From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr – May? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 9–10
Summary:
Asks for an order to buy a CD photograph for Mr Tait.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 237
Summary:
Louis Pasteur’s memoir "is a very able and convincing one" ["Mémoire sur les corpuscles organisés qui existent dans l’atmosphère", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 3d ser. 16 (1861): 5–98].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Busk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 377, DAR 174.1: 22
Summary:
E. A. Parkes informs him there will be difficulty about the Army returns [on CD’s Query to Army surgeons, see Freeman, Works of Charles Darwin, p. 111] owing to official obstructions by Director General. [Enclosed letter from Parkes to GB says that the Director General does not think that Army surgeons could be asked to collect information systematically for CD, but perhaps some informal, voluntary arrangement could be made.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Newman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 172.2: 38
Summary:
Has several specimens illustrating dimorphism in insects that he would be happy to leave where CD could examine them.
Discusses the ant genera Formica and Atta, and the origin of the two forms of workers commonly found in the species of these genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[7? April 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 51
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 32
Summary:
Will hope to be able to send Vanilla flowers in a day or two.
How is CD after his tremendous effect on the placid Linneans? ["Sexual forms of Catasetum", Collected papers 2: 63–70; read 3 Apr 1862.]
Contributor:
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 1
Summary:
Cannot accept invitation at present.
Is sending a wild honeycomb from Timor.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[8 April 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 52
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Edmund Alexander Parkes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 174.1: 23
Summary:
Suggests CD use a tabular form for Army doctors to write their observations on, and suggests it be limited to malaria, yellow fever, and dysentery.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 [Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 148
Summary:
On Vanilla.
Asks JDH to observe whether he has both long- and short-styled form of Menyanthes
and whether he has "Saxifrages with long hairs glandular at the tip".
The Linnean Society session made him vomit all night. Fears he must give up trying to read papers or speak. "It is a horrid bore. I can do nothing like other people."
Contributor:
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From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 13
Summary:
Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.
Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
Observations on Campanula dimorphism.
Contributor:
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From:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.2: 325
Summary:
AM did not borrow a Samuel Scudder pamphlet from CD; in fact he was not aware of its existence.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
12 [Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 1 (EH 88205985)
Summary:
DO’s observations on polymorphism in Primula and Campanula. CD recognises three classes of dimorphism, as in Primula, Thymus, and Campanula and violets.
DO’s Campanula paper and Royal Institution lecture [Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 431–3].
CD’s interest in Fumariaceae from A. Gray’s comments on "selfing".
Bees bite holes in flowers when same species grows in high density.
Organisation of CD’s notes.
Contributor:
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Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. 13 April 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 53
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 54–5
Summary:
Discusses primrose ovules,
Atlantis paper [Nat. Hist. Rev. (1862): 149–70],
plant migrations;
Corydalis.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 31
Summary:
Is it convenient for him and Willy to come to Down from Thursday to Sunday?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
15 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 45 (EH 88206028)
Summary:
Encourages DO to publish his paper and put his name to it. [Paper apparently not published.] Concurs with his views on primordial nature of hermaphroditism.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis René Antoine Edouard (Edouard) Claparède
Date:
[c. 16 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 17
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for his excellent review [of French edition of Origin (1862)], which he feels will help the spread of his views in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 66
Summary:
Accepts CD’s invitation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170.1: 29
Summary:
JL is going on a geological excursion with Joseph Prestwich and John Evans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project