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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
2 July [1863]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 18 July 1863, p. 675
Summary:
Asks M. J. Berkeley to identify the microscopical spherical bodies CD found in drops of yellowish rain-water that fell on his garden in a brief shower.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 July [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 229)
Summary:
Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Forsell Kirby
Date:
9 July [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD is particularly struck by WFK’s observations on Corsican and N. American subspecies in his paper ["On the geographical distribution of European Rhopalocera", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d ser. 1 (1862–3): [!?bib has 1862–4] 481–92]. Thinks it would be interesting for WFK to examine specimens from the Shetland Islands, for even faint trace of differentiation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
9 July [1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
WBT progressing with breeding experiments for CD.
CD making quicker progress with Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
11 July [1863]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:
Discusses rudimentary sixth toe of frogs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 200
Summary:
Requests tendril-bearing plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
18 July [1863]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of JvH’s letters and report of his expedition. Congratulates him on its success.
Has sent Origin.
There is hardly a place in the world as interesting as New Zealand with respect to geographical distribution.
Will quote the case of the ducks that nest in trees.
Is working hard on Variation.
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 199
Summary:
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[25 July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 112
Summary:
Relates events at Down;
asks WED to make some observations on Lythrum.
His present hobby-horse is tendrils.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
25 [July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B45–6, B69
Summary:
Encourages JS to continue work on coloured primrose. No one has noticed this since Gärtner. CD will send his own data for JS’s use and will read MS when ready. Advises JS to repeat experiments if evidence is weak – for his reputation’s sake and for satisfaction at fully establishing a fact.
Treviranus made a slip of pen in writing of Primula longiflora as short-styled.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [July 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 203
Summary:
Asa Gray writes as if Civil War were a holy war.
J. E. Renan on Jesus [Vie de Jésus (1863)].
Literature on tendrils of Cucurbita is contradictory.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
28 July [1863]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:
Comments on FH’s paper ["Fruchtbildung der Orchideen", Bot. Ztg. 21 (1863): 329–33, 337–45]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History will publish it in September [3d ser. 12 (1863): 169–74].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
29 July [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.295)
Summary:
Thanks GHKT for Limnanthemum seed.
Comments on his view of algal reproduction.
Discusses flower of Cassia.
Sends photograph of himself.
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