From Asa Gray [10–16] June [1863]
Summary
Possible dimorphism in Phlox.
Knows of no U. S. law prohibiting marriage of cousins.
Gives references to papers on phyllotaxy.
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10–16] June [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4198 |
Hagen, Hermann August. 1855–8. Die Sing-Cicaden Europa’s. Entomologische Zeitung 16 (1855): 340–58, 379–86; 17 (1856): 381–3; 19 (1858): 135–7.
To Asa Gray 26 June [1863]
Summary
Thanks AG for references about phyllotaxy
and information on marriage laws.
Has been looking for dimorphism in Phlox and Euonymus.
Has observed the irritability of tendrils of Echinocystis with great interest. Was also struck by the rotating movements of the leading shoots, which he proposes to investigate.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 26 June [1863] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4222 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Letters from Asa Gray , 26 May 1863 and [10–16] June [1863] . Joseph Dalton Hooker . …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] and n. 2. CD refers to his work on the …
- … of correspondents and published sources. See letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] . …
- … See letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] and n. 13. CD refers to his letter to Gray …
- … 1863] . See letter from Asa Gray, [10–16] June [1863] and n. 4. There are observational …
Tristram, Henry Baker. 1865–8. On the ornithology of Palestine. Ibis n.s. 1 (1865): 67–83, 241–63; 2 (1866): 59–88, 280–92; 3 (1867): 73–97, 360–71; 4 (1868): 204–15, 321–35.
From J. J. Aubertin 16 January 1872
Summary
A friend of JJA’s wants CD’s opinion on whether the disease porigo decalvans (hair falling out in clumps) demonstrates the link between man and dogs and has continued to evolve with man after he passed out of his "hairy-animal state".
Capt. [Richard?] Burton disagrees with CD’s notion of beauty in the abstract, and would like to meet him.
| Author: | John James Aubertin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Jan 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 127 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8160 |
From John Lubbock 25 October 1862
Summary
CD’s health is bad.
Would like to visit CD on Friday.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Oct 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3781 |
Robson, J. 1866a. Stocks for grafting on, and the results. Journal of Horticulture n.s. 10: 214–16.
Fischer, Johann von. 1875a. Der Vansire (Herpestes Galera) in der Gefangenschaft. Der Zoologische Garten. Zeitschrift für Beobachtung, Pflege und Zucht der Tiere 16: 10–17.
To John Murray 21 October [1861]
Summary
G. B. Sowerby, Jr has done the drawings for Orchids woodcuts. Calls JM’s attention to the fact that a first-rate cutter must be employed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 21 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 112–113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3292 |
Cuvier, Georges. 1804–8. Sur les espèces d’animaux dont proviennent les os fossiles répandus dans la pierre à plâtre des environ de Paris. Annales du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle 3: 275–303, 364–87, 442–72; 4: 66–75; 6: 253–83; 9: 10–15, 16–44, 89–102, 205–15, 272–82; 12: 271–84.
From Charles Layton 10 March 1876
Summary
Encloses cheque for balance listed on accompanying statement of sales [see 10401].
Stereo plates for new edition of Variation have been sent to New York.
| Author: | Charles James (Charles) Layton; D. Appleton & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Mar 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 98v |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10417 |
From Hubert Airy 17 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for congratulations on appearance of abstract of HA’s paper [Nature 7 (1873): 343–4].
Explains again his theory of "contraction with twist" by which compact buds and a spiral phyllotaxy have evolved. Explains how the peculiar phyllotaxy of the teasel is explicable by this process of "condensation".
| Author: | Hubert Airy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Mar 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8812 |
Darwin, Francis. 1875a. On the primary vascular dilatation in acute inflammation. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology 10 (1875–6): 1–16.
To Fritz Müller 26 May [1867]
Summary
Thanks for information on sexual differences.
Orchids; self-sterility and difficulty of getting seeds to germinate.
Dimorphism.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 26 May [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 16) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5551 |
To William Kemp 1[1] May [1840]
Summary
CD has read WK’s abstract in the Scotsman, 15 February 1840, p. 3, and asks for further details.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Kemp |
| Date: | 1[1] May [1840] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/2) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-565F |
To W. E. Darwin 12 October [1861]
Summary
Asks whether WED has signed the articles of partnership in the bank.
Has been working at orchid drawings with G. B. Sowerby, Jr.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1861] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3284 |
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- … for 21 October 1861 records a payment of £10 16 s . to ‘Mr Sowerby for 10 days’. Mary Ann …
- … 10 August [1861] . ‘Consols’ is an abbreviation for consolidated annuities, a form of government stocks. Consols offered a fixed rate of interest, usually low, giving the lender the advantage in the principal funded. CD had advanced William £4500 from his inheritance to serve as a guaranteed deposit toward the partnership in the Southampton and Hampshire Bank (Down House MS 11:16). …
From A. W. Bennett 8 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for reference to Hermann Müller on fertilisation [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Publication plans.
| Author: | Alfred William Bennett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 May 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8905 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 October 1846]
Summary
Hopes to start looking over his species notes in about a year.
Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [2 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 65 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1003 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 or 15 July 1846]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 or 15] July 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 63 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-986 |
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