From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 2)
Summary:
WED’s travel plans; an insect he has observed on Orchis maculata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Hutton Balfour
Date:
15 June [1862?]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Louis Mayer Rabinovitz Collection (MS 1044) Box 1, folder 2)
Summary:
Thanks JHB for specimen of Corallorrhiza;
would like some seeds of Corydalis claviculata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
15. Juni 62
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2246-7, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[15 June 1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H700
Summary:
JH regrets he will not have time to review paper on Indian meteorology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
15 June [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.278)
Summary:
Refers to his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Asks GHKT to investigate a similar case in Cinchona.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
17 June [1862]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:
Is pleased that AdeC is interested in the Primula case ["Dimorphic condition of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63]. Is pursuing analogous experiments on other plants and on seedlings raised from the unions.
CD’s "large work" progresses slowly owing to ill health and his work on Orchids.
CD is not surprised that AdeC is unwilling to admit natural selection – "the subject hardly admits of direct proof or evidence. It will be believed in only by those who think that it connects & partly explains several large classes of facts".
Hopes AdeC will publish on Quercus
and rejoices that he intends to return to the study of geographical distribution. No one can claim to have read AdeC’s truly great work on that subject [Géographie botanique (1855)] with more care than CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Pritchard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 174.2: 77
Summary:
Has broken up school a few days early to avoid danger. Hopes CD’s son is nearly recovered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.167
Summary:
Enclosed is from Mr. Moffat, son of the missionary. Thanks for the essay on Meteorology. The Cape Meteorological Observations for 1841-7 were printed under the direction of Edward Sabine. The mss. for the later series are in possession of Robert FitzRoy, who is trying to find the means to print them. Serious gales at the Cape. Vessel wrecked on Sunday night attempting to enter Table Bay.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bienen Zeitung
Date:
18 June 1862
Source of text:
Bienen Zeitung 18 (1862): 145
Summary:
Asks experienced observers whether there are any marked differences between bees kept in different parts of Germany.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 [June 1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 123)
Summary:
Superb, but exaggerated, review [of Orchids, by M. J. Berkeley] in London Review [& wkly J. Polit. 4 (1862): 553–4]. Asa Gray thinks almost as highly. "I have not been a fool, as I thought I was, to publish." The Athenæum review will hinder sales greatly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William G. McKay
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.5
Summary:
Is an amateur astronomer, interested especially in sidereal astronomy. Has constructed a small telescope. Can JH advise him on good books dealing with sidereal astronomy?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 [June 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 38–9
Summary:
Household problems: wife’s health, visitors to Kew.
Will go to sale of J. C. Ross’s effects looking for glacial and Kerguelen Land works not at British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Branwhite Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 174
Summary:
Has received Australian government grant to collect and publish on fossils. Has collected thousands of fossils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 4–5
Summary:
Asks CD to help Thomas Carlyle find and borrow a book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 June 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.47
Summary:
Requests that JH return a paper sent to him.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 [June 1862]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 124)
Summary:
It is not certain cuts are wanted by an American publisher [of Orchids].
Has fixed price of £10 for Schweizerbart [Stuttgart publisher].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
20 June 1862
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.279)
Summary:
Testimonial in support of WBT’s application for curatorship of the Hartley Institution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
20 June [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.280)
Summary:
Asks for information concerning heterostyled and dioecious plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
