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DCP-LETT-4144

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 135–6
Summary:

Falconer going to France in defence of his views.

On scientific squabbling.

Herschel’s theory of the earth.

Bates’s book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[7 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 46
Summary:

Falconer’s letter [attacking CL, Athenæum 4 Apr 1863, pp. 459–60] is most unjust.

Regrets his letter [to Athenæum, on heterogeny] now criticised by Owen.

Comments on article by Samuel Haughton [On the form of cells made by wasps – with an appendix on the origin of species (1863)].

Mentions forthcoming reviews by Asa Gray [in Am. J. Sci.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4147

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 76: B188–90
Summary:

Describes the structure of Corydalis and its arrangement for making pollen accessible to bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7702

From:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.8.14; Reel 10
Summary:

Is sending JH several lists of nebulae, and comments about some of the items. [Almost illegible.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4154

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 134
Summary:

JDH encourages a Mr Salwyn [Osbert Salvin] to collect in Galapagos; would like CD to add his encouragement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2005

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Couch Adams
Date:
8th May. /63
Source of text:
MS 7777/06, Wellcome
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2006

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
8th May. 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/233, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4147F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Snow
Date:
8 May 1863
Source of text:
Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (30 April – 2 May 2019, Lot 207)
Summary:

Has pleasure in giving GS a testimonial for the office of surveyor for the Bromley District.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP650

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Cajetan von Felder
Date:
8 May 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418354
Summary:

Invites Felder to view his butterfly collection.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel3639

From:
Count Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.246
Summary:

Will help JH or JH's son [Alexander], whose mind PS admires, in any way possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 May 1863
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 192, 192b
Summary:

ARW listed along with Hooker, Huxley, Lubbock and Bates as the "only honest downright "flat-footed" men in all England!!!".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0443

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[9? May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 74
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-4149

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 138
Summary:

Sends photos of the niata ox skull presented by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 192
Summary:

Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.

Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.

CD working on divergence of leaves.

Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.

Survival of island relics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4149F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1863
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Has been to Osborne on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria, who had lots of questions about CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 84
Summary:

Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.

Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2007

From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 May 1863.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/488, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7154

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.363
Summary:

Like Professor Olearius Schneiderhausen, AD has had only one coat in two years. JH will go on for many more years. Sends one of his theorems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 111
Summary:

Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.

Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4152

From:
Henry Fletcher Hance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 95
Summary:

Sends sketch of Catasetum tridentatum fruit at request of Edward Bradford.

CD incorrectly asserted that Catasetum is male [Orchids, pp. 236–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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