From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 242
Summary:
Thanks for Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 239
Summary:
Comments on presentation copy of Orchids: bee Ophrys self-fertilisation; origin of nectar; odour of orchids. Book gives strong cases for special creationists.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 69
Summary:
Miocene glacial period a remarkable discovery; if it is true, enlargement of Tertiary period necessary.
Received German monograph on Chilean Carabi that does not answer where isolated species came from.
HWB finds genital modifications of Chrysomela strong support for the theory.
Thanks for copy of Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 3
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 36
Summary:
Does not know Rhododendron boothii; is sending Rhododendron keysii, a remarkable form. Will send Melastomataceae anon.
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 2–3
Summary:
Acknowledges Orchids with its disclosures of "wonderful adaptations".
Warns that CD aids critics by overstating the difficulties.
Did Owen write the article in the Quarterly Review? [Review of Origin by Samuel Wilberforce, Q. Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].
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From:
Joseph Beete Jukes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 168: 90
Summary:
JBJ explains his theory of atmospheric denudation of Irish river valleys, to be published [as "On the river valleys in the south of Ireland", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 378–403], and suggests its application to the Weald. This slow process would make the Weald far older than CD’s 300 million years.
Thanks for Orchids.
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From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 49
Summary:
Reminisces about Andrew Knight, whom he knew as a young man.
Praises Orchids for its "analogies of Creation".
Will send lizard orchid.
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From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 168: 57
Summary:
Pleased with CD’s opinion of the Henslow Memoir [L. Jenyns, Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow (1862)]
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 37
Summary:
Sends two flowers of Vanilla and two Melastomataceae.
Has worked on Cameroon list ["Mountain flowering plants and ferns of the Cameroons", in Burton, Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains (1863) 2: 270–7]
and Genera plantarum.
Contributor:
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From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 50
Summary:
Awaits instructions for sending lizard orchid.
Asks for a coloured plate of Malaxis paludosa so that he can find specimens for CD.
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From:
George Dickie
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 162.2: 178
Summary:
Reports observations on Listera cordata in accordance with CD’s wishes.
Agrees with what CD says about adaptations [in Orchids, p. 28–31], but cannot comprehend how they can be explained by natural selection.
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From:
Joseph Beete Jukes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 168: 91
Summary:
Elaborates his denudation theory: marine denudation works horizontally, atmospheric works vertically.
Answers point in CD’s letter on Sydney Harbour, N. S. W.
Who is the "goose" who reviews CD’s books in the Athenæum [review of Orchids, 24 May 1862]?
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From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 51
Summary:
Sends plants.
The disappearance of rare plants from localities where they have been abundant can be explained.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1862
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B2-3
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- British Library, The: Add. 46434 f. 24
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 143-144]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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Addressee
Correspondent
- Babington, C. C.1
- Bates, H. W.1
- Bentham, George1
- Blomefield, Leonard1
- Bronn, H. G.1
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Crocker, C. W.1
- Darwin, C. R.35
- Dickie, George1
- Eyton, T. C.1
- Falconer, Hugh1
- Gray, Asa1
- Holland, Henry1
- Hooker, J. D.5
- Huxley, T. H.1
- Innes, J. B.1
- Jenyns, Leonard1
- Jukes, J. B.2
- Lubbock, John1
- Masters, M. T.1
- Nevill, D. F.1
- Oliver, Daniel1
- Oxenden, G. C.5
- Thwaites, G. H. K.1
- Tollet, Georgina1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- Walpole, D. F.1
- Westwood, J. O.1
- FEWER