From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 July – 23 Aug 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 525
Summary:
Account of Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 6
Summary:
Asks for a note to the Geological Society, since the museum did not have the book Carlyle wanted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (69)
Summary:
Thanks for notes on Cypripedium and Platanthera hookeri, which is really beautiful and quite a new case.
His son, George, has been observing the insect fertilisation of orchids.
CD has been crossing peloric flowers of Pelargonium, but doubts he will get good results with respect to sterility of hybrids.
Rhexia glandulosa does not appear to be dimorphic. Lythrum is trimorphic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1 July 62.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/28, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.319
Summary:
Sends letter from Mr. Rüppell, who wishes to get a copy of R.A.S. medal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2–3 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 110a, 112–12a
Summary:
Discusses dimorphic plants and the occurrence of "precocious fertilisation" in the bud.
Gives some comments on design in nature in the light of the translator’s commentary in the French edition of the Origin.
Reports the recent events of the Civil War.
[Note on verso of envelope:] Utricularia vulgaris is "about as neatly contrived for cross-fertilisation by insects as almost any orchid".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 105 (ser. 2): 7–8
Summary:
Never mind the letter to the Geological Society; the museum got the book for Carlyle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 44–5
Summary:
Will see to Masdevallia and Bonatea.
Domestic matters.
Lyell’s health.
CD’s eczema.
Hopes CD will solve the mystery of Melastoma.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Hector Tyndale
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1445; MS JT/1/TYP/1635-6, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 July 1862]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.42
Summary:
In view of the additional costs, should the nebula catalogue be reduced to a 'working list', or should JH go back to the R.S.L. for more money [see GA's 1862-6-29]?
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[2 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.380
Summary:
Suggests Mr. Rüppell apply to Council of R.A.S. for copy of medal. Mentions the head on the medal is [Isaac] Newton's, not William Herschel's.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Union Bank
Date:
[before 3 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 5
Summary:
Wishes to invest some money in railway shares; asks for the advice of the bank’s brokers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Currey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 306
Summary:
G. B. Wollaston [in "British Orchideae", Phytologist n.s. 1 (1855–6): 225–7] says Ophrys arachnites is a hybrid, which contradicts CD, who says it is a new species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
3 July [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/8)
Summary:
Thinks GM’s Pelargonium is a case of true correlated characters. Feels secondary sexual characters are only accidental correlations; does not see the same necessity for close simultaneous development of certain characters as GM does.
Will forward a copy of his Orchids.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
3 July [1862]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 68–9)
Summary:
Can AdeQ verify the statement that the moths of the several races of the common silkworm are very similar?
When the female moth comes out of the cocoon, are her wings less developed than those of a male moth at the same stage?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
[3 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.223 & 23.381
Summary:
Sorry to hear of his illness. Answers to his queries regarding the colloid state of ice. Cannot agree about metals of alkalis and earths uncombined in the earth.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 [July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 100
Summary:
Reports some observations on the fertilisation of wheat which WED might follow up.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Pamplin
Date:
4 [July 1862]
Source of text:
Bangor University Archives and Special Collections (Pamplin papers PAMP/40)
Summary:
Requests priced samples of paper for mounting dried plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 162.1: 115
Summary:
Sends concluding part of his recent lecture on orchids so CD may see how his inquiries were represented in one of the great centres of clerical influence.
Asks whether insects are attracted to one species of orchids more than another.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward William Brayley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.224
Summary:
Was pleased to obtain JH's news regarding ice. Agrees with him about metals of alkalis in the earth. Further regarding volcanoes.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project