From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 17
Summary:
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 111: 81, DAR 165: 117
Summary:
Suggests CD try to get Lythrum hyssopifolia from France.
Dimorphic flowers.
Differences between newly opened and older orchids.
Flowers of Spiranthes and Goodyera.
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From:
Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.1: 149
Summary:
Acknowledges CD’s approval of his review of Origin in Revue Germanique [16 (1861): 523–59; 17 (1861): 232–63]. Praises natural selection;
criticises C.-A. Royer’s [French] translation.
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9? Sept 1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 5)
Summary:
Asks for advice on where a local chemist can send his brother’s meteorological observations from Missouri.
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From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 58
Summary:
He collected Splachnum luteum north of Spitzbergen 40 years ago. Now an acquaintance has brought the plant back from the identical spot.
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From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 240
Summary:
Walter White [Asst.-Sec. and Librarian, Royal Society] has introduced EC to Richard Kippist of the Linnean Society, who has made little progress toward accepting Origin.
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 111 (ser. 2): 60
Summary:
Has given directions to save seeds of Lythrum hyssopifolium.
CD’s diagram of Lythrum salicaria is very remarkable. [See Collected papers 2: 107.]
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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160: 4
Summary:
Hopes to have Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds to send soon.
BAAS is meeting in Cambridge and all eminent Cambridge men are wanted present. If his health were reliable, CD would be in chair of Botany and Zoology Section.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 56–7
Summary:
Wife’s health better.
Visited Duke of Argyll.
Thanks CD for Cruciferae diagram; will ponder it.
Staggered by complexity of Welwitschia.
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From:
Philip Gidley King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 169: 26
Summary:
PGK’s brother is coming to England and will call on CD.
He is impressed but not absolutely convinced by the Origin.
Raises a question about which CD wrote years ago: why do sheep degenerate in Australia, necessitating periodic importation?
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From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 59
Summary:
Strongly recommends Condy’s "Ozonised Disinfectant" as a cure for scarlet fever.
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From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.1: 11
Summary:
Praises Orchids.
He has finished his work on Quercus.
H. Lecoq has worked on hybridism,
and P. Duchartre on orchid polymorphism.
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From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161: 175
Summary:
Acknowledges presentation copy of Orchids.
Asks advice on what to do with all his fossils. Sending various specimens.
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From:
Emile M. J. M. P. Goubert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 80
Summary:
Offers to exchange fossils with CD. He has very good series of French and German fossils.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 58, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Director’s Correspondence 174 (New Zealand letters, 1854–1900): 273)
Summary:
Asks his opinion of A. C. Ramsay’s glacial lake theory. Encloses Julius Haast’s communication on glacial phenomena.
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 118, 119
Summary:
Last chapter of Orchids opens up a "knotty sort of question about accident or design".
Changes in orchid flowers as they age.
Thinks CD may find trimorphism in Nesaea verticillata.
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From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24–7 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 6
Summary:
Encloses MS ["On the American fossil elephant", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 43–114]. Shows persistence of specific characters through glacial period.
Eocene monkeys mistakenly described as pigs.
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From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 60
Summary:
Thinks "ozonised fluid" is a pure solution of permanganate of soda. Sends dosage.
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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 275
Summary:
J. C. Wickham and Arthur Mellersh are in town and BJS wonders whether there is any chance CD might join them.
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From:
Henry Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 168: 66
Summary:
HHJ’s paper ["On the distorted skulls found at Wroxeter (Salop)", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 12 (1862–3): 149–50].
He has been approached about becoming F.R.S., but would like to know how expensive it would be.
Requests a photograph.
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