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DCP-LETT-3479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 145
Summary:

On effect of external conditions: CD thinks all variability due to changes in conditions of life because there is more variability under unnatural domestic conditions than under nature, and changed conditions affect the reproductive organs. But why one seedling out of thousands presents some new character transcends the wildest powers of conjecture.

Not shaken by "saltus" – he had examined all cases of normal structure resembling monstrosities which appear per saltum. Has fought his tendency to attribute too much to natural selection; perhaps he has too much conquered it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3476

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
18 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends paper to be read ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3477

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
18 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Asks that referee of his [Catasetum] paper be informed that if it is ordered to be printed he will borrow woodcuts. But if referee thinks fit, he will withdraw it, for almost all will be published in Orchids. He is not willing to spare time to condense it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10356

From:
Robert Harley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.238
Summary:

Is grateful to JH for calling attention to his paper on analysis. Has forwarded his letter to George Boole. Hopes he can quote it in his paper for the Manchester Philosophical Society. Sends a copy of his memoir from the R.S.P.T.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3478

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Orchids taking up all his time.

He longs to be at work again on poultry and rabbits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1722

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
18 March 1862
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel3559

From:
Henri de Senarmont
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
19 March [1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.189
Summary:

Thanks for help [see HS's 1862-2-24]; requests JH's further assistance in publishing a complete edition of writings of Augustin Fresnel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4153

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 March 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/125
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

JHC1505

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
General William Munro
Date:
19?-3-1862
Source of text:
MUN/1 f.126, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel10503

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.380
Summary:

Encloses slips to show how he has incorporated the Julian dates. Agrees with the American lunar tables. The nebula in Taurus is invisible to William Lassell.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-001514

From:
William Whewell
To:
Rev J S Howson
Date:
20 March 1862
Source of text:
MM/19/122, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-3481

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 146
Summary:

Asks JDH to correct names of two species of Calanthe.

Note from Asa Gray ends "Yours cordially", so CD hopes he is forgiven.

His Catasetum paper will be read 3 Apr [Collected papers 2: 63–70].

Plants and seeds sent will be of great use, especially Lythrum, which according to J. P. E. Vaucher seems grand case of trimorphism. Asks what sort of man Vaucher is.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4154

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Carl Wilhelm Siemens
Date:
22 March 1862
Source of text:
GEC
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel4297

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 March 1862]
Source of text:
Cape Archives/Maclear Papers File 100
Summary:

Maggie Maclear returned to Cape Town after attempting to run away to England. Herschel family instrumental in her safe return.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3483

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23–5 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 30
Summary:

Identifies Calanthe masuca.

Asa Gray would not quarrel with them – "snubbing from us may have done him more good than our sympathy".

If CD means the old Vaucher, he was considered a very accurate, acute, able observer.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3480

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 27–9; American Philosophical Society Library (Hooker papers, B/H76.2)
Summary:

Lighthearted thoughts on "the development of an Aristocracy" after a visit to Walcot Hall, Shropshire.

On CD’s point about the effect of changed conditions on the reproductive organs, JDH does not see why this is not "itself a variation, not necessarily induced by domestication, but accompanying some variety artificially selected".

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FVM-62-03-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
24 March 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, un-numbered letter between f. 55 and f. 56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-03-24d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Royal Literary Fund
Date:
24 March 1862
Source of text:
British Library, Western Manuscripts, Loan 96 RLF 1/628/28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-03-24b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 March 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 146
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-03-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 March 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For published extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) pp. 99-100
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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