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DCP-LETT-3974

From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 162: 42
Summary:

Has read Origin with satisfaction. He had long ago come to consider the fixity of species as contrary to the facts, but could see no suitable alternative. The Origin has brought the light to guide him.

Sends CD a copy of his latest work ["Mémoire sur la production artificielle des monstruosités", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 4th ser. 18 (1862): 243–76]. Hopes to explain a great number of anomalies by his experimental work on artificially produced monstrosities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3976

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 281
Summary:

Sends some tickets so that CD’s son might see [an unspecified] model.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3978

From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 196
Summary:

Has been unable to find a book [unspecified] wanted by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3979

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 177
Summary:

Plans to meet CD in town.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3980

From:
Ludolph Christian Treviranus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 182
Summary:

Sends his paper ["Über Dichogamie nach C. C. Sprengel und Ch. Darwin", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 1–7, 9–16].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3983

From:
Edwin Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 325
Summary:

Sends copy of his second paper on mutability of race forms ["On the mutability of species", Proceedings of the Northern Entomological Society, 22 December 1862, pp.4–26].

On tactics of his opponents.

He and Bates have divided up Carabidae and Vanessa for studying relationship of forms.

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DCP-LETT-3984

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 154
Summary:

Points out some errata in the Origin.

Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.

Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3989

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 103–4
Summary:

British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3993F

From:
Richard Frean
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
Launceston Library (State Library of Tasmania): Local Studies Collection – Manuscripts (Robert Norman Smith Diaries and correspondence LMSS 0020)
Summary:

Discusses his reading and understanding of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3994

From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 109: A94
Summary:

Replies to CD’s letter: dimorphism common in Ceylon Rubiaceae. [See Forms of flowers, p. 286.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3995

From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 178: 57
Summary:

Hoped to meet CD at the Linnean Society to discuss pigeon and poultry breeding experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3997

From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 84
Summary:

Sends Acropera capsule for CD to dissect.

Will try to raise Acropera from seed (never done before in Britain) to examine its sexual forms.

Studying primroses, parthenogenesis, and reproduction of some cryptogams.

Received maize varieties from CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3999

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 171: 97
Summary:

Discusses the structure and particular uniformities of the Shropshire coal-seams and surrounding strata; speculates on their origins.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4001

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 297
Summary:

Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4002

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 36
Summary:

Dining arrangements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4007

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 105–7
Summary:

Owen’s cutting critique of Lyell’s book [Antiquity of man] in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3]. JDH despises Owen’s mind too much to hate his individuality.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4008

From:
Hermann Crüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 275
Summary:

Will observe fertilisation of melastomads as CD requests.

Observations on fertilisation by ants.

Detailed observations on sexes in Catasetum, which were made before he received Orchids and which differ from CD’s findings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4010

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 299
Summary:

Pleads guilty to both criticisms of "Miss Henrietta Minor Rhadamanthus Darwin" [see 3896] of points in his Lectures [to working men].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4011

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 108–10
Summary:

Criticism of Antiquity of man; its public reception.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4012

From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 171: 98
Summary:

Discusses the deposition of coal and considers the possibility of coal aggregating into seams after deposition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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