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 W. E. Darwin [8 May 1862]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [8 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3525 |
To J. B. Innes 1 May [1862]
Summary
Quiz has had to be killed because he became vicious.
Horace Darwin strangely ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 1 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3528 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 May [1862]
Summary
Asks JDH to look at stigma of Leschenaultia biloba; it seems certain there is no stigma within the bud. Case would be important.
Singular case of peculiar structure now remodified into the functional condition of a Campanula.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3529 |
To John Murray 2 May [1862]
Summary
Has returned last page of index [of Orchids]. Hopes JM will reconsider price – 10s seems high. Suggests two reviewers likely to be favourable. Sends list for presentation copies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 2 May [1862] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 118–119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3531 |
To H. W. Bates 4 May [1862]
Summary
Thanks for letter and "valuable" extracts.
If S. American Carabi differ more from other species than do those from other distant locations (e.g., Siberia, Europe, etc.), CD agrees that difference would be too great to have occurred in the recent glacial age; CD also rejects independent origin. Plants seem to migrate more readily than animals. HWB should not underrate length of glacial period; CD also believes they will be driven to an older glacial period.
Sorry about news of British Museum – hopeless to contend against anyone supported by Owen.
CD dearly wishes HWB could find a situation in which he could give time to science.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 4 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3532 |
To Hugh Falconer [8 May 1862]
Summary
Will try to call tomorrow. What HF tells him about horses makes him eager to come.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [8 May 1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3539 |
To H. W. Bates 9 May [1862]
Summary
Referring to conversation with Lyell, CD is certain that there was a Miocene glacial period.
Compliments HWB on the mimetic display at the British Museum. Those at the Museum readily accepted HWB’s "doctrine".
Was shown genital organs of closely allied Chrysomelidae.
Albert Günther is candidate for position at Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3540 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1862]
Summary
Sorry to hear of JDH’s household troubles.
Will try to get a couple of flowers of Leschenaultia to send him.
"What a good case that of the Cameroons"; the 4000ft [elevation] is much to CD’s "private satisfaction".
Sends JDH a copy of Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 May [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3541 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 May [1862]
Summary
Nearly agrees on contemporaneity, but THH pushes his ideas too far. Would require strong evidence before believing that the so-called Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous strata could be contemporaneous. Thinks THH’s case on advancement of organisation is strong. But he should read Bronn, before publishing again, and say more on other side. Cannot help hoping he is not as right as he seems to be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 171) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3542 |
letter | (251) |
Hooker, J. D. | (40) |
Gray, Asa | (16) |
Darwin, W. E. | (15) |
Bates, H. W. | (13) |
Oliver, Daniel | (13) |