written: ‘I think that you, and …
  • … 6 (1972–3): 261–303. Bates, Henry Walter. 1863. The naturalist on the River Amazons. A …
  • … the endorsement; the Saturday preceding 11 May 1863 was 9 May. According to Emma Darwin’s …
  • … Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, home of Josiah Wedgwood III , from 6 to 13 May 1863. In …
  • … his letter to CD of [7 May 1863] , Hooker had implored him to stop writing letters to …
  • … written to the Athenæum on two occasions (letters to Athenæum , 18 April [1863] and …
  • … 5 May [1863]). CD refers to Richard …
  • … Owen’s anonymous letter in the Athenæum , 2 May 1863, pp.  586– 7, which was a …
  • … to CD’s letter to the Athenæum of 18 April [1863] (see Correspondence vol.  11, Appendix …
  • … VII). Letter to Athenæum , 5 May [1863]. …
  • … Letter from Asa Gray, 20 April 1863 . Asa Gray had sent this letter in an envelope …
  • … him (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] ). The reference is to Charles Lyell’s …
  • … also letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] . The reference is to the squib satirising …
  • … of which appeared in Public Opinion 3 (1863): 497–8 (see Correspondence vol.11, Appendix …
  • … near Dorking, Surrey, from 6 to 13 May 1863. The ill health of CD and his son Horace had …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 April [1863] ). CD refers to his research on phyllotaxy. …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 January 1863  and n.  22); CD wished to test Hugh Falconer’s …
  • … also letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 [February 1863] . There is a series of undated diagrams …
  • … List of the Linnean Society of London 1863). The reference is to A.  Gray 1849 ; however, …
  • … article (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [13 May 1863] ). Gray supplied the information …
  • … in his letter to CD of [10–16] June [1863] . …
  • … Bates 1863 . Hooker was writing a paper ( J.  D.  Hooker 1863b ) on a collection of plants …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 May 1863] and n.  11. See also n.  14, below. Possibly …
  • … 1861 , p.  3. See also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [13 May 1863] , and letter to J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker, 15 and 22 May [1863] . This discussion formed part of an ongoing debate between CD …
  • … 6). See letter to Charles Lyell, [7 May 1863] , n.  6. The reference is to Louis XIV of …
  • … the publication of Antiquity of man ( C.  Lyell 1863a ) in February 1863 (see letter to …
  • … Charles Lyell, 4 [February 1863] , n.  4, and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [23 February 1863] and nn.  2–3). Falconer’s disagreement with Lyell began …
  • … March (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 13 [March 1863] ). Owen and Falconer were acknowledged …
  • … 242), the Darwins returned to Down on 13 May 1863. The reference is to Gray’s comments on …

To J. D. Hooker   30 January [1863]

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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

Matches: 29 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   30 January [1863] …
  • … DAR 115: 180 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Jan [1863] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … The enclosure has not been identified. Letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 January 1863] and …
  • … 24 January 1863 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 24 January 1863  and n.  2. In his letter to Hooker of 24 December [1862] ( …
  • … C. Darwin, Esq. , FLS, &c. [Read 4 June 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … trip to Paris. See also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 24 January 1863  and n.  3. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, 24 January 1863  and n.  8. Joseph Decaisne . …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 24 January 1863  and n.  6. Alphonse de Candolle’ …
  • … not been found; however, see the letters to Alphonse de Candolle , 14 January [1863] and …
  • … 31 January [1863] . Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de Saporta . Saporta had recently …
  • … Society of London was published on 30 January 1863 ( Raphael 1970 , p.  76). J.  F.   …
  • … J.  von Haast 1862a . See letter to Julius von Haast, 22 January 1863 . …
  • … Jamieson 1863 . Thomas Francis Jamieson’s paper on the parallel roads of Glen Roy, …
  • … see letter from T.  F.  Jamieson, 28 January 1863 and n.  1). During his expedition to the …
  • … Press. 1985–. Jamieson, Thomas Francis. 1863. On the parallel roads of Glen Roy, and their …
  • … the glacial period. [Read 21 January 1863. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society …
  • … Paris: F. Savy. 1862–7. ] Trimen, Roland. 1863. On the fertilization of Disa grandiflora , …
  • … letter from H.  W.  Bates, 24 January 1863 . Roland Trimen’s letter and manuscript have …
  • … However, see the letter to Roland Trimen, 31 January [1863] ; part of the letter from …
  • … Trimen was published as Trimen 1863 . See also letter from W.   …
  • … H.  Harvey, 3 February 1863 . At the end of 1862, CD …
  • … to build a hothouse (see letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n.  24). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 January 1863] and n.  12. Victoria regia. William Hugh Gower was …
  • … Street, London, from 4 to 14 February  1863. CD’s paper on dimorphic flowers in Linum , ‘ …
  • … of the Linnean Society on 5 February 1863, which CD was too ill to attend (see letter to …
  • … W.  B.  Tegetmeier, 19 February [1863] and n.  6). According to Emma …
  • … visited the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 11 February 1863. J.  D.  Hooker 1863a . …

From J. D. Hooker   [24 March 1863]

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Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.

Interested in reversion.

Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.

JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].

Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [24 Mar 1863]
Classmark:  DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2027

Matches: 32 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [24 March 1863] …
  • … DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [24 Mar 1863] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … also letter to Daniel Oliver, 24–5 March [1863] . The reference is to either Harriet Anne …
  • … date is established by the reference to Hooker’s visit to Down on 22 March 1863 (see n.   …
  • … 3, below); the following Tuesday was 24 March 1863. CD asked Hooker for information …
  • … on pollination in poplars in his letter of 13 [March 1863] . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] and n.  20. …
  • … Hooker visited Down House on 22 March 1863, while on a visit to John Lubbock’s house at …
  • … and to John Tyndall . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] and n.  19. …
  • … Chislehurst, Kent (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 March 1863] ). See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] . See also letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 26 [March 1863] . C.  Lyell 1863a , pp.  504–5. Hooker’s maternal grandparents …
  • … publication (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 March 1863] and n.  7, and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] and n.  3). Hooker ended his essay with a postscript, the last …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 14 July [ 1863] ). See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] and nn.  17 and 18. Hooker was an avid collector …
  • … of Wedgwood ware (see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, 6 January 1863 , [16  …
  • … February 1863] , and [ …
  • … 6 March 1863] ). Hooker and CD apparently discussed the …
  • … during Hooker’s visit to Down House of 22 March 1863. Thomas Woolner . Hooker refers to a …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … Antiquity of man ( C.  Lyell 1863a ; see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [6 March 1863] and [ …
  • … 15 March 1863] ). Hooker refers to conversations …
  • … took place at Lubbock’s house on 22 March 1863 (see n.  3, above). Earlier in the year, …
  • … for example, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 January [1863] and n.  2, and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [23 February 1863] and n.  2). Hooker refers to Lubbock’s review of …
  • … of the Natural History Review for April 1863 ( [Lubbock 1863c ]); Hooker must have seen …
  • … C.  Lyell 1863a . See also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [1 March 1863] and n.  12. CD’s …
  • … read before the Linnean Society on 5 February 1863. It was published in the number of the …
  • … Society (Botany) that was issued on 13 May 1863 ( General index to the Journal of the …
  • … one of the editors (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 27 February 1863 ). He apparently wrote …
  • … the abstract that was published in the July 1863 issue of the journal ([Oliver] 1863d; see …

To Charles Lyell   17 March [1863]

Summary

His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].

Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.

Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].

Notes negative reaction of entomologists.

Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].

Mentions work of Hooker.

Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]

and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].

Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  17 Mar [1863]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4047

Matches: 32 hits

  • … To Charles Lyell   17 March [1863] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.291) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Mar [1863] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … mimetic butterflies’ ) appeared in the April 1863 number of the Natural History Review . …
  • … refers to the letter from Lyell of 15 March 1863 , of which a portion is missing. He also …
  • … letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] and n.  3. In the 1840s, Boucher de Perthes …
  • … Owen 1862c . See letters to Charles Lyell , 6 March [1863] and n.   …
  • … 44, and 12–13 March [1863] and n.  11. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [23 February 1863] . C.  Lyell  …
  • … 1863a . See letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March 1863 . CD refers to Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … Natural History Review (see letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March 1863  and n.  19). CD’s …
  • … Darwin. ] Natural History Review n.s. 3 (1863): 219–24. [ Collected papers 2: 87–92. ] …
  • … due credit by Lyell (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] and n.  6). Letter from …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [15 March 1863] . J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker 1859 . See letter to Charles Lyell, 6 March [1863] and n.  35, and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] and nn.  3 and 4. In Antiquity of man , Lyell devoted a …
  • … pp.  417–21). See also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [15 March 1863] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 17 March [1863] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [15 March 1863] and n.  21. …
  • … In his letter to Hooker of 17 March [1863] , CD referred to its being ‘a long P.S. ’ …
  • … In his letter to Lyell of 12–13 March [1863] , CD suggested that C.  Lyell 1863a contained …
  • … to this observation in the missing portion of his letter to CD of 15 March 1863 . See …
  • … letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March 1863 . CD refers to his comments on Lyell’s failure …
  • … Antiquity of man ( C.  Lyell 1863a ; see letters to Charles Lyell , 6 March [1863] and 12– …
  • … 13 March [1863] ). See …
  • … letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March 1863  and n.  7. The references are to Jean Baptiste …
  • … See letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] and n.  9. CD’s transmutation notebooks …
  • … Down. See also letter to Ernst Haeckel, 30 December [1863] – 3  January [1864] . A.   …
  • … See letter from Asa Gray, 27 January 1863 . The letter from Alphonse de Candolle has …
  • … letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 31 January [1863] . Gaston de Saporta . See also letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 30 January [1863] , letter to Alphonse …
  • … de Candolle, 31 January [1863] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 31 May [1863] . CD considered that his theory had been particularly ‘attacked & …

To Asa Gray   26 June [1863]

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Thanks AG for references about phyllotaxy

and information on marriage laws.

Has been looking for dimorphism in Phlox and Euonymus.

Has observed the irritability of tendrils of Echinocystis with great interest. Was also struck by the rotating movements of the leading shoots, which he proposes to investigate.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  26 June [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (82)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4222

Matches: 25 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   26 June [1863] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (82) Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 June [1863] Asa Gray …
  • … See letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 . From 1861, William Vernon Harcourt wrote many …
  • … Civil War on the basis of precedents in international law. In 1863, some of his letters to …
  • … The Times were published separately ( [Harcourt] 1863 ). See Jenkins 1974–80 . …
  • … Bibliography Bentham, George. 1863. [ …
  • … Anniversary address, 25 May 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society ( …
  • … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 . …
  • … Letters from Asa Gray , 26 May 1863  and [10– …
  • … 16] June [1863] . Joseph Dalton Hooker . …
  • … See letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] and n.  2. CD refers to his work on the …
  • … correspondents and published sources. See letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] . See …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] and n.  13. …
  • … Murray. 1877. [Harcourt, William Vernon. ] 1863. Letters by Historicus or some questions …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 [June 1863] and n.  2. CD refers to the American Journal …
  • … extensively on climbing plants during 1863 and 1864, publishing a paper in the Journal of …
  • … Climbing plants’ ). See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 [June 1863] and n.  3. …
  • … CD refers to his letter to Gray of 31 May [1863] and to Gray’s reviews of A.  de Candolle  …
  • … address to the Linnean Society , delivered on 25 May 1863, in which Bentham reviewed the …
  • … scientific reaction to Origin ( Bentham 1863 ). See …
  • … also letter to George Bentham, 19 June [1863] . See …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] and n.  4. There …
  • … on Euonymus , dated 2 May, 4 June, and 20 July 1863, in DAR 109: 31–2; CD included the …
  • … repens for experimental purposes (see letter to Asa Gray, 2 January [1863] and n.  4). …
  • … See also letter to Asa Gray, 31 May [1863] . CD refers to A.  Gray 1858b . …

To John Scott   2 May [1863]

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Impressed by JS’s attempts to fertilise Gongora.

CD has large collection of notes on orchids, but does not know when he will publish on them again.

Asks for JS’s papers on sterility of individual orchids and on Drosera.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  2 May [1863]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B25–6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4137

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  • … To John Scott   2 May [1863] …
  • … DAR 93: B25–6 Charles Robert Darwin Hartfield Down letterhead 2 May [1863] John Scott …
  • … Howard Darwin at Hartfield at the beginning of May 1863 are recorded in DAR 70: 176. …
  • … See also letter to Roland Trimen, 16 February [1863] and n.  4, and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 24[–5] February [1863] , n.  19. …
  • … diary (DAR 242) that from 27 April to 6 May 1863, the Darwins stayed at Hartfield Grove ( …
  • … Wedgwood III at Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, between 6 and 13 May 1863. In his …
  • … letter to CD of [after 12] April [1863], Scott mentioned that he was sending capsules of …
  • … in his letter to CD of [after 12] April [1863]. Scott and CD had been discussing the …
  • … 11 November 1862 ). See also this volume, letters from John Scott, 3 March 1863  and …
  • … 21 March [1863] , and letter to …
  • … John Scott, 24 March [1863] . Scott later followed up CD’s plan to estimate the number of …
  • … In his letter to CD of [after 12] April [1863], Scott stated that he had been reluctant to …
  • … 1864b. Scott 1863a was read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 14 May 1863. In …
  • … his letter of [after 12] April [1863] , Scott had thanked CD for the encouraging remarks …
  • … in his letter to Scott of 12 April [1863] . CD refers to Scott’s draft paper on his …
  • … from John Scott, [after 12] April [1863] ); the paper was published as Scott 1863a (see …
  • … of which appeared in the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 10 January 1863, p.  30, the Edinburgh …
  • … New Philosophical Journal n.s.  17 (1863): 317–18, and the society’s Transactions. …
  • … See letter to Asa Gray, 20 March [1863] . CD had been trying to obtain seed of Campanula …
  • … pollination (see letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] and n.  17). Scott had been unable …
  • … despite numerous inquiries (see letter from John Scott, [after 12] April [1863] ). See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] . For Scott’s …
  • … observations, see the letters from John Scott, 21 March [1863] and n.   …
  • … 7, and [1–11] April 1863  and n.  13. Asa Gray published his observations on Gymnadenia …
  • … see letter to John Scott, 16 February [1863] and n.  6), in response to CD’s request for …
  • … the ovule through the micropyle (see letter to Daniel Oliver, [12 April 1863] and n.   …
  • … 3, and letter to John Scott, 12 April [1863] ). In his …
  • … letter to CD of [after 12] April [1863], Scott expressed a wish to make further …

From Asa Gray   26 May 1863

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Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].

Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.

Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 May 1863
Classmark:  DAR 165: 135
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4186

Matches: 42 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   26 May 1863
  • … DAR 165: 135 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 26 May 1863 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … By Charles Darwin. [Read 5 February 1863. ] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … Cambridge. Mass. May 26 | 1863. My Dear Darwin Here I have a letter of yours a month old …
  • … Letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] . The ‘neighbors’ have not been identified. …
  • … of Arts and Sciences ; at the 26 May 1863 meeting, he read the annual report on behalf of …
  • … the academy. In his letter of 20 April [1863] , CD referred to two disputes recently aired …
  • … by Hugh Falconer ( Athenæum , 4 April 1863, pp.  459–60), and a dispute over heterogeny, …
  • … War on the basis of precedents in international law. In 1863, some of his letters to The …
  • … were republished in book form ( [Harcourt] 1863 ). Gray probably refers to the British …
  • … law would be to the disadvantage of the Confederates ( The Times , 27 April 1863, p.  8). …
  • … 2: 138–56. ] [Harcourt, William Vernon. ] 1863. Letters by Historicus or some questions of …
  • … Owen’s anonymous review of Carpenter 1862  in the Athenæum , 28 March 1863, pp.  417–19. …
  • … see letter to Charles Lyell, 18 April [1863] and nn.  7–9. For an account of the dispute …
  • … corresponded regularly with Gray. On 27 April 1863, the passenger steamship Anglo Saxon …
  • … Canada, with the loss of almost 300 lives ( Annual Register 1863, pt 2: 74–5). Gray …
  • … s letter in the Athenæum , 18 April 1863, pp.  523–5, in reply to Falconer’s criticisms of …
  • … above). Lyell’s letter was answered by Joseph Prestwich ( Athenæum , 25 April 1863, p.   …
  • … 555) and by Falconer ( Athenæum , 2 May 1863, p.  586). …
  • … Letter to Athenæum , 18 April [1863]. See also Appendix VII. …
  • … s anonymous letter to the Athenæum , 2 May 1863, pp.  586–7 (see Correspondence vol.  11, …
  • … Carpenter’s letter in the Athenæum , 4 April 1863, p.  461 (see Correspondence vol.  11, …
  • … and to T.  H.  Huxley 1863b . In January 1863, James Dwight Dana published a paper on …
  • … which was published in the journal in July 1863 ( Dana 1863b ). For CD’s opinion of Dana  …
  • … the letter to Charles Lyell, 17 [February 1863] . Gray refers to a series of articles by …
  • … in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and 1863; the articles, which continued into 1864, were …
  • … of Linum ’ was sent to Gray on 18 April 1863; Gray’s name appears on CD’s presentation …
  • … paper (see letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] , and Appendix IV). Gray had sent CD live …
  • … C.  acaule ‘sent by Asa Gray ’, dated 22 May 1863, in DAR 70: 121. See also n.  18, below. …
  • … In the letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] , CD informed Gray of John Scott’ s findings on …
  • … the letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] . CD and Gray discussed the structure and …
  • … further observations in the September 1863 issue of the American Journal of Science and …
  • … and C.  acaule , dated April and May 1863, are in DAR 70: 112–13 and 121. The reference is …
  • … Lyell 1863b , p.  469, which CD cited in his letter to the Athenæum , 18 April [1863]. See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] and Appendix VII. In C.  Lyell 1863a , p.  469, the …
  • … and ‘Natural Selection. ’ C.  Lyell 1863a was published on 9 February 1863 ( Athenæum , …
  • … 7 February 1863, p.  176) and the second edition was published in April (see C.   …
  • … Lyell 1863b , p.  vii, and letter to Charles Lyell, 18 April [1863] ). See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] ; CD had asked whether the state of Ohio had …
  • … order of 1 2 , 1 3 , 2 5 , 3 8 , and so on; see letters to Asa Gray , 20 April [1863] and …
  • … 11 May [1863] . The reference is to Introduction to structural and systematic botany and …
  • … vary ’ (see letter to Asa Gray, 20 April [1863] and n.  14, and Falconer 1863a , p.  80). …
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Thomas Rivers

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Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…

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  • … knowledge out of your wealth of information? ( 11 January [1863] ) Rivers and Darwin …
  • … would find abundance of food”, Rivers wrote ( [3 February 1863] ). Darwin thought the example …
  • … just such feelings & reflexions as yours.— ( [14 February 1863] ) Darwin’s letter …

John Beddoe

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In 1869, when gathering data on sexual selection in humans, Darwin exchanged a short series of letters with John Beddoe, a doctor in Bristol. He was looking for evidence that racial differences that appear to have no benefit in terms of survival - and…

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  • … of dark hair in England',  Anthropological Review  (1863) 1: 310–12). Three letters …
  • … written to Beddoe asking for the original data from Beddoe's 1863 hospital study.  Beddoe sent …

Lydia Becker

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Becker was a leading member of the suffrage movement, perhaps best known for publishing the Women’s Suffrage Journal. She was also a successful biologist, astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …

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  • … astronomer and botanist and, between 1863 and 1877, an occasional correspondent of Charles Darwin. …
  • … and Darwin, starting with a letter she wrote to him in 1863, concerns botany. Becker provided Darwin …

Charles Lyell

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As an author, friend and correspondent, Charles Lyell played a crucial role in shaping Darwin's scientific life. Born to a wealthy gentry family in Scotland in 1797, Lyell had a classical and legal education but by the 1820s had become entranced by…

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  • … of natural selection in the Antiquity of Man (1863) and the Principles (1868). As Lyell …

George Busk

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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…

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  • … of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin …

Thomas Henry Huxley

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Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a leading Victorian zoologist, science popularizer, and education reformer. He was born in Ealing, a small village west of London, in 1825. With only two years of…

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  • … Dubbed “Darwin’s bulldog” for his combative role in controversies over evolution, Huxley was a …

John Lubbock

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John Lubbock was eight years old when the Darwins moved into the neighbouring property of Down House, Down, Kent; the total of one hundred and seventy surviving letters he went on to exchange with Darwin is a large number considering that the two men lived…

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  • … Darwin for the Royal Society's Copley Medal in 1862 and 1863, and helped found the X Club (a …

Virginia Isitt: Darwin’s secretary?

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In an undated and incomplete draft letter to a “Miss I.”, Emma Darwin appears to be arranging for Miss I. to come to Down for a trial period as a secretary. When the letter first came to light, no one had heard of the mysterious “Miss I.” and, as far as we…

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  • … connection. Additionally, he told us that between 1862 and 1863 Miss Isitt had studied for a French …

George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)

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George Eliot was the pen name of celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She was born on the outskirts of Nuneaton in Warwickshire and was educated at boarding schools from the age of five until she was 16. Her education ended when she…

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  • … George Eliot was the pen name of the celebrated Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880). She …

Orundellico (Jemmy Button)

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Orundellico was one of the Yahgan, or canoe people of the southern part of Tierra del Fuego.  He was the fourth hostage taken by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830 following the theft of the small surveying boat. This fourteen-year old boy was…

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  • … ‘the great imposter’ (Chapman 2010, p. 387). In 1863, Jemmy Button’s son Wammestriggens …

Robert FitzRoy

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Robert FitzRoy was captain of HMS Beagle when Darwin was aboard. From 1831 to 1836 the two men lived in the closest proximity, their relationship revealed by the letters they exchanged while Darwin left the ship to explore the countries visited during the…

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  • … for mariners, and a lengthy text on the subject in 1863. Despite FitzRoy’s remarkable work in …