From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[2–3 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 103
Summary:
Asks WED to send some specimens [of Lythrum?].
[Letter from Emma Darwin to WED on verso.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 24)
Summary:
Can CCB get Lythrum hyssopifolium seeds?
Hottonia splendidly dimorphic.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:
Hive-bees and clover.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
2 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 35 (EH 88206018)
Summary:
Exciting work on trimorphism in Lythrum salicaria. Requests Lythraceae from Kew.
Wants to know of plants other than Melastoma and Lythrum with coloured pollen.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
[3–]4 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (68)
Summary:
Glad AG will publish some separate notes on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids through the agency of insects", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 420–9].
Trimorphism in Lythrum.
Bee behaviour.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[3 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 55
Summary:
CD was in error about bees’ behaviour at clover.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
5 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 263
Summary:
Finds JL’s facts on the diving insect that remains four hours under water new and interesting [see "On two aquatic Hymenoptera", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1864): 135–42].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
5 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 7 (EH 88205980)
Summary:
On ACR’s paper on glacial origin of lakes. CD thinks it is correct. Suggests further investigation to corroborate it. His only doubt has to do with areas of great activity.
On ACR’s view of cause of glacial period: CD did battle with Hooker on same point.
T. F. Jamieson has smashed CD’s Glen Roy marine theory in splendid style.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[10? Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 104
Summary:
Gives advice as to whether certain meteorological observations would be worth making.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 162
Summary:
Has passed the time by dissecting flowers of Cruciferae. Sends results, with diagrams, to JDH.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
12 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 134)
Summary:
WDF’s information on turkeys will be useful when CD resumes his half-finished volume [see Variation 1: 292].
Illness in the family.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
14 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 192)
Summary:
Thanks JL for review [of Orchids, Gard. Chron. (1862): 789–90, 863]; CD published almost by accident, having been led on in part by encouragement from JL.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
14 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 37 (EH 88206020)
Summary:
Asks DO to name enclosed Lythrum received from CD’s sister-in-law [Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
15 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 322
Summary:
Son [Leonard] ill with scarlet fever. Also Mrs Darwin.
Intends to give up work on Drosera until Variation is done.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[17 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 36 (EH 88206019)
Summary:
Performed a large number of Lythrum crosses before leaving home.
Working on Drosera for amusement. Has tried effect on plants of vegetable substances active on animal nervous systems, e.g., opium; makes Drosera inactive for hours.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 160
Summary:
Thanks for JDH’s letter [3725].
Has become interested in experimenting on Drosera.
Observations on the ovaria of Cruciferae.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
20 [Sept 1862]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 135)
Summary:
Would like to go to Cambridge [for BAAS meeting]. Reminisces about his student days.
Pleased that WDF likes his book [Orchids]. At one time CD agreed with Lyell that he was an ass to publish it.
Working on dimorphism and sensibility of other plants.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [Sept 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 161
Summary:
Thanks for Haast’s observations. Particularly glad to get geological evidence of glacial action (in Southern Hemisphere).
Thinks Ramsay’s theory to large extent true, but thinks that in a much disturbed country some lakes would have been formed in depressions.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 60.2: 88, DAR 115: 163
Summary:
Encloses MS on observations and experiments on Drosera. JDH’s opinion will help him decide whether to pursue subject in some future year.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
26 Sept [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:
Describes experiment on role of labellum in fertilisation of orchids. Asks for information.
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