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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 March 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
George Edwin Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.1: 107
Summary:
GEH, a tailor, wishes to trade some work for a presentation copy of the Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 17–19
Summary:
Had it not been for CD, JDH would never have written such papers as his one on Arctic flora. The "evulgation" of CD’s views is the purest pleasure he derives from them.
He too is staggered that Greenland ought to have been depopulated during the glacial period. Absence of Caltha is fatal to its re-population by chance migration.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 107
Summary:
Will observe Rhexia for CD to see whether it is dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 185
Summary:
CD wishes he could sympathise with Asa Gray’s politics.
Orchids to appear soon.
Pre-glacial Arctic distribution.
Work on floral dimorphism.
High opinion of Buckle as a writer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 20–2; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (probably JDH/2/1/2)
Summary:
Returns Asa Gray’s letter. Disappointed with Gray. Comments on America. British–American relations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 319
Summary:
Asks if CD will have corrections for 2d German ed. of Origin.
CD’s theory only natural way to explain creation but contradicts current knowledge about origin of life from inorganic matter.
Has read Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63] with interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
11 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 153
Summary:
Pleased that new German edition of Origin is wanted. Wishes to make corrections.
Suggests German translation of Orchids.
Comments on HGB’s book [Untersuchungen (1858)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
11 Mar [1862-9]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
Gives permission to insert in his magazine anything from CD’s works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 13 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 255
Summary:
Will experiment on hollyhocks as CD suggests.
On desirability of a place for experiments to be set up by Government or a scientific society. Kew is too busy for experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 256
Summary:
Informs CD where, at Kew, to find Epipactis palustris.
Has never trusted Donald Beaton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 150
Summary:
Thinks JDH is a bit hard on Asa Gray.
Bates’s letter is that of a true thinker. Asks to see JDH’s to Bates. Point raised in it is most difficult. "There is one clear line of distinction; – when many parts of structure as in woodpecker show distinct adaptation to external bodies, it is preposterous to attribute them to effect of climate etc. – but when a single point, alone, as a hooked seed, it is conceivable that it may thus have arisen." His study of orchids shows nearly all parts of the flower co-adapted for fertilisation by insects and therefore the result of natural selection. Mormodes ignea "is a prodigy of adaptation".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 14 Mar 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 172.1: 28
Summary:
Belated thanks for CD’s photograph.
When in London at Rucker’s wonderful gardens she learned he had sent CD a Mormodes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 23–6
Summary:
JDH has probably influenced Bates by pointing out applicability of CD’s views to his cases.
Is greatly puzzled by difference in effect of external conditions on individual animals and plants. Cannot conceive that climate could affect even such a single character as a hooked seed.
Does not think Huxley is right about "saltus".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 67
Summary:
He has only an uncertain memory of the placement of stamens in the [monstrous?] primrose CD asked about.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 241
Summary:
Gives CD advice on the illness of one of his sons [presumably Horace].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project