From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 21 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 52
Summary:
Sad that CD is quitting his studies of orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 70: 2, DAR 160.3: 318
Summary:
L. C. Treviranus inclined to translate Orchids, but "unfortunately" HGB has already done it. Book’s discussion of plant sexuality important for zoology as well as botany.
Origin is in press. Attaches a list of "quelques petites difficultées" encountered in his translation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
21 June [1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (MS.553:440 (241))
Summary:
His friend Trenham Reeks [Secretary of Museum of Practical Geology] would give Carlyle information and help. This note will serve as introduction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 54
Summary:
Yesterday found hundreds of [Ophrys] apifera and [Ophrys] arachnites in bloom in the same area. The two species grow in clumps and do not mix with each other.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[R.S.L. Council]
Date:
[21 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS RR.5.117
Summary:
Reports on and deems fit for publication [William] Hopkins's paper [R.S.P.T., 153, 677-] on theory of motion of glaciers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project