From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr? 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 164
Summary:
Encloses strawberry blossoms used in his crossing experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–11] Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile)
Summary:
Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".
Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.
Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.
Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.
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:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 59
Summary:
Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].
Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Euphemia Henderson
Date:
1 April 1863
Source of text:
RB MSS M41, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
1 April 1863
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 204, no. 532, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Anderson
Date:
1 April 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/41
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 22
Summary:
Conducted crosses on Gladiolus varieties exactly according to CD’s letter. Flowers of same variety are self-sterile, whether from the same plant or not.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
1 April 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.57-58, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
Text Online
From:
Clara Wehl
To:
Euphemia Henderson
Date:
2 April 1863
Source of text:
RB MSS M41, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
George Herbert
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 April 1863
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/135
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Rawson
Date:
2 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (10 December 2013); Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Autumn 2017 lot 2184)
Summary:
Discusses unusual primula flowers and asks for details of Rawson’s experiments with gladioli. Asks for loan of Cypripedium but admits he will probably mutilate it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/523, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Farnaby Cator, 1st baronet; John Farnaby Lennard, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Apr 1863
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (24 July 1995)
Summary:
Testimony by the parishioners of Down, Kent, to the moral character and integrity of George Snow, District Surveyor. Signed by nearly fifty local residents, including CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
3 April 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.56, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.47
Summary:
Has lately resumed the study of the theory of groups. Further comments on the French Academy and the award of the mathematical medal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
5 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 57
Summary:
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.256
Summary:
Sent information on meteor spotted in Belgium and in Germany. Has heard differing opinions on heights of meteors. Talks about statistics of population.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
6 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002)
Summary:
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 23
Summary:
Provides evidence of self-sterility in Gladiolus.
Has observed three seed-leaves in some Dianthus seedlings.
Cannot cross, or grow from seed, Dielytra spectabilis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project