From Asa Gray 13 April 1863
Summary
Hopes CD will finish and bring out his book on variation.
AG will publish extracts of H. W. Bates’s paper on mimetic analogy [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–94].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 133 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4089 |
To William Henry Flower 13 April [1863]
Summary
Asks WHF to obtain photographs of skull of ox for J. L. A. Quatrefages de Bréau.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 13 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Quaritch (dealers) (2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4090 |
To M. T. Masters [8–13 April 1863]
Summary
Sends two spikes of Corydalis.
Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | [8–13 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4091 |
From M. T. Masters 14 April 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for specimens which show that an abnormality in one genus is normal in another, which bears on CD’s views on descent.
Author: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4092 |
From Daniel Oliver 14 April 1863
Summary
The ovule of Primula is amphitropous or what J. Georg Agardh calls apotropo-amphitropous [see Theoria systematis plantarum (1858), tab. 24, fig. 5–6].
Author: | Daniel Oliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 173: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4093 |
From Robert Swinhoe 14 April 1863
Summary
Difference in plumage of Ardeola, a species of heron, in summer and winter. [See Descent 2: 190.]
Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 18–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094 |
To Armand de Quatrefages [14 April 1863]
Summary
The niata is a very good case because the race is well established and must originate in South America. There is a description of the head by [Richard] Owen in the Descriptive catalogue of the osteological collection of the College of Surgeons.
Has observed modifications in the skeletons of rabbits, ducks, poultry, and pigeons. There is an extract about modifications in pigeons in the first chapter of Origin. Encloses a woodcut of crested or polish fowls; there is a change in the brain as well as in the exterior bones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | [14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | Bulletins de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris 4 (1863): 378–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4094F |
To Daniel Oliver [after 14 April 1863]
Summary
Thanks for information on Primula ovules. From what DO says the pollen-tubes ought to find their way to the micropyle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [after 14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4095 |
From George Bentham [c. 14 April 1863]
Summary
Asks CD whether he knows of "anything worth looking at" that has appeared abroad on his theory of the origin of species.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 14 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4096 |
To D. T. Ansted 15 April 1863
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
Date: | 15 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4099 |
To George Bentham 15 April [1863]
Summary
Sends GB a selection of reviews of the Origin from his collection of about 90, with his opinion of some of them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 15 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4100 |
From W. H. Flower 15 April 1863
Author: | William Henry Flower |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4101 |
From William Hepworth Dixon 16 April 1863
Summary
Thinks CD’s letter ["The doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80] will appear "with a clearer field and to better effect" if delayed a week, since next issue [of Athenæum] has Lyell’s reply to Hugh Falconer, and W. B. Carpenter’s report on the Abbéville jaw.
Author: | William Hepworth Dixon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4102 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1863]
Summary
Likes JDH’s review of Alphonse de Candolle [Mémoires et souvenirs de A. P. de Candolle (1862)].
Falconer’s article on Lyell ["Primitive man. What led to the question?", Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] too severe.
CD has written a letter to the Athenæum "to say, under the cloak of attacking Heterogeny, a word in my own defence" [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Bates’s Travels [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)] are excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4103 |
From D. T. Ansted 17 April 1863
Summary
Was unable to see Ransome [to find out whether DTA’s shares in the patent had earned any income so he could repay CD] but believes Ransome’s work will be profitable. Bemoans his own constant financial misfortune and asks CD to give up the deed of his loan to him, on the promise that if the shares ever yield any income, CD will be paid.
Author: | David Thomas Ansted |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 75 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4104 |
To Charles Lyell 18 April [1863]
Summary
Describes a letter he has written to the Athenæum in which he mentions CL’s views on species modification ["Doctrine of heterogeny", Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Comments on criticism of Lyell’s book [Antiquity] by Falconer and others.
Mentions his eczema.
Invites the Lyells to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.294) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4106 |
To H. W. Bates 18 April [1863]
Summary
Has finished vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons]. CD praises book as "best ever published in England".
The review in the Athenæum was cold, as always, and insolent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4107 |
From P. G. King 19 April 1863
Summary
CD’s photograph evokes PGK’s reminiscence of CD in the Beagle.
Author: | Philip Gidley King |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4109 |
To Asa Gray 20 April [1863]
Summary
Fears England and U. S. will drift into war; he and AG must "keep to Science".
Thanks for facts on Incas; regrets he has always avoided the case of man.
Has sent his Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Is it true that Ohio has legislated against marriage of cousins?
Can AG explain the invariable angles in phyllotaxy; are they the consequence of packing in the early bud?
Owen’s comments on heterogeny in the Athenæum [28 Mar 1863] have vexed W. B. Carpenter; CD has replied [Collected papers 2: 78–80].
Hopes AG will observe Gymnadenia; John Scott has been experimenting on its fertilisation.
Gives his observation on pollination of Cypripedium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4110 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 April 1863
Summary
Attacks by Falconer [Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] and Joseph Prestwich on Lyell.
W. B. Carpenter fails to attack Owen.
Welwitschia male cones with useless ovules marvellous example of lost function and retained structure.
JDH evaluates his sons.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 128–31; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 281–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4111 |
letter | (64) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Ansted, D. T. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Anderson Henry, Isaac | (2) |
Anderson, Isaac | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
Bates, H. W. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Masters, M. T. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
Bates, H. W. | (5) |
Ansted, D. T. | (4) |
Bentham, George | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |