To Charles Victor Naudin 7 February 1863
Summary
Thanks for informative letter of 2 February. CD is glad to have CVN’s opinion on the crossing of varieties of melons,
has made use of his memoir on the Cucurbitaceae ["Cucurbitacées cultivées au Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle en 1862", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 18 (1863): 159–208]
and anticipates with great interest his work on hybridisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Victor Naudin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | Progressus rei botanicæ 4 (1913): 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3972 |
To T. H. Huxley [8 February 1863]
Summary
On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [8 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3973 |
From Camille Dareste 8 February 1863
Summary
Has read Origin with satisfaction. He had long ago come to consider the fixity of species as contrary to the facts, but could see no suitable alternative. The Origin has brought the light to guide him.
Sends CD a copy of his latest work ["Mémoire sur la production artificielle des monstruosités", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 243–76]. Hopes to explain a great number of anomalies by his experimental work on artificially produced monstrosities.
Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3974 |
To W. D. Fox [10 February 1863]
Summary
Invites WDF to Down.
His stomach now so bad he cannot stay, even with close relations, for more than half an hour at a time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [10 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 136) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3975 |
From B. J. Sulivan 10 February [1863]
Summary
Sends some tickets so that CD’s son might see [an unspecified] model.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 281 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3976 |
From Henrietta Grace Powell 11 February 1863
Summary
Invites CD to visit on Sunday afternoon, for a quiet discussion with Huxley, the Bishop of Natal [J. W. Colenso], and herself. Will not trouble him with any eating.
Author: | Henrietta Grace Smyth; Henrietta Grace Powell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3977 |
From Frederick Smith 11 February 1863
Summary
Has been unable to find a book [unspecified] wanted by CD.
Author: | Frederick Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3978 |
From W. D. Fox [11 February 1863]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3979 |
From Ludolph Christian Treviranus 12 February 1863
Summary
Sends his paper ["Über Dichogamie nach C. C. Sprengel und Ch. Darwin", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 1–7, 9–16].
Author: | Ludolph Christian Treviranus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3980 |
To Thomas Rivers [14 February 1863]
Summary
Delighted by curious case of inheritance in the weeping ash [cited in missing letter from TR] "which produced weeping seedlings and itself lost the weeping peculiarity!" Wishes he could get authentic information on the weeping elm.
What TR says of seedlings conquering each other well illustrates struggle for existence and natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Rivers |
Date: | [14 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (catalogue 5, 1988) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3982 |
From Edwin Brown 14 February 1863
Summary
Sends copy of his second paper on mutability of race forms ["On the mutability of species", Proceedings of the Northern Entomological Society, 22 December 1862, pp.4–26].
On tactics of his opponents.
He and Bates have divided up Carabidae and Vanessa for studying relationship of forms.
Author: | Edwin Brown |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 325 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3983 |
From S. P. Woodward 14 February 1863
Summary
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3984 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 14 February 1863
Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3985 |
CD memorandum 14 February 1863
Summary
Agreement to cancel the bond of D. T. Ansted, dated 19 April 1855. Prof. Ansted is arranging to pay CD what he can.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3985A |
To J. D. Hooker 15 February [1863]
Summary
Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3986 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 February [1863]
Summary
It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.
Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.
Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.
[P.S. missing from original.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3987 |
To Roland Trimen 16 February [1863]
Summary
Further discusses RT’s observations on Cape [of Good Hope] orchids and asks whether it would be possible for him to send some specimens to Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roland Trimen |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3988 |
From J. D. Hooker [16 February 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 103–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3989 |
To Horace Benge Dobell 16 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].
Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.
How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.
Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3990 |
To John Scott 16 February [1863]
Summary
Tells JS Acropera capsule should be left to grow.
JS was correct on "bud-variation" in fern frond.
Does not believe Primula structure necessarily related to dioecism, but the difference in fertility of the two forms forced him to admit the possibility.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B55, B81–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3991 |
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