To ? 28 April [1863?]
Summary
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Apr [1863?] |
Classmark: | Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13866 |
To Athenæum 18 April [1863]
Summary
Attacks the doctrine of "heterogeny" (spontaneous generation during each geological period) as completely lacking in evidence.
Defends natural selection as connecting large classes of facts in natural history. That certain forms have not changed since remote epochs is not an objection of any force.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Athenæum |
Date: | 18 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Athenæum, 25 April 1863, pp. 554–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4108 |
To Charles Turner [1 April – 16 June 1863?]
Summary
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Turner |
Date: | [1 Apr – 16 June 1863?] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3886 |
From Richard Trevor Clarke [April? 1863]
Summary
Encloses strawberry blossoms used in his crossing experiments.
Author: | Richard Trevor Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr? 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4070 |
From James Anderson 1 April 1863
Summary
Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].
Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.
Author: | James Anderson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4071 |
From Arthur Rawson 1 April [1863]
Summary
Conducted crosses on Gladiolus varieties exactly according to CD’s letter. Flowers of same variety are self-sterile, whether from the same plant or not.
Author: | Arthur Rawson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4072 |
To Arthur Rawson 2 April [1863]
Summary
Discusses unusual primula flowers and asks for details of Rawson’s experiments with gladioli. Asks for loan of Cypripedium but admits he will probably mutilate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Rawson |
Date: | 2 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (10 December 2013); Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Autumn 2017 lot 2184) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4072F |
From John Scott [1–11] April [1863]
Summary
Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".
Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.
Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.
Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1–11] Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4073 |
From Arthur Rawson [6 April 1863]
Summary
Provides evidence of self-sterility in Gladiolus.
Has observed three seed-leaves in some Dianthus seedlings.
Cannot cross, or grow from seed, Dielytra spectabilis.
Author: | Arthur Rawson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4074 |
To John Lubbock 5 April [1863]
Summary
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 5 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4075 |
To Maxwell Tylden Masters 6 April [1863]
Summary
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maxwell Tylden Masters |
Date: | 6 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4076 |
From John Lubbock 7 April 1863
Summary
JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 170: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4077 |
From Edward Blyth 7 April 1863
Summary
Has seen some curious hybrid ducks and geese of Bartlett’s. Bartlett will do experiments suggested by CD when he has time.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4078 |
From H. W. Bates 8 April 1863
Summary
Preparations under way to move to London account for delay in thanking CD for his review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
His book is finished, and he is sending a copy to CD; owing to the great expense few copies will be sent to reviewers.
Author: | Henry Walter Bates |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4079 |
To H. W. Bates 9 April [1863]
Summary
Thanks HWB for his book [Naturalist on the river Amazons]. Feels sure it will often be alluded to in other works.
Asa Gray is fascinated by the "Butterfly paper" ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 9 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4080 |
From Asa Gray 11 April 1863
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4081 |
To Daniel Oliver [12 April 1863]
Summary
Working on monstrous Primula. Is ovule anatropous as Asa Gray says, or amphitropous? Does he know natural path of pollen tubes in Primula. Can the tube enter the ovule by the chalaza?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [12 Apr 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 46 (EH 88206029) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4083 |
To John Scott 12 April [1863]
Summary
Encourages JS to publish on sterility of orchids and to experiment on Passiflora.
Doubted Hooker’s poppy case.
Describes case of primrose with three pistils: when pulled apart allowed pollen to be placed directly on ovules. This supports JS’s explanation of H. Crüger’s case.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 12 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B59, B77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4084 |
From John Scott [after 12] April [1863]
Summary
Thanks for CD’s Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Has not published much because he would be ignored as a gardener; hence he is looking for a foreign appointment.
Has prepared orchid sterility paper at CD’s suggestion [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50].
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 12] Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4087 |
From David Thomas Ansted 13 April 1863
Summary
Is ready to make some arrangement to repay CD’s bond. Has written to F. Ransome to help arrange repayment and wants CD to write his opinion of a fair scheme.
Author: | David Thomas Ansted |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Apr 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4088 |
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) |