From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10th May | 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/323; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2005, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 51: 6–7
Summary:
Notes, calculations, and diagrams on phyllotaxy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 May [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59)
Summary:
CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.
Is confused over phyllotaxy.
Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
11 [May 1863]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:
At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Mary Ann Wallace (née Greenell)
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 May 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395482
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1863
Source of text:
Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G 395, Dobell 1862)
Summary:
Sends copy of the table, which now embodies CD’s suggestions [see 4117].
Gives instances of persons born with two thumbs and comments on hereditary factor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
12 May [1863]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002)
Summary:
Thanks WHF for photographs [of niata ox skull]. Will tell Quatrefages de Bréau about the cast. May have the photographs copied for woodcuts to illustrate his book on variation under domestication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 208
Summary:
Cites instance in which different varieties of same species of plant flourished side by side under same conditions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph D. Everett
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.137
Summary:
Is applying for a post at Queen's College, Belfast and would be glad if JH would send a testimonial. Is sending some of his papers. Has been carrying out research on atmospheric electricity.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
12 May [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/10)
Summary:
Believes GM’s human bones from Gibraltar must be of very doubtful age. Lyell agrees, but feels any skull found should be forwarded to George Busk or Hugh Falconer.
Suggests GM look carefully for shells in the drift.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Osbert Salvin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 17
Summary:
Has just returned from collecting in Central America and is planning to go to the Galapagos to gather specimens in all branches of natural history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
13 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 323
Summary:
Thanks for maps.
George [Darwin] failed at St John’s [College, Cambridge] and will stay another year at school.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Horace Benge Dobell
Date:
13 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 7
Summary:
The [genealogical] table seems excellent. Would be obliged for any further information about the children of the cousins – the case surprises CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
13 May 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 99-102
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 3
Summary:
Thanks CD for letter [3935].
Encloses report [missing] of his latest expedition [to west coast], which had a grand result.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 137–40
Summary:
Lyell is "half-hearted but whole-headed" for CD’s theory. George Bentham wholly converted.
Bates’s book delightful but has a Darwinistic bias.
Cameroon plants.
JDH defends Bates against J. E. Gray’s slanders.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
13 May [1863 or 1868]
Source of text:
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University (Vault MSS 2, Box 12, Darwin)
Summary:
Asks to borrow J. J. Audubon [Ornithological biography (1831–9)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 61
Summary:
Going abroad; will miss the English orchid season.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Algernon Weddell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 110: B60–1
Summary:
Has searched in vain for the Ophrys apifera CD asked for.
Thanks CD for paper on Linum [Collected papers 2: 93–105].
Calls CD’s attention to his observations on Rubiaceae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
14 May 1863
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 167
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project