From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[after 14 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 12
Summary:
Leonard’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Erythraea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 46–7
Summary:
JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.
Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.
Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.
JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 69
Summary:
Relates death of H. G. Bronn.
Discusses publication of German edition of Orchids [1862].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 68
Summary:
Will be sending information on peloric plants from his father [William Masters] soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 23, 41–2, 81–2
Summary:
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166: 199
Summary:
Offers to translate Orchids, since H. G. Bronn has died.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160: 301
Summary:
Continues breeding guinea-pigs to test effects of warmth on gestation period. Concludes period is ten weeks and warmth has no influence. Offers CD the specimens.
Awaits Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 114
Summary:
Encloses stamps for Leonard Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017)
Summary:
Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.
Cytisus adami is a puzzle.
Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .
His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Requests peloric plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 159
Summary:
Illness of his son [Leonard]. Has done no work for weeks.
JDH’s hybrid orchids are interesting; CD is surprised many hybrids are not produced.
George [Darwin] caught a moth sucking Gymnadenia conopsea with a pollen-mass of Habenaria bifolia sticking to it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 16
Summary:
Sends orchids from W. H. Gower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 244
Summary:
Invites CD and Emma to dine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 115
Summary:
Is observing Gymnadenia tridentata.
Has received six copies of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
29 [July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 55 (EH 88206038)
Summary:
Cares more for dimorphism now than for orchids. Today saw the three forms of Lythrum, which means there should be 18 different practicable crosses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 64
Summary:
His gardener kept an all-night watch on Epipactis palustris but saw no insects visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 65
Summary:
Offers more Epipactis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Darwin, W. E.6
- Gray, Asa4
- Hooker, J. D.4
- Oxenden, G. C.4
- Oliver, Daniel3
- Darwin, E. A.2
- Brent, B. P.1
- Currey, Frederick1
- Daubeny, C. G. B.1
- E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung1
- Hildebrand, Friedrich1
- Masters, M. T.1
- Maw, George1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages1
- St Barbe, John1
- Stanhope, P. H.1
- Union Bank1
- Wooler, W. A.1