To Andrew Murray 23 February [1861]
Summary
Sends pamphlet by Asa Gray [Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)]. Hopes AM may get it noticed in any natural history periodical in Edinburgh.
Will send AM a corrected [3d] edition of Origin. AM will find little alteration in the parts he attacked, which, to the best of CD’s judgment, did not seem to require correction. Assures AM that he does not send his new edition out of bravado.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3068 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Murray, Andrew …
- … r Crotch who has lately been in Berlin, that he saw the Anophthalmus Raymondi which had been taken in the cellars of a very ancient deserted monastery, near Toulon. I wish I knew whether the account has been published; it is very curious if true. Pray believe me | My dear Sir | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin …
To Daniel Oliver 27 May [1861]
Summary
Requests that exotic species of Vinca, which never set seed at Kew, be fertilised by pressing a fine bristle between anthers as a moth would its proboscis.
Asks that Primula farinosa be sent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 27 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 8 (EH 88205992) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3161 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Oliver, Daniel …
- … r Crocker liked experiments; if so I wish he would insert fine brush, like a Bee into a few exotic Polygalas which do not naturally seed & mark flowers & see if pods swell; I suspect they require insect agency. By the way you have not sent me P. farinosa; I daresay you have been so busy that you forgot it. — I beg & pray you not merely to acknowledge this. Yours most sincerely | C. Darwin …
To John Crawfurd 7 April 1861
Summary
Thanks JC for pamphlets.
"I do not believe in Metempsychosis nor in Genesis – & you are growing so orthodox, that you will end your days, I believe, in believing in the Tower of Babel–."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Crawfurd |
| Date: | 7 Apr 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3114 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Crawfurd, John …
- … r . Crawfurd Very many thanks for your note & kind present of the two pamplets I felt sure the one I asked about, was by you: but I did not know whether you acknowledged it. I can now refer to it as read at Oxford in 186– I will look to Book about Indian dates. — I do not believe in metempsychosis nor in Genesis—& you are growing so orthodox, that you will end your days, I believe, in believing in the Tower of Babel— With sincere thanks | Yours very sincerely | C Darwin …
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. 27 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. …
To Charles Lyell 20 October [1861]
Summary
Continued discussion of Jamieson’s Glen Roy theory. Mentions river erosion of glaciers. Quotes from old letter to CL [1116].
Is working hard on orchids; fears subject is too complex for the public.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.268) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3291 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lyell, Charles …
- … r J. & you have come to. The whole Glacial Theory is really a magnificent subject. — I have been working terribly hard lately (for me) at Orchids. The subject is, I fear, too complex for the Public & I fear I have made a great mistake in not keeping to my first intention of sending it to Linnean Soc y . ; but it is now too late, & I must make the best of a bad job. — —Yours affec y | C. Darwin …
To John Tyndall 23 February [1861]
Summary
Sends correspondence between Dr Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I [of Etruria] on glaciers.
Also a pamphlet [Asa Gray, Natural selection not inconsistent with natural theology (1861)] containing "the best account" of the Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 3 (EH 88205941) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3067 |
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 |
To the Field [before 27 April 1861]
Summary
Requests facts concerning the colour of the parents of true dun horses. His interest also in the colour and presence of spinal stripes of dun horses or ponies before they lose their first hair.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | The Field |
| Date: | [before 27 Apr 1861] |
| Classmark: | The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper 17 (1861): 358 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3128A |
To Luke Hindmarsh 3 May [1861]
Summary
Asks how many wild Chillingham cattle are killed each year. Interested in rate of increase.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Luke Hindmarsh |
| Date: | 3 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3137 |
To Luke Hindmarsh 12 May [1861]
Summary
Thanks for information about natural increase of Chillingham cattle. Compares with case in Paraguay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Luke Hindmarsh |
| Date: | 12 May [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3146 |
To the Field [before 15 June 1861]
Summary
His thanks to "Eques" of Argyllshire for his remarkable information on the inheritance of colour in horses. Acknowledges the difficulty of defining dun. Requests further information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | The Field |
| Date: | [before 15 June 1861] |
| Classmark: | The Field, the Farm, the Garden, the Country Gentleman’s Newspaper 17 (1861): 521 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3182A |
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 |
To Henry Fawcett 20 July 1861
Summary
"You could not possibly have told me anything which would have given me more satisfaction than what you say about Mr. Mill’s opinion." [See 2868.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Fawcett |
| Date: | 20 July 1861 |
| Classmark: | Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3215A |
To Charles Lyell 6 August [1861]
Summary
Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 6 Aug [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3227 |
To Charles Hardy? 4 September [1861]
Summary
Has modified the statements about bees visiting clover for honey in 3d ed. of Origin. Can correspondent find out if clover in Lowestoft district was a second crop?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Hardy |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | Dawsons of Pall Mall (dealers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3244 |
To George Rolleston 5 September [1861]
Summary
GR’s letter is a gold-mine.
Pleased to have Pierre Gratiolet’s comment on the embryology of greatly modified organs
and GR’s valuable cases of analogous variation.
Doubts craniologists, but recounts his father’s opinion that the shape of CD’s head was altered when he returned from the Beagle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Rolleston |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3245 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 14 September 1861]
Summary
Requests orchid specimens from Arethuseae division for his investigation of the many contrivances by which orchids are fertilised by insect agency.
Asks whether Charles Morren has published on the fertilisation of orchids by insect agency.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 14 Sept 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 14 September 1861, p. 831 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3252 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 14 September 1861]
Summary
Two correspondents report fertilising Vinca rosea by imitating the action of an insect inserting its proboscis. Another says his Vinca rosea seed profusely without artificial fertilisation. CD asks what might explain the difference in results. In the latter instance, are the plants kept in a greenhouse with windows left open, so that moths could get access at night?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 14 Sept 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 14 September 1861, pp. 831–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3253 |
To Daniel Oliver 9 April [1861]
Summary
Asks DO to identify enclosed Fumaria or Corydalis flower, with springing hood adaptation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 6 (EH 88205990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3499 |
To A. G. More 19 July [1861]
Summary
Thanks for Epipactis palustris. Doubts moths are the visitants. Thanks for experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
| Date: | 19 July [1861] |
| Classmark: | Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3213 |
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