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:
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:
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.
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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.
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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:
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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 95
Summary:
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7r
Summary:
Asks for the address of C. W. Crocker.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (63)
Summary:
Floral structure of Melastoma. Asks AG to observe position of pistils in lately-opened flowers of different plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
18 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.9: 3 (EH 88205976)
Summary:
Would like to hear ACR’s new views on origin of mountain lakes, but cannot stand the hot, late meetings [at Geological Society].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.
Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Feb [1862-9]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 144
Summary:
Admires JDH’s paper on Arctic plants ["Distribution of Arctic plants", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 251–348]. Such papers compel people to reflect on modification of species;
JDH will be driven to a cooled globe.
Serious erratum in paper.
New and original evidence in case of Greenland. Its flora requires accidental means of transport by ice and currents.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
26 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 339
Summary:
Obliged for MTM’s ["Vegetable morphology", Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 29 (1862): 202–18].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
27 [Feb 1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Writes that [Murray’s] terms are very favourable; has never heard of such terms offered for a first work. HWB can depend on fact that Murray is pleased with it [The naturalist on the river Amazons].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
27 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton collection)
Summary:
Thanks for information on domestic animals of Indians.
Glad Murray thinks well of MS of The naturalist on the river Amazons.
CD working on proofs of Orchids.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Salter
Date:
28 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD returns a paper he has received through [G. B.?] Sowerby. He wishes he could persuade his correspondent to publish papers on such subjects. The series on brachiopods was very striking.
Contributor:
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