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 |
To W. E. Darwin [10 May 1863]
Summary
Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.
Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [10 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4151 |
From Henry Fletcher Hance 10 May 1863
Summary
Sends sketch of Catasetum tridentatum fruit at request of Edward Bradford.
CD incorrectly asserted that Catasetum is male [Orchids, pp. 236–8].
Author: | Henry Fletcher Hance |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4152 |
To Asa Gray 11 May [1863]
Summary
CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.
Is confused over phyllotaxy.
Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153 |
To Osbert Salvin 11 [May 1863]
Summary
At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
Date: | 11 [May 1863] |
Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4153A |
From J. D. Hooker [8 May 1863]
Summary
JDH encourages a Mr Salwyn [Osbert Salvin] to collect in Galapagos; would like CD to add his encouragement.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 134 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4154 |
From Osbert Salvin 12 May 1863
Summary
Has just returned from collecting in Central America and is planning to go to the Galapagos to gather specimens in all branches of natural history.
Author: | Osbert Salvin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4155 |
From John Edward Gray 12 May 1863
Summary
Cites instance in which different varieties of same species of plant flourished side by side under same conditions.
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 208 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4156 |
To George Maw 12 May [1863]
Summary
Believes GM’s human bones from Gibraltar must be of very doubtful age. Lyell agrees, but feels any skull found should be forwarded to George Busk or Hugh Falconer.
Suggests GM look carefully for shells in the drift.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Maw |
Date: | 12 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4157 |
To W. H. Flower 12 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks WHF for photographs [of niata ox skull]. Will tell Quatrefages de Bréau about the cast. May have the photographs copied for woodcuts to illustrate his book on variation under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 12 May [1863] |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4158 |
From H. B. Dobell 12 May 1863
Summary
Sends copy of the table, which now embodies CD’s suggestions [see 4117].
Gives instances of persons born with two thumbs and comments on hereditary factor.
Author: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1863 |
Classmark: | Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G 395, Dobell 1862) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4158A |
To Richard Kippist 13 May [1863 or 1868]
Summary
Asks to borrow J. J. Audubon [Ornithological biography (1831–9)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
Date: | 13 May [1863 or 1868] |
Classmark: | Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University (Vault MSS 2, Box 12, Darwin) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4159 |
From Julius von Haast 13 May 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for letter [3935].
Encloses report [missing] of his latest expedition [to west coast], which had a grand result.
Author: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4160 |
From Hugh Algernon Weddell 13 May 1863
Summary
Has searched in vain for the Ophrys apifera CD asked for.
Thanks CD for paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Calls CD’s attention to his observations on Rubiaceae.
Author: | Hugh Algernon Weddell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4161 |
To H. B. Dobell 13 May [1863]
Summary
The [genealogical] table seems excellent. Would be obliged for any further information about the children of the cousins – the case surprises CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 13 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4162 |
From George Chichester Oxenden 13 May 1863
Summary
Going abroad; will miss the English orchid season.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4163 |
To Edward Cresy 13 May [1863]
Summary
Thanks for maps.
George [Darwin] failed at St John’s [College, Cambridge] and will stay another year at school.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 13 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 323 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4164 |
From J. D. Hooker [13 May 1863]
Summary
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 137–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4165 |
To James Digues La Touche 14 May [1863?]
Summary
Thanks for drawing and note about peach–nectarine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Digues La Touche |
Date: | 14 May [1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 34 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4166 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Becker, L. E. | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (4) |
Scott, John | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (43) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Scott, John | (4) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Flower, W. H. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (76) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Scott, John | (8) |
Darwin, W. E. | (7) |
Becker, L. E. | (5) |