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:
Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick
Date:
21 Feb [1863 or later]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.620)
Summary:
Asks her to translate passage of letter about treatment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Apr [1863?]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176)
Summary:
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Jan [1863-4]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254)
Summary:
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Friedrich Emil Suchsland
Date:
[after 19 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 618, item 441)
Summary:
Returns book by Friedrich Rolle. Author has sent copies.
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:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183)
Summary:
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Contributor:
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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
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 181)
Summary:
Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56)
Summary:
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[7 Feb 1863 or earlier]
Source of text:
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (Paul Philemon Kies Autograph Collection, 1533–1970: 1 Autograph letters, 1533–1970 box 1, folder 55)
Summary:
Wishes to order Botanische Zeitung for 2 and 9 January 1863.
Contributor:
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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
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].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
5 and 6 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 144: 29
Summary:
His admiration for HF’s paper on American fossil elephant.
Notes "temporary irruption of S. American forms into N. America".
Rejoices that HF has "smashed" case of Mastodon on Timor.
Shares HF’s anger at Owen.
He is eager to hear about fossil bird [Archaeopteryx].
Comments on criticisms of species theory by [Johann Andreas?] Wagner.
Describes research on fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
7 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44)
Summary:
Responds to JDD’s letter [3845].
Discusses his own poor health.
"Man is our great subject at present."
Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] sold 4000 copies on day of sale.
"The fossil bird [Archaeopteryx] … is a grand case for me." Wishes a skeleton could be found in the "so-called red sandstone foot-step beds".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
7 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 81
Summary:
Thanks for parcel of shoots with several interesting cases of "bud-variation".
Asks for information about roses.
Strange that great changes in peaches are less rare than slight ones and no case seems recorded of new apples or pears or apricots by "bud-variation". "How ignorant we are!"
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
8 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67
Summary:
CD’s respect for JS’s indomitable work and interesting experiments increases steadily.
His gratitude for the primulas and the astonishing Gongora specimen.
Asks JS’s opinion about crossing a primrose with the pollen of a wild cowslip and of a cultivated polyanthus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project