From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr – May? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 9–10
Summary:
Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 237
Summary:
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
Contributor:
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From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 377, DAR 174.1: 22
Summary:
E. A. Parkes informs him there will be difficulty about the Army returns [on CD’s Query to Army surgeons, see Freeman, Works of Charles Darwin, p. 111] owing to official obstructions by Director General. [Enclosed letter from Parkes to GB says that the Director General does not think that Army surgeons could be asked to collect information systematically for CD, but perhaps some informal, voluntary arrangement could be made.]
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Newman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 172.2: 38
Summary:
Has several specimens illustrating dimorphism in insects that he would be happy to leave where CD could examine them.
Discusses the ant genera Formica and Atta, and the origin of the two forms of workers commonly found in the species of these genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 32
Summary:
Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.
How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 1
Summary:
Cannot accept invitation at present.
Is sending a wild honeycomb from Timor.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 April 1862
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B1
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 23
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 143]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 23
Summary:
Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and suggests it be limited to malaria, yellow fever, and dysentery.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 13
Summary:
Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.
Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Observations on Campanula dimorphism.
Contributor:
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From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.2: 325
Summary:
AM did not borrow a Samuel Scudder pamphlet from CD; in fact he was not aware of its existence.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 54–5
Summary:
Discusses primrose ovules,
Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],
plant migrations;
Corydalis.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 31
Summary:
Is it convenient for him and Willy to come to Down from Thursday to Sunday?
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 66
Summary:
Accepts CD’s invitation.
Contributor:
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From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 29
Summary:
JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 257
Summary:
Certain there are three forms of Primula sinensis.
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 14
Summary:
Distinguishes two kinds of floral dimorphism: that affecting sexual organs and that affecting outer envelopes.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Gold Appleton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 111
Summary:
Sends letter via his brother visiting England. Awaits continuation of CD’s "wonderful book", which excites much interest.
Comments on Civil War which he expects will end slavery.
Contributor:
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From:
Berthold Carl Seemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 130, DAR 50: E28
Summary:
Encloses a passage from his book, The botany of the voyage of H.M.S. "Herald" [1852–7].
Discusses possibility of publishing work on flora of Hawaiian Islands.
Contributor:
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From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 24
Summary:
The Director-General of the Army Medical Department [J. B. Gibson] agrees to have CD’s circular distributed to Army surgeons in India and the West Indies, with reply being voluntary. [See Descent 1: 244–5 n.]
Contributor:
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From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 47: 175, DAR 160.1: 67–8
Summary:
Discusses insects of south temperate S. America and New Zealand, especially with respect to the distribution and origin of Chilean Carabi, and has sent for a German monograph to learn about the eleven species he has found.
He refers to Chilean poverty in butterflies; scanty New Zealand insect fauna.
An analysis of south temperate insects is desirable, but the small English collections make him afraid to undertake it.
Contributor:
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