From Daniel Oliver 14 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.1: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3546 |
From John Obadiah Westwood 14 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Has captured a bee with pollinia adhering to its head. Will send it to CD if he likes.
Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3547 |
From John Lubbock 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
"The big book [Variation] will no doubt go on again now."
JL is writing on Somme implements ["Evidence of antiquity of man", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 244–69].
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 170.1: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3549 |
From George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 15 May 1862
Summary
Sends CD a quotation from Plato which anticipates the Origin.
Has been enjoying CD’s paper on dimorphism in the Journal of the Linnean Society ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. He has found similar structures [see Forms of flowers, pp. 116, 122].
Author: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B79–80, DAR 171: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3550 |
From M. T. Masters [c. 15 May 1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 15 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 171.1: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3551 |
From George Chichester Oxenden 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for the book [Orchids].
Found thousands of Ophrys aranifera plants.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3553 |
From George Bentham 15 May 1862
Summary
Thanks CD for his book [Orchids]. CD has opened a new field for observation and a new unexpected track to explore phenomena that had before appeared "irreconcilable with ordinary opinion and method shown in the organic world".
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 152 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3554 |
From Georgina Tollet 17 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Georgina Tollet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3556 |
From C. W. Crocker 17 May 1862
Summary
Comments on presentation copy of Orchids. Has CD studied the orchid Sobralia?
Cannot get material for hollyhock experiment.
Sends his notes on Primula sinensis.
He is experimenting on Ranunculus.
Author: | Charles William Crocker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 133, DAR 161.2: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3557 |
From Asa Gray 18 May 1862
Summary
Has received first sheets of Orchids and is very impressed. "What a skill & genius you have for these researches."
Details of U. S. orchids.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3559 |
From H. G. Bronn 19 May 1862
Summary
Thanks for revisions in 2d ed. of Origin. Suggests correction regarding species numbers in the Tertiary.
Comments on pages of Orchids and problems of German translation.
Believes CD’s theory not yet proven, but that it will finally lead to truth.
Author: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.3: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3561 |
From Henry Holland 19 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Henry Holland, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3562 |
From Edward Cresy 19 May 1862
Summary
Comments on presentation copy of Orchids: bee Ophrys self-fertilisation; origin of nectar; odour of orchids. Book gives strong cases for special creationists.
Author: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 239 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3563 |
From H. W. Bates 19 May 1862
Summary
Miocene glacial period a remarkable discovery; if it is true, enlargement of Tertiary period necessary.
Received German monograph on Chilean Carabi that does not answer where isolated species came from.
HWB finds genital modifications of Chrysomela strong support for the theory.
Thanks for copy of Orchids.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 160.1: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3564 |
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 J. D. Hooker 23 May 1862
Summary
Does not know Rhododendron boothii; is sending Rhododendron keysii, a remarkable form. Will send Melastomataceae anon.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3567 |
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 Joseph Beete Jukes 25 May 1862
Summary
JBJ explains his theory of atmospheric denudation of Irish river valleys, to be published [as "On the river valleys in the south of Ireland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 378–403], and suggests its application to the Weald. This slow process would make the Weald far older than CD’s 300 million years.
Thanks for Orchids.
Author: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 168: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3571 |
From G. C. Oxenden 26 May 1862
Summary
Reminisces about Andrew Knight, whom he knew as a young man.
Praises Orchids for its "analogies of Creation".
Will send lizard orchid.
Author: | George Chichester Oxenden |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 173.2: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3572 |
From J. D. Hooker [29 May 1862]
Summary
Sends two flowers of Vanilla and two Melastomataceae.
Has worked on Cameroon list ["Mountain flowering plants and ferns of the Cameroons", in Burton, Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains (1863) 2: 270–7]
and Genera plantarum.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3574 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (299) |
Hooker, J. D. | (44) |
Gray, Asa | (21) |
Darwin, W. E. | (17) |
Oxenden, G. C. | (17) |