From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 154
Summary:
CD’s paper [on Linum] is announced for reading at the Linnean Society on 5 February.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 82
Summary:
Experiments to cut Laelia stigma from rostellum and then to fertilise rostellum are baffled by "a latent instinctive power". Somehow the pollen-tubes find their way to the style.
Suggests CD study variation in ferns.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
17 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 61, 21 July 1989, item 50)
Summary:
Can TR distinguish generally, always, or never, a nectarine-tree from a peach-tree before it flowers or before it fruits? He wants to quote TR’s answer.
Contributor:
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From:
Henri Louis Frédéric (Henri) de Saussure
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 40
Summary:
His work on Mexico has some geology, which might interest CD.
He is currently at work on the "filiation des genres des espèces et des moeurs des guepes [hornets]".
Contributor:
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From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 60
Summary:
Thanks for "Two forms of Primula" [Collected papers 2: 45–63].
Praise for Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 67 (Letters)
Summary:
Has sent copy of his paper to Asa Gray.
Melastomad flowers are strikingly neglected by pollinators.
Murray has ordered many illustrations for HWB’s Naturalist on the river Amazons.
Contributor:
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 13
Summary:
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57)
Summary:
Comments on his own review of Bates’s butterfly paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thanks AG for information on Platanthera.
Has been wasting more time with Melastomataceae; can find no nectar in Monochaetum; is there any in Rhexia?
Hopes Lincoln’s "fiat against Slavery" will have some effect.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
20 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 30
Summary:
If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
Date:
20 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 1
Summary:
Discusses hybrid strawberry–raspberry
and his research on Primula and Linum.
Suggests breeding experiments.
Doubtful about Donald Beaton’s statement about Pelargonium.
Mentions experiments on peloric flowers.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 176: 160
Summary:
Sends some trees to CD.
Would be pleased to receive the copy of Origin offered by CD as gift.
Will give CD any tree or shrub he may want.
Refers to curious strawberry hybrids noticed in Journal of Horticulture [I. Anderson-Henry, "Crossing strawberries", J. Hortic. n.s. 4 (1863): 45–6].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
21 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B56–7, B75–6
Summary:
Urges JS to publish on orchid pollen-tubes.
Suggests comparing stigmatic tissue of sterile hybrids and fertile parent; he would expect hybrid plant’s cell contents not to be coagulated after 24 hours in spirits of wine.
Suggests JS coat orchid stigmas with plaster of Paris for his work on rostellar germination.
Asks for list of "bud-variation" cases; CD has devoted a chapter to the subject.
Inquiries about I. Anderson-Henry’s observational competence.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
22 Jan 1863
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
Thanks JvH for his address [to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury], his Geological Report [Topographical and geological exploration of the western districts of the Nelson province, New Zealand (1861)],
and for the "honourable" notice of Origin.
CD especially interested in JvH’s facts on the old glacial period.
Asks about fossil remains [of supposed living mammalia] which CD thinks may be like "the Solenhofen bird-creature" [Archaeopteryx].
Urges the recording of rate and manner of spreading of European weeds and plants and observation on which native plants "most fail".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 127)
Summary:
Asks that a copy of Origin be sent to Thomas Rivers.
Curious about sale of Orchids. It is too stiff for the public. "If praise from Botanists would sell, it would go off well."
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 19
Summary:
The number of "aquatic" flowers is reduced if one considers only those that expand under water.
Lecturing at Norwich.
Contributor:
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From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 254
Summary:
His son wants CD’s opinion about a cub supposed by Frank Buckland to be progeny of a lioness and mastiff.
Lyell working at last proofs [of Antiquity of man]; he is scornful of Owen.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 59
Summary:
CD’s comments on JL’s paper [first part of "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 101: 99–100
Summary:
JDH delivers CD’s letter to C. V. Naudin.
Neither Naudin nor Decaisne appreciates Origin.
Discusses Naudin on physiological causes of species formation;
Decaisne on plant heredity.
JDH on Lincoln’s emancipation proclamation.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 73
Summary:
Wallace noticed that melastomads in Malay archipelago were visited by small Hymenoptera.
Darwinism discussed at the last meeting of the Zoological Society. The Darwinians had the best of it.
HWB has committed the "folly" of marriage [to Sarah Ann Mason, 15 Jan 1863].
Printing of vol. 1 [of Naturalist on the river Amazons] is nearly finished.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
Date:
24 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
McConnochie 1901 , pp. 236–7
Summary:
Impressed with TFJ’s Glen Roy paper.
TFJ has treated CD’s errors very gently.
Contributor:
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