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DCP-LETT-3692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (67)
Summary:

Emma and Leonard have scarlet fever.

Houstonia seems "a grand case"; J. T. Rothrock should publish his observations on the two pollens and the reciprocal action of two hermaphrodites.

Rhexia glandulosa offers nothing odd, but Heterocentron will turn out something marvellous like Lythrum.

Would like to know what AG thinks of last chapter of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 4 (EH 88205929)
Summary:

Leonard Darwin’s illness.

William Darwin and the bank.

Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3693F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009)
Summary:

Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3694

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 20 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.

Is unwell and dreads the winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281)
Summary:

Relates personal news about family members.

CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".

Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.

Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.

Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 162
Summary:

Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.

Microscopes.

Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.

Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3697

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26–31 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 50–1
Summary:

On microscopes.

Cannot remember any plants but Melastoma with different coloured polliniferous anthers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3698

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 31
Summary:

JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.

Lake-habitations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 125–126)
Summary:

CD is well content with sale of 768 copies [of Orchids]. Hopes and expects remainder will ultimately be sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick
Date:
26 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Family news; mostly an account of ill health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3701

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 176: 9
Summary:

Sends his paper [on glacial lakes, see 3450]. Falconer attacked it. Falconer thinks Himalayas confound the theory, but Hooker writes that it explains the absence of lakes there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams; Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
4 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 127
Summary:

Their enumeration [of forms of Lythrum?] is invaluable. He will write later to explain what he is trying to prove about Lythrum through laborious crosses.

Asks for flowers of both forms of Hottonia to measure pollen and compare stigmas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-001730

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
'My dear Sir'
Date:
11 August 1862
Source of text:
MM/22/75, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel12466

From:
Henry Pearse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.332
Summary:

Is trying to make arrangements for Thomas Maclear's son Harry to find a means of survival, and is seeking JH's advice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12467

From:
Henry Pearse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.333
Summary:

Informs JH of the effectiveness of everyone's activity on behalf of Harry Maclear [see HP's 1862-8-15], and thanks JH for his part in this.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12960

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[16 August 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0373; Reel 1054
Summary:

Needs to know soon if R.S.L. will approve grant to expand JH's catalog of nebulae. Otherwise G. B. Airy will dismiss man employed to do those computations. [JH annotation: Sent similar letter to G. G. Stokes on same date.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12972

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Smith
Date:
[6 August 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0386; Reel 1054 (Cdraft: RS:HS 25.15.19)
Summary:

Withdraws article that JH submitted to Cornhill Magazine because, as GS noted, it was meant for different class of readers. But asks for 250 copies to be printed for JH's private circulation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1702

From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.188
Summary:

Paper prepared by JH is judged as being 'too deep' for the readers of the Cornhill Magazine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1703

From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.189
Summary:

Relating to a paper JH sent in, and copies of another of JH's papers that have been printed.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1704

From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.190
Summary:

Relating to publication of JH's work in the Cornhill Magazine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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