To M. T. Masters 8 July [1862]
Summary
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Date: | 8 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3645 |
From G. C. Oxenden 8 July 1862
Summary
Has not found insects visiting Epipactis palustris either at night or in the day.
Reality of hybrid plants and birds in nature is controversial.
| Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3647 |
From G. C. Oxenden 8 July [1862]
Summary
Has misplaced CD’s forwarding address.
| Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 55 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3648 |
To W. E. Darwin 9 July [1862]
Summary
Lenny [Leonard Darwin]’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Lythrum salicaria.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 9 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3649 |
To W. E. Darwin [after 14 July 1862]
Summary
Leonard’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 July 1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3650 |
From J. D. Hooker 10 July 1862
Summary
JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.
Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.
Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.
JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 46–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3651 |
To H. G. Bronn 11 July 1862
Summary
Sends additional notes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
| Date: | 11 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3652 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 11 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.
CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".
Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
| Date: | 11 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3653 |
From E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 11 July 1862
Summary
Relates death of H. G. Bronn.
Discusses publication of German edition of Orchids [1862].
| Author: | E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 69 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3654 |
From M. T. Masters 12 July 1862
Summary
Will be sending information on peloric plants from his father [William Masters] soon.
| Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3655 |
To Asa Gray 14 July [1862]
Summary
Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.
Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 14 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3656 |
From W. E. Darwin 14 July 1862
Summary
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
| Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 23, 41–2, 81–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3657 |
From Friedrich Hermann Gustav Hildebrand 14 July 1862
Summary
Offers to translate Orchids, since H. G. Bronn has died.
| Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 199 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3658 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 15 July 1862]
Summary
Is obliged for information concerning differences in the bees of Britain. Relates case of the Jamaican bees which were introduced long ago and have remained the same in size and character except that the diameter of the cells is larger, the wax tougher, and the walls of the hive thicker.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 15 July 1862] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s East, New York (catalogue 26 April 1995: the Philip M. Neufeld collection, pt 2); Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3658A |
From Asa Gray 15 July [1862]
Summary
Observations on Platanthera.
Possibility of trimorphism in Mertensia.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3659 |
From Bernard Peirce Brent 15 July 1862
Summary
Continues breeding guinea-pigs to test effects of warmth on gestation period. Concludes period is ten weeks and warmth has no influence. Offers CD the specimens.
Awaits Variation.
| Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 301 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3660 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 17 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Hildebrand’s offer to translate Orchids into German, but H. G. Bronn had finished his translation before his death (Bronn trans. 1862). Has not yet received Hildebrand’s work on the distribution of coniferous trees (Hildebrand 1861). Asks that his compliments be presented to L. C. Treviranus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
| Date: | 17 July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3660F |
From Asa Gray 21 July 1862
Summary
Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 July 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3661 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 22 July 1862]
Summary
Confesses to having made a gross blunder with reference to the size of bee cells in West Indian combs [see 3658a].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 22 July 1862] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 323 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3661A |
To Asa Gray 23[–4] July [1862]
Summary
AG’s orchid observations are admirable.
Owen has lectured on birds’ descending from one form.
French criticism of CD’s Primula paper.
Only AG has seen that Orchids was "a ""flank movement"" on the enemy".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23[–4] July [1862] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3662 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
| Oxenden, G. C. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
| Gray, Asa | (4) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (2) |
| Masters, M. T. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (51) |
| Gray, Asa | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Oxenden, G. C. | (4) |
