From:
George Edwin Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.1: 107
Summary:
GEH, a tailor, wishes to trade some work for a presentation copy of the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 17–19
Summary:
Had it not been for CD, JDH would never have written such papers as his one on Arctic flora. The "evulgation" of CD’s views is the purest pleasure he derives from them.
He too is staggered that Greenland ought to have been depopulated during the glacial period. Absence of Caltha is fatal to its re-population by chance migration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 107
Summary:
Will observe Rhexia for CD to see whether it is dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2)
Summary:
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 319
Summary:
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 255
Summary:
Will experiment on hollyhocks as CD suggests.
On desirability of a place for experiments to be set up by Government or a scientific society. Kew is too busy for experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 256
Summary:
Informs CD where, at Kew, to find Epipactis palustris.
Has never trusted Donald Beaton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 14 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172.1: 28
Summary:
Belated thanks for CD’s photograph.
When in London at Rucker’s wonderful gardens she learned he had sent CD a Mormodes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 23–6
Summary:
JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.
Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.
Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".
Contributor:
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From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 67
Summary:
He has only an uncertain memory of the placement of stamens in the [monstrous?] primrose CD asked about.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–5 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 30
Summary:
Identifies Calanthe masuca.
Asa Gray would not quarrel with them – "snubbing from us may have done him more good than our sympathy".
If CD means the old Vaucher, he was considered a very accurate, acute, able observer.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 27–9; American Philosophical Society Library (Hooker papers, B/H76.2)
Summary:
Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.
On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Francis Jamieson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1862
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 112/2834–5)
Summary:
Writes with an important fact about the parallel roads of Glen Roy. The watershed at Makoul corresponds with the lowermost of the Glen Roy lines. Over a stretch of 20 miles from east to west the lowermost of the Glen Roy lines is near parallel with the present sea level.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 241
Summary:
Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Mar 1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 214
Summary:
Variations are centrifugal because the chances are a million to one that identity of form once lost will return.
In the human race, we find no reversion "that would lead us to confound a man with his ancestors".
Contributor:
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From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 320
Summary:
CD can add revisions since he cannot begin work on 2d German ed. of Origin until May.
Schweizerbart wants to publish translation of Orchids. Asks for woodcuts for illustrations.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28–31 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.274)
Summary:
Suggests that the height of the water which formed the shelves in Glen Roy was determined not by the height of the blocking glacier but by the height of a col. Notes problems in the idea.
Contributor:
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 108
Summary:
Has been reading J. D. Morell’s new book on psychology [An introduction to mental philosophy, on the inductive method (1862)].
Progress of the Civil War.
Contributor:
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