From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 63
Summary:
On holiday; cannot answer CD’s questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 24
Summary:
Agreement to cancel the bond of D. T. Ansted, dated 19 April 1855. Prof. Ansted is arranging to pay CD what he can.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edwin Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 325
Summary:
Sends copy of his second paper on mutability of race forms ["On the mutability of species", Proceedings of the Northern Entomological Society, 22 December 1862, pp.4–26].
On tactics of his opponents.
He and Bates have divided up Carabidae and Vanessa for studying relationship of forms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 February 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.476.127
Summary:
Will take into account JH's suggestions [see JH's 1863-2-13] and see where this leads.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/2001, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
[14 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (catalogue 5, 1988)
Summary:
Delighted by curious case of inheritance in the weeping ash [cited in missing letter from TR] "which produced weeping seedlings and itself lost the weeping peculiarity!" Wishes he could get authentic information on the weeping elm.
What TR says of seedlings conquering each other well illustrates struggle for existence and natural selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
14 February 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.53-55, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 154
Summary:
Points out some errata in the Origin.
Discusses the factors producing the shape of the cells of the honeycomb.
Reports case of two varieties of musk-rat that behave very differently but are, according to Waterhouse, the same.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project