To Daniel Oliver 15 April [1862]
Summary
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4097 |
To G. H. K. Thwaites 29 December [1862]
Summary
Asks for any authentic cases of "sports", which CD calls "bud-variations". Flowers introduced from warmer temperate regions are said to be particularly apt to sport in this way.
CD now has proof that Cinchona is dimorphic and that some dimorphic plants are absolutely sterile with their own-form pollen.
Asks GHKT to examine or send pollen specimens of two Ceylon genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3880 |
To Hugh Falconer 29 December [1862]
Summary
Has HF met with any cases of what gardeners call "sports" and what CD will call "bud-variations"?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 29 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3883 |
To Ludwig Rütimeyer 15 [and 16] January [1862]
Summary
Lord Tankerville has not responded to the request for the skulls which LR requires for his research. CD addressed Lord T through his friend Sir Henry Holland, who is prepared to try again, despite Lord T’s rudeness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer |
Date: | 15 and 16 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3389 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 14 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 14 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3447 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 [November 1862]
Summary
A German scholar says JDH first applied natural selection to replacement of races of men, the ruder races of Polynesians yielding to civilised Europeans. CD cannot remember reading this.
Warns JDH to take care Welwitschia does not turn into a case of barnacles and consume years instead of months.
In what months do flowers appear in Acropera loddigesia and A. luteola? CD is alarmed by John Scott’s observations on them, which differ from his own. "I am very uneasy."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3812 |
From W. E. Darwin 12 February [1862]
Summary
Discusses his new microscope.
Author: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3443F |
To J. D. Hooker 26 September [1862]
Summary
Encloses MS on observations and experiments on Drosera. JDH’s opinion will help him decide whether to pursue subject in some future year.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 60.2: 88, DAR 115: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3738 |
From H. G. Bronn 21 June 1862
Summary
L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.
Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3619 |
To T. W. Woodbury 7 December [1862]
Summary
Cannot aid TWW with respect to bees from East Indies. Suggests he write to Edward Blyth.
Thanks him for getting query on variation in bees circulated in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Date: | 7 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3849 |
From Mary Butler [before 25 December 1862]
Summary
J. P. Thom [of Home News] must change his position because of his health. Asks if CD can help find him a new situation.
Author: | Mary Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 392 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3838 |
To Friedrich Hildebrand 17 July [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Hildebrand’s offer to translate Orchids into German, but H. G. Bronn had finished his translation before his death (Bronn trans. 1862). Has not yet received Hildebrand’s work on the distribution of coniferous trees (Hildebrand 1861). Asks that his compliments be presented to L. C. Treviranus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Date: | 17 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3660F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 14 July 1862 and n. 1). No further reference to the supplementary notes apparently proposed by Treviranus has been found; however, Treviranus published comments on Orchids in two papers in Botanische Zeitung in 1863 ( Treviranus 1863a and 1863b; see also Correspondence vol. 10, letter from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 …
- … 11 July 1862 and nn. 2 and 5). For the additional material that CD had asked Bronn to translate and include in the German edition, see the enclosures to the letter to H. G. Bronn, 30 June [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). Hildebrand 1861 ; see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from Friedrich Hildebrand, 14 …
To J. D. Hooker 12 [December 1862]
Summary
Maintains his view on crossing. Thinks practical breeders would agree with him; doubts that variability and domestication are at all necessarily correlative.
Identical plants in different conditions a heavy argument against "direct action" [of physical conditions].
His 1000-pigeon case is altered if long-beaked are in least degree sterile with short-beaked.
His work on dimorphism inclines him to believe that sterility is at first a selected quality to keep incipient species distinct.
Case of easy modification of Lythrum pollen to favour or prevent crossing.
Monsters.
Has just finished chapter on variations of cultivated plants.
Edinburgh doctors have sent him Diploma of Medical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 [Dec 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3855 |
From H. G. Bronn 19 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for revisions in 2d ed. of Origin. Suggests correction regarding species numbers in the Tertiary.
Comments on pages of Orchids and problems of German translation.
Believes CD’s theory not yet proven, but that it will finally lead to truth.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3561 |
To W. E. Darwin 4 [July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 4 [July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3641 |
To Charles Lyell 22 August [1862]
Summary
Relates personal news about family members.
CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".
Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.
Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.
Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3695 |
From John Lubbock 7 [February] 1862
Summary
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 [Feb] 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3378 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 [October 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Aldrovanda reference and Cassia.
Has wasted labour on Melastomataceae without getting a glimpse of the meaning of the parts.
Wants seeds, from their native land, of Heterocentron or Monochaetum.
Is beginning to change his view about rarity of natural hybrids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3762 |
To Daniel Oliver [17 September 1862]
Summary
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [17 Sept 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3709 |
To Armand de Quatrefages 3 July [1862]
Summary
Can AdeQ verify the statement that the moths of the several races of the common silkworm are very similar?
When the female moth comes out of the cocoon, are her wings less developed than those of a male moth at the same stage?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 3 July [1862] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 68–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3640F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Bronn, H. G. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (4) |
Butler, Mary | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Darwin, W. E. | (3) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (1) |
Holland, Henry | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
Rütimeyer, Ludwig | (1) |
Scott, John | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |