From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65)
Summary:
Is sending first half of orchid book.
Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 257
Summary:
Certain there are three forms of Primula sinensis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 14
Summary:
Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 47 (EH 88206030)
Summary:
Thanks for Oxalis. Only experimentation will show whether disproportion of long- to short-styled flowers is a functional dimorphism.
Case of aestival flowers is very curious.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 111
Summary:
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Berthold Carl Seemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 130, DAR 50: E28
Summary:
Encloses a passage from his book, The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. "Herald" [1852–7].
Discusses possibility of publishing work on flora of Hawaiian Islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
25 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:
Sends additions and corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin [1862–3].
Before a German translation of Orchids is done, CD thinks HGB should read part of it and decide if it is worth while; CD has doubts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
26 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 96
Summary:
Thanks WED for eyeglass.
Reports on health of Horace and family matters.
Has finished Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 24
Summary:
The Director-General of the Army Medical Department [J. B. Gibson] agrees to have CD’s circular distributed to Army surgeons in India and the West Indies, with reply being voluntary. [See Descent 1: 244–5 n.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
30 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 183)
Summary:
Thinks THH’s [Anniversary] Address [to Geological Society, Feb 1862, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): xl–liv] a wonderful condensed and original summary of palaeontology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 47: 175, DAR 160.1: 67–8
Summary:
Discusses insects of south temperate S. America and New Zealand, especially with respect to the distribution and origin of Chilean Carabi, and has sent for a German monograph to learn about the eleven species he has found.
He refers to Chilean poverty in butterflies; scanty New Zealand insect fauna.
An analysis of south temperate insects is desirable, but the small English collections make him afraid to undertake it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 54–5
Summary:
Discusses primrose ovules,
Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],
plant migrations;
Corydalis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr – May? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 9–10
Summary:
Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028)
Summary:
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède
Date:
[c. 16 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 17
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
14 April 1862
Source of text:
MM/19/33, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 Apr 1862
Source of text:
146, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.381
Summary:
Was interested to receive the information regarding another missing nebula; would like to mention it at the R.A.S. The late George Bishop's observatory is now being rebuilt at Twickenham. Will return N. R. Pogson's table of Julian dates tomorrow. Has adopted the first of JH's suggestions.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.382
Summary:
Returns N. R. Pogson's tables. Has received a communication from [W.?] Lummis concerning a dark spot on the sun's disc. Has been unable to make any calculations yet.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Eustace Prescott
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.51
Summary:
Sending JH some crystals for examination. The quartz crystals show spirals. Invites JH to supply information concerning the crystals.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Document type
Repository
- American Philosophical Society1
- Cambridge University Library26
- Cleveland Health Sciences Library, Case Western Reserve University1
- Harvard University, Archives of the Gray Herbarium1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- Lehigh University Libraries1
- National Library of Scotland1
- Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer)1
- R. D. Pyrah (private collection)1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond2
- Royal College of Physicians of London1
- Royal Society1
- The British Library1
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