To George Henry Turnbull [16? February 1863]
Summary
Thanks for letting Horwood superintend erection of hothouse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Turnbull |
| Date: | [16? Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 5 (EH 88206057) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3893 |
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]
Summary
British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.
| 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 |
To Camille Dareste 16 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks for letter and pamphlet.
His approbation of Origin is extremely gratifying, especially since Origin produced no effect whatever in France.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 368 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3992 |
To J. J. Briggs 16 February [1863]
Summary
Sends belated thanks for the useful facts which he plans to quote. [See 3963.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Joseph Briggs |
| Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | Mrs H. Codd (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3992A |
To T. H. Huxley [after 16 February 1863]
Summary
A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [after 16 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3992F |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Briggs, J. J. | (1) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Briggs, J. J. | (1) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Dobell, H. B. | (1) |
