To John Lubbock 5 September [1862]
Summary
Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 5 Sept [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 263 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3713 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To John Lubbock 5 September [1862] …
- … Charles Robert Darwin Bournemouth 5 Sept [1862] John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron …
- … 1863a . In his letter of [26–31 August 1862] , Joseph Dalton Hooker told CD that Thomas …
- … by the relationship to the letter from John Lubbock, 23 August 1862 , and to the letters …
- … to John Lubbock , 2 September [1862] and [ …
- … 3 September 1862] (see nn. 2 and 3, below). Lubbock’s …
- … the letter to John Lubbock, 2 September [1862] , CD asked Lubbock to observe how hive-bees …
- … wrote again in his letter of [3 September 1862] , explaining that he had made the request …
- … told CD in his letter of 23 August 1862 of his discovery of a swimming hymenopterous …
- … 1859, 1867). See letter from Charles Lyell, 20 August 1862 , and letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, [26–31 August 1862] . T. H. …
- … read a paper on the subject in October 1862 at the British Association for the Advancement …
- … they returned to Down House on 30 September 1862 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, …
To T. W. Woodbury 7 December [1862]
Summary
Cannot aid TWW with respect to bees from East Indies. Suggests he write to Edward Blyth.
Thanks him for getting query on variation in bees circulated in Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Date: | 7 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 374 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3849 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … To T. W. Woodbury 7 December [1862] …
- … DAR 148: 374 Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 Dec [1862] Thomas White Woodbury …
- … also letter from E. A. Darwin, 14 December [1862? ] . CD refers to a piece of ‘partially …
- … 1863 ). See letter to the Journal of Horticulture , [before 10 June 1862], and letter to …
- … Bienen Zeitung , 18 June 1862. …
- … bees from West Africa (see letter from T. W. Woodbury, 9 August 1862 , letter to A. …
- … R. Wallace, 20 August [1862] , and letter to J. …
- … Asiatic Society of Bengal from 1841 to 1862, and in the 1850s had provided CD with much …
- … received Blyth’s letter of 23 November 1862 , reporting his imminent return to Britain. …
- … D. Hooker, 22 [August 1862] ). Woodbury believed that the large Indian bee species, Apis …
- … the Malay archipelago at the end of March 1862; in August, following a period of illness, …
- … see letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 August 1862 , and Brackman 1980 , pp. 236–42). Woodbury …
From G. C. Oxenden 31 May [1862]
Summary
Sends plants.
The disappearance of rare plants from localities where they have been abundant can be explained.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3581 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … From G. C. Oxenden 31 May [1862] …
- … 173.2: 51 George Chichester Oxenden Broome Canterbury 31 May [1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … from G. C. Oxenden, 30 May [ 1862] . Oxenden probably refers to his correspondence with …
- … has not been found, but see the letters from G. C. Oxenden, [before 30 May 1862] and …
- … 30 May [1862] . See letter from G. …
- … C. Oxenden, 4 June [1862] and n. 8. …
- … Dated by the relationship to the letters from G. C. Oxenden, 26 May 1862 and …
- … 30 May [1862] . Oxenden refers to Aceras anthropophorum (a synonym of Orchis …
- … an orchid. See also letter from G. C. Oxenden, 4 June [1862] and n. 8. See letter …
To Charles Lyell 14 October [1862]
Summary
Further comments on Jamieson’s theory of the formation of the roads of Glen Roy; paper by Jamieson dealing with glaciation in Scotland ["On the ice-worn rocks of Scotland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 164–84].
Comments on paper by A. C. Ramsay on the glacial formation of lakes ["On the glacial origin of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204].
Criticises remarks by John Tyndall on glacial formation of Swiss valleys.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.267), The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2840–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3761 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … To Charles Lyell 14 October [1862] …
- … of certain lakes", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 185–204]. Criticises remarks by John …
- … Gen. 112/2840–3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 14 Oct [1862] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
- … of Scotland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 164–84]. Comments on paper by A. C. Ramsay …
- … of Science 5 ( 1974–5): 97–185. Tyndall, John. 1862. On the conformation of the Alps. The …
- … established by the reference to Jamieson 1862 (see n. 6, below). See enclosure. No letter …
- … CD visited him in London on 30 September 1862 (see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 10, …
- … and Thurston. Jamieson, Thomas Francis. 1862. On the ice-worn rocks of Scotland. Quarterly …
- … is false— Ellon, Aberdeen sh . 15, Aug. 1862 My Dear Sir Charles I have been again at …
- … Glen Roy, see Rudwick 1974 . Jamieson 1862 . In Chambers 1853 and 1861, Robert Chambers …
- … CUL. Lyell’s letter discussing Ramsay 1862 has not been found. Lyell was highly critical …
- … Ramsay in his letter of 5 September [1862] that, so far as he could judge, the theory ‘ …
- … possibly wholly’. See letter from A. C. Ramsay, 26 August 1862 , and letter to A. …
- … C. Ramsay, 5 September [1862] . John Tyndall was …
- … a supporter of Ramsay’s theory; in Tyndall 1862 , he argued that the extent of glacial …
- … letter to A. C. Ramsay, 5 September [1862] and nn. 8 and 9). Erasmus, Adagia , 1.4.16. …
- … Appendix II), he began work on 7 October 1862 on the section of Variation dealing with ‘ …
- … directly with his second visit to Glen Roy in August 1862 (see the letters from T. F. …
- … Jamieson to Charles Lyell , 27 August 1862, 29 …
- … August 1862, 24 …
- … September 1862, 29 …
- … September 1862, 7 …
- … October 1862, and …
- … 8 October 1862, all of which are in Edinburgh University Library, Gen. 112: 2844–58). In …
- … also letter from Charles Lyell, 20 August 1862 . The modern spelling of this feature is ‘ …
From A. R. Wallace 30 September 1862
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3742 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From A. R. Wallace 30 September 1862 …
- … Acknowledges 3d edition of Origin . Praise of Herbert Spencer’s First Principles [1862]. …
- … Russel Wallace London, Westbourne Grove Terrace, 5 30 Sept 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Library–CUL ( Marginalia 1: 769). In 1862, the British Association for the Advancement of …
- … week of October. See also letter to W. D. Fox, 20 [September 1862] , and letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 21 [September 1862] . …
- … Westbourne Grove Terrace, W. Sept r . 30th. 1862 My dear Mr. Darwin Many thanks for the …
- … from A. R. Wallace, [after 20 August 1862] and n. 3. The third English edition of …
To James Brown Gibson [after 29 June 1862]
Summary
Thanks JBG for acceding to his wishes in the endeavour to discover whether hair colour in Europeans is correlated with susceptibility to tropical diseases [see Descent 1: 244–5].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Brown Gibson |
Date: | [after 29 June 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3361 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … To James Brown Gibson [after 29 June 1862] …
- … DAR 96: 4 Charles Robert Darwin unstated [after 29 June 1862] James Brown Gibson …
- … by the relationship to the letter from E. A. Parkes, 29 June 1862 . See letter from E. …
- … A. Parkes, 29 June 1862 . See …
- … also letter from George Busk, 1 April 1862 , and letters from E. …
- … A. Parkes, 8 April 1862 and …
- … 28 April 1862 . …
From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862
Summary
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 294 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3755 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862 …
- … 166.2: 294 Thomas Henry Huxley London, Abbey Place, 26 9 Oct 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … married Jane Anne Eliza Hunter-Blair on 16 October 1862 ( Gentleman’s Magazine n.s. …
- … 13 (1862): 630). …
- … 26 Abbey Place Oct. 9 th . 1862 My dear Darwin It is a source of much pleasure to me to …
- … CD’s letter has not been found. In 1862, the British Association for the Advancement of …
- … as reported in The Times , 3 October 1862, p. 5. Speaking on the condition and prospects …
- … the British Association meeting in Cambridge on 3 October 1862. The substance of the paper …
- … were reported in The Times , 4 October 1862, p. 7. Owen’s paper was a defence of his …
- … of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on 3 October 1862 ( The Times , …
- … 4 October 1862, p. 7). His argument was that the remarkable adaptation of parts of the …
- … the Zoological Society of London in January 1862 ( R. Owen 1862a ; see letter from J. …
- … E. Gray, 29 January 1862 ). According to …
- … the report in The Times , 4 October 1862, p. 7, Owen’s paper on the human brain was …
- … in Scotland from 8 August to 16 September 1862 in his capacity as a member of the Royal …
- … had been seriously ill at the beginning of 1862. Emma and Leonard Darwin had both become …
- … brother Edward Newton , dated 8 October 1862 ( A. F. R. Wollaston 1921 , pp. 123–4): I …
To Daniel Oliver 13 October [1862]
Summary
Requests Linum, for dimorphism study.
Reviewer of Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6]is correct about the organisation of the book; he wonders who the reviewer is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 13 Oct [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020), 261.10: 66 (EH 88206049) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3758 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To Daniel Oliver 13 October [1862] …
- … 88206020), 261.10: 66 (EH 88206049) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Oct [1862] Daniel Oliver …
- … of Orchids [ Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6]is correct about the organisation of the …
- … In his letter to CD of 13 September 1862 , Oliver reported that he had ‘given directions …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] ]Lecoq, …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’: On the …
- … out crossing experiments in the summer of 1862 on L. perenne and L. grandiflorum ; the …
- … CD’s letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] (see nn. 6, 8, and 11, below), in which …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] and n. 12. No letter from Oliver discussing …
- … of a species of Loasaceae (see letters from J. D. Hooker, [12 October 1862] and [ …
- … 18 October 1862] ). See also letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 14 [October 1862] . In …
- … his letter to Oliver of 24 July [1862] , CD had suggested that Oliver should write a …
- … see also letter from Oliver, 28 July 1862) ; CD had subsequently asked Hooker to thank …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] ). However, it was Hooker who wrote the …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 7 November 1862 ). The review began with a statement that …
- … the letter to J. D. Hooker, 6 October [1862] , CD had asked Hooker for dried flowers of …
From H. G. Bronn 21 June 1862
Summary
L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.
Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3619 |
Matches: 21 hits
- … From H. G. Bronn 21 June 1862 …
- … 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318 Heinrich Georg Bronn Heidelberg 21 June 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Heidelberg le 21 Juin 1862 Monsieur! Je viens de recevoir une lettre de Mr. …
- … edition of Orchids (see letter from H. G. Bronn, 27 March 1862 , and letter from E. …
- … Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 7 June 1862 ). CD …
- … 1853 , pp. 181–3, which he included in his translation (Bronn trans. 1862, p. vi). …
- … Heidelberg 21 June 1862 Sir, I have just received a letter from Mr. Schweizerbart telling …
- … By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1862. Origin : On the origin of species by means …
- … had apparently written on 18 June 1862 to ask Ludolph Christian Treviranus , professor of …
- … from F. H. G. Hildebrand, 14 July 1862 , and Correspondence vol. 11, letter from L. …
- … 1863 . CD’s letters to Treviranus of June 1862 have not been found. Treviranus was well …
- … only six weeks (see letter to H. G. Bronn, 25 April [1862] ). Bronn’s German translation …
- … of Orchids (Bronn trans. 1862) was published …
- … on 20 October 1862 ( Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel 29: 2195). See …
- … sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 16 October 1862 . Bronn translated both the first and second …
- … made from John Murray’s original woodcuts (see letters to John Murray , 13 June [1862] and …
- … 20 [June 1862] ). Bronn refers to the second German edition of Origin (Bronn trans. …
- … 1863; see letters from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] , 27 …
- … March 1862 , and …
- … 19 May 1862 ). It was published in three …
- … on 6 October, 17 November, and 19 December 1862 ( Börsenblatt für den Deutschen Buchhandel …
From Asa Gray 9 December 1862
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3850 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … From Asa Gray 9 December 1862 …
- … DAR 165: 125 Asa Gray Cambridge Mass. 9 Dec 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 27 October 1862 ). See …
- … also letter to James Anderson, 23 December [1862] . …
- … Cambridge. [Massachusetts] Dec. 9, 1862.
〈 My de〉 ar Darwin This is to let you know〈 that〉 … - … to Joseph Dalton Hooker , dated 8 December 1862 (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( Asa Gray …
- … of the orchid genus Cypripedium (see letters from Asa Gray , 5 September 1862 , 4 and …
- … 13 October 1862 , and …
From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862]
Summary
Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.
Author: | Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3681 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Margaret Susan Wedgwood [before 4 August 1862] …
- … Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams Llandudno [before 4 Aug 1862] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … L. C. , and M. S. Wedgwood, 4 [August 1862] , and letter from M. …
- … S. Wedgwood, [6 August 1862] . …
- … M. S. Wedgwood 2.2 We find … niece 3.1] crossed pencil Top of letter : ‘Aug 4 th 1862’ …
- … L. C. , and M. S. Wedgwood, 4 [August 1862] ). CD wanted to know the proportions of the …
- … the letter to W. E. Darwin, [2–3 August 1862] ), and had evidently asked his nieces, …
- … letter from M. S. Wedgwood, [6 August 1862] ; CD quoted the totals in ‘Three forms of …
- … to see specimens (see letter from C. C. Babington, 17 January 1862 , and letter to C. …
- … C. Babington, 20 January [1862] ). See also letter to K. E. S. , …
To H. W. Bates 25 November [1862]
Summary
[Apparently in reply to question in missing portion of 3825.] A written agreement is unnecessary, but a letter stating terms would prevent misundertanding. He will attempt to have a review of HWB’s paper published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 25 Nov [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3827 |
Matches: 16 hits
- … To H. W. Bates 25 November [1862] …
- … Robert M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 Nov [1862] Henry Walter Bates …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … the letter from H. W. Bates, 24 November 1862 . Bates apparently asked CD for advice on …
- … portion of his letter of 24 November 1862 . Having encouraged Bates to write an account of …
- … see letter to John Murray, 28 January [1862] ). John Murray had been Charles Lyell’s …
- … letter to H. W. Bates, 20 November [1862] and n. 6. CD was working on the manuscript of …
- … Bates 1863 , but see the letter to H. W. Bates, 15 December [1862] and nn. 2 and 3. See …
- … letter from H. W. Bates, 24 November 1862 . John Frederick William Herschel . See letter …
- … from H. W. Bates, 24 November 1862 and n. 8. …
- … In his letter of 24 November 1862 , Bates had expressed a hope that someone might review …
- … Journal of Science and Arts (see letters to Asa Gray , 23 November [1862] and 26[– …
- … 7] November [1862] ). The Natural History Review was edited by a committee of eleven co- …
- … letter from John Lubbock, 15 December 1862 ). At Lubbock’s suggestion, CD reviewed Bates …
- … see letter to John Lubbock, 16 [December 1862] ). CD recorded in his ‘Journal’ ( …
- … much time was ‘wasted’ in the summer of 1862 due to Leonard Darwin’s illness with scarlet …
From H. W. Bates 24 November 1862
Summary
Gratified by CD’s approval of paper which was also praised by Hooker and Wallace. Only cares for one other opinion, that of C. Felder of Vienna. He finds ordinary entomologists are not scientific men. Asks for more criticisms; desires to publish paper in a widely circulating journal to advertise his book.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Nov 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3825 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From H. W. Bates 24 November 1862 …
- … DAR 160.1: 72 Henry Walter Bates Leicester 24 Nov 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … of the letter is given by CD’s reply (see letter to H. W. Bates, 25 November [1862] ). …
- … Bates 1862a . See letter to H. W. Bates, 20 November [1862] . Joseph Dalton …
- … Hooker’s letter to Bates of 13 November 1862 is reproduced in Bates 1892 , pp. xlvi– …
- … from J. D. Hooker, [15 and] 20 November [1862] . Alfred Russel Wallace ; see letter to …
- … H. W. Bates, 20 November [1862] . See letter to H. …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … King S t Leicester Nov 24 1862 My Dear Mr Darwin I am now well repaid for the labour of …
- … W. Bates, 20 November [1862] . Cajetan von Felder was an authority on Brazilian …
- … Office directory of the six home counties 1862). Herschel contributed monthly summaries …
- … the Cornhill Magazine between September 1862 and March 1863 ( Wellesley index ); however, …
To Asa Gray 15 March [1862]
Summary
Gives some observations on changes in pistil position with age in Monochaetum. Asks whether AG can observe Rhexia for similar movements.
"One of the best men, though at present unknown", H. W. Bates, has taken up natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 15 Mar [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (64) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3473 |
Matches: 14 hits
- … To Asa Gray 15 March [1862] …
- … Herbarium of Harvard University (64) Charles Robert Darwin Down 15 Mar [1862] Asa Gray …
- … Bibliography Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon …
- … year is established by the relationship to the letter from Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 . …
- … Letter from Asa Gray, 18 February 1862 . CD refers to Gray’s pamphlet on natural selection …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 6 (1862): 77–96. [ Collected papers 2: 45–63. ] Forms of …
- … see letter from H. G. Bronn, [before 11 March 1862] ). Clémence Auguste Royer’s French …
- … was not in fact published until 31 May 1862 ( Journal Générale de l’Imprimerie et de la …
- … 6 (pt 3): 341. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 [March 1862] , and letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 10–20 June [1862] . Winkler trans. 1860. Tiberius Cornelius Winkler sent CD a copy …
- … Bates 1862a , p. 513). Bates 1863 . See letter to H. W. Bates, 13 January [1862] . See …
- … letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . CD probably refers to the …
- … diagram enclosed with the letter to Asa Gray, 16 February [1862] . He had begun …
- … with Monochaetum ensiferum on 7 February 1862, and continued to work on the species until …
From Daniel Oliver 4 September 1862
Summary
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3711 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From Daniel Oliver 4 September 1862 …
- … DAR 173: 17 Daniel Oliver Kew 4 Sept 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … 1851 ). Hooker had left London for Scotland on 23 August 1862 (see letter from J. …
- … D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 ). See …
- … letter from Daniel Oliver, 13 September 1862 and n. 1. CD apparently intended to pay …
- … Royal Gardens Kew 4. IX. 1862 Dear Sir I have been looking amongst the herbaceous beds & …
- … letter to Daniel Oliver, 2 September [1862] , he asked Oliver to send him fresh flowers of …
- … coloured anthers (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 2 September [1862] ). In DAR 27.2 (ser. …
- … 2): 17, there are notes, dated 5 September 1862, describing a fresh flower of Lythrum …
- … see letter from J. D. Hooker, 20 August 1862 ). Oliver was an assistant in the herbarium …
- … 3). See letter to Daniel Oliver, 2 September [1862] and n. 7. CD initially identified the …
To A. R. Wallace 20 August [1862]
Summary
Family illnesses.
On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.
Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 20 Aug [1862] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3689 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To A. R. Wallace 20 August [1862] …
- … Add MS 46434: 28) Charles Robert Darwin Southampton 20 Aug [1862] Alfred Russel Wallace …
- … 1915) 2: 178). See letter from T. W. Woodbury, 9 August 1862 . See letter from A. …
- … R. Wallace, 8 August 1862 . CD’s remarks appear in Origin 3d ed. , pp. 151–2. …
- … to John Obadiah Westwood (see letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 August 1862 and n. 4). …
- … letter from A. R. Wallace, 8 August 1862 . Wallace’s visit to Down House is not recorded …
- … after I returned home, in the summer of 1862, Mr. Darwin invited me to come to Down for a …
- … took place in late June or early July 1862: Leonard Darwin became ill with scarlet fever …
- … see letter to W. E. Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ), and suffered a relapse early in July (see …
- … diary (DAR 242), and letter to W. E. Darwin, 9 July [1862] ). According to Emma Darwin’s …
- … travelled to Southampton on 13 August 1862; she recorded that on the same date, she became …
- … see also letter to W. E. Darwin, 4 [July 1862] and n. 8). The family had planned to be …
- … Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [9 August 1862] , in DAR 219.1: 61). As a result of Emma …
To W. E. Darwin [after 14 July 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 July 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3650 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To W. E. Darwin [after 14 July 1862] …
- … DAR 185: 12 Charles Robert Darwin Down [after 14 July 1862] William Erasmus Darwin …
- … see the letter to W. E. Darwin, [24 July 1862] . In the letter from W. …
- … E. Darwin, 14 July 1862 , William had suggested that Erythraea centaurium might offer an …
- … the letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 July 1862 . Leonard Darwin was suffering from scarlet …
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242); see also letters to W. E. Darwin, 4 [July 1862] and …
- … 9 July [1862] , and letter to …
- … Asa Gray, 14 July [1862] and n. 3). William had proposed to send CD specimens …
- … letter from W. E. Darwin, 14 July 1862 ). For CD’s request that William send specimens, …
To C. C. Babington 1 February [1862]
Summary
Thanks for seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Date: | 1 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3432 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … see Marginalia 1: 488–95). See also letter from C. C. Babington, 30 January 1862 . …
- … To C. C. Babington 1 February [1862] …
- … MS Add.8182: 23) Charles Robert Darwin Down 1 Feb [1862] Charles Cardale Babington …
- … to the letter from C. C. Babington, 30 January 1862 (see nn. 2 and 3, below). See …
- … letter to C. C. Babington, 20 January [1862] , and letter from C. …
- … C. Babington, 30 January 1862 . CD’s copy of Lecoq 1854–8 (Darwin Library–CUL) bears …
From G. C. Oxenden 21 June 1862
Summary
Yesterday found hundreds of [Ophrys] apifera and [Ophrys] arachnites in bloom in the same area. The two species grow in clumps and do not mix with each other.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 54 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3618 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From G. C. Oxenden 21 June 1862 …
- … 173.2: 54 George Chichester Oxenden Broome Canterbury 21 June 1862 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Bibliography Condy, Henry Bollmann. 1862. Air and water: their impurities and …
- … s aid’ (see letter to A. G. More, 7 June 1862 and nn. 2 and 3). CD had asked Alexander …
- … made a similar enquiry of Oxenden. See also letter from G. C. Oxenden, 8 July 1862 . …
- … Broome June 21. 1862 Dear Sir I hope your Son is Convalescent — —If you were to place him …
- … see letter to W. E. Darwin, 13 [June 1862] ). ‘Condy’s fluid’ was a solution of alkaline …
- … and sanitary objects in general’ ( Condy 1862 , p. 69). Oxenden had sent CD specimens of …
- … send more in ‘a few more days’ (see letters from G. C. Oxenden, [before 30 May 1862] and …
- … 4 June [1862] ). CD’s replies to these letters …
- … found, but in his letter of [before 21 June 1862] , Oxenden expressed his regret at CD’s …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862]
Summary
Masdevallia turns out to be nothing wonderful, "I was merely stupid about it."
Asks for plants for experiments.
Hedysarum and Oxalis sensitiva seeds.
Asks whether Oliver knows of experiments on absorption of poisons by roots.
CD finds he cannot publish this year on Lythrum salicaria; he must make 126 additional crosses!
Asks for odd variations of common potato; he wants to grow a few plants of every variety.
Variation is crawling.
Has had some bad attacks lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 [Oct 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3784 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 27 [October 1862] …
- … DAR 115: 167 Charles Robert Darwin Down 27 [Oct 1862] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 October 1862 ). Throughout 1860 and 1861, Henrietta Emma …
- … Correspondence vols. 8 and 9). On 13 October 1862, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary (DAR …
- … letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 October 1862 . CD had been anxious to see again the orchid …
- … effected in this species (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [18 October 1862] and n. 3). …
- … His notes, dated 24 October 1862, on the specimen sent from the Royal Botanic Gardens, …
- … the act of fertilisation’. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 October 1862 and n. 2. …
- … s notes, dated 27 October – 5 November 1862, on his experiments with the sensitive plant, …
- … 1: 369–71). From 17 to 20 October 1862, CD carried out experiments on the effects of …
- … letter to J. D. Hooker, 26 September [1862] ). Daniel Oliver was the librarian at the …
- … s extensive bibliographic knowledge (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 11 June [1862] and …
- … 6 October [1862] ). CD did not again work extensively on Drosera rotundifolia until 1872 ( …
- … as Movement in plants. See letter from Daniel Oliver, 13 September 1862 , and letter to …
- … Daniel Oliver, 13 October [1862] and n. 12. …
- … with Lythrum salicaria in the summer of 1862; however, he decided to carry out further …
- … 179 ( Collected papers 2: 114), letter to Asa Gray, 9 August [1862] , and letter to W. …
- … E. Darwin, [25 October 1862] ). CD’s paper, ‘Three forms of Lythrum salicaria ’ , was …
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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
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
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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…
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.
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- … 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…
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…
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
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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…
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.
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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…
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
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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…
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
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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…
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…
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
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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…
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…
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…
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 …