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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Michael O'Grady
Date:
6 June 1862
Source of text:
City Council records, Hawthorn, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 68
Summary:
Discusses publication of second German edition of Origin [1863] and German edition of Orchids [1862].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.221
Summary:
Is applying for professorship at Addiscombe Military College and would like JH's support.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
7 June [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:
Suspects that bee orchid is self-fertilising form of Ophrys arachnites, which requires insect aid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
7 Juni 62
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2244-5, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
8 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 32 (EH 88206015)
Summary:
Describes floral anatomy of a Catasetum sent by DO.
Has gone on from orchids to studying insect agency in Pelargonium.
His doubts on the worth of publishing Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
[Thomas] Melvill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 June 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.100; Reel 9
Summary:
Received five copies of JH's Cape Results. Will forward them to designated institutions in India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 40–1
Summary:
Oliver has written able paper on dimorphism for Natural History Review [n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].
CD’s account of Viola is novel and interesting.
Has finished Cameroon mountain plants.
Jury work at exhibition.
Domestic problems – wife is ill, no cook, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Parsons
Date:
[9 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.226 & 23.378
Summary:
Has just received the Stroud Journal and TP's letter. Thinks it a fair and proper thing that TP has done. His own letter had no sinister insinuation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[before 10 June 1862]
Source of text:
Institut de France, Bibliothèque (Ms 2441-XII ff. 343–4)
Summary:
Asks whether any correspondents have observed any sensible differences between the bees kept in different parts of Great Britain. CD has heard from several sources that breeds of bee in different areas vary.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
10–20 June [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (66)
Summary:
Thanks AG for praise of Orchids and his notes on several American species of orchid. Comments on AG’s observations.
Is experimenting [on dimorphism] with Rhexia and Melastoma.
Asks AG’s opinion of a paper by Thomas Meehan ["On the uniformity of relative characters between allied species of European and American trees", Proc. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci. (1862): 10–13] which is the best case of the apparently direct action of the conditions of life CD has seen.
Requests postage stamp for his ill son [Leonard].
Thanks AG for observations on Cypripedium and gives recent observations of his own.
Arethusa is very pretty; structure seems like that of Vanilla.
Finds the little (so-called imperfect) flowers of Viola and Oxalis curious: the pollen-grains emit their tubes whilst within the anthers, and they travel in straight lines right to the stigmas.
Sympathises with events in the U. S.
Reports on French translation of Origin by Mlle C. Royer, "one of the cleverest & oddest women in Europe".
Alphonse de Candolle says he wants direct proof of natural selection; "he will have to wait a long time for that".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Harriet Susan Miller
Date:
10 June 1862
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[before 11 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 33 (EH 88206016)
Summary:
Asa Gray approves of Orchids; his work on American species confirms CD’s findings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
11 June [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.284)
Summary:
Encloses a question [missing] concerning language [from Hensleigh Wedgwood].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 155
Summary:
Sorry to hear of Mrs Hooker’s health and domestic problems. Wishes natural selection had produced neuters who would not flirt or marry.
Will be eager to hear Cameroon results.
Wishes JDH would discuss the "mundane glacial period". Still believes it will be "the turning point of all recent geographical distribution".
Pollen placed for 65 hours on apparent (CD still thinks real) stigma of Leschenaultia has not protruded a vestige of a tube.
"Oliver the omniscient" has produced an article in Botanische Zeitung with accurate account of all CD saw in Viola.
Asa Gray’s "red-hot" praise of Orchids [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 34 (1862): 138–51].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Currey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 305
Summary:
Offers rare Irish orchid (Spiranthes).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 251
Summary:
Leonard Darwin has scarlet fever so GHD has said he should be sent home and has asked E. A. Williams to call at Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Roderick Murchison
Date:
12 June 1862
Source of text:
Archives, Geological Society of London, M/M53/1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.186
Summary:
Checking the accuracy of a writer's expression of JH's views.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
Thursday 12th. June
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/236, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project