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
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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 59
Summary:
CD’s comments on JL’s paper [first part of "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
Date:
2 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 2
Summary:
Suggests collecting seeds at different heights from British Columbia.
Describes experiment on seeds from short anthers.
C. V. Naudin writes he has discovered cause of hybrid sterility.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 24
Summary:
Agreement to cancel the bond of D. T. Ansted, dated 19 April 1855. Prof. Ansted is arranging to pay CD what he can.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 181
Summary:
Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B55, B81–2
Summary:
Tells JS Acropera capsule should be left to grow.
JS was correct on "bud-variation" in fern frond.
Does not believe Primula structure necessarily related to dioecism, but the difference in fertility of the two forms forced him to admit the possibility.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 368
Summary:
Thanks for letter and pamphlet.
His approbation of Origin is extremely gratifying, especially since Origin produced no effect whatever in France.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
20 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B20–1
Summary:
Thanks JS for the very large Acropera capsule. CD has perhaps made a blunder about the sex of Acropera.
JS was right that successive homomorphic generations of Primula breed true.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 182
Summary:
Plants, safely arrived from Kew, fill new greenhouse.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Frean
Date:
22 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 144: 298
Summary:
Glad RF approves of book [Origin].
Impossible in many cases to conjecture how structures acquired.
Comments on degeneration of civilised man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24[–5] Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 183
Summary:
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man and of Owen’s comment on it.
Disappointed Lyell has not spoken out on species and on man.
Pleasure of new hothouse and the plants JDH supplied for it.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 41 (EH 88206024)
Summary:
Having trouble understanding laws of phyllotaxy in order to grasp Hugh Falconer’s objections.
L. C. Treviranus on Primula [see 3980] misses the "prettiness" of the adaptations.
John Scott says P. scotica is never dimorphic.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
[12 Feb 1863?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7656: D76
Summary:
Thanks GGS for calculation [to determine the chances of the same peculiarity recurring in a family, see Variation 2: 5]
Contributor:
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