To H. W. Bates 9 May [1862]
Summary
Referring to conversation with Lyell, CD is certain that there was a Miocene glacial period.
Compliments HWB on the mimetic display at the British Museum. Those at the Museum readily accepted HWB’s "doctrine".
Was shown genital organs of closely allied Chrysomelidae.
Albert Günther is candidate for position at Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3540 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 1862 ( Gunther 1975 , p. 308 n. 1). Examinations for appointment to the civil service …
- … However, Günther did not have to sit the examination: at the instigation of the principal …
- … would have to pass a civil-service examination. — Good Night | I am tired— | Yours …
From John Scott 11 November 1862
Summary
CD is mistaken in considering Acropera unisexual, with only male flowers [Orchids, pp. 203–10]. JS has successfully fertilised two A. loddigesii flowers. One is ripening. Dissection of the other shows the pollen accomplishes fertilisation without contacting any stigmatic surface. Abortive ovules found in flowers that did not become fertilised when pollinated. JS suggests Acropera has both unisexual male and hermaphrodite flowers.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3800 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … you do not
〉 mention particularly its examination by any author〈 in its〉 natural habitat. — … - … from the results of your comparative examinations present a somewhat different condition. …
- … fertilised, one of them I have cut off for examination—and its condition I will presently …
- … of the ovaries present on a comparative examination of their placentæ; and of which I beg …
From J. D. Hooker 20 August 1862
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 52–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3690 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … great deal to do since my return with Examinations—all over now, & had some very hard work …
- … Hooker had recently been involved in examinations at the University of London, where he …
From Charles Pritchard 17 June [1862]
Summary
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
Author: | Charles Pritchard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 174.2: 77 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3607 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to me in about a month. The more formal Examination I must defer until August 12 when the …
From C. C. Babington 16 September 1862
Summary
Hopes to have Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds to send soon.
BAAS is meeting in Cambridge and all eminent Cambridge men are wanted present. If his health were reliable, CD would be in chair of Botany and Zoology Section.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3726 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … and 1837, Pass lists–mathematical examinations 1822–84 ( Cambridge University Archives, …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … a double row of stamens this I find on examination is an error— My sketch is merely a …
From D. F. Nevill [c. 14 March 1862]
Summary
Belated thanks for CD’s photograph.
When in London at Rucker’s wonderful gardens she learned he had sent CD a Mormodes.
Author: | Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 14 Mar 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 172.1: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3431 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hooker, 14 March [1862] , CD described his examination of a specimen of M. ignea sent to …
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … I cannot be sure of my movements. This an examination week at Chelsea for Asst Surgeons …
- … 1967 , pp. 207, 208). Hooker refers to examinations for admission to the Army Medical …
From Frederick Currey 3 July 1862
Summary
G. B. Wollaston [in "British Orchideae", Phytologist n.s. 1 (1855–6): 225–7] says Ophrys arachnites is a hybrid, which contradicts CD, who says it is a new species.
Author: | Frederick Currey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3639 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … r . W. would be glad to submit it to your examination— He has paid great attention to the …
To John Lubbock 21 August [1862]
Summary
Leonard Darwin’s illness.
William Darwin and the bank.
Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 21 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.7: 4 (EH 88205929) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3693 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … lake-dwellings, the recent discovery and examination of which he had described in a paper …
From Edward Newman 6 April 1862
Summary
Has several specimens illustrating dimorphism in insects that he would be happy to leave where CD could examine them.
Discusses the ant genera Formica and Atta, and the origin of the two forms of workers commonly found in the species of these genera.
Author: | Edward Newman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 172.2: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3497 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … M r Kippist or elsewhere for your examination. I may just observe that in the families of …
From G. C. Oxenden [before 30 May 1862]
Summary
Has looked for [Ophrys] arachnites for CD, but it is too early in the season.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 30 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3526 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … varying Bee Ophrys’ ( O. apifera ), his examination of specimens of O. arachnites sent …
From Andrew Crombie Ramsay 17 February 1862
Summary
In his paper for Geological Society ["Glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204] he will prove that all the lake-basins of the Alps were scooped out by glaciers.
Author: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Feb 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3450 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … scooped out by glacier ice. After two re-examinations of the country, with Lyell I have …
From John Obadiah Westwood 14 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Has captured a bee with pollinia adhering to its head. Will send it to CD if he likes.
Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3547 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … be most happy to send it to you for your Examination But if I have not had time to devour …
From W. E. Darwin 12 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses his new microscope.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3443F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … xxx; F. Darwin 1914 ). Students who failed the examination were referred to as having been …
To Daniel Oliver 8 June [1862]
Summary
Describes floral anatomy of a Catasetum sent by DO.
Has gone on from orchids to studying insect agency in Pelargonium.
His doubts on the worth of publishing Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 8 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 32 (EH 88206015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3592 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … very little contained pulpy matter: An examination of the tissue or utriculi of stigmas of …
From John Scott 6 December [1862]
Summary
JS not ready to publish on Primula.
Some of his objections to natural selection are based on belief that plants with separate sexes are less variable than those in which sexes are confluent (as in ferns).
Sends his paper on fern varieties [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 16 (1862): 209–27].
Will soon read paper on Drosera irritability [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 17 (1863): 317–18].
How does CD explain capricious distribution of irritability among plants?
P. scotica’s non-dimorphism is native.
Beginning Laelia experiments shortly.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 182a–d |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3847 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … have been entirely confined to the examination of the relative length of the sexual …
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1862
Summary
JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.
Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.
Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.
JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 July 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 46–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3651 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … lake-dwellings, the recent discovery and examination of which he had described in a paper …
From J. D. Hooker 26 November 1862
Summary
Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3831 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … which involved prolonged microscopical examination (see letters from J. D. Hooker, 20 …
From J. D. Hooker 12 November 1862
Summary
Samuel Haughton was the prejudiced reviewer of the Origin. JDH’s opinion of SH.
Has heard from a W. African collector that P. B. Du Chaillu’s accounts [Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa (1861)] are all false.
R. F. Burton has impudently stolen credit for Gustav Mann’s Cameroon expedition.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3802 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … of Africa’. Hooker probably refers to examinations at University College London, where he …
letter | (34) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Clarke, W. B. (b) | (1) |
Currey, Frederick | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Haast, Julius von | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Masters, M. T. | (1) |
Nevill, D. F. | (1) |
Newman, Edward | (1) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (1) |
Pritchard, Charles | (1) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
Scott, John | (4) |
Walpole, D. F. | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Scott, John | (5) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Ramsay, A. C. | (2) |
Dipsacus and Drosera: Frank’s favourite carnivores
Summary
In Autumn of 1875, Francis Darwin was busy researching aggregation in the tentacles of Drosera rotundifolia (F. Darwin 1876). This phenomenon occurs when coloured particles within either protoplasm or the fluid in the cell vacuole (the cell sap) cluster…
Matches: 1 hits
- … rotundifolia tentacles, Francis had to delay further examinations . His father encouraged …
Correspondence with women
Summary
We know of letters to or from around 2000 correspondents, about 100 of whom were women. Using the letter summaries available on this website, the letters can be assigned to rough categories. Included in the count are letters to women in Darwin’s family…
Matches: 1 hits
- … of women was maintained artificially by their exclusion from examinations and learned societies. He …
Darwin and Fatherhood
Summary
Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…
Matches: 1 hits
- … was becoming determined by qualifications and entry examinations. This made their choice of private …
Forms of flowers
Summary
Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … been so much observed of late and which in the course of our examinations for Genera Plantarum had …
Darwin in letters, 1821-1836: Childhood to the Beagle voyage
Summary
Darwin's first known letters were written when he was twelve. They continue through school-days at Shrewsbury, two years as a medical student at Edinburgh University, the undergraduate years at Cambridge, and the of the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle.…
Matches: 1 hits
- … able properly to consider the results of his and others’ examinations of the Beagle specimens …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … (George and Leonard), who had recently excelled in their examinations. Darwin himself was described …