To John Murray 21 September [1861]
Summary
Asks JM’s opinion on publishing his MS on orchids. It has new facts, and resembles a Bridgewater Treatise, but only those who care for natural history would be interested. Would share the risk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 21 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 106–107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3259 |
To Charles Lyell 22 September [1861]
Summary
Additional discussion of Jamieson’s theory that the roads of Glen Roy were formed by a glacial lake. Suggests the possible marine origin of the Glen Spean terraces. Comments on the power of lakes to produce pebbles. Discusses elevation of Wales and Scotland during the glacial period.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.265) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3260 |
From John Murray 23 September 1861
Summary
Offers to publish Orchids, giving CD one-half of the profits of each edition.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.3(1): 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3261 |
To A. G. More 23 September [1861]
Summary
Would like capsule of Epipactis palustris. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 23 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3262 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 September [1861]
Summary
CD’s orchid paper is to become orchid book [Orchids].
Primula paper is done [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 113 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3263 |
To John Murray 24 September [1861]
Summary
Thanks JM for his liberal offer [to publish Orchids]. CD fears the public will not be interested, but thinks it will "do good to the Origin as it will show that I worked hard on details and it will perhaps serve [to] illustrate how Natural History may be worked under the belief of the modification of Species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 108–109B) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3264 |
To Joseph Reay Greene? 24 September [1861]
Summary
Thanks for gift of treatise on Coelenterata [? Manual of the sub-kingdom Coelenterata (1861)]. "… I was but lately wishing to read some treatise up to the present mark, on these animals. I have cut the pages & can clearly see that your work will much interest & instruct me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Reay Greene |
Date: | 24 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 December 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3265 |
To H. W. Bates 25 September [1861]
Summary
Recommends publisher for HWB; admires J. van Voorst but suggests Murray.
In reply to HWB’s letter [missing], comments on neuters and mimicry.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 25 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3266 |
From J. O. Westwood 26 September 1861
Summary
Has found the reference to Charles Morren’s paper, "On the agency of insects in causing sterility in flowers" [Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1836): xliv–xlv].
Common white butterflies remove pollen-masses with their tarsi from plants of the Asclepiadaceae.
Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3267 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 September [1861]
Summary
Bates agrees with CD on neuter ants.
Orchids.
Repeating experiment of C. F. v. Gärtner to study Huxley’s idea of physiological species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 114 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3268 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1861]
Summary
List of Australian plants that have become naturalised in the Nilgiris [India] and are turning out the native trees.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3269 |
From Charles Lyell 30 September 1861
Summary
Asks for copy of CD’s paper ["Ancient glaciers of Caernarvonshire", Collected papers 1: 163–71]. Gathers that drift of Moel Tryfan is glacial.
Believes Glen Roy roads formed later than submergence of Scotland.
Asks CD’s opinion concerning relative chronology of various glacial deposits, particularly a flint tool find in the Ouse River near Bedford.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.112/2813-16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3270 |
From H. W. Bates 30 September 1861
Summary
Discusses the mimicry of the Volucella flies, and the bees and wasps they mimic. Compares it with the different object of mimicry in butterflies.
Refers to incompleteness of Cuthbert Collingwood’s paper [? "On homophormism, or organic representative forms", Proc. Liverpool Lit. & Philos. Soc. 14 (1860): 181–216].
Thanks CD for help in selecting a publisher for his book [The naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3271 |
Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |