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To J. D. Hooker [9 May 1863]
Summary
Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.
Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.
CD working on divergence of leaves.
Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.
Survival of island relics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [9 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 192 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4148 |
From W. H. Flower 9 May 1863
Summary
Sends photos of the niata ox skull presented by CD.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4149 |
From Charles Lyell 9 May 1863
Summary
Has been to Osborne on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria, who had lots of questions about CD.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 May 1863 |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4149F |
To Thomas Rivers [9 May 1863]
Summary
Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.
Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
| Date: | [9 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4150 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Flower, W. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Rivers, Thomas | (1) |
