From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian
Date:
[c. 1864]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 10629)
Summary:
[No informatiion about content.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 January 1864
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 31-32
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 148]
Summary:
Darwin expresses a desire to know ARW's recent activities. Darwin comments on a letter he received from Asa Gray 2 or 3 weeks prior to the date of this letter which mentions ARW.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505)
Summary:
JL’s review of Huxley ["Lectures to working men", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 4 (1864)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1 Jan 1864
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434: 31)
Summary:
Asa Gray’s high opinion of ARW as a reviewer [reference to S. Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 11 (1863): 415–29, reviewed by ARW in "Remarks on the Rev. S. Haughton’s paper", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 12 (1863): 303–9].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
8 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Glad correspondent’s paper went well.
Poor health and much work forces CD to be brief.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 January 1864
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 216
Summary:
References ARW's letter to Darwin of 2 Jan 1864 about Herbert Spencer.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 and 12 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 115: 216
Summary:
CD very ill.
Suspects F. Boott’s widow is illegitimate granddaughter of Erasmus Darwin.
CD, like JDH, has speculated that agrarian weeds have become adapted to cultivated ground. Suggests comparison with country of origin.
Wallace’s praise of Herbert Spencer’s Social statics baffles CD.
[Letter completed by E. A. Darwin.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 217
Summary:
CD’s illness.
The difficulty of getting John Scott to publish his work. Has sent Scott’s paper [on Primulaceae] to Linnean Society. CD is sure it is valuable.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 Jan 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 218
Summary:
CD continues very ill.
His only work is a little on tendrils and climbers. Asks whether all tendrils are modified leaves or whether some are modified stems.
Last number [Jan 1864?] of Natural History Review is best that has appeared.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles William Crocker
Date:
31 Jan [1864]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Reminds CWC that he offered to give information with respect to his observations on hollyhocks. Wishes he could persuade CWC to undertake experiments on the fertility of some crosses between the most distinct varieties.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
2 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Returns WBT’s box of skulls. One or two skulls may be elsewhere, but CD does not have the strength to search for them.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
6 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B33–4
Summary:
JS’s Primula paper was read at the Linnean Society and praised warmly by G. Bentham. Hooker was not present.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 219
Summary:
Compares Clematis and Tropaeolum with respect to touch response. Tropaeolum shows a momentary response and quick recovery. Clematis takes hours to respond, and shows no recovery.
CD can show the gradations between leaves and tendrils, but how a branch passes into a tendril utterly puzzles him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
9 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B17–19
Summary:
Bentham so impressed with JS’s paper that he is invited to become Associate Member of Linnean Society.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 58 (EH 88206041)
Summary:
Sends Hermann Crüger’s paper ["A few notes on the fecundation of orchids and their morphology", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 8 (1865): 127–35] for publication.
"Boasts" of confirmation that sexes are separate in Catasetum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
[c. 17 Feb 1864?]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 162
Summary:
Sends, for identification, specimens of bees and wasps which fertilise orchids. [Notes in FS’s hand on the same sheet identify the specimens.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[20–]22 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 221a–c
Summary:
Does not know Scott’s qualifications to be curator at Kew.
Frankland’s theory of glaciers is absurd.
Has JDH heard claim that plants in Northern and Southern Hemispheres turn in opposite directions?
Are there plant families with no twining and climbing plants?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 [Feb 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 222
Summary:
Asks for a Smilax to study movement.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
25 Feb [1864]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (80)
Summary:
Has not worked for six months due to illness.
Has been looking at climbing plants.
Hermann Crüger’s paper shows that CD was right about Catasetum pollination. Crüger’s account of pollination of Coryanthes "beats everything".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
3 Mar [1864]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/2)
Summary:
Has received EH’s Die Radiolarien. Drawings admirably executed. Had no idea such low animals could develop such beautiful structures.
Contributor:
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