From John Scott [26 July – 2 August 1863]
Summary
His orchid paper limited because he does not give illustrations from distinct genera.
Discusses the self- and cross-fertility of coloured primrose varieties. Thanks CD for tables of unpublished Primula work.
Author: | John Scott |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 July – 2 Aug 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 89 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4175 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 July 1863]
Summary
Relates events at Down;
asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.
His present hobby-horse is tendrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [25 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4199 |
From J. D. Hooker [21 July 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [21 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 152–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4225 |
From J. D. Hooker [31 July 1863]
Summary
Sends "tendrilliferous" plants.
Plans visit to Down.
Naudin’s paper on tendrils [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 9 (1863): 180–203].
T. V. Wollaston snubs Bates’s work.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [31 July 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4226 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4227 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1863
Summary
Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.
C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4228 |
To John Scott 2 July [1863]
Summary
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott |
Date: | 2 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4229 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 2 July [1863]
Summary
Asks M. J. Berkeley to identify the microscopical spherical bodies CD found in drops of yellowish rain-water that fell on his garden in a brief shower.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 2 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 18 July 1863, p. 675 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4230 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 July [1863]
Summary
Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 229) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232 |
From Asa Gray 7 July 1863
Summary
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 127, 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4234 |
From L. E. Becker 8 July [1863]
Summary
Sends seeds of female Lychnis diurna; has found none in hermaphrodites.
On variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in this plant.
Author: | Lydia Ernestine Becker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4235 |
From George Sigerson 8 July 1863
Summary
Discusses leaf form and phyllotaxy; clarifies a part of his paper ["On a protomorphic phyllotype", Atlantis (1863)].
Author: | George Sigerson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 162 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4236 |
To William Forsell Kirby 9 July [1863]
Summary
CD is particularly struck by WFK’s observations on Corsican and N. American subspecies in his paper ["On the geographical distribution of European Rhopalocera", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d ser. 1 (1862–3): [!?bib has 1862–4] 481–92]. Thinks it would be interesting for WFK to examine specimens from the Shetland Islands, for even faint trace of differentiation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Forsell Kirby |
Date: | 9 July [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4237 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 9 July [1863]
Summary
WBT progressing with breeding experiments for CD.
CD making quicker progress with Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 9 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4238 |
From P. H. Gosse 13 July 1863
Summary
On CD’s request to observe bee Ophrys: PHG’s son collected 16 plants – of the 32 flowers, two had lost both pollinia, two had lost one each. He himself found two plants with pollinia adhering to the stigma.
Author: | Philip Henry Gosse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4240 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4241 |
From Friedrich Hildebrand 16 July 1863
Summary
He and L. C. Treviranus have repeated many of CD’s orchid observations with the same results. Sends his paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45].
Author: | Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4242 |
From Roland Trimen 16, 17, and 19 July 1863
Summary
Thanks CD for two letters and his portrait.
CD’s book [Orchids] opened up terra incognita for him.
His work on S. African butterflies continues.
Reports on a moth that punctures peach skins.
Interesting that thoughtful naturalists are forced to admit mutability of species.
Some notes on Oxalis.
Author: | Roland Trimen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16, 17 and 19 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 13–16d, DAR 142: 37 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4243 |
To Daniel Oliver 18 July [1863]
Summary
Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | 18 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 51 (EH 88206034) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4244 |
To Julius von Haast 18 July [1863]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of JvH’s letters and report of his expedition. Congratulates him on its success.
Has sent Origin.
There is hardly a place in the world as interesting as New Zealand with respect to geographical distribution.
Will quote the case of the ducks that nest in trees.
Is working hard on Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast |
Date: | 18 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4245 |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Becker, L. E. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Oliver, Daniel | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (20) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Scott, John | (2) |
Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Scott, John | (4) |
Oliver, Daniel | (3) |
Becker, L. E. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Haast, Julius von | (2) |
Hildebrand, Friedrich | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Aubertin, J. J. | (1) |
Billinghurst, H. F. | (1) |
Bradford, Edward | (1) |
Flower, W. H. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gosse, P. H. | (1) |
Kirby, W. F. | (1) |
Sigerson, George | (1) |
Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
Trimen, Roland | (1) |