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DCP-LETT-4495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5
Summary:

Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.

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DCP-LETT-4496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 233
Summary:

CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Pleased at Bates’s appointment

and Wallace’s paper.

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DCP-LETT-4497

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
16 May [1864]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 144)
Summary:

Urges WDF to send trap he has invented to the exhibition and competition of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Advertisement of Brailsford’s Patent Vermin Trap enclosed.

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DCP-LETT-4498

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 106
Summary:

Thanks for communicating Oncidium sterility paper [see 4485] to Linnean Society.

Surprised that CD’s seedlings of non-dimorphic cowslip breed true.

Surprised also that the red primrose he sent reverts to wild form. He had reasoned from red’s infertility with yellow that it was an established variety. Tries to correlate inheritance of colour and sterility between varieties.

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DCP-LETT-4498F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 80
Summary:

CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.

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DCP-LETT-4499

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 6
Summary:

Glad to hear CD well again.

Will send Lythrum hyssopifolium flowers from Botanic Garden if they are in bloom; does not know where to find wild specimen, but thinks they are same as garden type.

Is finishing his course of lectures, which was attended by 35–45 people.

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DCP-LETT-4500

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A83–6, A94
Summary:

Sends Pulmonaria anthers, with measurements of styles and pollen counts.

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DCP-LETT-4501

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 220–1
Summary:

JDH suggests Scott go to India; he will write letters of introduction.

Conversation with Herbert Spencer.

George Bentham would like to know how CD’s view of hybridism diverges from Charles Naudin’s.

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DCP-LETT-4502

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: B43–7
Summary:

Sends specimens of Menyanthes with observations and drawings [see Forms of flowers, p. 115].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4503

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 116
Summary:

Sends dandelion [enclosed] with peculiar form of achene; suggests this solitary "sport" must have arisen by sudden jump from normal type.

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DCP-LETT-4504

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 110: A82, A87–8
Summary:

Clarifies his letter of 18 May [4500].

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DCP-LETT-4504F

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 142: 95
Summary:

Taeas [?] allied to L. hyssopifolia. [Cover containing packets of seed specimens.] Mentioned in the letter to H. C. Watson, 28 May [1864], f.2 (fS 4512).

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DCP-LETT-4504G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
20 May [1864]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67
Summary:

Corrects his former account of cowslips.

The delay in the publication of JS’s Primula paper.

Delights in JS’s experimentation on Verbascum which confirms [C. F.] Gärtner’s statements.

Should be pleased if JS would accept offer of help.

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DCP-LETT-4505

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 7
Summary:

CCB thought CD wanted live specimens, but now will send some dried ones from his herbarium.

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DCP-LETT-4505F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
21 May [1864]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67–8
Summary:

Encloses an extract from a letter received from [J. D.] Hooker which suggests a job opportunity in India. Advises careful reflection about the risks and the need for a character recommendation. Would like to support the costs of the voyage and initial living expenses.

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DCP-LETT-4506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 236
Summary:

CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.

Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.

Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.

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DCP-LETT-4508

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 110: A89–93, B48–50
Summary:

Encloses drawings of Menyanthes and Pulmonaria anthers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4509

From:
William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 147
Summary:

Sends plant and directions to his home so that CD’s gardener may call for another plant.

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DCP-LETT-4510

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 [May 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 39)
Summary:

Response to ARW’s papers on Papilionidae ["On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71; abstract in Reader 3 (1864): 491–3],

and man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].

The former is "really admirable" and will be influential.

The idea of the man paper is striking and new. Minor points of difference. Conjectures regarding racial differences; the possible correlation between complexion and constitution. His Query to Army surgeons to determine this point. Offers ARW his notes on man, which CD doubts he will be able to use.

On sexual selection in "our aristocracy"; primogeniture is a scheme for destroying natural selection.

[Letter incorrectly dated March by CD.]

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DCP-LETT-4511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79)
Summary:

Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].

Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids

– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.

Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.

How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?

He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.

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