To John Murray 22 January [1863]
Summary
Asks that a copy of Origin be sent to Thomas Rivers.
Curious about sale of Orchids. It is too stiff for the public. "If praise from Botanists would sell, it would go off well."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 22 Jan [1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3936 |
From Emma Darwin to John Murray [before 17 December 1863]
Summary
CD too ill to write.
Asks that a presentation copy of Origin be sent off.
He has authorised an Italian translation of Origin.
| Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | [before 17 Dec 1863] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 128–129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4352 |
From Charles Lyell 11 March 1863
Summary
Defends position he takes on species [in Antiquity of man]. CD overestimates CL’s capacity to influence public. Will not dogmatise on descent of man; prepared to accept it, but it "takes away much of the charm from my speculations on the past". Cannot go to Huxley’s length with regard to natural selection. Responds to CD’s comments on Antiquity of man.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 362–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4035 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 May [1863]
Summary
CD’s encouragement of John Scott, who has found a case of self-incompatibility in orchids, like William Herbert’s in Crinum.
Nägeli on phyllotaxy.
CD’s observations on broom fertilisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 May [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 195 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4191 |
From S. P. Woodward 14 February 1863
Summary
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3984 |
From Camille Dareste 8 February 1863
Summary
Has read Origin with satisfaction. He had long ago come to consider the fixity of species as contrary to the facts, but could see no suitable alternative. The Origin has brought the light to guide him.
Sends CD a copy of his latest work ["Mémoire sur la production artificielle des monstruosités", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 243–76]. Hopes to explain a great number of anomalies by his experimental work on artificially produced monstrosities.
| Author: | Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3974 |
To W. E. Darwin [5 May 1863]
Summary
Discusses dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [5 May 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 110 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4140 |
From John Scott 3 March 1863
Summary
JS criticises natural selection as based on an innate "continuously watchful selective principle".
Seeks seed of wild Rocky Mountain maize.
What is CD’s view on origin of maize?
Seeks information on self-sterility of Passiflora and Lobelia.
Weeping habit of trees.
Intended to say bisexual plants presented more established varieties than unisexual, not that they are more variable.
Explains his opinion that homomorphically fertilised Primula will produce only their own form. Is trying homomorphic crosses with different coloured Primula varieties.
Asks to read Asa Gray’s 2d review of Orchids.
Has finally successfully fertilised Gongora, but it was done by unnatural means.
| Author: | John Scott |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4021 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Murray. 1868. Verlot, Bernard. 1864. Mémoire sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement. Journal de la Société Impériale et Centrale d’Horticulture 10: 243–56, 305–20, 375–84, 420–32, 468– 80, 518–28, 571–6, 624–40. Verlot, Bernard. 1865. Sur la production et la fixation des variétés dans les plantes d’ornement. Paris: J. B. …
| letter | (9) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Scott, John | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Dareste, Camille | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
