To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1862]
Summary
Has passed the time by dissecting flowers of Cruciferae. Sends results, with diagrams, to JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3721 |
To John Lindley 14 September [1862]
Summary
Thanks JL for review [of Orchids, Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863]; CD published almost by accident, having been led on in part by encouragement from JL.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | 14 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 192) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3723 |
To Edward Cresy 15 September [1862]
Summary
Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 15 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 322 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3724 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 September 1862
Summary
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 56–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3725 |
From C. C. Babington 16 September 1862
Summary
Hopes to have Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds to send soon.
BAAS is meeting in Cambridge and all eminent Cambridge men are wanted present. If his health were reliable, CD would be in chair of Botany and Zoology Section.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3726 |
From P. G. King 16 September 1862
Summary
PGK’s brother is coming to England and will call on CD.
He is impressed but not absolutely convinced by the Origin.
Raises a question about which CD wrote years ago: why do sheep degenerate in Australia, necessitating periodic importation?
Author: | Philip Gidley King |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3727 |
From G. C. Oxenden 17 September [1862]
Summary
Strongly recommends Condy’s "Ozonised Disinfectant" as a cure for scarlet fever.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3728 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 September 1862]
Summary
Thanks for JDH’s letter [3725].
Has become interested in experimenting on Drosera.
Observations on the ovaria of Cruciferae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3729 |
From Alphonse de Candolle 18 September 1862
Summary
Praises Orchids.
He has finished his work on Quercus.
H. Lecoq has worked on hybridism,
and P. Duchartre on orchid polymorphism.
Author: | Alphonse de Candolle |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.1: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3730 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 September 1862
Summary
Asks his opinion of A. C. Ramsay’s glacial lake theory. Encloses Julius Haast’s communication on glacial phenomena.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 58, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s Correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 273) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3731 |
To W. D. Fox 20 [September 1862]
Summary
Would like to go to Cambridge [for BAAS meeting]. Reminisces about his student days.
Pleased that WDF likes his book [Orchids]. At one time CD agreed with Lyell that he was an ass to publish it.
Working on dimorphism and sensibility of other plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 20 [Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 135) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3732 |
From W. B. Clarke 20 September 1862
Summary
Acknowledges presentation copy of Orchids.
Asks advice on what to do with all his fossils. Sending various specimens.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3733 |
From Emile M. J. M. P. Goubert 20 September 1862
Author: | Emile M. J. M. P. Goubert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3734 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [September 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).
Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 [Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 161 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3735 |
From Asa Gray 22 September 1862
Summary
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 118, 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3736 |
From Hugh Falconer 24–7 September [1862]
Summary
Encloses MS ["On the American fossil elephant", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114]. Shows persistence of specific characters through glacial period.
Eocene monkeys mistakenly described as pigs.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24–7 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3737 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 September [1862]
Summary
Encloses MS on observations and experiments on Drosera. JDH’s opinion will help him decide whether to pursue subject in some future year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 60.2: 88, DAR 115: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3738 |
To A. G. More 26 September [1862]
Summary
Describes experiment on role of labellum in fertilisation of orchids. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 26 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3739 |
From G. C. Oxenden 27 September [1862]
Summary
Thinks "ozonised fluid" is a pure solution of permanganate of soda. Sends dosage.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3740 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 27 September [1862]
Summary
J. C. Wickham and Arthur Mellersh are in town and BJS wonders whether there is any chance CD might join them.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3741 |
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