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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[4 November 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[5 November 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[6 November 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[12 April 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2231
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[15 April 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2232
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[13 November 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 663
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 Feb [1863 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 131
Summary:

Seeks investment advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 [June 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 94
Summary:

Would like WED to send a specimen of the unusual plant organ of which he sent a drawing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B15–16
Summary:

Will be glad to have CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 10 June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 151: 331
Summary:

Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 38 (EH 88206021)
Summary:

Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].

Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Turner
Date:
[1 Apr – 16 June 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 12
Summary:

Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 51: 6–7
Summary:

Notes, calculations, and diagrams on phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 98
Summary:

Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.

Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Turnbull
Date:
[16? Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 5 (EH 88206057)
Summary:

Thanks for letting Horwood superintend erection of hothouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 18
Summary:

Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 June 1863?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11)
Summary:

Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 178
Summary:

Indignant over Owen’s conduct as described in Hugh Falconer’s article on elephants ["On the American fossil elephant of the regions bordering the Gulf of Mexico", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 10
Summary:

Describes an astounding "sort of mis-begotten-bird-creature", the Archaeopteryx, a grand Darwinian case.

His elephant paper is out in Natural History Review [(1863): 43–114].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
4 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 58
Summary:

Praises JL’s article ["North American archaeology", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 1–26]

and Hugh Falconer on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].

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