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.
Contributor:
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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:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 17
Summary:
Sends flowers with anthers of two colours.
Contributor:
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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.
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].
Contributor:
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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:
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.
Contributor:
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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.
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:
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.
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.
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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.]
Contributor:
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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.
Contributor:
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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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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Oliver, Daniel5
- Darwin, W. E.3
- Gray, Asa3
- Lubbock, John3
- Oxenden, G. C.3
- Babington, C. C.2
- Cresy, Edward, Jr2
- Fox, W. D.2
- Candolle, Alphonse de1
- Claparède, Edouard1
- Clarke, W. B. (b)1
- Falconer, Hugh1
- Goubert, E. M. J. M. P.1
- Johnson, Henry (a)1
- King, P. G.1
- Lindley, John1
- More, A. G.1
- Ramsay, A. C.1
- Sulivan, B. J.1
- Wallace, A. R.1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1