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DCP-LETT-3513

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65)
Summary:

Is sending first half of orchid book.

Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3514

From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 257
Summary:

Certain there are three forms of Primula sinensis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3515

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 14
Summary:

Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3516

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 47 (EH 88206030)
Summary:

Thanks for Oxalis. Only experimentation will show whether disproportion of long- to short-styled flowers is a functional dimorphism.

Case of aestival flowers is very curious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3517

From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 111
Summary:

Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.

Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3518

From:
Berthold Carl Seemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 130, DAR 50: E28
Summary:

Encloses a passage from his book, The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. "Herald" [1852–7].

Discusses possibility of publishing work on flora of Hawaiian Islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3519

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
25 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:

Sends additions and corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin [1862–3].

Before a German translation of Orchids is done, CD thinks HGB should read part of it and decide if it is worth while; CD has doubts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
26 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 96
Summary:

Thanks WED for eyeglass.

Reports on health of Horace and family matters.

Has finished Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3521

From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 24
Summary:

The Director-General of the Army Medical Department [J. B. Gibson] agrees to have CD’s circular distributed to Army surgeons in India and the West Indies, with reply being voluntary. [See Descent 1: 244–5 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3522

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
30 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 183)
Summary:

Thinks THH’s [Anniversary] Address [to Geological Society, Feb 1862, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): xl–liv] a wonderful condensed and original summary of palaeontology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3523

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 47: 175, DAR 160.1: 67–8
Summary:

Discusses insects of south temperate S. America and New Zealand, especially with respect to the distribution and origin of Chilean Carabi, and has sent for a German monograph to learn about the eleven species he has found.

He refers to Chilean poverty in butterflies; scanty New Zealand insect fauna.

An analysis of south temperate insects is desirable, but the small English collections make him afraid to undertake it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3722

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 54–5
Summary:

Discusses primrose ovules,

Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],

plant migrations;

Corydalis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3745

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr – May? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 9–10
Summary:

Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028)
Summary:

Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède
Date:
[c. 16 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 17
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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