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DCP-LETT-4135

From:
Charles William Crocker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1[–4] May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 110: 28, DAR 161: 260
Summary:

Observes Plantago’s out-crossing mechanism.

Observations of style lengths of primroses and cowslips.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4135F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May [1863]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 15)
Summary:

Discusses dimorphism in linum and primula. Describes death of Mrs. Ashworth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2003

From:
Geraldine Jewsbury
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
May 1--1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/31; MS JT/1/TYP/2/658, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

JHC1131

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
1 May 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.59-60, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4136

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
Date:
2 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 3
Summary:

Convinced length of stamens has no relation to powers of fertilisation in many plants.

Suggests experiments on Pelargonium and Phlox.

Advises about use of microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4138

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 76
Summary:

His satisfaction at CD’s acceptance of book as well as total public acceptance. Murray has given him a £250 advance. His pleasure at Asa Gray’s words.

Next task will be to write on origin [of species] by segregation of local races.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2004

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Editor of The Athenaeum
Date:
April 27, 1863
Source of text:
2 May 1863, p. 585, Athenaeum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4326

From:
Sarah Faraday
To:
Rachel Barnard
Date:
2 May 1863
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/5/6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4137

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
2 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B25–6
Summary:

Impressed by JS’s attempts to fertilise Gongora.

CD has large collection of notes on orchids, but does not know when he will publish on them again.

Asks for JS’s papers on sterility of individual orchids and on Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1415

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[2 May 1863]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H703
Summary:

Returns paper of G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal, and submits report on it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4593

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.361
Summary:

Requests JH send an essay for the Leeds Astronomical Society lecture series.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4139

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 110: 62
Summary:

Sends observations on [Anchusa] plants from Isle of Wight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4139F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 55
Summary:

Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Athenæum
Date:
5 May [1863]
Source of text:
Athenæum , 9 May 1863, p. 617
Summary:

Replies to a reviewer’s statement, that any theory of descent will connect large classes of facts, by pointing out that no other explanation has been as satisfactory as natural selection. But whatever view is adopted "signifies extremely little in comparison with the admission that species have descended from other species and have not been created immutable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 110
Summary:

Discusses dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4327

From:
Faraday and Sarah Faraday
To:
James Faraday Barnard
Date:
5 May 1863
Source of text:
NUL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4141

From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 181: 158
Summary:

Encloses plants derived from a cowslip–polyanthus cross.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4143

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 176: 11
Summary:

Glad CD likes his Presidential Address to Geological Society [1863].

Will continue the practice [of discussing the break in succession of strata].

Has devised a diagram showing number of genera and species in each geological formation and the number that pass from formation to formation.

Describes the glaciated terrain of S. Wales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1887

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Count Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
Date:
[6 May 1863]
Source of text:
WT 62824.1
Summary:

Introduces JH's son Alexander to PS, and hopes PS will support Alexander, who is seeking to become Assistant Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4146

From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 66
Summary:

CD is right on heterostyly in Primula. High praise. Has confirmed it with Primula polyanthus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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