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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Text Online
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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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Text Online
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
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 28
Summary:
Hopes CD will come to lunch on Saturday. The Busks and J. D. Hooker are with JL.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Alberts
Date:
[after 13 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 2r
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of a diploma for Doctor’s degree from the University of Breslau and expresses his thanks.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
14 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 95
Summary:
Discusses WED’s growing interest in botany; would be grateful for certain observations.
Is much concerned about Horace’s illness.
Has sent Orchids MS to printers
and will work a little at dimorphism.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7r
Summary:
Asks for the address of C. W. Crocker.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 15 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 7v
Summary:
Sends C. W. Crocker’s address.
Doubts CWC can help with Mormodes.
Will see CD at Lubbock’s.
Contributor:
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