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DCP-LETT-3982

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

JHC1128

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

DCP-LETT-3984

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

DCP-LETT-3986

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 181
Summary:

Asa Gray on democracy of plants.

Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel5879

From:
Jacques Babinet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.5
Summary:

Regarding the gravimetric balance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3992A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Joseph Briggs
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Mrs H. Codd (private collection)
Summary:

Sends belated thanks for the useful facts which he plans to quote. [See 3963.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3992

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 368
Summary:

Thanks for letter and pamphlet.

His approbation of Origin is extremely gratifying, especially since Origin produced no effect whatever in France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3990

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Benge Dobell
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Barton L. Smith MD (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].

Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.

How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.

Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3989

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 103–4
Summary:

British attitude towards America: not hate as Asa Gray thinks, but contempt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200)
Summary:

It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.

Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.

Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.

[P.S. missing from original.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4305

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
16 February 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3991

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B55, B81–2
Summary:

Tells JS Acropera capsule should be left to grow.

JS was correct on "bud-variation" in fern frond.

Does not believe Primula structure necessarily related to dioecism, but the difference in fertility of the two forms forced him to admit the possibility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3988

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 55)
Summary:

Further discusses RT’s observations on Cape [of Good Hope] orchids and asks whether it would be possible for him to send some specimens to Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3893

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

DCP-LETT-3992F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202)
Summary:

A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel2418

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.268
Summary:

Sends [Warren] de La Rue's letter on Southern[?] Telescope for JH's review. Swedish Academy working on reviving project of measuring arc of meridian.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3993F

From:
Richard Frean
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
Launceston Library (State Library of Tasmania): Local Studies Collection – Manuscripts (Robert Norman Smith Diaries and correspondence LMSS 0020)
Summary:

Discusses his reading and understanding of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1974

From:
Geraldine Jewsbury
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Monday Feb 17-63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/29; MS JT/1/TYP/2/656, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
17 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.288)
Summary:

Criticises Dana’s classification of man and his use of fore-limbs as a basis for systematic classification.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8770

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 20
Summary:

DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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