From Emma Darwin [June 1861]
Summary
Describes her compassion for all his sufferings and writes of her wish that his gratitude could be offered to heaven as well as to herself. To her, the only relief is to try to believe that suffering and illness are from God’s hand "to help us to exalt our minds & to look forward with hope to a future state".
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3169 |
From H. C. Watson [after 24 July 1861]
Summary
Gives CD an instance of facts that can be read either way as to whether a plant (Veronica humifusa) is a species or a variety.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 24 July 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13853 |
From Daniel Oliver [after 8 October 1861]
Summary
Finds no trace of nectar in Stanhopea saccata.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Oct 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3280 |
From George Bentham 29 November 1861
Summary
Lists pairs of Oxalis species with differing proportions of stamens and styles.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 109 (ser. 2): 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3332 |
From George Rolleston 16 April 1861
Summary
Index of Origin does not refer to variability of rudimentary organs mentioned at pp. 149, 168. Offers references to Rudolf Leuckart and to Franz von Leydig to support CD’s point.
Author: | George Rolleston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 206 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3120 |
From Daniel Oliver 8 November 1861
Summary
Refers CD to a paper which he ought to know: Ch. Fermond, "Faits pour servir à l’histoire générale de la fécondation chez les végétaux", Recueil des travaux de la Société d’émulation pour les sciences pharmaceutiques 3 (1859).
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 91: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3312 |
From Tiberius Cornelis Winkler 7 July 1861
Summary
Sends his article ["Quelques nouvelles espèces de poissons fossiles", Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, Haarlem 2d ser. 14 (1861)]
and Dutch translation of the Origin.
Author: | Tiberius Cornelius Winkler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1861 |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen.117/6084) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3202 |
From B. P. Brent 15 June 1861
Summary
On his father’s crossing experiments with cacti, in which hybrids were found quite fertile.
On his breeding of guinea-pigs.
Sends Miss E. Watts’s message about crested fowls and Brahmas.
Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3184 |
From Francis Walker 1 February 1861
Summary
Identifies two dipterous species of parasites [chalcidites].
Was not able to attend to the aphids last year, but will make use of CD’s suggestions and "study as much as I can the inquiry as to species".
Author: | Francis Walker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2 (ser. 3): 54–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3053 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Walker, Francis Darwin, C. R. …
- … Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–. Fallén, Carl Frederik. 1814–27. Diptera Sveciæ. 2 vols. in 1. Lund. Natural selection : Charles Darwin’s Natural selection: being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Edited by R. C. …
From Andrew Murray 3 March 1861
Summary
Will be pleased to review Asa Gray’s pamphlet [see 3068].
Is not surprised that blind cave insects are sometimes found in other dark places.
Author: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3077 |
From Hugh Falconer 23 June 1861
Summary
Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".
The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 June 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3194 |
From H. C. Watson 20 September 1861
Summary
The Primula experiments of J. Sidebotham; HCW’s distrust of the results [see J. Sidebotham, "Specific identity of the cowslip and the primrose", Phytologist 3 (1849): 703–5].
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3258 |
From Daniel Oliver [before 3 November 1861]
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before Nov 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 225–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3039 |
From George Maw 15 March 1861
Summary
Asks for a testimonial for Edward Newman.
Discusses the Origin, considers natural selection works well when applied to the evolution of nations and groups of men; on the other hand feels the classification of mineral elements is a damaging analogy as it parallels organic classification but could not be derived by any evolutionary means.
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1(3): 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3089 |
From William Hugh Gower 23 November 1861
Summary
Sends notes on fertilisation of Victoria regia tending to show that impregnation with foreign pollen increases productivity of seeds.
Author: | William Hugh Gower |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Nov 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3327 |
From H. W. Bates [before 25 September 1861]
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 63 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3240 |
From H. C. Watson 24 July 1861
Summary
Distribution of varieties and subspecies.
George Maw’s review of the Origin [Zoologist 19 (1861): 7577–611].
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3218 |
From George Maw 27 August [1861]
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter about GM’s review of the Origin.
Sends instances of correlative organisation and functions which he finds difficult to believe could have accumulated by gradual modifications.
[Letter erroneously dated 1862 by GM.]
Author: | George Maw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Aug [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3236 |
From Asa Gray [27 and 29 August] and 2 September [1861]
Summary
Gives some observations on the sensitivity of Drosera species and comments on cases of "dioecio-dimorphism".
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 and 29 Aug 1861 and 2 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 110 (ser. 2): 76 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3242 |
From John Innes [before 6 April 1861]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Apr 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3074 |
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