From Alfred Russel Wallace 7 April 1862
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3496 |
From John Lubbock 18 December 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for agreeing to review Bates’s paper for Natural History Review.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3867 |
From A. R. Wallace 23 May 1862
Summary
Acknowledges Orchids with its disclosures of "wonderful adaptations".
Warns that CD aids critics by overstating the difficulties.
Did Owen write the article in the Quarterly Review? [Review of Origin by Samuel Wilberforce, Q. Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 2–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3568 |
From A. R. Wallace [after 20 August 1862]
Summary
Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.
Is unwell and dreads the winter.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 20 Aug 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3694 |
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 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 July [1862]
Summary
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3635 |
From E. A. Darwin 2 July [1862]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 7–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3638 |
From Richard Trevor Clarke [after 25 November 1862]
Summary
Replies to CD’s inquiry about cross-breeds of strawberries [Collected papers 2: 70]. Has been crossing for years.
Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 25 Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3829 |
From C. C. Babington 22 May 1862
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3566 |
From C. C. Babington 16 October 1862
Summary
Believes the [Lythrum] seeds have been sent to CD by Stratton [Curator, Cambridge Botanic Garden]. They have none of the others requested.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3767 |
From A. R. Wallace 8 August 1862
Summary
Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.
Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3684 |
From E. A. Darwin 14 December [1862?]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec [1862?] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3859 |
From R. T. Clarke [after 27 November 1862]
Summary
Sends strawberries.
Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 27 Nov 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3837 |
From C. C. Babington 30 January 1862
Summary
Encloses seeds.
Lecoq’s work mentions instances of apparent dimorphism. [H. Lecoq, Études sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe, 9 vols. (1854–8).]
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3422 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [April – May? 1862]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr – May? 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 9–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3745 |
From Daniel Oliver 16 September 1862
Summary
Envelope containing specimens (apparently mentioned in the letter from Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863 (S 4015)).
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13891G |
To E. A. Darwin 21 June [1862]
Summary
His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 21 June [1862] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (MS.553:440 (241)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3617 |
From C. C. Babington 16 September 1862
Summary
Hopes to have Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds to send soon.
BAAS is meeting in Cambridge and all eminent Cambridge men are wanted present. If his health were reliable, CD would be in chair of Botany and Zoology Section.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3726 |
From Frederick Currey 12 June 1862
Summary
Offers rare Irish orchid (Spiranthes).
Author: | Frederick Currey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3598 |
From E. A. Darwin 20 June [1862]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 105 (ser. 2): 4–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3614 |
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