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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[9 April 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 72
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 April 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 73
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[12 April 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2231
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[15 April 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2232
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Apr [1863?]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176)
Summary:
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Turner
Date:
[1 Apr – 16 June 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 12
Summary:
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr? 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 164
Summary:
Encloses strawberry blossoms used in his crossing experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 59
Summary:
Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].
Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 22
Summary:
Conducted crosses on Gladiolus varieties exactly according to CD’s letter. Flowers of same variety are self-sterile, whether from the same plant or not.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Rawson
Date:
2 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (10 December 2013); Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Autumn 2017 lot 2184)
Summary:
Discusses unusual primula flowers and asks for details of Rawson’s experiments with gladioli. Asks for loan of Cypripedium but admits he will probably mutilate it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–11] Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile)
Summary:
Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".
Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.
Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.
Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 23
Summary:
Provides evidence of self-sterility in Gladiolus.
Has observed three seed-leaves in some Dianthus seedlings.
Cannot cross, or grow from seed, Dielytra spectabilis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Farnaby Cator, 1st baronet; John Farnaby Lennard, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Apr 1863
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (24 July 1995)
Summary:
Testimony by the parishioners of Down, Kent, to the moral character and integrity of George Snow, District Surveyor. Signed by nearly fifty local residents, including CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
5 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 57
Summary:
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
6 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002)
Summary:
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 39
Summary:
JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 205
Summary:
Has seen some curious hybrid ducks and geese of Bartlett’s. Bartlett will do experiments suggested by CD when he has time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 74
Summary:
Preparations under way to move to London account for delay in thanking CD for his review [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
His book is finished, and he is sending a copy to CD; owing to the great expense few copies will be sent to reviewers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
9 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-1)
Summary:
Thanks HWB for his book [Naturalist on the river Amazons]. Feels sure it will often be alluded to in other works.
Asa Gray is fascinated by the "Butterfly paper" ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 132
Summary:
The war is nearly finished, "rebeldom is ""gone up"" ".
Contributor:
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