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DCP-LETT-3678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[2–3 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 70, DAR 210.6: 102
Summary:

Discusses Lythrum, "a really wonderful case"; asks WED to make observations and collect specimens; sends a diagram which shows what crosses he believes are fertile.

Would like George to watch bees visiting the flowers; wants some pods from different forms to compare shapes and count seeds.

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DCP-LETT-4373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katherine Elizabeth Sophy (Sophy) Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams; Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
Date:
4 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 127
Summary:

Their enumeration [of forms of Lythrum?] is invaluable. He will write later to explain what he is trying to prove about Lythrum through laborious crosses.

Asks for flowers of both forms of Hottonia to measure pollen and compare stigmas.

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DCP-LETT-3646

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
8 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2)
Summary:

Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.

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DCP-LETT-3685

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (71)
Summary:

Believes Lythrum is trimorphic. Asks AG for seeds of plants he suspects are polymorphic.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3687

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

WBT’s "too kind and flattering" article on Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1851

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 August [1862]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 28-29
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 146-147]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3689

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 28)
Summary:

Family illnesses.

On disposition of wild honeycomb gift.

Discounts the difficulty presented by ostrich wings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (67)
Summary:

Emma and Leonard have scarlet fever.

Houstonia seems "a grand case"; J. T. Rothrock should publish his observations on the two pollens and the reciprocal action of two hermaphrodites.

Rhexia glandulosa offers nothing odd, but Heterocentron will turn out something marvellous like Lythrum.

Would like to know what AG thinks of last chapter of Orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 4 (EH 88205929)
Summary:

Leonard Darwin’s illness.

William Darwin and the bank.

Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3693F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
21 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (2009)
Summary:

Thanks for monstrous floral specimen, but it is a common one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 162
Summary:

Lythrum. Wants to examine fresh flowers of Lythraceae. Lythrum salicaria has interested him very much.

Microscopes.

Asks whether JDH can think of plants that have different coloured anthers or pollen in same flowers (as in Melastoma) or on same and in different plants as in Lythrum. Would be a safe guide to dimorphism.

Observation of action of pollen in Linum grandiflorum.

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DCP-LETT-3695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.281)
Summary:

Relates personal news about family members.

CD is "glad Glen Roy is settled".

Mentions evolutionary remarks on birds by Owen.

Compares variability among lower and higher organisms. Comments on Hooker’s view of the subject.

Forthcoming publication of Huxley’s book [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)] and Lyell’s [Antiquity of man (1863)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 125–126)
Summary:

CD is well content with sale of 768 copies [of Orchids]. Hopes and expects remainder will ultimately be sold.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick
Date:
26 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Family news; mostly an account of ill health.

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