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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[late July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 113
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 198
Summary:
Describes experiments on rotation of tendrils and shoots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 298
Summary:
Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.
C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
2 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 127, 137
Summary:
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 110
Summary:
Sends seeds of female Lychnis diurna; has found none in hermaphrodites.
On variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in this plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sigerson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 162
Summary:
Discusses leaf form and phyllotaxy; clarifies a part of his paper ["On a protomorphic phyllotype", Atlantis (1863)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Henry Gosse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 78
Summary:
On CD’s request to observe bee Ophrys: PHG’s son collected 16 plants – of the 32 flowers, two had lost both pollinia, two had lost one each. He himself found two plants with pollinia adhering to the stigma.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[14 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 75
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 200
Summary:
Requests tendril-bearing plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 200
Summary:
He and L. C. Treviranus have repeated many of CD’s orchid observations with the same results. Sends his paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16, 17 and 19 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 99: 13–16d, DAR 142: 37
Summary:
Thanks CD for two letters and his portrait.
CD’s book [Orchids] opened up terra incognita for him.
His work on S. African butterflies continues.
Reports on a moth that punctures peach skins.
Interesting that thoughtful naturalists are forced to admit mutability of species.
Some notes on Oxalis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
18 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 51 (EH 88206034)
Summary:
Sends F. Hildebrand’s paper for publication by the Linnean Society or in Natural History Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John James Aubertin
Date:
19 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 143: 24
Summary:
Discusses geology of Brazil.
Asks for Brazilian stamps for his son.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 22
Summary:
Hildebrand’s paper is unsuitable for the Natural History Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 20 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 25
Summary:
Gives a reference to a paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Farncombe Billinghurst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1863 – Aug 1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 80: B18v
Summary:
Acknowledges the receipt of some signed transfers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July [– 7? Aug] 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 4, 6; Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (G304)
Summary:
In a forthcoming paper JvH will show geological age of the world to be "incalculable" and will confirm CD’s theory that "the old system of chronological sequence of formations all over the world must be abandoned in a great degree".
Predicts the links between species, genera, and classes will be found.
CD elected an Honorary Member [of Philosophical Institute of Canterbury].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 128, 138
Summary:
Gives some observations on Drosera.
Comments on Richard Owen’s "transmutation theory" in his aye-aye paper [Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 5 (1866): 33–101].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 152–3
Summary:
Encourages CD to continue observations on tendrils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
