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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
4 July 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 61
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Pamplin
Date:
4 [July 1862]
Source of text:
Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40)
Summary:
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 162.1: 115
Summary:
Sends concluding part of his recent lecture on orchids so CD may see how his inquiries were represented in one of the great centres of clerical influence.
Asks whether insects are attracted to one species of orchids more than another.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.224
Summary:
Was pleased to obtain JH's news regarding ice. Agrees with him about metals of alkalis in the earth. Further regarding volcanoes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
5 July 1862
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1862 (489) LIV, p.14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 64
Summary:
His gardener kept an all-night watch on Epipactis palustris but saw no insects visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181: 157
Summary:
Believes, contrary to CD, that when anthers arise from petals the development of the pollen is affected by the amputation of the petal.
Believes interbreeding can be used to combine desirable characters, but that, carried beyond narrow limits, it leads to deterioration of the breed.
Has been experimenting on crossing polyanthus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 96
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending Orchids.
Reports observations by his uncle relating to the successful breeding of a male mule with a horse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 3)
Summary:
WED reports on studying the pollen of grass and Valerian through his microscope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
8 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 56
Summary:
Has not found insects visiting Epipactis palustris either at night or in the day.
Reality of hybrid plants and birds in nature is controversial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 55
Summary:
Has misplaced CD’s forwarding address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 11
Summary:
Lenny [Leonard Darwin]’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Lythrum salicaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Ernst Becker
Date:
9 July 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 F10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Hinchliff?
To:
Thomas Sims
Date:
10 July 1862
Source of text:
Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery: TUNWM: 1936.01.20.2.18
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 46–7
Summary:
JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.
Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.
Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.
JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
11 July 1862
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83)
Summary:
Sends additional notes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 69
Summary:
Relates death of H. G. Bronn.
Discusses publication of German edition of Orchids [1862].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
11 July [1862]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:
Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.
CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".
Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 175: 8
Summary:
Their views on transformism differ a great deal, as CD says, but perhaps not as much as CD thinks. Sending his [Physiologie comparée: métamorphoses de l’homme et des animaux (1862)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project