From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 259
Summary:
Answers on Begonia.
Snapdragon crossing experiments.
Thanks for offer of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 72
Summary:
Gratified by CD’s approval of paper which was also praised by Hooker and Wallace. Only cares for one other opinion, that of C. Felder of Vienna. He finds ordinary entomologists are not scientific men. Asks for more criticisms; desires to publish paper in a widely circulating journal to advertise his book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 25 Nov 1862]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman , n.s. 3 (1862): 672
Summary:
Asks correspondents whether any kinds of strawberries now cultivated have been raised from a cross between the wood or alpine strawberry and the scarlet, pine, or Chili strawberry.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
25 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
[Apparently in reply to question in missing portion of 3825.] A written agreement is unnecessary, but a letter stating terms would prevent misundertanding. He will attempt to have a review of HWB’s paper published.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 111 (ser. 2): 61–2
Summary:
Informs CD of possible dimorphism of Epilobium angustifolium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Nov 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 166
Summary:
Replies to CD’s inquiry about cross-breeds of strawberries [Collected papers 2: 70]. Has been crossing for years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26[–7] Nov [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (50)
Summary:
Discusses AG’s article ["Dimorphism", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 419–20]. Does not like the terms "dioecio-dimorphism" or "precocious fertilisation". Discusses the separation of sexes in plants; cannot doubt that hermaphroditism is the aboriginal state.
Discusses AG’s observations on orchids and his review of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 61–2, 77–8
Summary:
Returns Asa Gray letter. Gray has made a great blunder in his criticism of Oliver: he mistakes perpetuation of a variety for "propagation of variation". Confusion between "action of physical causes" and "effects of physical causes". Neither crossing nor natural selection has made so many divergent individuals, but simply variation. "If once you hold that natural selection can create a character your whole doctrine tumbles to the ground." CD’s failure to convey this, and the false doctrine that "like produces like" is at bottom of half the scientific infidelity to CD’s doctrine. There is something to the objection that CD has made a deus ex machina of natural selection since he neglects to dwell on the facts of infinite incessant variations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
26 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
Milton D. Forsyth, Jr (private collection)
Summary:
For his work on dimorphism, CD asks WAL if he can send roots of two forms of Epilobium angustifolium. He doubts that they are reciprocally connected like the two forms of Primula, but will try the experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161: 229
Summary:
Sends cheque to CD for Down parish charities.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 26] Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 172
Summary:
Discusses differences between Asa Gray’s view and his own on crossing. A common effect is the obliteration of incipient varieties. There is heavy evidence against new characters arising from crossing wild forms, "only intermediate races are then produced". Innate vital forces are somehow led to act differently as a result of direct effect of physical conditions. Astonished by JDH’s statement that every difference might have occurred without selection. CD agrees, but JDH’s manner of putting it astonished him. CD says, "think of each of a thousand seeds bringing forth its plant, and then each a thousand … I cannot even grapple with idea". Responds to JDH’s and Lyell’s feeling that he made too much of a deus ex machina out of natural selection. [Letter actually dated 20 Nov but is certainly after 3831.] [wrong field?]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Mellersh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 145
Summary:
He is going to S. America as captain of a ship. Offers to bring back fossils for CD and B. J. Sulivan.
He is going to domesticate the Patagonian bird "something like a guinea fowl" in Sussex. He shot the only Beagle specimen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 27 Nov 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 167
Summary:
Sends strawberries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
1 November 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/129
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
George Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 November 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/129
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
4 November 1862
Source of text:
JRULM Edward Frankland papers
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
John Pyke Hullah
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 November 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/6/2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
11 November 1862
Source of text:
RBGK MS English Letters, A-K, 1862/5 # 288
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 November 1862
Source of text:
RGO 6/476, f.53
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
13 November 1862
Source of text:
RGO 6/476, f.54-5
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project