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DCP-LETT-3585G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 13)
Summary:

Suggests sending plant specimens. Asks about visit of Emma and the boys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3675

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 162: 90
Summary:

WED has been collecting Lythrum plants. Numerical proportions of the three forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3676

From:
John Obadiah Westwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Bee with adhering orchid pollinia lent to Charles Daubeny. Pollen-masses shaken off but if CD still interested he is welcome to specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3677

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 91
Summary:

Sends specimens of the three forms of Lythrum. Remarks on the numerical proportions of different forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3681

From:
Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 64
Summary:

Proportions of different forms of Lythrum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3679

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 67–9
Summary:

Gives J. T. Rothrock’s observations on the structure and fertility of the two forms of Houstonia. Mentions his own observations on Rhexia virginica and Gymnadenia tridentata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3680

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1862?]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 57
Summary:

Finds many beautiful Epipactis specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3683

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 27.2 (ser. 2): 32 bis, DAR 162: 92
Summary:

Has read CD’s long letter on Lythrum and agrees with it. Is examining the pollen of the different types.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3671

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 5 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 90.1
Summary:

Describes insects caught while visiting Lythrum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3674

From:
Margaret Susan Wedgwood; Margaret Susan Vaughan Williams
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Looked for Hottonia but with little success.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3684

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 106/7 (ser. 2): 4–5
Summary:

Muscular fibres of whale no larger than those of bee – evidence of a community of origin.

Problem of the abortive wings of ostrich in relation to conditions of their survival.

Contributor:
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WCP1850

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 August 1862
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B4-5
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 27
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 145-146]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3686

From:
Thomas White Woodbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Breeding cells of Ligurian bee are larger than those of common bee. Thanks CD for comb.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3688

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18–19 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 111, 116
Summary:

Notes and observations on orchids.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3690

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 52–3
Summary:

Observations on Welwitschia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3691

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Aug 1862
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881 , 2: 358; The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Jamieson has revisited Glen Roy and confirmed his theory of glacier lakes.

A. G. More considers CD the most profound of reasoners.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3694

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 20 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 181
Summary:

Would be pleased to have third edition of Origin.

Is unwell and dreads the winter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3698

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 170: 31
Summary:

JL’s Swiss tour with Tyndall and Huxley.

Lake-habitations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3697

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26–31 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 50–1
Summary:

On microscopes.

Cannot remember any plants but Melastoma with different coloured polliniferous anthers.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3701

From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1862
Source of text:
DAR 176: 9
Summary:

Sends his paper [on glacial lakes, see 3450]. Falconer attacked it. Falconer thinks Himalayas confound the theory, but Hooker writes that it explains the absence of lakes there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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