From George Maw 19 February 1863
Summary
Discusses the structure and particular uniformities of the Shropshire coal-seams and surrounding strata; speculates on their origins.
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 97 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3999 |
From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1863
Summary
Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4001 |
From John Lubbock 20 February 1863
Summary
Dining arrangements.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 36 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4002 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 February 1863]
Summary
Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 105–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4007 |
From Hermann Crüger 23 February 1863
Summary
Will observe fertilisation of melastomads as CD requests.
Observations on fertilisation by ants.
Detailed observations on sexes in Catasetum, which were made before he received Orchids and which differ from CD’s findings.
| Author: | Hermann Crüger |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 275 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4008 |
From T. H. Huxley 25 February 1863
Summary
Pleads guilty to both criticisms of "Miss Henrietta Minor Rhadamanthus Darwin" [see 3896] of points in his Lectures [to working men].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 299 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4010 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1863]
Summary
Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 101: 108–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4011 |
From George Maw 25 February 1863
Summary
Discusses the deposition of coal and considers the possibility of coal aggregating into seams after deposition.
| Author: | George Maw |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 98 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4012 |
From Francis Walker 26 February 1863
Summary
Identifies flies sent to him by CD. [CD note states that these were found with orchid pollinia adhering to them.]
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4014 |
From the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Berlin 26 February 1863
Summary
A diploma. CD is elected a corresponding member.
| Author: | Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 229: 50a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4014F |
From Daniel Oliver 27 February 1863
Summary
Answers CD’s query on Primula longiflora and P. scotica.
Would like abstract of CD’s paper ["Two forms of Linum", Collected papers 2: 93–105] for Natural History Review.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 108: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4015 |
From Thomas Wright 27 February 1863
Summary
Regrets he did not make the statement [unspecified] referred to by CD.
Believes the Origin has been very valuable, even among those not disposed to agree with transmutation, in giving a great check to "species manufacture".
| Author: | Thomas Wright |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4016 |
From John Lubbock 28 February 1863
Summary
Will come to dine on Monday unless he hears to the contrary.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 37 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4017 |
From Daniel Oliver 17 February 1863
Summary
DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Daniel Oliver |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 173: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8770 |
From Henrietta Grace Powell 11 February 1863
Summary
Invites CD to visit on Sunday afternoon, for a quiet discussion with Huxley, the Bishop of Natal [J. W. Colenso], and herself. Will not trouble him with any eating.
| Author: | Henrietta Grace Smyth; Henrietta Grace Powell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3977 |
From Isaac Anderson-Henry 14 February 1863
Summary
On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.
| Author: | Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1863 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3985 |
| letter | (36) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (36) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
