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To J. D. Hooker   25 [and 26] January [1862]

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His answer to Asa Gray.

On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection.

Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing.

Huxley on Owen.

Feeble letter from J. H. Balfour against Huxley’s lectures ["Relation of man to lower animals", pt 2 of Man’s place in nature (1863)].

Has received the "astounding" Angraecum sesquipedale with nectary 1ft long: "what insect could suck it?"

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  25 [and 26] Jan [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 141
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3411

Matches: 28 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   25 [and 26] January [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 141 Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 [and 26] Jan [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … to Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik 1862 (see n.  11, below). The postscript was probably …
  • … of the letter (see n.  19, below). Letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] . See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] and nn.  8 and 9. The reference is to Jane Loring …
  • … letter from Robert Bateman, [28 January 1862] and Kritsky 1991 . See the letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [25 January 1862] , in which Hooker provided CD with a list of dimorphic plant …
  • … to procure specimens for him. CD responded to Hooker in his letter of 30 January [1862] . …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Stearn, William T. 1956. Bentham and Hooker’ …
  • … OED ). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] . The first part …
  • … of volume 1 of Genera plantarum (Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83) was published …
  • … on 7 August 1862 ( Stearn 1956 , p.  130). …
  • … Orchids was published in May 1862 ( Freeman 1977 , p.  112). …
  • … In his letter of [19 January 1862] , Hooker, commenting on Huxley’s delight at the …
  • … makes a noise’. Richard Owen . See letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 13 January 1862  and n.  5. …
  • … CD refers to Schroeder van der Kolk and Vrolik 1862. See also letter to T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 14 [January 1862] and n.  5. Letter from …
  • … J.  H.  Balfour, 14 January 1862 . J.  D.  Hooker 1862a appeared in the January issue of …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] and n.  22). The paper was published with …
  • … Linnean Society of London on 16 January 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … 6: lviii). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] and n.  15. See letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 February [1862] and n.  10. …
  • … William Borrer died on 10 January 1862 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] ). CD had hoped to obtain plants and seeds from him. This …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [25 January 1862] , and was thus probably added on 26 January. …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [25 January 1862] . CD thanked James Bateman for his …

To Asa Gray   2 January [1863]

Summary

Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.

Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.

Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".

Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  2 Jan [1863]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3897

Matches: 45 hits

  • … letter to J.  D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] ). The construction was undertaken in 1863, …
  • … by the relationship of this letter to the letters from Asa Gray , 24 November 1862  and …
  • … 9 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol.  10). …
  • … CD reported feeling unwell in late December 1862 (see Correspondence vol.  10, letter from …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] , and letter to W.   …
  • … B.  Tegetmeier, 27 [December 1862] ). In a …
  • … to William Erasmus Darwin of [13 December 1862] (DAR 219.1: 69), Emma Darwin commented: ‘ …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] EB : The …
  • … Gnetaceæ. [Read 16 January and 18 December 1862. ] ]Transactions of the Linnean Society …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Planchon, Jules Emile. 1847–8. Sur la …
  • … very uncomf—’. See Correspondence vol.  10, letters from Asa Gray , 24 November 1862  and …
  • … 9 December 1862 . Gray had sent CD a box containing specimens of Mitchella and Cypripedium …
  • … Africa (see Correspondence vol.  10, letter from Asa Gray, 9 December 1862 , and letter to …
  • … James Anderson, 23 December [1862] ). In his letter of 11 October 1861 ( Correspondence …
  • … the plant with his letter of 15 July [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10). CD’s experimental …
  • … vol.  10, letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] ). Cooper referred to Mitchella as the ‘ …
  • … 274–5. See Correspondence vol.  10, letter from Asa Gray, 17 November 1862 , letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] , and CD’s experimental note dated 19 April [1863] in DAR 70: …
  • … and published in the same journal in 1862. Jules Emile Planchon described the different …
  • … experimenting with the plant since March 1862 (see Correspondence vol.  9, letter from Asa …
  • … vol.  10, letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] ). His results are given in Forms of …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  10, letters to G.  H.  K.  Thwaites, 15 June [1862] and …
  • … 29 December [1862] ). See also Correspondence vol.  9, letter from Asa Gray, [27 and 29  …
  • … IV). Letter from J.  D.  Dana, 4 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol.  10). In 1859, James …
  • … At CD’s request, Gray had, since the summer of 1862, sent United States postage stamps for …
  • … Correspondence vol.  10, letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , and letter from Asa …
  • … Gray, 2–3 July 1862 ). …
  • … Gray’s letter of 24 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol.  10) had been sent using a ‘ …
  • … beginning work on this chapter in October 1862 (see Correspondence vol.  10, Appendix II), …
  • … cultivated (see Correspondence vol.  10, letters to Asa Gray , 23 November [1862] and 26[– …
  • … 7] November [1862] ). Gray replied to CD’s …
  • … section of his letter of 29 December 1862 ( Correspondence vol.  10), which CD received …
  • … of Horticulture , [before 25 November 1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10), and the annotated …
  • … articles on strawberries in CD’s issues of the Gardeners’ Chronicle (8 November 1862, p.   …
  • … 1053, and 22 November 1862, p.  1101), which are in the Cory Library, Cambridge Botanic …
  • … dealing with ‘bud-variation’ on 21 December 1862 (see Correspondence vol.  10, Appendix …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 August 1862 ). He read his account of this unusual plant …
  • … meetings on 16 January and 18 December 1862  ( J.  D.  Hooker 1862d ). See Correspondence …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . On 17 January 1863, Hooker travelled to …
  • … of Fredericksburg, fought on 13 December 1862; the Union army suffered one of its worst …
  • … Boott (see Correspondence vol.  10, letter from Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 ). However, …
  • … in his letter of 26 December 1862 ( ibid. ), Boott asked that CD stop sending them since …
  • … in affected areas; between June and December 1862, the Cotton Districts Relief Fund had …
  • … cotton workers, making contributions on 14 July, 19 September, and 23 November 1862. …
  • … At the end of 1862, CD planned to build a hothouse in the garden at Down House (see …

To Asa Gray   10–20 June [1862]

Summary

Thanks AG for praise of Orchids and his notes on several American species of orchid. Comments on AG’s observations.

Is experimenting [on dimorphism] with Rhexia and Melastoma.

Asks AG’s opinion of a paper by Thomas Meehan ["On the uniformity of relative characters between allied species of European and American trees", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1862): 10–13] which is the best case of the apparently direct action of the conditions of life CD has seen.

Requests postage stamp for his ill son [Leonard].

Thanks AG for observations on Cypripedium and gives recent observations of his own.

Arethusa is very pretty; structure seems like that of Vanilla.

Finds the little (so-called imperfect) flowers of Viola and Oxalis curious: the pollen-grains emit their tubes whilst within the anthers, and they travel in straight lines right to the stigmas.

Sympathises with events in the U. S.

Reports on French translation of Origin by Mlle C. Royer, "one of the cleverest & oddest women in Europe".

Alphonse de Candolle says he wants direct proof of natural selection; "he will have to wait a long time for that".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  10–20 June [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (66)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3595

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  • … To Asa Gray   10–20 June [1862] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (66) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10–20 June [1862] Asa Gray …
  • … trees", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1862): 10–13] which is the best case of the …
  • … Orchids . In the letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 , Gray gave his first reactions to the …
  • … CD.  The portion of this letter dated 26 May 1862 has not been found. See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [17 May 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [18 May 1862] . See …
  • … also letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 May 1862 , and letter from …
  • … See letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 13 June 1862 . The reference is to Linnaeus 1751 , …
  • … Murray’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to John Murray, 20 [June 1862] . …
  • … Godofr. Kiesewetter. Meehan, Thomas. 1862. On the uniformity of relative characters …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … George Bentham, 15 May  1862 . CD refers to Mormodes luxata ; there are …
  • … sent to him by Sigismund Rucker on 8 June 1862 in DAR 70: 99–102. The only species of …
  • … see the letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 , in which Gray mentioned having transplanted …
  • … the book (see letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 ). Christian Friedrich Schweizerbart was …
  • … see letter from E.  Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 7 June 1862 ). See …
  • … letters to John Murray , 13 June [1862] and …
  • … 20 [June 1862] . In …
  • … his letter to CD of 18 May 1862 , Gray mentioned that he had sent some copies of his …
  • … of holly (see letter to Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] ). Gray replied that the nearest hollies …
  • … some (see letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 ). Suspecting that Rhexia , a member of the …
  • … see letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] ); if Gray found that there were not two forms, …
  • … flowers (see letter to Asa Gray, 15 March [1862] ). Gray offered to ‘set to watching’ R.   …
  • … doubted whether the plant was dimorphic (see letter from Asa Gray, 6 March [1862] ). See …
  • … also letter to Asa Gray, 21 April [1862] and n.  13. CD had recently received a specimen …
  • … to experiment (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [29 May 1862] , and the experimental notes, …
  • … dated 1 June – 2 July 1862, in DAR 205.8: 14–15). CD had been experimenting since the end …
  • … his crossing experiment with H.  roseum (see letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] and …
  • … 30 May [1862] ). CD’s notes on the crossing experiments with …
  • … in February and harvested in April and May 1862 are in DAR 205.8: 22–33, 37, and 39. They …
  • … kinds of anther (DAR 205.8: 30, 31). Meehan 1862 ; there is an annotated copy of the paper …
  • … Meehan , having noticed that ( Meehan 1862 , pp.  10–11): European willows, oaks and other …
  • … came home with sc.  fever’ on 12 June 1862. The notes referred to have not been found; CD …
  • … also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 November [1862] and n.  10. Orchids , pp.  346–51. In the …
  • … 6 and 7, above. See letter from Asa Gray, [2 June 1862] . Gray enclosed some flower-buds …
  • … orchid Arethusa with his letter of [2 June 1862] . CD described the manner of pollination …
  • … at the end of May (see letter from J.   D.  Hooker, [29 May 1862] and n.  2). See n.   …
  • … 16, above. See letter from Asa Gray, [2 June 1862] and n.  2. …
  • … There is a note dated 16 June 1862, recording CD’s observations on the ‘little imperfect …
  • … CD’s observations on Viola , see the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 30 May [1862] and n.  7. …
  • … Royer trans.  1862. The first edition of Clémence Auguste …
  • … translation of Origin was published on 31 May 1862 ( Journal Générale de l’Imprimerie et …

From Asa Gray   15 July [1862]

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Observations on Platanthera.

Possibility of trimorphism in Mertensia.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 July [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3659

Matches: 29 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   15 July [1862] …
  • … DAR 110 (ser. 2): 116, DAR 165: 113 Asa Gray unstated 15 July [1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … see also letter to Asa Gray, 28 July [1862] and n.  18). The note is on the verso of the …
  • … the relationship to the letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] . The letter from Gray to which …
  • … postscript (see letter from Asa Gray, 21 July 1862 ) has not been found; it was apparently …
  • … with the letter to Asa Gray, 28 July [1862] . Some indication of its content is conveyed …
  • … by CD’s annotations, and by his reply ( letter to Asa Gray, 28 July [1862] ). …
  • … Letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] . In …
  • … the letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] , CD complained that he had felt ‘baddish for 2 or …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … weeks’. In the letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] , CD acknowledged receipt of Gray’s notes …
  • … sent with the letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 , have not been found; however, see CD’s …
  • … in the letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] and n.  23. Gray refers to George Howard …
  • … orchid) and Herminium monorchis (see letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] and nn.  8–9). …
  • … In the letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 , Gray had promised to send Joseph Trimble …
  • … plant, Houstonia , when completed. See also letter from Asa Gray, 4 August 1862 . See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] and n.  14. ‘Dimorphic condition in Primula ’ , pp.  95– …
  • … in the letter to Asa Gray, 28 July [1862] . The paper on which the enclosure is written is …
  • … In the letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 , Gray expressed a hope that he would be able …
  • … Beverly, Massachusetts, beginning on 10 July 1862; he apparently enclosed such specimens …
  • … with this letter (see CD’s annotations, and the letters to Asa Gray , 28 July [1862] and …
  • … 9 August [1862] ). Gray sent CD observations on the pollen …
  • … and stigmas of Houstonia in the letter from Asa Gray, [2 June 1862] . See also …
  • … letters from Asa Gray , 2–3 July 1862  and …
  • … 4 August 1862 . See …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862  and n.  6. Gray had evidently enclosed a copy of …
  • … of Orchids ( A.  Gray 1862a ; see letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 28 July [1862] and n.  3). Although the review is listed in the List of …

To Alphonse de Candolle   17 June [1862]

Summary

Is pleased that AdeC is interested in the Primula case ["Dimorphic condition of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Is pursuing analogous experiments on other plants and on seedlings raised from the unions.

CD’s "large work" progresses slowly owing to ill health and his work on Orchids.

CD is not surprised that AdeC is unwilling to admit natural selection – "the subject hardly admits of direct proof or evidence. It will be believed in only by those who think that it connects & partly explains several large classes of facts".

Hopes AdeC will publish on Quercus

and rejoices that he intends to return to the study of geographical distribution. No one can claim to have read AdeC’s truly great work on that subject [Géographie botanique (1855)] with more care than CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Alphonse de Candolle
Date:  17 June [1862]
Classmark:  Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3608

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  • … To Alphonse de Candolle   17 June [1862] …
  • … private collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 June [1862] Alphonse de Candolle …
  • … Letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 13 June 1862 . …
  • … In January and February 1862, CD carried out crossing experiments with Primula sinensis …
  • … and heteromorphic crosses (see letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 7 March [1862] and n.   …
  • … 10, and 23 June [1862] and n.  4). (By ‘homomorphic unions’, CD meant crosses in which …
  • … from Leonard’s illness’. See letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862 , and letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 . See also letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [17 May 1862] , and letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . Candolle’s name is included on CD’s presentation list for …
  • … vol.  10, Appendix IV). See letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 13 June 1862 . See …
  • … letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 13 June 1862  and n.  10. A.   de Candolle 1855 . There …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’: On the …
  • … 1861 (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 23 June [1862] and n.  4), but also investigating the …
  • … see, for example, letter to George Bentham, 3 February [1862] , letters to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 February [1862] , 15 [ …
  • … May 1862] , and …
  • … 30 May [1862] , and letters to …
  • … Asa Gray , 15 March [1862] and 10– …
  • … 20 June [1862] ). See …
  • … also letters to Daniel Oliver , 12 [April 1862] and …
  • … 15 April [1862] , letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 30 May [1862] , and letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . See …
  • … letter from Alphonse de Candolle, 13 June 1862  and n.  5. CD and many of his household …
  • … early in the year (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 16 January [1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). Horace Darwin became ill during January and had suffered …
  • … letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 14 February [1862] ). On 12 June, Leonard Darwin was sent home …
  • … see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ). In his ‘Journal’ (see Correspondence …

To Asa Gray   14 July [1862]

Summary

Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.

Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  14 July [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (70)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3656

Matches: 30 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   14 July [1862] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (70) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 July [1862] Asa Gray …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Two forms in species of Linum ’: On the …
  • … species of orchids (see letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] ). Entries in Emma Darwin’ …
  • … s diary (DAR 242) for 5 and 6 July 1862 state that Leonard’s ‘neck swelled’ and that he …
  • … from ‘bad symptom of kydney’. See also letters to W.  E.  Darwin, 4 [July 1862] and …
  • … 9 July [1862] . In the …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Dupree, …
  • … Belknap Press of Harvard University. [Leifchild, John R. ] 1862. Review of Orchids , by …
  • … Charles Darwin. Athenæum , 24 May 1862, pp. 683–5. Orchids : On the various contrivances …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , CD had asked Gray to provide Leonard with several …
  • … in the letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . In DAR 70: 80, there is a note in CD’s hand …
  • … See also letter to H.  G.  Bronn, 11 July 1862  and n.  4. In 1860, CD had asked James …
  • … volume, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 1 May [1862] ). Drummond supplied CD with one instance …
  • … may be to the review of Orchids that appeared in the Athenæum on 24 May 1862, pp.   …
  • … 683–5 ( [Leifchild] 1862 ). The reviewer contrasted CD’s pursuits with the fear of war …
  • … fertilisation of orchids ( Athenæum , 24 May 1862, p.  685): the greatest care is taken …
  • … s comments on his college duties, see the letters from Asa Gray , [2 June 1862] , [late …
  • … June 1862] , and 2– …
  • … 3 July 1862 . Joseph Dalton Hooker had taken his wife, Frances Harriet Hooker , to …
  • … that she might recover her health (see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862 , 19 [ …
  • … June 1862] , 28  …
  • … June 1862 , 2  …
  • … July 1862 , and …
  • … 10 July 1862 ). See letter from E.   …
  • … Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 . …
  • … In May and June 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn had translated Orchids in preparation for …
  • … a German edition (Bronn trans.  1862; see letter from H.   …
  • … G.  Bronn, 21 June 1862 ); he died …
  • … on 5 July 1862 ( Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1863): …

To J. D. Hooker   7 March [1862]

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CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.

Orchids to appear soon.

Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.

Work on floral dimorphism.

High opinion of Buckle as a writer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  7 Mar [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 185
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3468

Matches: 28 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   7 March [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 185 Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Mar [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … n.  3, below). See the letter from Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 , which is a reply to the …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] . CD’s letter has not been found, but see the letter …
  • … from J.  D. Hooker, 3 March 1862 . CD’s paper, ‘Three sexual forms of …
  • … before the Linnean Society of London on 3 April 1862. CD’s publisher, John Murray , issued …
  • … Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Three sexual forms of Catasetum tridentatum ’: …
  • … the possession of the Linnean Society. By Charles Darwin. [Read 3 April 1862. ] Journal of …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 151–7. [ Collected papers 2: 63–70. ] …
  • … the first edition of Orchids on 15 May 1862. Although favourably reviewed, the book sold …
  • … slowly. See letter to John Murray, 9 April [1862] , and Freeman 1977 , p.  112. J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker 1861a . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 3 March 1862 . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 25 February [1862] , and letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 27 February 1862  and …
  • … 3 March 1862 . Link 1821 . See letter from …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 27 February 1862  and n.  5. See letter …
  • … from C.  W.  Crocker, 17 February 1862 . CD’s letter has not been found. The …
  • … letters from C.  W.  Crocker, [before 13 March 1862] and …
  • … 13 March 1862  give an indication of the experiments Crocker agreed to carry out for CD. …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Freeman, …
  • … of crosses in late January and February 1862, some of the results of which were later …
  • … 431–7, letter to T.  H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] and n.  9, and Correspondence vol.   …
  • … VI). See also letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 17 June [1862] and n.  2, letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 23 June [1862] and n.   …
  • … 4, and letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] . In ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic …
  • … equal-styled variety of Primula sinensis in 1862 by observing some anomalous flowers in a …
  • … from these observations and experiments, dated 27 February – 30 March, 24 April 1862, and …
  • … 30 May 1862, are in DAR 108: 38 v. , 56–66. CD had read and greatly admired the first …

To J. D. Hooker   [18 May 1862]

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Leschenaultia seems very odd. Will try with pollen left on for 48 hours. Illustrates diversity of structures for same purpose.

Bentham’s and Oliver’s good opinion of Orchids is reassuring.

Anxious to experiment on Melastomataceae; thinks it will give important results.

Wants Leschenaultia formosa to try whether viscid outside surface can be fertilised.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  [18 May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 154
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3558

Matches: 21 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   [18 May 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 154 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place [18 May 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Gardens, Kew (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). See also letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] , and letter to W.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, [8 May 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [17 May 1862] and CD annotations. See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 [April 1862] . …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … Dated by the relationship to the letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [16 May 1862] and [ …
  • … 17 May 1862] (see nn.  2, 4, and 5, below), and by reference to the Darwins’ stay at Leith …
  • … stayed at Leith Hill Place from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 10, Appendix II)). In 1862, 18 May fell on a Sunday. See letters from …
  • … D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] . CD mentioned his interest in Rhododendron boothii in the …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] . For Hooker’s identification of CD’s specimen, …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 19 [June 1862] . There is a note describing the bent pistils …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, [16  May 1862] and [ …
  • … 17 May 1862] . This point is discussed in Orchids , pp.  346–51, in a section entitled ‘ …
  • … for the same general purpose’. See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [17 May 1862] . See …
  • … also letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 May 1862 , and letter from …
  • … George Bentham, 15 May 1862 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [16 May 1862] . See letter to J.   …

To Asa Gray   28 July [1862]

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AG’s "capital" review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–44].

Thinks there are three forms of Lythrum salicaria.

Discusses transport of seeds by sea.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  28 July [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (75)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3667

Matches: 25 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   28 July [1862] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (75) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 July [1862] Asa Gray …
  • … Nicholas Trübner (see letter to Nicholas Trübner, 23 June [1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] ). …
  • … review of Orchids [ Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–44]. Thinks there are three forms …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … with the letter from Asa Gray, 15 July [1862] (see also CD’s annotations to that letter). …
  • … had sent CD a copy of the review (see letter from Asa Gray, 15 July [1862] and n.  16). CD …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, 15 July [1862] and n.  8. CD …
  • … of a series of observations on Lythrum salicaria on 29 July 1862 (DAR 27.2 (ser.  2): 1). …
  • … See also letter to Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] , and letter to W.   …
  • … E. Darwin, 9 July [1862] . See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] and n.  12. Gray had asked CD to arrange for six copies …
  • … to the main body of the letter from Asa Gray, 15 July [1862] , which has not been found. …
  • … In the letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] , CD tried to persuade Gray to publish a …
  • … See also letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] and nn.  23–5. In Orchids , p.  171, CD …
  • … Gray’s observations on Pogonia in the letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] . From CD’s …
  • … to the letter from Asa Gray, 15 July [1862] , it appears that Gray sent CD further notes …
  • … see the letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July [1862] , in which Gray reported his intention of …
  • … currents’ (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, 25 February [1862] ; see also letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 3 March 1862 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 7 March [1862] ). In his review ( A.  Gray 1862d , p.  145), Gray reported …
  • … also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 4 November [1862] . Starting in March 1855, partly prompted …
  • … Mitchella repens with the letter from Asa Gray, 15 July [1862] . CD refers to one of Gray’ …
  • … s students, Joseph Trimble Rothrock (see letter from Asa Gray, 15 July [1862] ). See …

To J. D. Hooker   23 June [1862]

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Has been ill (violent skin inflammation).

Has done hardly anything except tend to his experiments. Repeating Primula work has verified former results and very curious facts on sterility of homomorphic seedlings.

Wonders who reviewed Orchids for London Review & Wkly J. Polit..

Asa Gray also infatuated with Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  23 June [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 156
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3620

Matches: 22 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   23 June [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 156 Charles Robert Darwin Down 23 June [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 28 June 1862 ). See …
  • … letters from Asa Gray , 31 March [1862] and …
  • … 18 May 1862 . See letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862  and …
  • … 19 [June 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 11 June [1862] . William Erasmus Darwin visited …
  • … Hooker at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on 20 June 1862 (see letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 19 [June 1862] ). …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 19 [June 1862] . The apparently terminal illness of his …
  • … had caused Hooker to declare, in his letter of 19 [June 1862] : ‘this is a weary life’. …
  • … had been sent home from school on 12 June 1862 suffering from scarlet fever (see letter to …
  • … W.  E.  Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ). CD apparently refers to repeating the crossing …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] ‘ …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … in Primula ’ . In January and February 1862, he carried out similar crossing experiments …
  • … also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 7 March [1862] and n.  10). CD’s results from the crosses …
  • … repeated his crosses with P.  veris on 1 May 1862; his notes on these experiments are in …
  • … fertilisation , p.  28. See also letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 17 June [1862] and n.   …
  • … 2, and letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] . The review of Orchids published in …
  • … of Politics, Arts, and Science 4 (1862): 553–4 was written by Miles Joseph Berkeley (see …

To Armand de Quatrefages   11 July [1862]

Summary

Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.

CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".

Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:  11 July [1862]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3653

Matches: 23 hits

  • … To Armand de Quatrefages   11 July [1862] …
  • … that she had sought to convey the intent of the author (Royer trans.  1862, p.  xxxv). …
  • … See also letter from Edouard Claparède, 6 September 1862 . …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 11 July [1862] Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) …
  • … from Armand de Quatrefages, [after 11 July 1862] . For CD’s letter to Quatrefages, see …
  • … letter to Armand de Quatrefages, 3 July [1862] . Quatrefages’s reply has not been found. …
  • … development, later published in Quatrefages 1862, p.  129. In Variation 2: 269, CD wrote: …
  • … Bibliography [Berkeley, Miles Joseph. ] 1862. Fertilization of orchids. London Review and …
  • … See also letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] . Clémence Auguste Royer’s letter to CD …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … is an annotated presentation copy of Quatrefages 1862 in the Darwin Library–CUL (see also …
  • … Armand de Quatrefages, [after 11 July 1862] ). Variation was not published until 1868. …
  • … that section of Variation in the summer of 1862. In Variation 1: 303, CD referred to a …
  • … races’. CD refers to the French translation of Origin (Royer trans.  1862), which was …
  • … published in June 1862 (see letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, 10–20 June [1862] and n.  25). (CD had unsuccessfully sought Quatrefages’s help in …
  • … Relations of Birds’. The series of six lectures ran from 14 to 30 May 1862 ( Athenæum , …
  • … 10 May 1862, p.  613). …
  • … The accounts of these lectures given in the Parthenon 1 (1862): 82, 115, 148, 179, 211–12, …
  • … and the Medical Times and Gazette (1862), pt 1: 513, 537–8, 563–4, 590–1, 616–7, 645–6, do …
  • … lectures on birds between 7 and 28 April 1862 at the London Institution, but no reports of …
  • … see letter to Charles Lyell, 22 August [1862] ), possibly Miles Joseph Berkeley , who, …
  • … in his review of Orchids ( [Berkeley] 1862 , p.  553) stated of Owen: one of the most …

To J. D. Hooker   30 May [1862]

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Has received Melastoma and Vanilla.

Has seen again the two sets of plants of Heterocentron raised from two lots of pollen from same flower – a marvellous difference in stature.

"But oh Lord what will become of my book on variation: I am involved in a multiplicity of experiments."

Observations on Viola.

CD’s fancied dimorphism of Oxalis is all a confounded mistake; only great variability in length of pistils.

Found Henslow’s life [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will think it dull.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  30 May [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 152
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3575

Matches: 22 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   30 May [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 152 Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 May [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. J. S. Henslow (1862)] interesting but fears the public will …
  • … The year is established by the reference to Jenyns 1862 (see n.  8, below). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [29 May 1862] and n.  3. See letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] and n.  7. See letters …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 April 1862] and [ …
  • … 29 May 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] …
  • … 1861] and 7 December [1861] ). See letters to Daniel Oliver , 20 [April 1862] and …
  • … 24 April [1862] , and letter from …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 23 April 1862 . See n.  7, above. …
  • … Jenyns, Leonard. 1862. Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, late rector of Hitcham, …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 [April 1862] . CD refers to the account of variation in domesticated plants …
  • … in Primula ’ ([Oliver] 1862c) (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April  1862 ). See …
  • … also letters to Daniel Oliver , 12 [April 1862] and …
  • … 15 April [1862] . There are notes by CD on his experiments …
  • … with Viola in DAR 111: 3–5, dated 28 May and 30 May 1862. …
  • … Jenyns 1862 . John Stevens Henslow , Hooker’s father-in-law, died in …
  • … May 1861. See also letter to Leonard Jenyns, 24 May [1862] and n.  2. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [29 May 1862] . In the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 November [1861] ( …

To J. D. Hooker   26 July [1862]

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Illness of his son [Leonard]. Has done no work for weeks.

JDH’s hybrid orchids are interesting; CD is surprised many hybrids are not produced.

George [Darwin] caught a moth sucking Gymnadenia conopsea with a pollen-mass of Habenaria bifolia sticking to it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  26 July [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 159
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3666

Matches: 24 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   26 July [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 159 Charles Robert Darwin Down 26 July [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 July 1862] and n.  1. Leonard Darwin was recovering …
  • … s diary (DAR 242); see also letter to Daniel Oliver, 24 July [1862] , letter to M.   …
  • … T. Masters, 24 July [1862] , letter to W.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, [24 July 1862] , and letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ). CD may have intended to …
  • … see letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ); petechiae are red or purple spots on the …
  • … Gymnadenia conopsea (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 30 [June 1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 1 July [1862] ). In DAR 70: …
  • … 30 there is a note, dated 21 June 1862, that states that George had seen the moth Plusia …
  • … CD’s experiments, see, for instance, the letters to J.  D. Hooker, 30 May [1862] and n.   …
  • … 7, and 23 June [1862] and n.  4, …
  • … the letter to Alphonse de Candolle, 17 June [1862] and n.  2, and the letter to M.   …
  • … T. Masters, 8 July [1862] and n.  3. See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 July 1862] . CD refers to the review of the first volume of the …
  • … 1: 373–5 (see also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 July 1862] and n.  8). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [24 July 1862] . The reference is to the last page of the April issue …
  • … errors. The last page of the April 1862  number of the Natural History Review concluded …
  • … stations’ ( Natural History Review n.s.  2 (1862): 346). CD’s letter has not been found. …
  • … Hookers had been on holiday in Switzerland from 4 to 23 July 1862 (see letters from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 2 July 1862 , 10  …
  • … July 1862 , and [ …
  • … 24 July 1862] ). George Howard Darwin had made observations in June on the insects …

From Asa Gray   29 December 1862

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Encloses maize seeds.

Has heard of a butterfly with pollinia of Platanthera stuck to it.

Comments on AG’s notes ["Dimorphism in the genitalia of flowers", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 149–50].

"Precocious fertilisation".

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Dec 1862
Classmark:  DAR 109: 85, DAR 165: 126
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3882

Matches: 22 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   29 December 1862
  • … DAR 109: 85, DAR 165: 126 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 29 Dec 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … 12, and 26[–7] November [1862] and n.  35. See n.  12, above. Fragaria is the genus of …
  • … genitalia of flowers", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 149–50]. "Precocious fertilisation". …
  • … Bibliography [Campbell, George Douglas. ] 1862. [Review of Orchids and other works. ] …
  • … Since June 1862, Gray had regularly sent North American postage stamps for Leonard Darwin’ …
  • … to CD’s request for specimens (see letter to Asa Gray, 6 November [1862] , and letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 ). Gray refers to Louis Agassiz , professor of natural history …
  • … Cambridge. [Massachusetts] Dec.  29, 1862 My Dear Darwin A happy New Year to you and …
  • … his letter to Gray of 26[–7] November [1862] , CD had expressed a fear that his extensive …
  • … humour’. C.  K.  Sprengel 1793 . See letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] and n.  9. …
  • … See letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] and n.  10, and A.  Gray 1862e , p.   …
  • … See letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] and n.  12. CD enclosed this letter with …
  • … See letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] and nn.  18 and 19. Specularia is a genus …
  • … Hooker and Daniel Oliver (see letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] and nn.  20–2). …
  • … See letters to Asa Gray , 23 November [1862] and n.   …
  • … is the lesser roundleaved orchid. Letters to Asa Gray , 23 November [1862] and 26[– …
  • … 7] November [1862] . [G.   …
  • … D.  Campbell] 1862 ; see letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 23 November [1862] and n.  7. Gray refers to a review of Max Müller 1861  in …
  • … s Magazine ([J.  Wedgwood and F.  J.  Wedgwood] 1862), which CD had recommended to him ( …
  • … see letter to Asa Gray, 23 November [1862] and n.  8). …

From J. D. Hooker   19 [June 1862]

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Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.

Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 [June 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 38–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3611

Matches: 23 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   19 [June 1862] …
  • … DAR 101: 38–9 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 19 [June 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … of Maria McGilvray , died on 15 August 1862 (see ‘Hooker pedigree’ in Allan 1967 ). For …
  • … Weekly Journal of Politics, Arts and Science ( [Berkeley] 1862 ), see the letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 23 June [1862] . …
  • … Michael Joseph. [Berkeley, Miles Joseph. ] 1862. Fertilization of orchids. London Review …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … 8, below). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [18 May 1862] . Hooker refers to John Lubbock . …
  • … Darwin was sent home from school with scarlet fever on 12 June 1862 (see letter to W.   …
  • … E. Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ). The governess has not been identified. For Hooker’s concern …
  • … about the state of his household, see the letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [5 May 1862] and …
  • … 9 June 1862 . Hooker had been helping CD to foster William Erasmus Darwin’s interest in …
  • … in Southampton, visit Kew (see letter from J.  D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] , letter to W.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, [8  May 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). George Graeme Watson-Taylor was a British subject who owned …
  • … much publicity in Britain, and on 13 June 1862 it was the subject of a lengthy debate in …
  • … Ramsay Henslow , married Susan Wall on 9 September 1862 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s.   …
  • … 13 (1862): 489). George Pellew was dean of Norwich. …
  • … Sarah Hawthorn of Stapleford, Cambridgeshire, on 24 June 1862 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s. …
  • … 13 (1862): 222). See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 11 June [1862] , n.  6. See also letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, 9 June 1862 . The polar explorer, James …
  • … in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on 3  April 1862; Hooker had been assistant surgeon on Ross’ …

To W. E. Darwin   4 [July 1862]

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Reports some observations on the fertilisation of wheat which WED might follow up.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  4 [July 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3641

Matches: 26 hits

  • … To W.  E.  Darwin   4 [July 1862] …
  • … DAR 210.6: 100 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 [July 1862] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 14 February [1862] . See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 July [ …
  • … DAR 186: 43) contains a note dated 10 July 1862, describing pollen-masses and pollen tubes …
  • … Down House MS), CD recorded payments of £42 to ‘Edwards’ on 31 May 1862 and £37 16 s. …
  • … on 14 July 1862. The reference is to the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway Company; according …
  • … the stock was purchased on 3 July and 9 July 1862. CD’s Account book–banking account ( …
  • … Down House MS) records the settlement of the account on 16 July 1862. See also …
  • … letter to John St Barbe, [before 3 July 1862] . …
  • … 1861] , and this volume, letter to C.  C.  Babington, 20 January [1862] ), and on …
  • … 28 June 1862 began crossing experiments with a specimen of Verbascum transplanted from a …
  • … experimental notes dated 28 June and 2 July 1862 in DAR 108: 2). He was, however, unable …
  • … plant was a sterile hybrid (see letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 6 October [1862] and …
  • … 14 [October 1862] , and letter to …
  • … Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] ). CD later discussed this experiment in ‘Specific difference …
  • … became ill with scarlet fever on 12 June 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Horace …
  • … between early June and early November 1862. She was apparently sent away on full pay in …
  • … early in the year (see letters from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [2 March 1862], [27  …
  • … May 1862], and [ …
  • … 6 November 1862] (DAR 219.1: 49, 57, 64), …
  • … letter to Camilla Ludwig, 26 August [1862] , Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242), and CD’s …
  • … Elizabeth Darwin from 5 June to 4 July 1862; on 5 July she was paid £5 for ‘education’ ( …
  • … Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [27 May 1862] (DAR 219.1: 57)). Brodie had been the nurse …
  • … Ludwig in November (see letters from Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [9 August 1862] and [ …
  • … 6 November 1862] (DAR 219.1: 61, 64), and Emma Darwin (1915) 2: 178). Miss Rendle has not …
  • … Office directory of the six home counties 1862); he is listed in CD’s Address book (Down …

From J. D. Hooker   [17 May 1862]

Summary

Discusses Leschenaultia, finds no stigmatic surface in the indusium.

Gives information on where to obtain paper for drying plants and where to obtain a microscope.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [17 May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 261.11: 28 (EH 88206079)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3527

Matches: 15 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [17 May 1862] …
  • … DAR 261.11: 28 (EH 88206079) Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [17 May 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bentham and Daniel Oliver (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 14 May 1862 , and letter from …
  • … George Bentham, 15 May 1862 , and Correspondence vol.  10, Appendix IV). See …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, [18 May 1862] . …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Post Office London directory : Post-Office …
  • … of Orchids (see n.  7, below); 17 May 1862 fell on a Saturday. See letters to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 1 May [1862] , 9  …
  • … May [1862] , and …
  • … 15 [May 1862] , and letters from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [5 May 1862] and [ …
  • … 16 May 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [16 May 1862] and n.  3. The diagram has been reduced to 65% of its original …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] . Hooker refers to the botanical bookseller …
  • … Thomas Ross (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 15 [May 1862] and n.  5). CD sent presentation …

To J. D. Hooker   15 [May 1862]

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Yellow anthers of Heterocentron produce on the same plant thrice as many seeds as the crimson anthers. Crimson anther seeds produce dwarf plants, others rise high up. Monochaetum ensiferum facts are still more strange. Wants to investigate the case, and asks for a plant of the Melastomataceae just before flowering.

Has JDH a Rhododendron boothii from Bhutan with pistil bent the wrong way?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  15 [May 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 151
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3548

Matches: 21 hits

  • … For Hooker’s reply to CD’s request, see the letter from J.  D.   Hooker, 23 May 1862 . …
  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   15 [May 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 151 Charles Robert Darwin Leith Hill Place 15 [May 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 1 May [1862] ), and had apparently sent him specimens at …
  • … Hooker’s request (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [5 May 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). Hooker’s father, William Jackson Hooker , was director of the …
  • … detailed note on this subject, dated 16 May 1862, in DAR 49: 77–8. Hooker had collected …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Hooker, …
  • … See also letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [17 May 1862] . Hooker’s comments may have been made …
  • … the Linnean Society meeting of 3 April 1862. The reference is apparently to the results of …
  • … roseum between October 1861 and January 1862. The results of these experiments, showing …
  • … the crimson anthers, are recorded in a note dated 3 February 1862 (DAR 205.8: 46; see also …
  • … letter to George Bentham, 3 February [1862] ). The reference is probably to John Horwood , …
  • … p.  158. There is a note recording this observation, dated 14 May 1862, in DAR 205.8: 49. …
  • … similar observations on 30 May and 9 August 1862 (see DAR 205.8: 49–50). CD had observed …
  • … Monochaetum ensiferum changed over time (see letters to Asa Gray , 16 February [1862] and …
  • … 15 March [1862] ). For CD’s attempts to understand the significance of these changes, see …
  • … Appendix IV, and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 May [1862] ). The Darwins stayed at the home …
  • … Josiah Wedgwood III , from 15 to 22 May 1862 (see Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) and ‘ …
  • … 27 April [1860] ). There is a note, dated May 1862, describing CD’s observation on R.   …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Post Office London directory : Post-Office …

To J. D. Hooker   24 December [1862]

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Thanks for Dawson’s letter. Doubts his evidence that climate of land was not glacial when upheaved after submergence.

Encloses memorandum of questions for C. V. Naudin.

Expression of the emotions.

Is building a hothouse for plant experimenting.

JDH’s ideas on America are more atrocious than his. What a new idea that struggle for existence is necessary to try to purge a government! Probably true. Slavery draws him one way one day, another the next. Yankees are "detestable toward us". Tocqueville.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  24 Dec [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 177
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3875

Matches: 21 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   24 December [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 177 Charles Robert Darwin Down 24 Dec [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … With his letter to CD of [21 December 1862] , Hooker had enclosed a letter, now missing, …
  • … of North America. See letter from J.  D. Hooker, 2 November 1862 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 4 November [1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … result of natural selection (see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [23 March 1862] , [15 and] …
  • … 20 November [1862] , and …
  • … 26 November 1862 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . CD read Tocqueville 1836  in February 1849 (see …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . Emma and William Erasmus Darwin . …
  • … D.  Hooker, [ 21 December 1862] . Neither CD’s ‘memorandum’ nor Charles Victor Naudin’s …
  • … see letter from C.  V.  Naudin, 26 June 1862 ). See also Correspondence vol.  11, letter …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n.  6. Augustus Frederick Oldfield . …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n.  5. CD’s work on the expression of …
  • … heated glass case (see letter to J.  D. Hooker, [21 December 1862] and n.  2). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [21 December 1862] . Hooker and Asa Gray held radically different …
  • … in their letters (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] , and letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 ). CD refers to Hooker’s whimsical suggestion that he would …
  • … Hooker’s letter to CD of [27 or 28 December 1862] , but have not been found. However, in …
  • … 11, letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 January [1862] and 15 February [1863] , and letter to …

From Asa Gray   10 November 1862

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AG has Cypripedium to send to CD.

Civil War and English feelings.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Nov 1862
Classmark:  DAR 165: 122
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3799

Matches: 24 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   10 November 1862
  • … DAR 165: 122 Asa Gray Cambridge, Mass. 10 Nov 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … CD’s queries about maize, included in his letter of 16 October [1862] (see letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] , and letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 24 November 1862 ). This is a note to Hooker, to whom CD sent this letter ( …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 24 [November 1862] ). …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … Cambridge, Mass Nov.  10, 1862 Dear Darwin Here is a new stamp for L.  D. —tho’ not …
  • … most wanted for his collection (see letter from Asa Gray, 22 September 1862  and n.  3). …
  • … Gray refers to the November 1862 number of the American Journal of Science and Arts , …
  • … the time ). In his letter to CD of 5 September 1862 , Gray promised to send live roots of …
  • … also letter from Asa Gray, 27 October 1862  and n.  3). Joseph Dalton Hooker was assistant …
  • … director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] . See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] and n.  5. Joseph Trimble Rothrock had been Gray’ …
  • … School, Harvard University, until he enlisted in the Union army in July 1862 ( DAB ). …
  • … In his letter of 4 August 1862 , Gray sent CD an abstract of Rothrock’s notes from his …
  • … Houstonia caerulea , carried out in the summer of 1862 at CD’s request. For Gray’s opinion …
  • … of Rothrock’s work, see also the letter from Asa Gray, 22 September 1862 . See …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 16  October [1862] . The reference is to Charles Mackay . …
  • … Gray . See letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] and n.  16. Manchester was the centre of …
  • … Europe; supply reached its lowest level in 1862. In July, the Economist reported that the …
  • … be ‘very near at hand’ ( Economist , 5 July 1862, p.  729). For accounts of the Lancashire …
  • … see Arnold 1864  and Longmate 1978 . See letter to Asa Gray, 16 October [1862] . In …
  • … his letter to Gray of 16 October [1862] , CD commented that the American Civil War had …
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

Summary

1862 was a particularly productive year for Darwin. This was not only the case in his published output (two botanical papers and a book on the pollination mechanisms of orchids), but more particularly in the extent and breadth of the botanical experiments…

Matches: 28 hits

  • … As the sheer volume of his correspondence indicates, 1862 was a particularly productive year for …
  • … be so’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] ). I have not the least …
  • … him from this view ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 [January 1862] ): 'no doubt you are right …
  • … Huxley replied ( letter from T. H. Huxley, 20 January 1862 ): 'I entertain no doubt that …
  • … but continued ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 December [1862] ): 'you say the answer to …
  • … but complained ( letter to T. H. Huxley, 28 December [1862] ): 'To get the degree of …
  • … him the commission ( see letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ). Darwin was altogether taken …
  • … is no common man’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). Two sexual forms: …
  • … with his study of  Primula  and escalated throughout 1862 as he searched for other cases of …
  • … 1861, and was published in the society’s journal in March 1862. The paper described the two …
  • … in almost daily’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). In a postscript, he mentioned his work …
  • … telling Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1862] ): ‘I am nearly sure that daylight is …
  • … great’, he told Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ), ‘I have lately counted one by one …
  • …  labour over them’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] ; see ML 2: 292–3). Other …
  • … of dimorphism’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ), and experimenting to test his …
  • … sets of experiments’ ( letter to M. T. Masters, 24 July [1862] ). The materials that Darwin …
  • …  case he determined to experiment on  Linum  in 1862. Soon he was enthralled, especially by the …
  • … be generically distinct’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] ). The case was so good that he …
  • … Linum  ‘at once’ ( letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ), writing up his experiments in …
  • … complex case—’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 29 [July 1862] ). The three forms had different lengths …
  • … who exclaimed to Gray ( letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] ), ‘I am almost stark staring mad over …
  • … the Linnean Society ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was not until 1864 …
  • … pleasure to ride’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 22 January [1862] ). But he worried about the resulting …
  • … the Book will sell’ ( letter to John Murray, 9 [February 1862] ). To his son, William, his …
  • … every  flower’ ( letter to Daniel Oliver, 8 June [1862] ). I never before felt half so …
  • … he told Hooker ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 [May 1862] ). But he did not have long to wait. ‘It is …
  • … it ‘most valuable’ (letter from George Bentham, 15 May 1862).  Orchids  was published on 15 May, …
  • … all, ‘a success’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 [June 1862] ). a flank-movement on the …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

Summary

Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

Matches: 5 hits

  • … In March 1862, Heinrich Georg Bronn wrote to Darwin stating his intention to prepare a …
  • … edition (see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Since the publication of the …
  • … of importance’ (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 11 March [1862] ). Darwin had sent Bronn some of these …
  • … in the new edition; in his letter to Bronn of 25 April [1862 ], he mentioned that he was sending …
  • … from E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 11 July 1862 ). (No American edition incorporating …

Dramatisation script

Summary

Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

Matches: 8 hits

  • … in the mud. BEGINNING OF WAR IN AMERICA: 1861-1862 In which the start of the American …
  • … cause. Tension.   THE DARWIN BOYS: 1862 In which Darwin reports one …
  • … 1856 33  C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 14 MARCH 1862 34  JD HOOKER TO C DARWIN, …
  • … 1861 115 A GRAY TO CHARLES WRIGHT, 17 APRIL 1862 116 A GRAY TO RW CHURCH 7 MAY …
  • … 10 JUNE 1861 121  A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 MARCH 1862 122  JD HOOKER TO C …
  • … 16 DEC 1861 124 A GRAY TO ENGELMANN, 20 FEB 1862 125  A GRAY TO C DARWIN, 31 …
  • … 7 JULY 1863 152 C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, DECEMBER 1862 153  JD HOOKER TO C …
  • … 1861 163  C Darwin TO A Gray, 16 OCTOBER 1862 164  C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, …

Darwin’s hothouse and lists of hothouse plants

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Darwin became increasingly involved in botanical experiments in the years after the publication of Origin. The building of a small hothouse - a heated greenhouse - early in 1863  greatly increased the range of plants that he could keep for scientific…

Matches: 6 hits

  • … Towards the end of 1862, Darwin resolved to build a small hothouse at Down House, for …
  • …  vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 24 December [1862] , and volume 10, letter to Thomas Rivers, …
  • … a construction suitable for tropical plants. In 1861 and 1862, while preparing  Orchids , he was …
  • …  vol. 10, letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] and n. 13). Initially, Darwin purchased for …
  • … over the previous two years. In a letter of 24 December [1862] ( Correspondence  vol. 10) …
  • … Kent ( Post Office directory of the six home counties  1862). 3.  Asclepias curassavica. …

I beg a million pardons: To John Lubbock, [3 September 1862]

Summary

  Alison Pearn looks at a letter Darwin wrote to his neighbour and friend, John Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862.

Matches: 1 hits

  • … Lubbock, after making a mistake in his research on bees in 1862. …

Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870

Summary

This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … towards your doctrines … Huxley to Darwin, 1862. I cannot bear the thought …
  • … … Darwin to Asa Gray, in Boston, Mass., 1862. I have been greatly …

Clémence Auguste Royer

Summary

Getting Origin translated into French was harder than Darwin had expected. The first translator he approached, Madame Belloc, turned him down on the grounds that the content was ‘too scientific‘, and then in 1860 the French political exile  Pierre…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … her translation of Origin. First published in 1862, Royer’s translation of …
  • … “I received 2 or 3 days ago”, he told Asa Gray in 1862 , “a French Translation of the Origin by a …
  • … criticisms of her work always made reference to her sex. In 1862, Edouard Claparede wrote to …

Women’s scientific participation

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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…

Matches: 5 hits

  • … Letter 3787 - Darwin, H. E. to Darwin, [29 October 1862] Henrietta Darwin provides …
  • … Letter 3634 - Darwin to Gray, A., [1 July 1862] Darwin tells American naturalist Asa …
  • … 3681  - Wedgwood, M. S. to Darwin, [before 4 August 1862] Darwin’s niece, Margaret, …
  • … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March, 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …
  • …  - Darwin to Wedgwood, K. E. S, M. S. & L. C., [4 August 1862] Darwin thanks his “angel …

Floral Dimorphism

Summary

Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Floral studies In 1877 Darwin published a book that included a series of smaller studies on botanical subjects. Titled The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, it consisted primarily of…

Matches: 3 hits

  • … Letter 3468 - Darwin to JD Hooker, 7 March 1862 Darwin wishes he could sympathize with Asa …
  • … Letter 3515 - Daniel Oliver to Darwin, 23 April 1862 Daniel Oliver, an assistant under …
  • … Letter 3757 - Joseph Dalton Hooker to Darwin, 12 October 1862 J. D. Hooker writes to …

Darwin & Glen Roy

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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology.  In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … 1 October [1861] To Charles Lyell, 1 April [1862] To Charles Lyell, 14 October …

Have you read the one about....

Summary

... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some serious - but all letters you can read here.

Matches: 1 hits

  • … ... the atheistical cats, or the old fogies in Cambridge? We've suggested a few - some funny, some …

Orchids

Summary

Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment A project to follow On the Origin of Species Darwin began to observe English orchids and collect specimens from abroad in the years immediately following the publication of On the Origin of Species. Examining…

Matches: 4 hits

  • … SOURCES Books Darwin, Charles 1862. On the various contrivances by which …
  • … 3421 —Charles Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker 30 January 1862 Darwin tells Hooker about a …
  • … Letter 3662 —Charles Darwin to Asa Gray 23-4 July 1862 Darwin tells Asa Gray, a professor …
  • … Darwin’s work with orchids and Chapter 1 of Darwin’s 1862 book On the various …

Forms of flowers

Summary

Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…

Matches: 6 hits

  • … briefly mentioned in his Primula paper. In July 1862, Darwin explained to Gray, ‘ I have …
  • … of the genus Linum ’, between 11 and 21 December 1862. The paper was read at a meeting of the …
  • … to Lythrum , a genus that he had begun researching in 1862 after Hooker had supplied him with …
  • … of Lythrum he had been working on since late July 1862. He told Oliver that, ‘ as each form has …
  • … of the crossing experiments immediately, but by October 1862, he admitted to Hooker, ‘ I am rather …
  • … 117: 50). Darwin released William from counting in November 1862, telling him, ‘ Next year I shall …

Dining at Down House

Summary

Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Dining, Digestion, and Darwin's Domestic Life While Darwin is best remembered for his scientific accomplishments, he greatly valued and was strongly influenced by his domestic life. Darwin's…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Letter 3626 —Emma Darwin to T. G. Appleton, 28 June [1862] Here Emma writes on her husband’s …
  • … Letter 3597 —Darwin to Joseph Dalton Hooker, 11 June [1862] Among bits of family news and …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

Summary

The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

Matches: 4 hits

  • … on  Verbascum.  Darwin had suggested to Scott in 1862, when Scott was working at the Royal Botanic …
  • … vol. 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] ). Darwin had already written to Hooker of …
  • … disturbing the serenity of the Christian world’ (Brewster 1862, p. 3). John Hutton Balfour, though …
  • …  vol. 10, letter from J. H. Balfour, 14 January 1862 ). According to Hooker, Balfour’s prejudice …

Darwin on race and gender

Summary

Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … [1859] Letter to Charles Kingsley, 6 February [1862] Letter from F. W. Farrar, …

Darwin and Fatherhood

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Charles Darwin married Emma Wedgwood in 1839 and over the next seventeen years the couple had ten children. It is often assumed that Darwin was an exceptional Victorian father. But how extraordinary was he? The Correspondence Project allows an unusually…

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  • … all of their education in the home, although he noted in 1862 that his fifteen-year-old daughter …
  • … her own wish’ (Darwin to his son William,  30 [October 1862] ). Darwin frequently discussed the …

Species and varieties

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On the origin of species by means of natural selection …so begins the title of Darwin’s most famous book, and the reader would rightly assume that such a thing as ‘species’ must therefore exist and be subject to description. But the title continues, …or…

Matches: 2 hits

  • … about whether sterility could be ‘selected’. In 1862, he told Hooker, ‘I am now strongly inclined to …
  • … species distinct’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 12 [December 1862] ). In 1866, Darwin compared the …

Women as a scientific audience

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Target audience? | Female readership | Reading Variation Darwin's letters, in particular those exchanged with his editors and publisher, reveal a lot about his intended audience. Regardless of whether or not women were deliberately targeted as a…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … lady”. Darwin, E. to Darwin, W. E. , (March 1862 - DAR 219.1:49) Emma Darwin …

Sexual selection

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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species.  So what…

Matches: 1 hits

  • … the Lords' ( to J. D. Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ) In 1869, Darwin …
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