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DCP-LETT-3614

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 4–5
Summary:

Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.

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DCP-LETT-3616

From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 174
Summary:

Has received Australian government grant to collect and publish on fossils. Has collected thousands of fossils.

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DCP-LETT-3618

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 54
Summary:

Yesterday found hundreds of [Ophrys] apifera and [Ophrys] arachnites in bloom in the same area. The two species grow in clumps and do not mix with each other.

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DCP-LETT-3620

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 156
Summary:

Has been ill (violent skin inflammation).

Has done hardly anything except tend to his experiments. Repeating Primula work has verified former results and very curious facts on sterility of homomorphic seedlings.

Wonders who reviewed Orchids for London Review & Wkly J. Polit..

Asa Gray also infatuated with Orchids.

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DCP-LETT-3621

From:
Charles Victor Naudin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 172.1: 6
Summary:

Thanks for Orchids.

Plans to publish soon on hybrids.

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DCP-LETT-3622

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 194
Summary:

Roughly identifies some insects sent by CD; is waiting to see Francis Walker, who, he believes, has written a monograph on the family to which they belong.

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DCP-LETT-3623

From:
August Wilhelm von Hofmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 232
Summary:

Forwards carbonate of ammonia and gelatine free of chlorine.

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DCP-LETT-3624

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 42–3
Summary:

M. J. Berkeley wrote London Review & Wkly J. Polit. article.

CD is "out of sight the best physiological observer and experimenter that Botany ever saw".

Laments how much he [JDH] missed when doing the Listera ["Functions and structure of the rostellum of Listera ovata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 144 (1854): 259–64].

Illness of wife and father.

"More plants from Fernando Po and more European".

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DCP-LETT-3625

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 195
Summary:

Has seen Francis Walker, who has identified CD’s two Hymenoptera species ["caught in Musk Orchis" – CD note].

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DCP-LETT-3627

From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 25
Summary:

Circulars are being sent to Army surgeons.

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DCP-LETT-3628

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 [June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 157
Summary:

Remembers JDH’s encouragement when he was "utterly weary of life".

Marvellous about European forms in Fernando Po.

C. V. Naudin will publish a book on hybridity ["Nouvelles recherches sur l’hybridité dans les végétaux", Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 1 (1865): 25–176; part also in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) (1863)].

CD fears Naudin has underestimated distribution of pollen by insects.

Melastomatous plants are ready for his work on meaning of two sets of anthers.

Very curious about Masdevallia.

George [Darwin] observing orchids.

Adaptation of Herminium beats almost every other orchid.

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DCP-LETT-3629

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 99: 5–9
Summary:

Discusses cases of assumed correlation, e.g., facial hair and generative organs, sexual characters in castrated oxen. Finds it difficult to see how correlation of functions which would be useless separately can be accumulated gradually through natural selection.

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DCP-LETT-3631

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[late June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 110
Summary:

Has not had time to look at Rhexia.

Progress of Civil War.

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DCP-LETT-4520

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June [1862 or 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 63
Summary:

Sends musk orchid.

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DCP-LETT-3612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.279)
Summary:

Testimonial in support of WBT’s application for curatorship of the Hartley Institution.

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DCP-LETT-3630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
30 June [1862]
Source of text:
Bronn trans. 1862; DAR 143: 155; Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83)
Summary:

Encloses answers and corrections [concerning Orchids]. Thanks HGB for translating it.

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