To J. D. Hooker 30 [June 1862]
Summary
Remembers JDH’s encouragement when he was "utterly weary of life".
Marvellous about European forms in Fernando Po.
C. V. Naudin will publish a book on hybridity ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 1 (1865): 25–176; part also in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) (1863)].
CD fears Naudin has underestimated distribution of pollen by insects.
Melastomatous plants are ready for his work on meaning of two sets of anthers.
Very curious about Masdevallia.
George [Darwin] observing orchids.
Adaptation of Herminium beats almost every other orchid.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 [June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3628 |
From George Maw 30 June 1862
Summary
Discusses cases of assumed correlation, e.g., facial hair and generative organs, sexual characters in castrated oxen. Finds it difficult to see how correlation of functions which would be useless separately can be accumulated gradually through natural selection.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 5–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3629 |
To H. G. Bronn 30 June [1862]
Summary
Encloses answers and corrections [concerning Orchids]. Thanks HGB for translating it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 30 June [1862] |
Classmark: | Bronn trans. 1862; DAR 143: 155; Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3630 |
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1.14 William Richmond, oil
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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…
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