From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
22 Feb [1863 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 131
Summary:
Seeks investment advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Ludwig; Camilla Frederike Antonie (Camilla) Pattrick
Date:
21 Feb [1863 or later]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.620)
Summary:
Asks her to translate passage of letter about treatment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
28 Apr [1863?]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (6 August 1975, lot 176)
Summary:
Discusses exchange of photographs with Édouard Claparède, "for whom I feel the highest respect".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 154, DAR 101: 123–5
Summary:
Has been looking at separation of sexes in poplars.
Interested in reversion.
Does not understand all CD said on inheritance.
JDH now remembers that Origin was "published" some time before it was "distributed" and therefore appeared prior to his own essay [see also 2478].
Impossible to say whether some Dipterocarpaceae survived a cold period or have developed since.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Jan [1863-4]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254)
Summary:
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 [June 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 94
Summary:
Would like WED to send a specimen of the unusual plant organ of which he sent a drawing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B15–16
Summary:
Will be glad to have CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 10 June 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 151: 331
Summary:
Notes on drops of nectar on sepals of cypripedium.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Emil Suchsland
Date:
[after 19 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 618, item 441)
Summary:
Returns book by Friedrich Rolle. Author has sent copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 38 (EH 88206021)
Summary:
Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].
Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183)
Summary:
CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.
Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.
On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.
Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Turner
Date:
[1 Apr – 16 June 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 12
Summary:
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 51: 6–7
Summary:
Notes, calculations, and diagrams on phyllotaxy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 98
Summary:
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Turnbull
Date:
[16? Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 5 (EH 88206057)
Summary:
Thanks for letting Horwood superintend erection of hothouse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 18
Summary:
Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 June 1863?]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 11)
Summary:
Sends description of Chrysosplene, asks about glands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 181)
Summary:
Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (56)
Summary:
Thanks AG for Cypripedium and Mitchella.
Plans to investigate pollination of Cypripedium.
Has finished Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Would welcome facts on "bud-variations".
Hears that Cinchona is dimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Williams & Norgate
Date:
[7 Feb 1863 or earlier]
Source of text:
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections (Paul Philemon Kies Autograph Collection, 1533–1970: 1 Autograph letters, 1533–1970 box 1, folder 55)
Summary:
Wishes to order Botanische Zeitung for 2 and 9 January 1863.
Contributor:
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