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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
JDH castigates the Americans after the Trent affair. The value of an aristocracy. How will CD answer Asa Gray’s letter?
His "remarkable plant" [Welwitschia mirabilis] exhibited at Linnean Society.
Genera plantarum is in press.
The Witness attacks THH’s lecture.
Assures CD he spoke more favourably of his doctrines than the reports show.
Agrees with CD’s arguments on sterility of hybrids and predicts physiological experiments will produce physiological species sterile inter se. Has come even closer to CD’s view especially since Primula paper. Will soon be more Darwinian than CD.
Discusses Stellaria and other plants said to be dimorphic.
Asks for plants he wants for experiments.
Preparing a little book on Orchids.
He will send CD one of his sketches to add to the two CD has kept since Beagle days.
Asks for FitzRoy’s address.
Has received a satisfactory answer from Lord Tankerville.
Seeks to define oldest fossil cirripede.
Will enclose list of orchids in bloom for CD’s use.
Asks for photograph; her pleasure in knowing CD.
Most interested in the account of pigeons in CD’s book [Origin].
Much amused at the Witness.
Pleased at what THH says on hybridity.
Odd that objectors never allude to the arguments that alone have weight in their favour – affinities, rudimentary organs, etc.
Has 16 ill in the house!
Natural History Review a capital number.
Dimorphism: "new cases are tumbling in almost daily".
U. S. politics.
Thanks for orchids and other flowers.
Will send photograph.
Sends proof-sheets of CD’s contribution to LJ’s Memoir of Henslow.
Reports that the orchids Myanthus and Catasetum are identical.
Thanks for promise of photograph.
Has no melastomads in bloom.
Describes sensitive anthers of Cynorchis.
Thanks CD for "your little pamphlet".
Has had 16 in the household ill.
Wants to meet JL.
Praises JL’s paper ["Ancient lake-habitations of Switzerland", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 26–51].
CD has sent to printer proofs of his contribution to Memoir of Henslow.
His answer to Asa Gray.
On JDH’s view of aristocracy. Primogeniture is dreadfully opposed to selection.
Orchid book proofs ready soon – has no idea whether it is worth publishing.
Huxley on Owen.
Feeble letter from J. H. Balfour against Huxley’s lectures ["Relation of man to lower animals", pt 2 of Man’s place in nature (1863)].
Has received the "astounding" Angraecum sesquipedale with nectary 1ft long: "what insect could suck it?"
Thanks CD for returned MS and letter with its good opinion. Asks CD to write to Murray.
Grateful for CD’s approval of "Lake-habitations".
H. W. Bates is, at CD’s urging, writing a book of travel and natural history. CD suggests JM might be interested in publishing it. Recommends HWB and his MS highly.
The Japan pig, an unusual domestic species with no wild prototype.
