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To Edward Cresy 28 May [1861]

Summary

Thanks for railway map.

Surprised about Richard Owen: "I thought his courage was as indomitable as his malignity."

Sends extract [Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:	28 May [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 143
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3165

Matches: 18 hits

… To Edward Cresy 28 May [1861] …
… not actually leave for Torquay until 1 July 1861 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). …
… DAR 143 Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 May [1861] Edward Cresy, Jr …
… Sir John Herschel, "Physical geography", from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1861)]. …
… Press. 1985–. Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni. 1861. Explorations & adventures in equatorial …
… Murray. Herschel, John Frederick William. 1861. Physical geography. From the Encyclopædia …
… Edward Cresy, 12 December [1860] ). The reference is to Hutton 1861 . See letter to F. …
… W. Hutton, 20 April 1861 . John Frederick William …
… Herschel had recently sent CD a copy of Herschel 1861 (see letter to J. F. …
… W. Herschel, 23 May [1861] ). The Darwins did …
… Edinburgh. Hutton, Frederick Wollaston. 1861. Some remarks on Mr Darwin’s theory. …
… Paul Belloni Du Chaillu ( Du Chaillu 1861 ). Upon his arrival in London, Du Chaillu, who …
… of the Royal Geographical Society on 25 February 1861. Du Chaillu spoke before a large and …
… in the Athenæum late in May and in June 1861. This exchange sparked a public controversy …
… of their brain was strikingly dissimilar to that of man. See Athenæum , 11 May 1861, pp. …
… 621–3, and 23 March 1861, pp. …
… 395–6; and Du Chaillu 1861 , pp. 363–82. See also letter …
… to T. H. Huxley, 1 April [1861] . A. Gray 1861a . CD had recommended Asa Gray’s …

From J. D. Hooker [29 December 1861]

Summary

Asks CD whether he hears from Asa Gray. JDH’s opinion of the crisis [Trent case, Nov 1861] and the American Civil War.

Julius von Haast alludes to glacial drift in Middle Island of New Zealand.

Backwardness of JDH’s son, Willy.

Encloses a reference from Daniel Oliver which may be useful.

Author:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	[29 Dec 1861]
Classmark:	DAR 101: 1, 2a–c
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3374

Matches: 18 hits

… From J. D. Hooker [29 December 1861] …
… DAR 101: 1, 2a–c Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [29 Dec 1861] Charles Robert Darwin …
… opinion of the crisis [ Trent case, Nov 1861] and the American Civil War. Julius von Haast …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [December 1861] . The following Sunday was 29 December. See …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [December 1861] . See letters to J. …
… D. Hooker, 18 [December 1861] , 27 [ …
… December 1861] , and …
… 28 [December 1861] . See …
… letter to John Lindley, 28 December [1861] and letters to J. …
… D. Hooker, 20 [November 1861] and …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, [30 and 31 December 1861] and n. 3). Jenyns ed. 1862. …
… 27 [December 1861] . Hooker refers to the so-called ‘Trent …
… See letter to Asa Gray, 11 December [1861] and n. 3. Hooker’s eldest child, William …
… scarlet fever (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [December 1861] ). John Stevens Henslow , …
… Hooker’s father-in-law, had died in May 1861. Eulophia is a genus of orchids. See letter …
… to J. D. Hooker, [30 and 31 December 1861] . James Hector was preparing to leave for New …
… Zealand ( Origin 4th ed. , p. 443). Haast 1861 , pp. 89–124. Lestiboudois 1848 . In the …
… 1927–96. Haast, John Francis Julius von. 1861. Report of a topographical and geological …

To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861]

Summary

Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	30 and 31 Dec 1861
Classmark:	DAR 115: 83a
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3576

Matches: 11 hits

… To J. D. Hooker [30 and 31 December 1861] …
… DAR 115: 83a Charles Robert Darwin Down [30 Dec 1861] [31 …
… Dec 1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… D. Hooker, [29 December 1861] . The ‘foreign letter’ has not been found; it is possible …
… Victor Naudin (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1861] , CD annotations). Emma …
… Darwin recorded in her diary on 30 December 1861 that Francis and Horace Darwin were ‘ …
… feverish’. See letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1861] . …
… Dated by the relationship to the letter from J. D. Hooker, [29 December 1861] . …
… In 1861, 30 December fell on a Monday. William Hugh Gower was a foreman at the …
… and Agricultural Gazette , 28 December 1861, pp. 1137–8, recommended Heterocentron …
… in Heterocentron (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 November [1861] ). See letter from J. …

To J. D. Hooker 13 July [1861]

Summary

Has worked out homologies of orchids’ pollinia and rostellum.

On W. H. Harvey’s review ["The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	13 July [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 105
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3207

Matches: 16 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 13 July [1861] …
… DAR 115: 105 Charles Robert Darwin Torquay 13 July [1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… The natural evolution of organic species considered", Dublin Hosp. Gaz. 8 (1861): 146–52]. …
… joined the Darwins in Torquay on 9 July 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See letters to J. …
… D. Hooker, 19 June [1861] and …
… 22 June [1861] . Two of William’s botanical notebooks are in the Darwin Archive–CUL (DAR …
… Press. 1927–96. Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni. 1861. Explorations & adventures in equatorial …
… London: John Murray. Harvey, William Henry. 1861. On “omne vivum ab ovo”, or, the natural …
… considered. Dublin Hospital Gazette , 15 May 1861. Orchids : On the various contrivances …
… from a ‘hæmorrhage from the lungs’ (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 June [1861] and n. …
… 3). Harvey 1861 . In his essay on the ‘natural evolution of organic species’, Harvey …
… dust a slightly improved horse. ’ ( Harvey 1861 , p. 150). Harvey used the same argument …
… preparing to leave in the autumn of 1861 on a natural history expedition to Guatemala ( …
… See letter to J. D. Hooker, [6 July 1861] . The nursery of Veitch & Son of Chelsea …
… See letter to Frederick Smith, [19 June 1861] . Having examined almost all the genera of …
… see Orchids , pp. 159–66. Du Chaillu 1861 . Having been interested in botany for a number …

To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 May [1861]

Summary

Thanks WBT for information on pigeons and poultry.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:	8 May [1861]
Classmark:	Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4830

Matches: 20 hits

… To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 May [1861] …
… Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 May [1861] William Bernhard Tegetmeier …
… letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 4 May [1861] ( Correspondence vol. 9). See Correspondence …
… 9, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 4 May [1861] . This letter has not been found. John …
… see Variation 1: 258. In his letter of 4 May [1861] ( Correspondence vol. 9), Tegetmeier …
… collection of fowl skulls to CD in March 1861 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letters to W. …
… B. Tegetmeier, 22 March [1861] and …
… 28 March [1861] ). Volume 1 of Variation has illustrations of two fowl skulls viewed from …
… 9, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 4 May [1861] . No paper by Tegetmeier on racing pigeons …
… and Black red Game’ with his letter of 4 May [1861] ( Correspondence vol. 9). The written …
… Supplement, letter to B. P. Brent, 1 April [1861] and n. 8. Tegetmeier had written to CD …
… 9, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 4 May [1861] , and Variation 1: 264). CD first asked …
… his letter to Tegetmeier of 25 February [1861] ( Correspondence vol. 9), querying George …
… in his letter to Tegetmeier of 1 March [1861] ( ibid. ), and apparently in the now missing …
… enclosure to his letter to Tegetmeier of 14 April [1861] ( ibid. ; see ibid. , letter from …
… W. B. Tegetmeier, 4 May [1861] ). In Variation 1: 227, CD reported that the tails of …
… of which CD had apparently acquired in March 1861 (see this volume, Supplement, letter …
… to Williams & Norgate, 4 March [1861] ). According to Ferguson 1854 , Shanghai fowl have …
… also Correspondence vol. 9, letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 25 February [1861] and n. 6. …
… chapter on fowls for Variation on 16 May 1861 ( Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix II). In …

To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1861]

Summary

Rudimentary ovules of Acropera.

High opinion of Bates.

Orchid anatomy.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	1 Dec [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 135
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3337

Matches: 18 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1861] …
… DAR 115: 135 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Dec [1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
… Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
… of Catasetum and Bolbophyllum (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 November [1861] and [ …
… 22 November 1861] ). In Orchids , George Henry Turnbull of Down is thanked for allowing …
… L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: 18). See letter to Daniel Oliver, 30 November [1861] . The …
… and Agricultural Gazette , 30 November 1861, pp. 1048–9, carried summaries of CD’s …
… of the Linnean Society on 21 November 1861. Richard Kippist was librarian of the society. …
… of Acropera since October (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 15 October [1861] , 18 …
… October [1861] , and …
… 27 October [1861] ). See …
… letter to Daniel Oliver, 30 November [1861] . See …
… letter from William Hugh Gower, 23 November 1861 . See letter to H. …
… W. Bates, 3 December [1861] and letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, [9 December 1861] . CD had offered Bates £10 to help defray the expense …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 November [1861] ). Hooker was a member of the council of the …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 25 November [1861] . Hooker was currently describing the plants …

To J. D. Hooker 17 [July 1861]

Summary

Orchids from Kew.

JDH’s income problems.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	17 [July 1861]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 106
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3210

Matches: 15 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 17 [July 1861] …
… DAR 115: 106 Charles Robert Darwin Torquay 17 [July 1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… of what was thought to be typhus fever (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [February 1861] ). …
… William’s current interest in botany (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 19 June [1861] , 22 …
… June [1861] , and …
… 13 July [1861] ). The contractual arrangements for William’s partnership in a Southampton …
… had encountered a number of problems. See letters to John Lubbock , 10 July [1861] and …
… 14 July [1861] . See letters to J. …
… D. Hooker, 19 June [1861] and [ …
… 6 July 1861] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 13 July [1861] . CD had received a letter from Asa Gray in which he discussed …
… but see the letter to Asa Gray, 21 July [1861] . CD was interested in examining several …
… John Stevens Henslow had died on 16 May 1861. Henslow’s benefice at Hitcham, Suffolk, had …
… per annum ( Journal of Horticulture n.s. 1 (1861): 138). His natural history collection …
… shortly after his death (see Field 18 (1861): 159). The reference to examination fees has …

From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861]

Summary

Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Addressee:	William Erasmus Darwin
Date:	[13 Jan 1861]
Classmark:	DAR 185: 117
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3046F

Matches: 16 hits

… From Charles and Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin [13 January 1861] …
… 117 Charles Robert Darwin Emma Wedgwood/Emma Darwin [13 Jan 1861] William Erasmus Darwin …
… who arrived at Down House on 11 January 1861, and left on 21 January ( Emma Darwin’s …
… Golden Square, London, until 1858; by 1861 they had moved to Calthorpe Place, Gray’s Inn …
… used by Oetzmann & Plumb, pianoforte makers ( Post Office London directory 1858, 1861). …
… s diary (DAR 242; see nn. 2 and 8, below). In 1861, 13 January was a Sunday. CD refers to …
… s diary (DAR 242), went to London on 10 January 1861, returning to Down on 12 January. …
… treatment between December 1860 and February 1861 (see letter from G. H. Darwin to W. …
… DAR 251: 2226), letters from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [30 January 1861] (DAR 219.1: …
… 36), [12 February 1861] (DAR 219.1: 37), …
… and [20 February 1861] (DAR 219.1: 38), and Correspondence vol. 9, letter to …
… J. D. Hooker, 4 February [1861] and n. 3). CD refers …
… London ( Post Office London directory 1861). Mr Mitchell (see also Correspondence vol. 9, …
… letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 22 March [1861] ) has not been further identified. London …
… at Down House with William on 14 January 1861 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); to the …
… Terrace ( Post Office London directory 1861); and to Katherine Euphemia and Hope Elizabeth …

To Robert Chambers 30 April [1861]

Summary

Thanks RC for "Ice and water" [in RC’s Edinburgh papers (1861)].

Comments on problem of scientific accuracy.

Discusses views of Thomas Davidson on the genealogy of brachiopods.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Robert Chambers
Date:	30 Apr [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 143: 258
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3130

Matches: 14 hits

… To Robert Chambers 30 April [1861] …
… DAR 143: 258 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Apr [1861] Robert Chambers …
… and water" [in RC’s Edinburgh papers (1861)]. Comments on problem of scientific accuracy. …
… F. Jamieson, 6 September 1861 . In his paper on the parallel roads of Glen Roy ( …
… 54 (1852–3): 229–81. Chambers, Robert. 1861. Edinburgh papers [pt 3]. Ice and water: a …
… s paper ‘Ice and water’ (see n. 2, below). Chambers 1861 . The work is one of a series of …
… included in Chambers’s Edinburgh papers (1861). CD’s presentation copy of the paper is in …
… at his home in St John’s Wood (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 [April 1861] ). See …
… letter to Thomas Davidson, 26 April 1861 , and the letter to T. W. …
… St C. Davidson, 30 April 1861 . John William Salter . …
… See letter to Thomas Davidson, 26 April 1861 and n. 3. CD’s letter to Thomas Francis …
… found, but see the letter from T. F. Jamieson, 3 September 1861 , and letter to T. …
… motivated by scientists’ fears about their reputations ( Chambers 1861 , pp. 40–1). …
… and Agricultural Gazette , 27 April 1861, p. 390. During his recent stay in London, CD …

To Williams & Norgate [1861]

Summary

Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Williams & Norgate
Date:	[1861]
Classmark:	Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3040F

Matches: 6 hits

… To Williams & Norgate [1861] …
… Requests Natural History Review for 1861 until further notice. …
… and Music (Waller Ms alb-67:134) Charles Robert Darwin Down [1861] Williams & Norgate …
… me the “Nat〈ural〉 History Review,” for 1861, and continue it until further notice. Name …
… Thomas Henry Huxley, had appeared in January 1861 (see Correspondence vol. 9, letter to T. …
… H. Huxley, 3 January [1861] and n. 2). …

To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1861]

Summary

Orchid homologies.

Sensitive responses in Catasetum.

Acropera becoming clear.

T. F. Jamieson impressed by JDH’s work on Himalayan glaciers.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	1 Nov [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 124
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3305

Matches: 13 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 1 November [1861] …
… DAR 115: 124 Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Nov [1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… It was a response to the letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 October [1861] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 27 October [1861] . The reference is to Brown 1831 . For CD’s description of …
… see Orchids , pp. 321–3. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 15 [October 1861] , 18 …
… October [1861] , and …
… George Turnbull. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 October [1861] , and letter from …
… Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 . See the series of letters to and from …
… Charles Lyell , in September and October 1861. See also Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix …
… 27 October [1861] . Acropera , the ‘opprobrium’ of CD’s work owing to his difficulty in …
… 10. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 November [1861] . Hooker 1854a , 1: 242–4; 2: 116–21. …
… See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 September [1861] , and letter from T. …
… F. Jamieson, 24 October 1861 . The reference is to Mr Horwood, gardener to CD’s neighbour …

From Asa Gray [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [1861]

Summary

Gives some observations on the sensitivity of Drosera species and comments on cases of "dioecio-dimorphism".

Author:	Asa Gray
Addressee:	Charles Robert Darwin
Date:	27 and 29 Aug 1861 and 2 Sept 1861
Classmark:	DAR 110 (ser. 2): 76
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3242

Matches: 12 hits

… From Asa Gray [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [1861] …
… DAR 110 (ser. 2): 76 Asa Gray unstated 27 Aug 1861 29 …
… Aug 1861 2 …
… Sept 1861 Charles Robert Darwin …
… in the letter to Asa Gray, 17 September [1861] , that he had just received Gray’s letter ‘ …
… had asked Gray, in his letter of 21 July [1861] , to ‘have a look at Spiranthes’ in order …
… also letter to Asa Gray, 17 September [1861] . CD had suggested that Gray might like to …
… in Torrey and Gray 1838–43, 1: 38. See also letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 . See …
… the letter to Asa Gray, 21 July [1861] , in which CD mentioned that John Stuart Mill …
… see letter to Asa Gray, 17 February [1861] ). The thread-leaved sundew, D. filiformis , …
… See also letter to Asa Gray, 21 July [1861] . CD had asked Gray whether he knew of any …
… area (see letter to Asa Gray, 5 June [1861] ). In his Manual of the botany of the northern …

To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1861]

Summary

Has written recollections of Henslow [Collected papers 2: 72–4].

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	30 May [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 102
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3168

Matches: 16 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 30 May [1861] …
… DAR 115: 102 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 May [1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
… Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
… Hooker’s father-in-law, John Stevens Henslow , who died on 16 May 1861. See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 24–5 May [1861] . CD’s ‘recollections’ of Henslow, consisting chiefly of his …
… again for specimens of saxifrage (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 28 September [1861] and …
… 18 October [1861] ), which Hooker eventually supplied in the spring of 1862 (see …
… in letters written in April and May 1861. On 23 May Hooker wrote (L. Huxley ed. 1918, 2: …
… Darwin’s future career. See letter to W. E. Darwin, [25 May 1861] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, 24–5 May [1861] , n. …
… 8. Bates 1861 . See letter from H. …
… W. Bates, 18 March 1861 , and letters to H. …
… W. Bates, 26 March [1861] , and to J. …
… D. Hooker, 27 [March 1861]. The postscript is written on a separate sheet of paper; …
… the letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 June [1861] , to CD’s query about saxifrages makes this …

To Daniel Oliver 3 November [1861]

Summary

Thanks for "multitudinous" references.

Thanks Hooker for orchids.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Daniel Oliver
Date:	3 Nov [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-4329

Matches: 14 hits

… To Daniel Oliver 3 November [1861] …
… DAR 261.10: 52 (EH 88206035) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Nov [1861] Daniel Oliver …
… and the first letter to J. D. Hooker, 1 November [1861] ( Correspondence vol. 9). See …
… vol. 9, letter from Daniel Oliver, [before 8 November 1861] ; this letter should now …
… be dated [before 3 November 1861]. The references were to works on orchid …
… was working on Orchids in the latter part of 1861 ( Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix II). …
… D. Hooker of 1 November [1861] ( ibid. ), he wrote that he did not have a Cypripedium ‘in …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 November [1861] , and Orchids , pp. 290–305. CD mentioned the …
… Review , which began publication in January 1861; he had written a number of botanical …
… 9, letter to Richard Kippist, 7 January [1861] . CD had asked Hooker about the position of …
… in Dendrobium in his first letter to Hooker of 1 November [1861] ; see also the letter …
… to John Lindley, 1 November [1861] ( Correspondence vol. 9). Hooker’s reply has not been …
… see, for example, Correspondence vol. 9, letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 October [1861] and …
… 27 October [1861] ). In the first letter to J. …

To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861]

Summary

CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.

William Darwin’s partnership in bank.

Work: variation and orchids.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	19 June [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 103
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3190

Matches: 19 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861] …
… DAR 115: 103 Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 June [1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… specialist on orchids ( R. Desmond 1977 ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 May [1861] . …
… confirmed by the reference to the death of John Stevens Henslow on 16 May 1861. See letter …
… to Journal of Horticulture , [before 18 June 1861]. CD’s letter appeared as the …
… on the front page of the issue of 18 June 1861. The editors of the journal were George …
… pp. 51–5; Collected papers 2: 72–4). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 24–5 May [1861] and …
… 30 May [1861] , and Correspondence vol. 9, Appendix X. A three- …
… Gazette , 1 June, 8 June, and 15 June 1861. Hooker had suggested that CD might like to …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 27 [March 1861] and n. 6). The Journal of the Proceedings …
… at the anniversary meeting of 24 May 1861 ( Jackson 1906 , p. 188). Henrietta Emma Darwin …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [February 1861] ). John Lubbock was acting as intermediary …
… in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank. See letters to W. E. Darwin, [25 May 1861] and …
… 6 [June 1861] . William Darwin had developed an interest in botany while he was being …
… in Variation . CD recorded in his journal for 1861: ‘During stay at Torquay did paper on …
… visited Torquay from 1 July to 27 August 1861. See ‘Journal’ (Appendix II). CD mentioned …
… the letter to B. S. Malden, 15–16 June [1861] . Not until October was he able to obtain …
… for promoting cross-pollination (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 11 October [1861] and …
… 13 October [1861] ). Like Catasetum , the species of the orchid genus Mormodes possess a …

[Grattan, Thomas Colley]. 1861. America. Saturday Review, 19 October 1861, pp. 394– 5; 26 October 1861, pp. 420–1.

Matches: 3 hits

… Grattan, Thomas Colley]. 1861. America. …
… Saturday Review , 19 October 1861, pp. …
… 394– 5; 26 October 1861, pp. 420–1. NPR.c.93 vol. 12 …

To J. D. Hooker 13 [August 1861]

Summary

Personal regards.

William Darwin will make a botanist.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	13 [Aug 1861]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 110
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3231

Matches: 12 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 13 [August 1861] …
… DAR 115: 110 Charles Robert Darwin Torquay 13 [Aug 1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… been told that this was not possible (see letters to J. D. Hooker, [6 July 1861] , 17 [ …
… July 1861] , and …
… 27 July [1861] ). This tribe of orchids was the only one out of seven that CD had not yet …
… to the letter to J. D. Hooker, [11 August 1861] . Frances Harriet Hooker had been unwell …
… see letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 July [1861] ). CD refers to cod-liver oil, which Hooker …
… interested in botanical dissection. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 19 June [1861] , 22 …
… June [1861] , and …
… 13 July [1861] . Charles William Crocker was foreman of the propagating department at the …
… to be typhus fever. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 8 [February 1861] . See letter to J. …
… D. Hooker, [11 August 1861] . The reference to Richard Owen has not been traced. Owen had …

To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1861]

Summary

Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.

Orchids.

Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:	28 Sept [1861]
Classmark:	DAR 115: 114
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3268

Matches: 20 hits

… To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1861] …
… DAR 115: 114 Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Sept [1861] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
… Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1861. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
… Lepidoptera : Heliconidæ. [Read 21 November 1861. ] Transactions of the Linnean Society of …
… than an article. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 September [1861] ; see also letter to …
… John Murray, 21 September [1861] , and letter from …
… John Murray, 23 September 1861 . Hooker and George Bentham were preparing the first part …
… p. 567). See letter from Asa Gray, [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [1861] . CD gave an …
… of the experiments he carried out in 1861 on Linum grandiflorum in a paper on dimorphism …
… the Linnean Society of London on 21 November 1861 (see Collected papers 2: 62–3) and in a …
… letter from J. D. Hooker, [28 September 1861] . CD referred to this difficulty in Origin …
… J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1849 ). See letters from T. F. Jamieson, 13 June 1861 and …
… 3 September 1861 . See …
… also letter to Robert Chambers, 30 April [1861] . Thomas Francis Jamieson published the …
… extinction. Bates disputed this view in Bates 1861 , pp. 352–3: having found that among …
… of extinction could have occurred. See also letters from H. W. Bates, 18 March 1861 and …
… 28 March 1861 . Letter from H. …
… W. Bates, [before 25 September 1861] . This letter is damaged and largely illegible, but …
… the letter to H. W. Bates, 25 September [1861] . Bates had studied Brazilian ants; some …
… Sowerby Jr arrived at Down on 7 October 1861. An entry in CD’s Account book (Down House …

To Asa Gray [after 11 October 1861]

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Thanks AG for notes on hollies.

Replies to an argument for design. Feels it monstrous to consider orchids created as they are now seen, since every part reveals modification on modification.

Author:	Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:	Asa Gray
Date:	[after 11 Oct 1861]
Classmark:	Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51a)
Letter no:	DCP-LETT-3283

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… See letter to Asa Gray, 17 September [1861] . See …
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… Asa Gray, 17 September [1861] . See …
… letter from Asa Gray, 11 October 1861 , and letter to …
… Asa Gray, 17 September [1861] . CD made use of this and many of the other cases cited in …
… and plants ( Variation ). Since July 1861, however, he had halted this work in order to …
… examined Linum plants grown in the summer of 1861, CD carried out further experiments in …
… letter to J. D. Hooker, 28 September [1861] . This discussion was apparently included …

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The year 1866 began well for Charles Darwin, as his health, after several years of illness, was now considerably improved. In February, Darwin received a request from his publisher, John Murray, for a new edition of Origin. Darwin got the fourth…

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