From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 122
Summary:
Writes of dimorphic plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A8, A10
Summary:
Thanks WED for measuring cowslip pollen. Sends dimorphic flowers.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
4 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 48 (EH 88206031)
Summary:
Thanks for DO’s Lessons in elementary botany [1864].
Asks him to inquire whether there are any twining species of Passiflora.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
5 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 13
Summary:
Experiment instructions.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
6 May [1864]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32)
Summary:
Recommends paper by John Scott to be read at Linnean Society.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Lonsdale
Date:
6 May [1864]
Source of text:
Murch 1893, pp. 436–7
Summary:
Thanks WL for his MS on coral and suggests that it be sent to the Geological Society for printing or preserving in the archives.
Comments on his and WL’s bad health and recalls WL’s past kindness to him.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
13 May 1864
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 59)
Summary:
Oxalis plants have arrived safely [see 4347].
CD regrets his mistake about Disa; will correct it.
Thanks RT for his additional facts about Disa.
Is recovering slowly from ten months’ illness.
Asks whether Strelitzia reginae grows in gardens at the Cape. Suspects it must be fertilised by a bird.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[14–17 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A3
Summary:
Instructions on measuring pollen of dimorphic plants.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 May [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A1–2, A4–5
Summary:
Discusses WED’s observations on polymorphic flowers.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 May 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 233
Summary:
Praises ARW.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 233
Summary:
CD finishing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Pleased at Bates’s appointment
and Wallace’s paper.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[19 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 186
Summary:
Mentions WED’s extraordinary discovery of some pollen-grains of different sizes. The observations must be followed up.
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin; Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[20 May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 97: A7
Summary:
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
20 May [1864]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67
Summary:
Corrects his former account of cowslips.
The delay in the publication of JS’s Primula paper.
Delights in JS’s experimentation on Verbascum which confirms [C. F.] Gärtner’s statements.
Should be pleased if JS would accept offer of help.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
21 May [1864]
Source of text:
Transactions of the Hawick Archæological Society (1908): 67–8
Summary:
Encloses an extract from a letter received from [J. D.] Hooker which suggests a job opportunity in India. Advises careful reflection about the risks and the need for a character recommendation. Would like to support the costs of the voyage and initial living expenses.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 May 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 236, 236b
Summary:
Praises ARW's paper on Man.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [May 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 236
Summary:
CD’s pleasure at JDH’s willingness to help Scott find a position in India.
Naudin underrates contamination of his experiments by insects. Thus CD doubts Naudin’s results on rapidity and universality of reversion in hybrids.
Wallace’s paper on man [see 4494] reflects his genius, although CD does not fully agree with it.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 [May] 1864
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 39-42
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 153-155]
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
28 May [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (79)
Summary:
Is slowly writing Lythrum paper [Collected papers 2: 106–31].
Thanks for [Charles?] Wright’s observations on orchids
– could he note what attracts insects to Begonia and Melastoma? H. Crüger, who was going to observe Melastomataceae, has died.
Describes the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata and Eccremocarpus scaber.
How does AG know the perfect flowers of Voandzeia are quite sterile?
He has a case of dimorphism in holly; asks AG to report on American hollies.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 [May 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 39)
Summary:
Response to ARW’s papers on Papilionidae ["On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71; abstract in Reader 3 (1864): 491–3],
and man ["The origin of human races", J. Anthropol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1864): clviii–clxxxvi].
The former is "really admirable" and will be influential.
The idea of the man paper is striking and new. Minor points of difference. Conjectures regarding racial differences; the possible correlation between complexion and constitution. His Query to Army surgeons to determine this point. Offers ARW his notes on man, which CD doubts he will be able to use.
On sexual selection in "our aristocracy"; primogeniture is a scheme for destroying natural selection.
[Letter incorrectly dated March by CD.]
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