To George Gordon 22 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks GG for his efforts. Corallorhiza would be most valuable.
Leaves for Torquay on 1 July.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Gordon |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.8) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3191 |
To Bingham Sibthorpe Malden 15–16 June [1861]
Summary
Thanks BSM for orchid specimens. Discusses various species of Orchis and Ophrys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bingham Sibthorpe Malden |
| Date: | 15–16 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.254) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3183 |
To John Lubbock 24 June [1861]
Summary
There have been delays, but William Darwin’s banking position is nearly settled.
Is going to Torquay, where he will write up his work on orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 24 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 40d (EH 88206453) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3195 |
To C. W. Crocker 1 June [1861]
Summary
Suggests procedures for breeding experiments with hollyhocks. Recommends C. F. v. Gärtner [Bastarderzeugung (1849)]. [See also 3151]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles William Crocker |
| Date: | 1 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.251) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3170 |
To A. G. More 4 June [1861]
Summary
Sends queries concerning insect fertilisation of Epipactis palustris.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 4 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3175 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 14 June [1861]
Summary
Sends MS on fowls for WBT’s inspection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 14 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4533 |
To P. L. Sclater 2 June [1861]
Summary
Discusses feral rabbits of Porto Santo. Arranges for care of rabbits while the Darwins visit Torquay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Philip Lutley Sclater |
| Date: | 2 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.252) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3173 |
From Thomas Francis Jamieson 13 June 1861
Summary
Will look for botanical specimens CD requested.
Tells of a kestrel with a broken leg which apparently was forced to change its diet to worms and snails because of the injury.
| Author: | Thomas Francis Jamieson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 47: 171–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3180 |
To A. G. More 2 June [1861]
Summary
Asks for specimens of Aceras.
Mentions orchid species he has seen. Asks AGM to make observations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 2 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3174 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 June [1861]
Summary
Many mutual acquaintances are ill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3192 |
To A. G. More 17 June [1861]
Summary
Would be grateful for observations on orchids.
Believes Spiranthes visited by moths. Asks AGM to repeat experiment on Spiranthes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 17 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3187 |
To S. P. Woodward 5 June [1861]
Summary
Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".
Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.
CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.
Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 5 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3043 |
To Asa Gray 5 June [1861]
Summary
AG’s review of John Phillips’ book [Life on earth (1860), in Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 31 (1861): 444–9].
Thinks his experiments will explain Primula dimorphism.
Insect fertilisation of orchids.
Wishes that the "greatest curse on Earth", slavery, were abolished.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 5 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (60) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3176 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 18 June 1861]
Summary
CD, commenting on a case of peloric flowering in Auricula, urges readers to send in their observations on whether flowers nearest the axis tend to differ from others on the plant. Such a law of variation would be worth discovering.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 18 June 1861] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3188 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 June [1861]
Summary
CD’s changing taste in periodical literature.
William Darwin’s partnership in bank.
Work: variation and orchids.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 June [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3190 |
From H. C. Watson to George Gordon 27 June 1861
Summary
Regrets he cannot assist the fulfilment of CD’s request for a specimen of the orchid Corallorhiza.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | George Gordon |
| Date: | 27 June 1861 |
| Classmark: | Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3197F |
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