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From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 July – 2 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 89
Summary:

His orchid paper limited because he does not give illustrations from distinct genera.

Discusses the self- and cross-fertility of coloured primrose varieties. Thanks CD for tables of unpublished Primula work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 112
Summary:

Relates events at Down;

asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.

His present hobby-horse is tendrils.

Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 152–3
Summary:

Encourages CD to continue observations on tendrils.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 154–5
Summary:

Sends "tendrilliferous" plants.

Plans visit to Down.

Naudin’s paper on tendrils [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 4th ser. 9 (1863): 180–203].

T. V. Wollaston snubs Bates’s work.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 198
Summary:

Describes experiments on rotation of tendrils and shoots.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 298
Summary:

Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.

C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
2 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:

CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.

Thanks for Passiflora trials.

"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."

CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
2 July [1863]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 18 July 1863, p. 675
Summary:

Asks M. J. Berkeley to identify the microscopical spherical bodies CD found in drops of yellowish rain-water that fell on his garden in a brief shower.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 July [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 229)
Summary:

Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.

Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 July 1863
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9)
Summary:

Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.

He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.

Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.

Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 127, 137
Summary:

Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].

Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.

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From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 110
Summary:

Sends seeds of female Lychnis diurna; has found none in hermaphrodites.

On variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in this plant.

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From:
George Sigerson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 162
Summary:

Discusses leaf form and phyllotaxy; clarifies a part of his paper ["On a protomorphic phyllotype", Atlantis (1863)].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Forsell Kirby
Date:
9 July [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is particularly struck by WFK’s observations on Corsican and N. American subspecies in his paper ["On the geographical distribution of European Rhopalocera", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d ser. 1 (1862–3): [!?bib has 1862–4] 481–92]. Thinks it would be interesting for WFK to examine specimens from the Shetland Islands, for even faint trace of differentiation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
9 July [1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

WBT progressing with breeding experiments for CD.

CD making quicker progress with Variation.

Contributor:
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From:
Philip Henry Gosse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 78
Summary:

On CD’s request to observe bee Ophrys: PHG’s son collected 16 plants – of the 32 flowers, two had lost both pollinia, two had lost one each. He himself found two plants with pollinia adhering to the stigma.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 200
Summary:

Requests tendril-bearing plants.

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From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 200
Summary:

He and L. C. Treviranus have repeated many of CD’s orchid observations with the same results. Sends his paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45].

Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16, 17 and 19 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 99: 13–16d, DAR 142: 37
Summary:

Thanks CD for two letters and his portrait.

CD’s book [Orchids] opened up terra incognita for him.

His work on S. African butterflies continues.

Reports on a moth that punctures peach skins.

Interesting that thoughtful naturalists are forced to admit mutability of species.

Some notes on Oxalis.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 51 (EH 88206034)
Summary:

Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.

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