To John Joseph Briggs 2 February [1863]
Summary
Asks JJB for date of his article in the Field dealing with the regeneration of fishes’ fins; additional questions about the fish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Joseph Briggs |
Date: | 2 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.286) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3963 |
To [Thomas White Woodbury] 15 March [1863]
Summary
TWW should look at bee and comb specimens received by CD from Africa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Date: | 15 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | B. Altman & Co. (New York Times, 12 October 1975, p. 39) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4042 |
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 Emma Darwin to Patrick Matthew 21 November [1863]
Summary
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Patrick Matthew |
Date: | 21 Nov [1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4344 |
To Charles Lyell 17 March [1863]
Summary
His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].
Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.
Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].
Notes negative reaction of entomologists.
Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].
Mentions work of Hooker.
Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]
and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4047 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 6 March [1863] and 12–13 March [1863] ). See letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March 1863 and …
- … 15 March 1863] and n. 21. Owen 1862c . See letters to Charles Lyell , 6 March [1863] and n. 44, and 12– …
- … 12–13 March [1863] , CD suggested that C. Lyell 1863a contained too many references to the various editions of Lyell’s Principles of geology ( C. Lyell 1830–3 ); Lyell had apparently replied to this observation in the missing portion of his letter to CD of 15 …
- … 15 March 1863 , of which a portion is missing. He also mentions two items sent either with that letter, or possibly with another letter from Lyell that has not been found; namely, a letter from Jacques Boucher de Perthes to Lyell (see n. 2, below), and a letter from Lyell to Joseph Dalton Hooker , discussing the behaviour of Hugh Falconer (see n. 5, below). The letter from Boucher de Perthes has not been found (see n. 1, above). See letter to Charles Lyell, 12– …
To Smith, Elder and Company 10 March [1863]
Summary
Receipt for cheque enclosed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 10 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.23181, ff.11-15 (S. E. & Co. work slip, ff.11-12, letter ff.13-14, address envelope f.15)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4034 |
From Charles Lyell 15 March 1863
Summary
Lyell has received compliments for letting readers draw own inferences [on species question]. Now feels he earlier did Lamarck injustice. [CD’s] substitution of variety-making power for volition [as in Lamarck] in some respects only a change of names.
Thinks Huxley taking on too many responsibilities.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 364–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4041 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ; see also n. 15, below, and Correspondence …
- … 12–13 March [1863] , CD offered suggestions regarding the text of Antiquity of man ( C. Lyell 1863a ), particularly with respect to Lyell’s treatment of natural selection. Joseph Dalton Hooker had sent Lyell a ‘ deflagrating … yarn’, concerning his failure publicly to endorse natural selection in the book (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 …
From J. B. Innes 17 December [1863]
Summary
Suggests a new school for CD’s son [Horace].
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Dec [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 167: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4357 |
From George Howard Darwin [before 11 May 1863]
Author: | George Howard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 51: 6–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3887 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 January [1863]
Summary
Naudin has not answered CD’s letter.
Reactions of Candolle, Naudin, Decaisne, and Gaston de Saporta to Origin.
CD’s new hothouse.
CD’s Linum paper.
JDH’s work on Welwitschia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3953 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 May 1863]
Summary
Flora of Cameroons shakes JDH’s faith in ability to explain past or present migrations. Sees need for a major novel explanation such as natural selection, glacial cold, or continental connections.
Lyell in a bad way about feud with Falconer.
JDH’s opinion of Wallace, Bates, J. E. Gray, Owen, Asa Gray, Lubbock, and Bentham.
Bentham’s Linnean Society address [see 4118].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 143–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4169 |
From John Scott [1–11] April [1863]
Summary
Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".
Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.
Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.
Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1–11] Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4073 |
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 15 and 22 May [1863] . The intervening Wednesday was 13 May. See letter to Osbert Salvin, 11 [May 1863] , and letter from Osbert Salvin, 12 …
- … 12 November 1863 (Register of marriages, registration district of Chichester, 1863, no. 60 (General Register Office)). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [9 May 1863] and n. 15. …
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1863
Summary
JDH working on the New Zealand flora.
Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.
T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4275 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 12 May 1863 . According to Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), the Darwins stayed at Leith Hill Place, near Dorking, Surrey, the home of Josiah Wedgwood III , between 6 and 13 May 1863. Joseph Dalton Hooker ; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [8 May 1863] . CD visited the Galápagos archipelago for five weeks between 15 …
To John Scott 8 January [1863]
Summary
CD’s respect for JS’s indomitable work and interesting experiments increases steadily.
His gratitude for the primulas and the astonishing Gongora specimen.
Asks JS’s opinion about crossing a primrose with the pollen of a wild cowslip and of a cultivated polyanthus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 8 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3908F |
From J. D. Hooker [7 May 1863]
Summary
Falconer going to France in defence of his views.
On scientific squabbling.
Herschel’s theory of the earth.
Bates’s book.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 135–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4144 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 15 June 1861]). CD cited the information he received from the Field in Variation 1: 58, 253. The variation of animals and plants under domestication , eventually published in two volumes in 1868, was intended to be the first part of CD’s ‘big book’ on species (see Variation 1: 3–10). CD began writing drafts of the chapters on inheritance (chapters 12– …
From J. D. Hooker [28 March 1863]
Summary
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4064 |
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Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
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Briggs, J. J. | (1) |
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Scott, John | (5) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |