To Thomas Rivers 28 December [1862]
Summary
Thanks for letter [missing] and help.
Asks about the effect said to be produced on the stock by a graft.
Health prevents accepting TR’s invitation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 28 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3879 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … in Periodical & abstracted in M.S. your book on Roses, & several times I thought I would …
- … Society of London. 1888. Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample …
- … of all the fine leading varieties of roses … The whole arranged so as to form a companion …
- … of the Sawbridgeworth collection of roses, published annually. London: the proprietor. …
To Thomas Rivers 23 December [1862]
Summary
CD is collecting [for Variation] all accounts of what some call "sports" and what he calls "bud-variations". He asks whether very slight variations in fruit appear suddenly by buds, or whether only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3874 |
To T. F. Jamieson 27 March [1862]
Summary
Will forward TFJ’s letter to Charles Lyell.
Gives up the marine theory [of the parallel roads of Glen Roy] for ‘ever & ever’, but ‘with a groan’.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1862] |
| Classmark: | McConnochie 1901, p. 236 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3487G |
Matches: 1 hit
- … by the sea as the landmass of Scotland rose in graduated steps. See CD’s 1839 paper, ‘ …
To Hugh Falconer 29 December [1862]
Summary
Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3883 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … assuming a new character, such as a moss-rose on a provence, or a nectarine on a peach …
To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 December [1862]
Summary
Asks for any authentic cases of "sports", which CD calls "bud-variations". Flowers introduced from warmer temperate regions are said to be particularly apt to sport in this way.
CD now has proof that Cinchona is dimorphic and that some dimorphic plants are absolutely sterile with their own-form pollen.
Asks GHKT to examine or send pollen specimens of two Ceylon genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3880 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … assumes suddenly a new character—like moss-rose on Provence &c. — I sh d be very grateful …
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 24 March 1862
Summary
Writes with an important fact about the parallel roads of Glen Roy. The watershed at Makoul corresponds with the lowermost of the Glen Roy lines. Over a stretch of 20 miles from east to west the lowermost of the Glen Roy lines is near parallel with the present sea level.
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Mar 1862 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2834–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3483F |
Matches: 1 hit
- … by the sea as the landmass of Scotland rose in graduated steps. By contrast, Jamieson …
From Charles Lyell 20 August 1862
Summary
Jamieson has revisited Glen Roy and confirmed his theory of glacier lakes.
A. G. More considers CD the most profound of reasoners.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Aug 1862 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 358; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3691 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … sea as the landmass of Scotland gradually rose ( ‘Parallel roads of Glen Roy’ ). Following …
To A. C. Ramsay 5 September [1862]
Summary
On ACR’s paper on glacial origin of lakes. CD thinks it is correct. Suggests further investigation to corroborate it. His only doubt has to do with areas of great activity.
On ACR’s view of cause of glacial period: CD did battle with Hooker on same point.
T. F. Jamieson has smashed CD’s Glen Roy marine theory in splendid style.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.9: 7 (EH 88205980) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3714 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … as the landmass of Scotland gradually rose. Rejecting CD’s marine theory, Thomas Francis …
From Joseph Beete Jukes 25 May 1862
Summary
JBJ explains his theory of atmospheric denudation of Irish river valleys, to be published [as "On the river valleys in the south of Ireland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 378–403], and suggests its application to the Weald. This slow process would make the Weald far older than CD’s 300 million years.
Thanks for Orchids.
| Author: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 May 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 168: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3571 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … rocks by marine denudation as the rock rose above the Sea, that brooks commenced to run …
To John Scott 19 December [1862]
Summary
JS should be proud of his paper ["Nature of the fern-spore", Edinburgh New. Philos. J. 2d ser. 16 (1862): 209–27].
CD has just found that JS’s observations on the confluence of two sexes causing variability were independently confirmed by Huxley.
CD has always suspected a fundamental difference between buds and ovules.
Asks for examples of "bud-variation" or "sports".
Asks JS to test germination of pollen on rostellum of Laelia.
Offers JS money for experimental supplies, e.g., netting, to keep insects out of flowers.
Encloses an outline of crossing experiments with Lythraceae, Primula, Pelargonium, and others, which he feels would be valuable.
Note on melastomids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B35–6, B64–5, B80 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3868 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to collect all cases like moss—on common rose,—nectarine on Peach. — I did not at all know …
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
| Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Jamieson, T. F. | (2) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Jukes, J. B. | (1) |
3.21 Herbert Rose Barraud, photos
Summary
< Back to Introduction The successful portrait photographer Herbert Rose Barraud, who had studios in London and Liverpool, photographed Darwin in the summer of 1881, in a group of four or so close-up head-and-shoulders portraits. This was probably at…
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Romanes, G. J. (138) Rose, C. B. (1) …
Darwin and working from home
Summary
Ever wondered how Darwin worked? As part of our For the Curious series of simple interactives, ‘Darwin working from home’ lets you explore objects from Darwin’s study and garden at Down House to learn how he worked and what he had to say about it. And not…
Matches: 1 hits
- … to the days: 7 am Rose and took a short walk. …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 5 hits
- … Hog. on Culture of Carnation. Auricula. Polyanth tulip. Rose. Hyacinth. 6 s . a catalogue of vars. …
- … rs . Gores Manual of Roses [Gore 1838] River’s Rose Amateur Guide [Rivers 1837] …
- … 119: 8a Gore, Catherine Grace Frances. 1838. The rose fancier’s manual . London. …
- … . Paris. 128: 2 Rivers, Thomas. 1837. The rose amateur’s guide; containing ample …
- … Cistineæ. The natural order of cistus, or rock rose … With … directions for their cultivation . …
Darwin’s earthquakes
Summary
Darwin experienced his first earthquake in 1834, but it was a few months later that he was really confronted with their power. Travelling north along the coast of Chile, Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, were confronted with a series of…
Matches: 1 hits
- … – a similar concept to modern tectonic plates – that rose and fell as the molten material beneath …
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
Matches: 1 hits
- … scientific methodologies. The ecological movement, which rose to prominence in the 1970s, and which …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
Summary
A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
Matches: 1 hits
- … by the gall-fly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak tree. In all organic beings the …
Darwin in letters, 1837–1843: The London years to 'natural selection'
Summary
The seven-year period following Darwin's return to England from the Beagle voyage was one of extraordinary activity and productivity in which he became recognised as a naturalist of outstanding ability, as an author and editor, and as a professional…
Matches: 1 hits
- … the roads were a succession of beaches formed as the land rose from the sea (‘Observations on the …
Darwin’s Photographic Portraits
Summary
Darwin was a photography enthusiast. This is evident not only in his use of photography for the study of Expression and Emotions in Man and Animal, but can be witnessed in his many photographic portraits and in the extensive portrait correspondence that…
Matches: 1 hits
- … Darwin would be produced by the London photographer Herbert Rose Barraud. Barraud produced both …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
Summary
On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … ridiculing Darwin ‘badly & Huxley savagely’. Huxley rose in response and ‘answered admirably’, …
Dramatisation script
Summary
Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007
Matches: 1 hits
- … GRAY …he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … On 6 March 1868, Darwin wrote to the entomologist and accountant John Jenner Weir, ‘If …
