From Lucy Caroline Wedgwood [April–May 1865?]
Author: | Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr–May 1865?] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 171–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4370 |
From Alfred Newton 30 October 1865
Summary
CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.
Author: | Alfred Newton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4927 |
From George Henslow 1 November 1865
Summary
Has made observations on pollination mechanism in Medicago sativa [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 327–9], which his brother-in-law [J. D. Hooker] would accept. Wants to check that CD has not already made them.
Also sends interpretation of Salvia.
His observations come from following CD’s generalisation in Origin [p. 79] on necessity of out-crossing.
Author: | George Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 150 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4928 |
From William Allport Leighton 29 May 1865
Summary
Describes the floral structure of the lupin and gives his observations on its pollination by bees.
Author: | William Allport Leighton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4840 |
From Benjamin Dann Walsh 1 March 1865
Summary
Sends his paper on "Willow-galls" [Proc. Entomol. Soc. Philadelphia 3 (1864): 543–644].
Lengthy criticism of Agassiz’s views on species as stated in his Essay on classification [1857].
Interested by CD’s trimorphism in Lythrum. Thinks some great mystery may lie in the fact that in some genera, some species are tri-, some di-, and some monomorphic, and in other genera, Apis, Vespa, Bombus, all the known species are dimorphic.
Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1865 |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4778 |
From William Duppa Crotch 10 April 1865
Summary
Supports Atlantis hypothesis.
Author: | William Duppa Crotch |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 274 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4811 |
To James Philip Mansel Weale 6 May [1865]
Summary
Sends advice on naturalist matters.
W. H. Harvey’s work [with Wilhelm Sonder, Flora capensis (1859–65)],
and Robert Brown’s publication ["On the organs and mode of fecundation in Orchideae and Asclepiadeae", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 16 (1833): 685–745].
Writes of having seen in S. America a Hymenopteran with tarsi covered with pollen-masses of Asclepias.
Interested in JPMW’s researches in South American caverns.
Mentions poor health.
Thanks for tracings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Philip Mansel Weale |
Date: | 6 May [1865] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.308) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4828 |
From Asa Gray 17 January 1865
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4747 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 and 28 [October 1865]
Summary
Thinks Royal Society’s failure to honour W. J. Hooker may be due to small number of botanists on Council.
Interest in H. J. Carter’s papers in Annals and Magazine of Natural History on lower organisms.
On Wallace; anthropology.
H. H. Travers’ paper on Chatham Islands [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 135–44].
W. C. Wells’s paper of 1813 ["Essay on dew", Two Essays (1818)] anticipates discovery of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 and 28 Oct 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 277 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4921 |
letter | (9) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Crotch, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Henslow, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Weale, J. P. M. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Crotch, W. D. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Harrison, L. C. | (1) |
Henslow, George | (1) |