From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
1 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 23)
Summary:
Thanks for seeds.
Contributor:
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From:
James Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 59
Summary:
Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 206
Summary:
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 8] Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 235
Summary:
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 223
Summary:
Returns a letter, which, when it is published, he believes will make readers take up THH’s lectures in a more impartial spirit.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6)
Summary:
Asks GB’s help to clear up discrepancies between his and John Lindley’s observations on pollination of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 69
Summary:
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Returns "The Week" [unidentified].
Agrees with THH’s published letter that writer is a man of excellent spirit, but doubts he is a good logician.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014)
Summary:
Comments on CK’s letter [3426].
Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.
On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 [Feb] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 25
Summary:
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 12
Summary:
Sends dried specimens of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 157–8
Summary:
Describes battles among bulls for leadership of the [Chillingham] herd.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 143
Summary:
Thanks JDH for box of melastomes
and a very valuable reference from Daniel Oliver.
Is crossing Monochaetum which he thinks is dimorphic.
Is "sometimes half tempted to give up species & stick to experiments".
Pollen of Bletia hyacinthina is quite unlike other Bletia species but exactly the same as Epipactis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
9 [Feb 1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 114–115)
Summary:
Sends MS of Orchids except last chapter. It contains many new and curious facts and conclusions, but he has no idea whether it will sell. If it does not, will hold himself largely responsible.
Contributor:
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From:
Maurice Alberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 230: 9a
Summary:
Has received diploma from the University of Breslau [honorary doctorate in medicine and surgery]. Should he forward it or will CD pick it up in London? [See 3226a and 3446.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Ludwig (Ludwig) Rütimeyer
Date:
11 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (G IV 91, 2)
Summary:
Chillingham cattle leg bones will be sent to LR.
J. E. Gray has read a paper on unusual Japanese domesticated pig at the Zoological Garden ["On the skull of the Japanese pig", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1862): 13–17].
Contributor:
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From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1)
Summary:
Discusses his new microscope.
Contributor:
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From:
Maurice Alberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 96: 2v
Summary:
Has forwarded a diploma from the University of Breslau [Honorary Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery].
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 28
Summary:
Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Alberts
Date:
[after 13 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 2r
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of a diploma for Doctor’s degree from the University of Breslau and expresses his thanks.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.7
- Alberts, Maurice3
- Bates, H. W.2
- Darwin, W. E.2
- Gray, Asa2
- Gray, J. E.2
- Huxley, T. H.2
- Innes, J. B.2
- Lubbock, John2
- Ramsay, A. C.2
- Babington, C. C.1
- Bateman, James1
- Bennet, C. A. (b)1
- Bentham, George1
- Crocker, C. W.1
- Holland, Henry1
- Kingsley, Charles1
- Masters, M. T.1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Oliver, Daniel1
- Rütimeyer, Ludwig1
- Salter, J. W.1
- Unidentified1
- Wood, S. V.1