To John Lindley 18 October [1861]
Summary
Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.
Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 18 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3289 |
To Charles Lyell 20 October [1861]
Summary
Continued discussion of Jamieson’s Glen Roy theory. Mentions river erosion of glaciers. Quotes from old letter to CL [1116].
Is working hard on orchids; fears subject is too complex for the public.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 20 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3291 |
To John Murray 21 October [1861]
Summary
G. B. Sowerby, Jr has done the drawings for Orchids woodcuts. Calls JM’s attention to the fact that a first-rate cutter must be employed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 21 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 112–113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3292 |
From Henry Wenman Newman [before 22 October 1861]
Summary
Replies to CD’s query (see 3778): the queens or females of the humble bees are not fertilised in the air. Offers a number of observations relating to the fertilisation of bees and wasps, which he has made in the course of sixty years.
Author: | Henry Wenman Newman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 22 Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 2 (1861–2): 76–7. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3292A |
To T. H. Huxley 22 October [1861]
Summary
Mr Campbell (recommended by H. Spencer) would be a treasure but doubts any man has patience to experiment at another’s suggestion.
Jocular comments about THH’s audacity in doubting Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 177) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3293 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 October [1861]
Summary
Tells of a shooting competition at Down.
Has been working hard at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3294 |
From Charles Lyell 22 October 1861
Summary
Ice could not have formed the blockages in Lochaber unless in every case the water escaped over some col into a contiguous valley on the same watershed, or into the eastern watershed. Supposes that the cols were not land-straits, but the places where the lakes were drained when forced to flow the wrong way.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Oct 1861 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 7/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3294F |
To Charles Lyell 23 [October 1861]
Summary
Comments especially on the "intermediate shelf" problem of Glen Roy; views of Jamieson and Milne. CD "cannot help a sneaking hope that the sea might have formed the horizontal shelves".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 23 [Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.269) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3295 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 October [1861]
Summary
JDH’s work on Gnetum: a living fossil.
Orchid anatomy.
Encloses lists of orchids and other specimens he would be interested in seeing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 121, 126a, 124a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3296 |
From T. F. Jamieson 24 October 1861
Summary
Discusses his observations at Glen Roy. Mentions glaciers seen by Hooker in the Himalayas. Discusses problems of glacier–lake theory.
Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Oct 1861 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.112/2828-9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3297 |
To W. B. Clarke 25 October [1861]
Summary
Thanks WBC for his account of glacial action in Australia. A mundane cooler period would throw a flood of light on geographical distribution. Has sketched a large MS on subject but does not know whether he will live to publish it.
Questions WBC on striated granite boulders.
Asks him to make a botanical experiment on insect fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Date: | 25 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 139/36X, pp. 263–72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3298 |
To John Lindley 25 October [1861]
Summary
Sends thanks for an informative letter;
would be grateful for any orchids; names some he would particularly like.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 25 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 194) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3299 |
To Lionel Smith Beale 26 October [1861]
Summary
Subscribes to present for Mrs J. T. Quekett only on condition that no public testimonial is planned for JTQ.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lionel Smith Beale |
Date: | 26 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Scripps College, Denison Library (Perkins Autograph Letter Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3300 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 October [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3301 |
To W. E. Darwin [27 October 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [27 Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3302 |
To T. H. Huxley 31 October [1861]
Summary
Owen’s new résumé of his brain doctrine ["On the cerebral character of man and ape", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 7 (1861): 456–8]; an attack on CD’s views. Quotes Owen on cavillers and controversialists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 31 Oct [1861] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 194) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3303 |
To the Journal of Horticulture [before 22 October 1861]
Summary
Asks H. W. Newman whether the queen humble-bee is fertilised on the ground or in the air, and whether the fertilisation often takes place as late as September. [Newman’s reply follows CD’s letter.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 22 Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 2 (1861–2): 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3778 |
letter | (37) |
Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Newman, H. W. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |