To Charles Lyell 1 April [1862]
Summary
Explains how melting of ice in Glen Spean could have successively freed two lower cols, thus establishing the water-levels that determined the two lower shelves in Glen Roy.
Plans to read a paper to the Linnean Society ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 1 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.275) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3491 |
To Octavian Blewitt 2 April [1862]
Summary
Declines the honour of acting as Steward at the Annual Dinner of the Royal Literary Fund.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Octavian Blewitt |
Date: | 2 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan 96: RLF 4/16 1862 file 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3491F |
To J. D. Hooker 9 [April 1862]
Summary
On Vanilla.
Asks JDH to observe whether he has both long- and short-styled form of Menyanthes
and whether he has "Saxifrages with long hairs glandular at the tip".
The Linnean Society session made him vomit all night. Fears he must give up trying to read papers or speak. "It is a horrid bore. I can do nothing like other people."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 148 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3500 |
To John Murray 9 April [1862]
Summary
JM is a bold man to print 1500 copies [of Orchids].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 9 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 116–117) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3501 |
To Andrew Murray 10 April [1862]
Summary
Did CD lend AM a pamphlet on cave insects by S. Scudder ["On the genus Raphidophora", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8 (1861–2): 6–14]? CD much wants it and remembers lending it to someone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray |
Date: | 10 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | R. D. Pyrah (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3503 |
To Daniel Oliver 12 [April 1862]
Summary
DO’s observations on polymorphism in Primula and Campanula. CD recognises three classes of dimorphism, as in Primula, Thymus, and Campanula and violets.
DO’s Campanula paper and Royal Institution lecture [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 431–3].
CD’s interest in Fumariaceae from A. Gray’s comments on "selfing".
Bees bite holes in flowers when same species grows in high density.
Organisation of CD’s notes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 12 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 1 (EH 88205985) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3504 |
To H. W. Bates 16 April [1862]
Summary
Invitation to visit; Hooker will be present. Gives directions to Down. Also plans to invite John Lubbock over for an evening.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 16 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3507 |
To C. E. Brown-Séquard 16 April [1862]
Summary
French translation of 3d edition of Origin has been greatly delayed.
Very pleased with CEB-S’s intent to write a review and with his near agreement. CD believes that so many really good judges concur with him in the main that his views will ultimately prevail. Continental reviews have been more positive than British ones. Édouard Claparède’s ["M. Darwin et sa théorie de la formation des espèces", Rev. Ger. 16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63] is too favourable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard |
Date: | 16 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (MS-BROWC/981/97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3508 |
To Daniel Oliver 20 [April 1862]
Summary
Requests Oxalis acetosella, which he suspects is dimorphic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 20 [Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 56 (EH 88206039) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3512 |
To Asa Gray 21 April [1862]
Summary
Is sending first half of orchid book.
Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3513 |
To Daniel Oliver 24 April [1862]
Summary
Thanks for Oxalis. Only experimentation will show whether disproportion of long- to short-styled flowers is a functional dimorphism.
Case of aestival flowers is very curious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 24 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 47 (EH 88206030) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3516 |
To H. G. Bronn 25 April [1862]
Summary
Sends additions and corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin [1862–3].
Before a German translation of Orchids is done, CD thinks HGB should read part of it and decide if it is worth while; CD has doubts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Georg Bronn |
Date: | 25 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3519 |
To W. E. Darwin 26 April [1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3520 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 April [1862]
Summary
Thinks THH’s [Anniversary] Address [to Geological Society, Feb 1862, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): xl–liv] a wonderful condensed and original summary of palaeontology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3522 |
To Daniel Oliver 15 April [1862]
Summary
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 15 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4097 |
To Edouard Claparède [c. 16 April 1862]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède |
Date: | [c. 16 Apr 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4371 |
letter | (16) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Blewitt, Octavian | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Brown-Séquard, C. É. | (1) |
Bates, H. W. | (1) |
Blewitt, Octavian | (1) |
Bronn, H. G. | (1) |
Brown-Séquard, C. É. | (1) |
Claparède, Edouard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Murray, Andrew | (1) |
Murray, John (b) | (1) |
Oliver, Daniel | (4) |