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To W. E. Darwin   [25 October 1862]

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Asks WED to make some observations on differences in pods of Lythrum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  [25 Oct 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 210.6: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3782

Matches: 14 hits

  • … To W.  E.  Darwin   [25 October 1862] …
  • … DAR 210.6: 106 Charles Robert Darwin Down [25 Oct 1862] William Erasmus Darwin …
  • … established by the relationship to the letters from W.  E.  Darwin, 21 October [1862] and …
  • … 28 October 1862 ; the intervening Saturday …
  • … was 25 October 1862. For William’s comments on the seed-pods of Lythrum salicaria see …
  • … the letter from W. E. Darwin, 23 October [1862] ; see also the letter to W.   …
  • … E.  Darwin, 30 [October 1862] . William was assisting his father by collecting seed-pods …
  • … Maud Atherley. See letter from W.  E.  Darwin, 21 October [1862] and n.  5, letter from W. …
  • … E. Darwin, 23 October [1862], and n. 5. Emma Darwin’ …
  • … Darwin returned to Down House on 22 October 1862, and that on 24 October she was ‘languid …
  • … the] m[ornin]g as before’. On 25 October 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR 242) …
  • … wild plants of Lythrum salicaria (see the letters from W. E. Darwin 21 October [1862] and …
  • … 23 October [1862] ); however, CD had concluded that he would have to perform a further …
  • … see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 27 [October 1862] and n.  11). CD’s paper, ‘Three forms of …

From Daniel Oliver   14 April 1862

Summary

Discusses primrose ovules,

Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],

plant migrations;

Corydalis.

Author:  Daniel Oliver
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Apr 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 54–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3722

Matches: 14 hits

  • … From Daniel Oliver   14 April 1862
  • … DAR 101: 54–5 Daniel Oliver Kew 14 Apr 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … ovules, Atlantis paper [ Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70], plant migrations; Corydalis . …
  • … organs, which are never wholly separated. See letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] . …
  • … Kew G. Monday.  14. IV . 1862 My dear Sir How very kind you are to write me at such …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Rehbock, …
  • … See letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] . Walter Hood Fitch , a botanical artist at …
  • … see letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ). Oliver had observed a difference in the …
  • … of that described by Oliver (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 , and letter to …
  • … Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] ). Oliver refers to the manuscript of his review of …
  • … See letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 . Oliver refers to Brongniart 1839 . In [ …
  • … letter to Daniel Oliver, 15 April [1862] ). Oliver repeated his observations, apparently …
  • … See letter to Daniel Oliver, 12 [April 1862] . Oliver refers to those who, like Louis …
  • … specimens of Primula farinosa (see letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862  and n.  9). …

To J. D. Hooker   4 November [1862]

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Cannot see how J. W. Dawson can accuse JDH of asserting a subsidence of Arctic America. Much of evidence for subsidence during glacial period will prove false as it largely rests on ice action which is more and more viewed as subaerial.

Dawson is biased against Darwinism.

Suggests Greenland may have been repopulated after glacial period extinguished flora, by migration in sea-currents.

Max Müller’s view of origin of language is weakest part of his book [see 3752].

Would like to examine the rare Cypripedium hirsutissimum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  4 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 168
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3795

Matches: 24 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   4 November [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 168 Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Nov [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … In his letter of 2 November 1862 , Hooker asked CD to examine his paper on the …
  • … and W. Boone. Jamieson, Thomas Francis. 1862. On the ice-worn rocks of Scotland. Quarterly …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … London: John Murray. 1859. Tyndall, John. 1862. On the conformation of the Alps. The …
  • … been shaken by the controversial work of Andrew Crombie Ramsay ( Ramsay 1862 ), John …
  • … Tyndall ( Tyndall 1862 ), and Thomas …
  • … Francis Jamieson ( Jamieson 1862 ; see Davies 1969, pp.  301– …
  • … 13). CD’s reading of Ramsay 1862  and …
  • … Jamieson 1862  had largely convinced him that land-ice had been more extensive and …
  • … was commonly supposed (see letter to A.  C.  Ramsay, 5 September [1862] , and letter to …
  • … Charles Lyell, 14 October [1862] ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 2 November 1862  and n.  9. The reference has not been identified; however, CD …
  • … 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 of Hooker’s essay ( A.  Gray 1862d , p.   …
  • … See also letter to Asa Gray, 28 July [1862] and n.  11. Since the 1840s, CD and Hooker had …
  • … 5 and 6). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 2 November 1862  and n.  17. Max Müller 1861 . …
  • … on the origins of language, see the letter from Asa Gray, 4 and 13 October 1862 , n.  3. …
  • … In his letter to Hooker of 27 [October 1862] , CD suggested that Daniel Oliver might be …
  • … been found, but see the letter from J.  D. Hooker, 2 November 1862 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 2 November 1862  and n.  6. In Orchids , pp.  274–5, CD concluded that …
  • … 428. See letter to Asa Gray, 10– 20 June [1862] and n.  17. There is an undated note in …

To Asa Gray   21 April [1862]

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Is sending first half of orchid book.

Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Asa Gray
Date:  21 Apr [1862]
Classmark:  Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3513

Matches: 18 hits

  • … To Asa Gray   21 April [1862] …
  • … Herbarium of Harvard University (65) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Apr [1862] Asa Gray …
  • … publication of Orchids (see n.  5, below). See letters from Asa Gray , 6 March [1862] and …
  • … 31 March [1862] . The reference is to the …
  • … see letter from Asa Gray, 31 March [1862] ). See also n.  4, below. CD and Gray shared the …
  • … probably Joseph Trimble Rothrock (see letter from Asa Gray, 6 March [1862] and n.  6). …
  • … See letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . CD had asked Gray to carry out …
  • … some observations on Rhexia in the letters to Asa Gray , 16 February [1862] and …
  • … 15 March [1862] . …
  • … Mill 1862 . See …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, 6 March [1862] and n.  8. …
  • … was a guest at Down House from 17 to 21 April 1862 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …
  • … Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83. …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … 1861 ). Orchids was published on 15 May 1862 ( Freeman 1977 , p.  112). The penultimate …
  • … American Civil War during the spring of 1862—at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, Tennessee, …
  • … McPherson 1988 , pp.  392–414). On 6 March 1862, President Abraham Lincoln asked the …
  • … adopted Lincoln’s resolution on 10 April 1862 ( Curry 1968 ). In the letter to Asa Gray, …

From Asa Gray   4 and 13 October 1862

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Thinks Max Müller’s Lectures on the science of language [1861–4] will do a real service to CD and natural selection.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 and 13 Oct 1862
Classmark:  DAR 165: 120
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3752

Matches: 16 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   4 and 13 October 1862
  • … DAR 165: 120 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 4 Oct 1862 13 …
  • … Oct 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … See letter from Asa Gray, 5 September 1862  and nn.  4 and 5. [J.  D.  Hooker] 1862c. …
  • … anonymous review (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 3 November [1862] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 7 November 1862 ). …
  • … Cambridge. [Massachusetts] Oct.  4, 1862 My Dear Darwin I have just been reading Max …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Schrempp, Gregory. 1983. The re-education of …
  • … New Haven, Connecticut. In the summer of 1862, Gray had made numerous observations of the …
  • … persuade him to publish them separately (see letters to Asa Gray , 10–20 June [1862] , 1  …
  • … July [1862] , 23[– …
  • … 4] July [1862] , 28  …
  • … July [1862] , and [3–] …
  • … 4 September [1862] ). Gray refers to Leonard Darwin , who had been ill with scarlet fever …
  • … was apparently enclosed with the letter to Gray of [3–]4 September [1862] (see letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 22 September 1862  and n.  3). …

To Daniel Oliver   2 September [1862]

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Exciting work on trimorphism in Lythrum salicaria. Requests Lythraceae from Kew.

Wants to know of plants other than Melastoma and Lythrum with coloured pollen.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Daniel Oliver
Date:  2 Sept [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 261.10: 35 (EH 88206018)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3706

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To Daniel Oliver   2 September [1862] …
  • … DAR 261.10: 35 (EH 88206018) Charles Robert Darwin Bournemouth 2 Sept [1862] Daniel Oliver …
  • … pp.  260–8. See also letter from Daniel Oliver, 4 September 1862 . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 22 [August 1862] and n.  14. See letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 22 [August 1862] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [26–31 August 1862] . …
  • … In his letter to Oliver of 29 [July 1862] , CD had described the crosses he planned to …
  • … from these experiments is dated 31 July 1862 (DAR 27.2 (ser.  2): 7). Oliver was librarian …
  • … the letter from Daniel Oliver, 13 September 1862 . The Darwin family were on holiday in …
  • … fever since mid-June (see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 13 [June 1862] , and letter to H.   …
  • … C.  Watson, 8 [August 1862] ). Emma Darwin …
  • … became ill with the disease on 13 August 1862, on the first stage of their journey to …
  • … s diary (DAR 242)). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 22 [August 1862] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [26–31 August 1862] . …
  • … In a note dated 25 September 1862 (DAR 48: 50), CD recorded the existence of two …

From Asa Gray   [late June 1862]

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Has not had time to look at Rhexia.

Progress of Civil War.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [late June 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 165: 110
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3631

Matches: 13 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   [late June 1862] …
  • … DAR 165: 110 Asa Gray unstated [late June 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography Morell, John Daniel. 1862. An introduction to mental philosophy, on the …
  • … is established by Gray’s references to Morell 1862 (see n.  2, below), to his duties at …
  • … the genus Rhexia (see n.  4, below). Morell 1862 ; Gray had told CD that he had been given …
  • … of this book in his letter of 31 March [1862] . In May, Gray had told CD that he would be …
  • … with college duties until 10 July (see letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 ). See also …
  • … letter from Asa Gray, 2–3 July 1862 . CD was investigating what he thought might be a …
  • … signs of this phenomenon (see letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] ; see also letters to …
  • … Asa Gray , 15 March [1862] and …
  • … 21 April [1862] ). Gray had agreed to carry out …
  • … this task in the summer (see letter from Asa Gray, 6 March [1862] ); in his letter …
  • … of 2–3 July 1862 , he told CD that he would shortly ‘try to look up & bring home living …

From J. D. Hooker   9 June 1862

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Oliver has written able paper on dimorphism for Natural History Review [n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].

CD’s account of Viola is novel and interesting.

Has finished Cameroon mountain plants.

Jury work at exhibition.

Domestic problems – wife is ill, no cook, etc.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  9 June 1862
Classmark:  DAR 101: 40–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3593

Matches: 13 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   9 June 1862
  • … DAR 101: 40–1 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew 9 June 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Darwin , who was in Southampton (see letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 11 June [1862] and n.  5). …
  • … for Natural History Review [n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43]. CD’s account of Viola is novel and …
  • … Oliver] 1862c. See letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 30 May [1862] . Hooker had been preparing a list of the plants collected in …
  • … Cameroon mountains by Gustav Mann (see letters from J.  D.  Hooker, [5 May 1862] and nn.   …
  • … 3 and 5, and [29 May 1862] and n.  4); he read a paper entitled ‘On …
  • … before the Linnean Society of London on 5 June 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings of the …
  • … in tropical areas (see letter to J.  D.   Hooker, 9 May [1862] and n.  6). See letter …
  • … from J.  D.  Hooker, [29 May 1862] and n.  6. Frances Harriet Hooker . The Hookers’ home …
  • … see letter from J.  D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] ). CD appears to have sent the letter to Emma …
  • … Linnean Society of London (Botany) 6 (1862): cvi). The paper was not published in the …

From J. D. Hooker   [31 January – 8 February 1862]

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Wrote a "frightful screed" about aristocracy’s being a necessary consequence of natural selection, and then burnt it.

H. W. Bates is the only man "thinking out" natural selection to any purpose. "I think I have driven Bates back to Nat. Sel. as the only way of solving his difficulties."

HWB’s mimetic butterflies.

JDH wishes he had time to do the same thing with plants.

Owen and Huxley involved in a "contemptible" squabble in the Edinburgh newspapers.

Maximovitch reports Stellaria bulbifera is a Siberian form which never ripens its seeds.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 14; DAR 111: 93
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3430

Matches: 20 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [31 January – 8 February 1862] …
  • … 14; DAR 111: 93 Joseph Dalton Hooker unstated [31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Forms of flowers , p.  310, and OED ). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 February [1862] . …
  • … Dated by the relationship to the letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 30 January [1862] (see n.   …
  • … 9, below) and 9 February [1862]. Hooker and CD had light-heartedly discussed the …
  • … aristocracy (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] , and letter to J.  D.   …
  • … Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] ). CD had offered Henry Walter Bates financial …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
  • … In his letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 30 January [1862] , CD requested information concerning a …
  • … in the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 9 February [1862] . Stellaria bulbifera is a synoym of …
  • … see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [19 January 1862] ). The plates published with Bates 1862a …
  • … W.  Robinson ( Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23 (1862): tabs.  55 and 56). …
  • … Bates initiated a flourishing correspondence in 1862, which is partly reproduced in Edward …
  • … about natural selection on 2 February 1862 (see ibid. , pp. l–liii, and the enclosure …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [23 March 1862] ). Many of the extant letters between Bates …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 [and 26] January [1862] , CD confessed shame at the ‘demoniacal’ …
  • … Linnean Society of London on 16 January and 6 February 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings …
  • … of the Linnean Society 6 (1862): lvii, lix). See n.  9, below. …
  • … See letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 20 January 1862 , and letter to T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 2 February [1862] . This note is on the verso of the last page of the letter. …

To J. D. Hooker   9 [April 1862]

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On Vanilla.

Asks JDH to observe whether he has both long- and short-styled form of Menyanthes

and whether he has "Saxifrages with long hairs glandular at the tip".

The Linnean Society session made him vomit all night. Fears he must give up trying to read papers or speak. "It is a horrid bore. I can do nothing like other people."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  9 [Apr 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 148
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3500

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   9 [April 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 148 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 [Apr 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … were not suitable (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 17 March 1862 ). See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [7 April 1862] . CD read his paper, ‘Three sexual forms …
  • … of Catasetum tridentatum ’ , before the Linnean Society of London on 3 April 1862. …
  • … 2 and 5, below). See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [7 April 1862] . Orchids was about to …
  • … see letter to John Murray, 9 April [1862] ). CD recorded finishing work on the volume on …
  • … sent CD specimens of the genus in March 1862, with the promise that he would send others …
  • … 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. ] …
  • … correspondents (see letter to C.  C.  Babington, 20 January [1862] , and letter from C.   …
  • … W.  Crocker, 13 March 1862 ); he probably included the genus on the list of specimens …
  • … enclosed with the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 February [1862] . In DAR 110 (ser.   …
  • … 2): 52 there is a note dated ‘1862’ that states: ‘Menyanthes from Kew. — Short- …

From J. D. Hooker   [26 February 1862?]

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Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.

Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [26 Feb 1862?]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3455

Matches: 6 hits

  • … s reaction to Origin at this time (see letter from Charles Kingsley, 31 January  1862 ). …
  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [26 February 1862? ] …
  • … DAR 101: 13 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [26 Feb 1862? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 27 February 1862 ; the preceding Wednesday was 26 February. …
  • … See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [8 February 1862] , and letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 9 February [1862] . The references are to George Douglas Campbell (the eighth …

From J. D. Hooker   [31 December 1862]

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JDH’s impression on meeting [J. A.] Froud[e].

CD’s projected three volume work.

Complains at poor state of some [unspecified] plant collection.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [31 Dec 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 96–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3890

Matches: 15 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [31 December 1862] …
  • … DAR 101: 96–7 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [31 Dec 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography [Campbell, George Douglas. ] 1862. [Review of Orchids and other works. ] …
  • … to the letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 29 [December 1862] (see nn.  3 and 4, below), and by the …
  • … Grenville Milnes Gaskell on 30 December 1862 (see Gentleman’s Magazine n.s.  14 (1863): …
  • … 231). Hooker refers to a review, published in the Parthenon , 27 December 1862, pp.  1102– …
  • … 3, of part 1 of Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83 (see letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 29 [December 1862] ). The reviewer criticised the authors for having neglected …
  • … the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. [Parker, …
  • … Henry. ] 1862. The Edinburgh review on the …
  • … supernatural. Saturday Review , 15 November 1862, pp. 589–90. Taxonomic literature : …
  • … 28 January [1860] ). See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 29 [December 1862] . See letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 29 [December 1862] and n.  5. Hooker refers to a critique of …
  • … s review of Orchids ( [G.  D.  Campbell] 1862 ), published in the Saturday Review by …
  • … CD’s nephew, Henry Parker ( [Parker] 1862 ). CD had sent Hooker his copy of the critique …

To T. H. Huxley   22 January [1862]

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Much amused at the Witness.

Pleased at what THH says on hybridity.

Odd that objectors never allude to the arguments that alone have weight in their favour – affinities, rudimentary organs, etc.

Has 16 ill in the house!

Natural History Review a capital number.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  22 Jan [1862]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 252)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3403

Matches: 14 hits

  • … To T.  H.  Huxley   22 January [1862] …
  • … Archives (Huxley 5: 252) Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Jan [1862] Thomas Henry Huxley …
  • … Bibliography Brewster, David. 1862. The facts and fancies …
  • … of Mr Darwin. Good Words (1862): 3–9. Correspondence : The correspondence of Charles …
  • … H.  Huxley, 13 January 1862  and …
  • … 20 January 1862 , and letter to T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 14 [January 1862] . See also Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 10, Appendix VI. Brewster 1862 . See letter from T.   …
  • … H.  Huxley, 13 January 1862 . Huxley was the senior editor of the new series of the …
  • … is a lightly annotated copy of the January 1862 number in the Darwin Library–CUL. Lubbock  …
  • … established by the relationship to the letters from T.  H.  Huxley, 13 January 1862  and …
  • … 20 January 1862 . Huxley had recently delivered two lectures at the Philosophical …
  • … newspaper, the Witness , on 14 January 1862 (see Correspondence vol.  10, Appendix V). …
  • … sent CD a copy of the article with his letter of 20 January 1862 . See letters from T.   …

From Asa Gray   18–19 August 1862

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Notes and observations on orchids.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18–19 Aug 1862
Classmark:  DAR 165: 111, 116
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3688

Matches: 22 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   18–19 August 1862
  • … DAR 165: 111, 116 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 18–19 Aug 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Cambridge. [Massachusetts] Aug.  18. 1862 My Dear Darwin The dawn of hope in yours of …
  • … s gradual recovery from scarlet fever (see letters to Asa Gray , 23[–4] July [1862] and …
  • … 28 July [1862] ). At CD’s request, Gray had sent a number of stamps …
  • … for Leonard’s collection (see letter to Asa Gray, 10–20 June [1862] , and letters from Asa …
  • … Gray , 2–3 July 1862 , 15  …
  • … July [1862] , and …
  • … 21 July 1862 ). See also …
  • … letters to Asa Gray , 23[–4] July [1862] and …
  • … 28 July [1862] . Gray refers to the botanist and pharmacist, Elias Durand . Gray was …
  • … and on the good effects of intercrossing. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. …
  • … collaborator. In his letter to CD of 2–3 July 1862 , Gray promised to obtain specimens of …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] ). Platanthera blephariglottis and P.  ciliaris are …
  • … described in A.  Gray 1862b , p.  424. In the letters to Asa Gray , 23[–4] July [1862] and …
  • … 28 July [1862] , CD argued that Gray’s observations on American species of orchids were …
  • … CD with the letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] . Gray intended to include some of his …
  • … of the book ( A.  Gray 1862a ; see letter from Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 , and letter to Asa …
  • … Gray, 10–20 June [1862] ). The plates arrived too late for …
  • … s review (see letter from Asa Gray, 21 July 1862  and nn.  3 and 4), but appeared in the …
  • … hyperborea with his letter of 2–3 July 1862 ; although the notes have not been found, it …
  • … in the letter to Asa Gray, 23[–4] July [1862] , that Gray had told him that the species …

To John Scott   19 November [1862]

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Praises JS’s experimenting.

Has he ever studied the relative fertility of varieties? CD very interested in this subject.

Discusses Acropera.

Wants to quote JS on Zea [Variation 1: 321].

CD sends his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  19 Nov [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B11–B14, DAR 147: 431
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3814

Matches: 20 hits

  • … To John Scott   19 November [1862] …
  • … DAR 93: B11–B14, DAR 147: 431 Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 Nov [1862] John Scott …
  • … is established by the relationship to the letter from John Scott, 15 November [1862] . …
  • … Letter from John Scott, 15 November [1862] . James McNab . …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 15 November [1862] . No publication by Scott on this subject …
  • … found. See letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] . The reference to the remark by Karl …
  • … remark in the missing portion of his letter of 15 November [1862] . See letter to J.   …
  • … to C.  C.  Babington, 20 January [1862] ), and also attempted to use a wild specimen for …
  • … see letter to W.  E.  Darwin, 4 [July 1862] and n.  4). Scott carried out the suggested …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] …
  • … D.  Hooker, 30 May [1862] and n.  10. CD had been interested in the ‘gradation in sexes’ …
  • … from Asa Gray earlier in the year (see letters to Asa Gray , 21 April [1862] and 10– …
  • … 20 June [1862] , and letter from …
  • … Asa Gray, 18 May 1862 ). See …
  • … letter from John Scott, 15 November [1862] . See …
  • … letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 . See also letter to J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 18 [November 1862] . CD was preparing a draft of the part of Variation dealing …
  • … portion of the letter from John Scott, 15 November [1862] ; see also letter from John …
  • … Scott, [20 November – 2 December 1862] . Scott described this case, in which female …
  • … See letter from John Scott, 15 November [1862] . In April  1839, John Stevens Henslow had …

To J. D. Hooker   21 [September 1862]

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Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).

Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  21 [Sept 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 161
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3735

Matches: 17 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   21 [September 1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 161 Charles Robert Darwin Bournemouth 21 [Sept 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … during the first week of October. See also letter to W.  D.  Fox, 20 [September 1862] . …
  • … is established by the relationship to the letters from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 August 1862  and …
  • … 20 September 1862 . Hooker had sent CD a letter from Julius von Haast , together with some …
  • … letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 20 September 1862  and n.  2). Haast’s newspaper reports have …
  • … C.  Ramsay, 26 August 1862 . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, 20 August 1862  and n.  13. See letter …
  • … to A.  C.  Ramsay, 5 September [1862] . See letter from A.   …
  • … C.  Ramsay, 26 August 1862 , and letter to A.   …
  • … C.  Ramsay, 5 September [1862] . …
  • … In 1862, the British Association for the Advancement of Science held its annual meeting in …
  • … 25 October [1861] . CD refers to present-day Tonga. Ramsay 1862 ; see letter from A.   …
  • … also letter to J.  D. Hooker, 16 January [1862] and n.  6. In Origin 4th ed. , pp.  442–3, …
  • … letter from Julius von Haast, 9 December 1862  and n.  8). CD refers to Hooker’s flora of …
  • … to New Zealand, and that Haast, on his 1862 expedition, found to have reached ‘the very …
  • … letter from Julius von Haast, 9 December 1862 . On Mus rattus , see Buller 1870 . CD had …

To J. D. Hooker   9 May [1862]

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Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.

Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.

"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".

Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  9 May [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 115: 149
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3541

Matches: 15 hits

  • … To J.  D.  Hooker   9 May [1862] …
  • … DAR 115: 149 Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 May [1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … G.  Bronn, 25 April [1862] . See …
  • … letter from Hugh Falconer, 7 May [1862] , and letter to …
  • … Hugh Falconer, [8 May 1862] . Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) …
  • … records that CD was in London from 6 to 9 May 1862. Charles Lyell . …
  • … Hooker’s home had recently been burgled (see letter from J.  D. Hooker, [5 May 1862] ). …
  • … In his letter of [5 May 1862] , Hooker mentioned that he hoped to invite William Erasmus …
  • … also letter to W.  E.  Darwin, [8 May 1862] . From January 1857 until January 1859, Miss …
  • … 445–50). Orchids was offered for sale on 15 May 1862 ( Freeman 1977 , p.  112). For CD’s …
  • … vol.  10, Appendix IV. See letter from H.  G.  Bronn, 27 March 1862 , and letter to H.   …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin 4th ed. : On the origin of species by …
  • … Emma Darwin to W.  E.  Darwin, [14 May 1862] in DAR 219.1: 231), and was thus a neighbour …
  • … Harriet Hooker . See letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [5 May 1862] . See letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [5 May 1862] . The discovery of temperate plants at heights as low as 4000 ft …

To John Scott   3 December [1862]

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JS’s facts on Primula are new to CD.

In Linum CD has also found dimorphic and non-dimorphic species.

Plans to publish next autumn on successive homomorphic generations in Primula.

"Fluctuating forms" due to culture.

Urges JS to publish.

Lobelia functionally monoecious.

Where did JS publish on Clivia hybrids? Did he count parent and cross seeds, as Gärtner shows is necessary?

CD has done large experiments on artificially fertilised cowslips. They never resemble oxlips.

Would welcome detailed criticism of natural selection by a careful observer like JS. Most criticism worthless. Expects a great deal from Lyell’s reaction.

Suggests JS do orchid experiment to see if rostellum can be penetrated by pollen.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott
Date:  3 Dec [1862]
Classmark:  DAR 93: B60–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3844

Matches: 24 hits

  • … To John Scott   3 December [1862] …
  • … DAR 93: B60–3 Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Dec [1862] John Scott …
  • … by the relationship to the letter from John Scott, 6 December [1862] . See letter …
  • … from John Scott, [20 November – 2 December 1862] ; some of Scott’s comments on the genus …
  • … that letter. In a note dated 3 December 1862 (see Correspondence vol.  10, Appendix VI), …
  • … apparently sent with Scott’s letter of [20 November – 2 December 1862] (see letter from …
  • … John Scott, 6 December [1862] and n.  3). After further research, Scott wrote a paper …
  • … In the letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] , CD mentioned that this observation …
  • … Benjamin Silliman. See letter from John Scott, [20 November – 2 December 1862] and n.  8. …
  • … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Gärtner, …
  • … wrote this paper between 11 and 21 December 1862. In ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic …
  • … of Primula sinensis first arose in 1862, following his observation of some anomalous …
  • … observations, dated 1–30 March and 24 April 1862, are in DAR 108: 56–66. CD carried out …
  • … crosses in late January and February 1862, the results of which were published in ‘ …
  • … Society on 20 February 1868. See letter from M.  S.  Wedgwood, [6 August 1862] and n.  2. …
  • … John Scott, [20 November – 2 December 1862] , is incomplete; Scott evidently commented on …
  • … to CD of [20 November – 2 December 1862] ; he had not, however, published an account of …
  • … see letter from John Scott, 6 December [1862] ). CD refers to Karl Friedrich von Gärtner’s …
  • … Origin , p.  247. See letter from John Scott, [20 November – 2 December 1862] . See letter …
  • … John Scott, [20 November – 2 December 1862] and n.  2. CD was interested in the commonly …
  • … book (DAR 157a, p.  75), dated 21 April 1862, CD reported that since 1859 he had grown …
  • … with cowslips and primroses in April 1862 (see the dated notes in DAR 157a, pp.  76–7 and …
  • … are notes on these seedlings, dated 27 April 1862, in DAR 157a, pp.  75–7. CD’s crossing …
  • … from John Scott, [20 November – 2 December 1862] . CD refers to Charles Lyell’s Antiquity …

From J. D. Hooker   [19 January 1862]

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JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?

His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.

Genera plantarum is in press.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [19 Jan 1862]
Classmark:  DAR 101: 8–11
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3395

Matches: 25 hits

  • … From J.  D.  Hooker   [19 January 1862] …
  • … DAR 101: 8–11 Joseph Dalton Hooker Kew [19 Jan 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
  • … and by the relationship to the letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 16 January [1862] and 25 [ …
  • … and 26] January [1862] . …
  • … In 1862, 19 January fell on a Sunday. See letter to …
  • … J.  D.  Hooker, 16 January [1862] . Hooker refers to Charles and Mary Elizabeth Lyell and …
  • … See letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 16 January [1862] and n.  4. This is the address of Hugh …
  • … John Murray. Binney, Edward William. 1862. On some fossil plants, showing structure, from …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin 4th ed. : On the origin of species by …
  • … John Murray. 1859. Pengelly, William. 1862. The lignites and clays of Bovey Tracey, …
  • … letter to H.  W.  Bates, 13 January [1862] ), and told Hooker of his high expectations for …
  • … letter from T.  H.  Huxley, 13 January 1862) . George Bentham had two surviving sisters, …
  • … see letter from Francis Boott, 27 January 1862 ). Hooker probably refers to the Boston …
  • … letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 16 January [1862] . Spence 1861 . The London Review and Weekly …
  • … and n.  15). William Borrer died on 10 January 1862 ( DNB ). CD had asked Hooker about the …
  • … letter from J.  D. Hooker, [1 January 1862] ). Borrer had been a friend of Hooker’s …
  • … ed. , p.  433). See also letter from W.  B.  Clarke, 16 January 1862 , and letter to J.   …
  • … D. Hooker, 16 January [1862] . Hooker had begun work on a monograph on Welwitschia …
  • … Linnean Society of London on 16 January 1862 ( Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean …
  • … part of volume 1 of Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, which covered the two botanical ‘series’ …
  • … 73 , 1), whose name is commonly abbreviated in botanical literature to ‘DC’. Heer 1862, …
  • … Pengelly 1862 , and …
  • … Binney 1862 . Hooker refers to his reviewing the papers for publication in the relevant …
  • … Transactions of the Linnean Society 23 (1862): 495–566. In the paper, Bates invoked the …

From John Scott   6 January 1863

Summary

Sends Primula scotica and P. farinosa.

So far cannot fertilise Gongora atropurpurea although it is similar to Acropera luteola.

Experimenting on intergeneric hybrids to test CD’s view that sterility is not a special endowment.

Scott’s personal history.

Acropera capsule grows.

Plans for experiments CD has suggested on Primula, peloric Antirrhinum, and Verbascum.

Asks about Gärtner’s experiments on maize.

Aware of Anderson-Henry’s failures.

Through kindness of J. H. Balfour and James McNab, enjoys facilities for research. JS is in charge of the propagating department. Balfour almost engaged him to be superintendent of the Madras Horticultural Garden.

Author:  John Scott
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Jan 1863
Classmark:  DAR 177: 81, 83
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3904

Matches: 35 hits

  • … In his letter of 17 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10), Scott promised to send CD …
  • … vol.  10, letter from Daniel Oliver, 10 April 1862 ). See Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 10, letter from John Scott, 6 December [1862] . Primula scotica is not dimorphic; in a …
  • … In his letter to John Scott, 11 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10), CD wrote that …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
  • … pp.  208–9). In his letter of 11 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol.  10), Scott informed …
  • … 10, letter to John Scott, 12 November [1862] ). Scott subsequently offered to send the …
  • … vol.  10, letter from John Scott, 15 November [1862] ). See also Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 10, letter to John Scott, 19 November [1862] , letter from John Scott, [ …
  • … 20 November – 2 December 1862] , and n.  4, below. See CD note, above, in which he records …
  • … 10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 ). See ‘Fertilization of orchids’ , p.  153 ( …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  10, letter from John Scott, 11 November 1862 , and letters to …
  • … John Scott, 12 November [1862] and …
  • … 19 November [1862] ). …
  • … In his letter of 11 November 1862 ( Correspondence vol.  10), Scott described his success …
  • … In his letter to John Scott, 3 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10), CD suggested …
  • … letter to Asa Gray, 26[–7] November [1862] . Scott refers to chapter 8 of Origin (pp.   …
  • … 10, letter to John Scott, 19  December [1862] , for CD’s interest in the ‘relation of …
  • … and Laelia was an example. See also ibid. , letters from John Scott, 6 December [1862] and …
  • … 17 December [1862] . In his letter of 26–7 January 1863 , Isaac Anderson -Henry described …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  10, letters from John Scott, 15 November [1862] and [20 …
  • … November – 2 December 1862] ). See also n.  3, above. Scott described this and further …
  • … In his letter to Scott of 19 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10), CD had suggested …
  • … 10, letter to John Scott, 3 December [1862] ), Scott later published a paper on dimorphism …
  • … CUL. In his letter of 19 December [1862] (see Correspondence vol.  10), CD suggested that …
  • … Scott experiment with peloric flowers. In his letters to Scott of 11 December [1862] and …
  • … 19 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10), CD suggested that Scott experiment with …
  • … 1863b ). See Correspondence vol.  10, letter from John Scott, 17 December [1862] . In …
  • … his letters to Scott of 11 December [1862] and …
  • … 19 December [1862] ( ibid. ), CD suggested that Scott repeat the experiments conducted by …
  • … vol.  10, letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 12 [December 1862] , and letter from J.   …
  • … D.  Hooker, [14 December 1862] ). In …
  • … his letter to Scott of 19 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10), CD mentioned that …
  • … In his letter to Scott of 19 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol.  10), CD offered ‘ …
  • … horticultural Society of Madras on 12 March 1862, it was decided to re-engage Robert N.   …
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Darwin in letters, 1862: A multiplicity of experiments

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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

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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

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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…

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  • … 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]

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  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

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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…

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  • … 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

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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…

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  • … 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…

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  • … 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

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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…

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  • … 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…

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

Have you read the one about....

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... 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.

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

Orchids

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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…

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  • … 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

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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…

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  • … 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

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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…

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  • … 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

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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…

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  • … 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

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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…

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  • … [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…

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  • … 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…

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  • … 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…

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