To Charles Lyell 17 March [1863]
Summary
His better opinion [of work of Boucher de Perthes].
Explains his position on CL’s treatment of species.
Mentions positive response to his ideas on the part of a German professor [Ernst Haeckel], Alphonse de Candolle, and a botanical palaeontologist [Gaston de Saporta].
Notes negative reaction of entomologists.
Mentions Falconer’s objections [to Antiquity].
Mentions work of Hooker.
Comments on paper by Owen ["On the aye-aye", Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16]
and CD’s review of Bates’s paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thinks Natural History Review is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.291) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4047 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 March [1863]
Summary
Lyell’s Antiquity of man lacks originality.
Statements in Lyell provoke CD to determine exact publication date of Origin and JDH’s introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
CD now believes in repeated periods of global cooling and migration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4048 |
To T. W. Woodbury [after 17 March 1863]
Summary
Thanks for the artificial comb.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas White Woodbury |
Date: | [after 17 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | International Bee Research Association, Eva Crane Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4050 |
To Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener [17–24 March 1863]
Summary
Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
Date: | [17–24 Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4069 |
letter | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Woodbury, T. W. | (1) |