From Asa Gray 13 April 1863
Summary
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 133 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4089 |
To Daniel Oliver [after 14 April 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | [after 14 Apr 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4095 |
To F. T. Buckland 1 February [1863]
Summary
CD sends thanks for information; will write about the fins.
His health is weak and he is "almost smothered" with facts and inquiries, so is trying to restrict the scope of his present work, on variation under domestication.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1863] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3961 |
From William Bowman 31 January [1863]
Summary
Will supply CD with information "as far as my knowledge extends".
Suggests CD visit him.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4988 |
From W. D. Fox [11 February 1863]
Summary
Plans to meet CD in town.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 177 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3979 |
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 |
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 |
To John Scott 12 April [1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to publish on sterility of orchids and to experiment on Passiflora.
Doubted Hooker’s poppy case.
Describes case of primrose with three pistils: when pulled apart allowed pollen to be placed directly on ovules. This supports JS’s explanation of H. Crüger’s case.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott |
| Date: | 12 Apr [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: B59, B77–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4084 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Daniel Oliver, [after 14 April 1863] . See letter from John Scott, [1–11] April [1863] and …
- … 11] April 1863 and n. 19. See letter to Daniel Oliver, [12 April 1863] and n. 3, letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 …
- … 11, Appendix II)). Scott’s observations on self-sterility and cross-fertility in Oncidium and Maxillaria were briefly discussed in Variation 2: 133, 164. Scott detailed his observations on self-sterility and cross-fertilisation in the orchid genus Oncidium in a paper read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh on 14 …
From John Scott 16 June [1863]
Summary
Orchid paper in press.
Asks CD to correct MS of his Primula paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 78–126].
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 94 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4213 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 14 February 1863
Summary
On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3985 |
To George Gabriel Stokes [12 February 1863?]
Summary
Thanks GGS for calculation [to determine the chances of the same peculiarity recurring in a family, see Variation 2: 5]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [12 Feb 1863?] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 7656: D76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4085 |
To Hugh Falconer 20 [January 1863]
Summary
If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | 20 [Jan 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3928 |
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 |
From W. H. Flower 15 April 1863
Summary
Discusses having skull photographed and a cast made.
| Author: | William Henry Flower |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4101 |
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 |
From Francis Walker 26 February 1863
Summary
Identifies flies sent to him by CD. [CD note states that these were found with orchid pollinia adhering to them.]
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4014 |
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 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. B. Tegetmeier 18 February 1863
Summary
Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.
| Author: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 178: 57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3995 |
From James Paget 7 February 1863
Summary
Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3971 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
| Scott, John | (6) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (3) |
| Anderson, Isaac | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
| Scott, John | (7) |
| Gray, Asa | (3) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (13) |
| Scott, John | (13) |
| Gray, Asa | (5) |
| Anderson Henry, Isaac | (4) |
