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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[30 January 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2227
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 240
Summary:
Is preparing a volume of his articles [Essays on scientific and other subjects (1862)], to one of which he would like to add a postscript referring to CD’s Origin [pp. 100–1]. Sends proposed postscript for CD’s approval.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 142
Summary:
Is JDH sure it is a Bletia, just received? Its pollen very different from any Epidendreæ he has seen. If it is Bletia, Lindley’s grand divisions are fanciful.
Accepts JDH’s offer to collect cases of dimorphism.
James Bateman has sent a lot of orchids with Angraecum sesquipedale. What a proboscis the moth that sucks its 11½ inch nectary must have!
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 14; DAR 111: 93
Summary:
Wrote a "frightful screed" about aristocracy’s being a necessary consequence of natural selection, and then burnt it.
H. W. Bates is the only man "thinking out" natural selection to any purpose. "I think I have driven Bates back to Nat. Sel. as the only way of solving his difficulties."
HWB’s mimetic butterflies.
JDH wishes he had time to do the same thing with plants.
Owen and Huxley involved in a "contemptible" squabble in the Edinburgh newspapers.
Maximovitch reports Stellaria bulbifera is a Siberian form which never ripens its seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 169.1: 29
Summary:
CK defended CD’s theory at a shooting party with the Bishop of Oxford, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Ashburton. The discussion started as a result of shooting some blue rock-pigeons which were different from blue rocks of other localities. CK held that all pigeons were descended from one species.
CK proposed that mythological races, e.g., elves and dwarfs, were intermediate species between man and apes, and have become extinct by natural selection; i.e., by competition with a superior white race of man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 59
Summary:
Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.
Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 206
Summary:
Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 8] Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 235
Summary:
Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[3 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 48
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 69
Summary:
Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 [Feb] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 25
Summary:
Sir George Clerk to be new President of the Zoological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 12
Summary:
Sends dried specimens of Melastomataceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Augustus Bennet, 6th earl of Tankerville
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 157–8
Summary:
Describes battles among bulls for leadership of the [Chillingham] herd.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maurice Alberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 230: 9a
Summary:
Has received diploma from the University of Breslau [honorary doctorate in medicine and surgery]. Should he forward it or will CD pick it up in London? [See 3226a and 3446.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 1)
Summary:
Discusses his new microscope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maurice Alberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 96: 2v
Summary:
Has forwarded a diploma from the University of Breslau [Honorary Doctorate in Medicine and Surgery].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[13 or 20 February 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2228
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters