To Charles Lyell 6 September [1861]
Summary
Sends an enclosure [a letter from T. F. Jamieson, see 3247].
"I am smashed to atoms about Glen Roy. My paper was one long gigantic blunder."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.262) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3246 |
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 |
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 H. W. Bates [before 25 September 1861]
Summary
Mention of Volucella.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 25 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 63 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3240 |
To Joseph Reay Greene? 24 September [1861]
Summary
Thanks for gift of treatise on Coelenterata [? Manual of the sub-kingdom Coelenterata (1861)]. "… I was but lately wishing to read some treatise up to the present mark, on these animals. I have cut the pages & can clearly see that your work will much interest & instruct me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Reay Greene |
Date: | 24 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 December 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3265 |
To Journal of Horticulture [before 10 September 1861]
Summary
Requests the names of the parents of Gladiolus gandavensis and six varieties for the purpose of determining their probable origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [before 10 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 1 (1861): 453 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3248A |
From John Murray 23 September 1861
Summary
Offers to publish Orchids, giving CD one-half of the profits of each edition.
Author: | John Murray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 171.3(1): 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3261 |
To A. G. More 23 September 1861
Summary
Would like capsule of Epipactis palustris. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alexander Goodman More |
Date: | 23 Sept 1861 |
Classmark: | DAR 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3262 |
From J. D. Hooker [28 September 1861]
Summary
List of Australian plants that have become naturalised in the Nilgiris [India] and are turning out the native trees.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [28 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3269 |
To Daniel Oliver 11 September [1861]
Summary
Has put Drosera off while amusing himself with Primula and orchids.
Dionaea is prettily adapted to weight detection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 11 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 30, 66 (EH 88206013, EH 88206049) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3251 |
To Charles Lyell 10 September [1861]
Summary
Absence of organic remains in many deposits.
Discusses presence of marine animals near icebergs.
Comments on former geological state of England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.263) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3249 |
To Charles Lyell 22 September [1861]
Summary
Additional discussion of Jamieson’s theory that the roads of Glen Roy were formed by a glacial lake. Suggests the possible marine origin of the Glen Spean terraces. Comments on the power of lakes to produce pebbles. Discusses elevation of Wales and Scotland during the glacial period.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.265) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3260 |
To J. O. Westwood 4 September [1861]
Summary
Is certain he never had Morren’s paper from JOW or heard of it before JOW’s note; will write to Gardeners’ Chronicle about it [see 3252].
Thanks for the two Sphinx moths; unfortunately the pollen-masses do not belong to orchids but to Asclepias.
Asks whether R. B. Todd’s Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology [1835–59] has an article on fertilisation of orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Date: | 4 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum (Hope Entomological collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3243 |
To Charles Lyell [15 September 1861]
Summary
Discusses CL’s correspondence with T. F. Jamieson. Comments on Jamieson’s theory that the roads of Glen Roy were formed by a glacial lake. Discusses elevation of Scotland during the glacial period.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [15 Sept 1861] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.264) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3254 |
To Asa Gray 16 September [1861]
Summary
Is interested in cases of dimorphism like Primula. Discusses Primula and Linum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 16 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3255 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1861]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3248 |
To John Murray 24 September [1861]
Summary
Thanks JM for his liberal offer [to publish Orchids]. CD fears the public will not be interested, but thinks it will "do good to the Origin as it will show that I worked hard on details and it will perhaps serve [to] illustrate how Natural History may be worked under the belief of the modification of Species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 108–109B) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3264 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Murray, John (b) …
- … r Sowerby to draw one—for the woodcut, which I shall use will hardly do— Please let me have one line, if you wish for an ornament. — On the various contrivances by which British Orchids are fertilised by Insects; & on the good effects of Intercrossing. by Charles Darwin M.A. FR.S. &c. …
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Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
Bates, H. W. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Jamieson, T. F. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Murray, John (b) | (3) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (33) |
Lyell, Charles | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Murray, John (b) | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |