From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 106
Summary:
Discusses politics in the U. S. and relations between Britain and America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181: 144
Summary:
Variation in Mollusca. The most abundant forms vary most.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
18 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 3 (EH 88205976)
Summary:
Would like to hear ACR’s new views on origin of mountain lakes, but cannot stand the hot, late meetings [at Geological Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 167.1: 8
Summary:
Reports on a bird, offspring of a male mule between a canary and greenfinch, and a hen canary.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 13
Summary:
Box of Melastomataceae has arrived.
Talked with [Duke of] Argyll about Origin. He is between stools: Owen and Lyell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 207
Summary:
Cites case of Owen’s getting compiler’s name removed from title of a British Museum catalogue.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 144
Summary:
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
26 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 339
Summary:
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 15–16
Summary:
Pleased at CD’s opinion of his Arctic plants paper. CD has caught great blunder.
Lack of Arctic–Asiatic species in mountains of tropical Asia does not trouble him. Species seem to indicate some "current of migration" from Europe and W. Asia southeastward to Ceylon – an awful staggerer to bridge migrations.
Contributor:
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