From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 4 January 1861
Summary
Comments on the travels of JDH.
Genera plantarum a most worthy undertaking.
Criticisms of the Darwin–Hooker understanding of HCW’s views of convergence.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Jan 1861 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 105: 205) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3041A |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 5 January 1861]
Summary
Describes how adhesive bladders enable the achenia of Pumilio argyrolepsis to attach themselves to the soil. James Drummond sent seeds to CD with a memorandum on the achenia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 5 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 5 January 1861, pp. 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3042 |
To S. P. Woodward 5 June [1861]
Summary
Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".
Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.
CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.
Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 5 June [1861] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3043 |
To Richard Kippist 7 January [1861]
Summary
Orders journal volume [Mémoires présentées par divers savans à l’Académie des Sciences 4] from librarian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 7 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3044 |
From Jeffries Wyman 8 January [1861]
Author: | Jeffries Wyman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 18–21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3045 |
To W. D. Fox 9 January [1861]
Summary
Thanks WDF for an inkstand that keeps ink from getting muddy.
Asks if WDF can verify truth of a statement that white sows carry their young for a longer or shorter time (CD forgets which) than other colours. Presumes it is false, "but many odd peculiarities are correlated with colour".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 9 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 126) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3046 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1861]
Summary
CD’s opinion of minor critics and commentators on Origin.
H. C. Watson’s notion of genera converging is dismissed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3047 |
To John Murray 21 January [1861]
Summary
Thinks third edition of Origin should advertise "additions and corrections", for the additions are important. They will add 30 pages to the book; there will also be a short historical sketch. Asks for some copies for friends.
Also curious to know how Journal of researches has sold. The new issue seemed a rash venture to him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 21 Jan [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.98–99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3048 |
To William Walmisley Baxter? 22 January 1861
Summary
Orders one pint of tincture of henbane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 22 Jan 1861 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (MS 29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3049 |
To Asa Gray 23 [January 1861]
Summary
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 23 [Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3050 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [24 January 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [24 Jan 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3051 |
From William Duppa Crotch 25 January 1861
Summary
Physiological changes in Shetland ponies and seagulls resulting from change in diet.
Reports on the discovery of eyeless beetles in cellar [i.e., not caves]. How did they get there, and whence?
Author: | William Duppa Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Jan 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3052 |
From Francis Walker 1 February 1861
Summary
Identifies two dipterous species of parasites [chalcidites].
Was not able to attend to the aphids last year, but will make use of CD’s suggestions and "study as much as I can the inquiry as to species".
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2 (ser. 3): 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3053 |
To Charles Lyell 2 February [1861]
Summary
Quotes passage from letter from Asa Gray dealing with views of Francis Bowen on heredity and Agassiz "(foolish man)" on heredity and languages.
Sent CL the Calcutta Review [with Edward Blyth’s review of Origin, 35 (1860): 64–88].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 2 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.238) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3054 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 3 February [1861]
Summary
Is obliged for WBT’s "curious case". Discusses the effects of castration on development.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 3 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3055 |
To Jeffries Wyman 3 February [1861]
Summary
Can there be any truth in account of rattlesnakes fascinating their prey? Structure of rattle complex.
Fears it will be impossible to show gradation among other snakes.
Has JW seen Robert McDonnell’s article on electrical organ in skate ["On an organ in the skate", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 57–60]?
Thanks for observations on Vespidae. Particularly values such cases of variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jeffries Wyman |
Date: | 3 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Jeffries Wyman papers H MS c12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3056 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 February [1861]
Summary
Changes in admission to Athenaeum.
Slowly working at his volume on Variation.
Experiments on insectivorous and "sensitive" plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3057 |
From William A. Wooler 4 February 1861
Summary
Discusses the colouring of the young of various breeds of rabbit.
Observations on results of various poultry crosses and on a character which is linked to sex.
Author: | William Alexander Wooler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3058 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [February 1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [Feb 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115.2: 86 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3060 |
Darwin, C. R. | (62) |
Hooker, J. D. | (57) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Lubbock, John | (14) |
Lyell, Charles | (14) |
Darwin, C. R. | (373) |
Hooker, J. D. | (60) |
Darwin, W. E. | (18) |
Oliver, Daniel | (17) |
Lyell, Charles | (16) |