From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
19 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B31
Summary:
CD agrees about reversion.
The discovery of crossing in cryptogams is very interesting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
20 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:
ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter
and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.
CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Patrick Matthew
Date:
21 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (Acc.10963)
Summary:
CD is too ill to write.
As for natural selection, he is more faithful to PM’s "own original child" than PM is himself. To illustrate, CD relates the metaphor of an architect selecting well-shaped stones and rejecting ill-shaped ones. [See Variation 2: 431.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22–3 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 211
Summary:
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 141
Summary:
CD’s poor health.
Agassiz’s attempt to do away with Darwinism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
25 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 58)
Summary:
CD’s doctor [J. M. Gully] has ordered him to do nothing for six months.
Thanks RT for orchid specimen.
Dares not look at Oxalis flowers.
Regrets RT cannot get seed, especially from his trimorphic flowers.
Asks for bulbs of two or three forms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333)
Summary:
On Wedgwood vases for JDH.
Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 24
Summary:
Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,
and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
28 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 54 (EH 88206037)
Summary:
Fertile flowers of violets, except Viola tricolor, require insect visits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
11 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B116–17
Summary:
CD’s Copley Medal. The numbers were ten to eight in CD’s favour but the Cambridge men mustered strongly for Sedgwick.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hurst & Blackett
Date:
15 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Offers letters to Eliza Meteyard for her book [The life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865–6)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/9/21, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
24 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/10/71, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
unknown
To:
Walter White
Date:
9 November 1863
Source of text:
MM/19/124, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pigott
Date:
3 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/129
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Romney Robinson
Date:
3 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/137
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Pigott
Date:
3 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/137
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
William Pigott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/137
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
William Pigott
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 November 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/129
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Leighton
Date:
5 November 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F24
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Correspondent
- Agardh, Jacob1
- Airy, George Biddell3
- Anderson, Dr Thomas1
- Bentham, George4
- Berkeley, Miles Joseph2
- Berthon, Peter Henry2
- Buckle, Emma2
- Béguyer de Chancourtois, Alexandre-Eugène1
- Chaudoir, Maximilien de1
- Clarke, Alexander R.1
- Clarke, William Branwhite1
- Clendon, George, Jr1
- Conway, M. D.2
- Darling, Charles1
- Darwin, C. R.17
- Darwin, E. A.4
- Darwin, Emma11
- Darwin, H. E.3
- Darwin, Leonard1
- De Morgan, Augustus1
- Dunkin, Edwin1
- Eyton, Thomas Campbell1
- Faraday, Michael22
- Fenzl, Eduard1
- Frankland, Edward1
- Freies Deutsches Hochstift2
- Graham, Thomas1
- Gray, Asa1
- Grey, Charles2
- Griffith, George2
- Haast, Julius1
- Herschel, John24
- Hildebrand, Friedrich2
- Hooker, J. D.10
- Hooker, Joseph1
- Hooker, William1
- Howlett, Frederick1
- Hurst & Blackett1
- Jones, Henry Bence1
- Kirkman, Thomas P.4
- Knoblauch, Karl Hermann1
- Kupffer, Adolph Theodor1
- Ladd, William1
- Leighton, John1
- Lubbock, John1
- Matthew, Patrick1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von13
- Murchison, Roderick Impey1
- Naville, Jules Ernest1
- Nelson, John Henry1
- Newton, Alfred2
- Oliver, Daniel3
- Petermann, August1
- Phillips, John1
- Physiographical Society of Lund1
- Pigott, William8
- Pole, William1
- Robinson, Thomas Romney5
- Rolfe, R. M.1
- Sabine, Edward2
- Scott, John2
- Spruce, Richard1
- Trant, Jr., William2
- Trimen, Roland1
- Tyndall, John7
- Wallace, Alfred Russel4
- Wedgwood, Emma7
- White, Walter3
- [Bentham, George]1
- de La Rue, Warren1
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