From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 64
Summary:
His gardener kept an all-night watch on Epipactis palustris but saw no insects visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Alexander Wooler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 181: 157
Summary:
Believes, contrary to CD, that when anthers arise from petals the development of the pollen is affected by the amputation of the petal.
Believes interbreeding can be used to combine desirable characters, but that, carried beyond narrow limits, it leads to deterioration of the breed.
Has been experimenting on crossing polyanthus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Maw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 96
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending Orchids.
Reports observations by his uncle relating to the successful breeding of a male mule with a horse.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1862]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 3)
Summary:
WED reports on studying the pollen of grass and Valerian through his microscope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
8 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD has been experimenting on the fertility of peloric flowers, with the forlorn hope of illustrating sterility of hybrids; seeks further plants or seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173: 56
Summary:
Has not found insects visiting Epipactis palustris either at night or in the day.
Reality of hybrid plants and birds in nature is controversial.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 55
Summary:
Has misplaced CD’s forwarding address.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
9 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 11
Summary:
Lenny [Leonard Darwin]’s illness.
Polymorphism in valerian and Lythrum salicaria.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 46–7
Summary:
JDH’s trip to Switzerland with his wife.
Has seen Oswald Heer’s fossils, including a leaf, apparently dicotyledonous, from the Lower Lias in Jura.
Value of insect and crustacean fossils for systematic determination.
JDH "impressed with identity of physical features and what wonderful analogy of biological [features] between Alps and Himalayas".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Georg Bronn
Date:
11 July 1862
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 83)
Summary:
Sends additional notes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
E. Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 177: 69
Summary:
Relates death of H. G. Bronn.
Discusses publication of German edition of Orchids [1862].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
11 July [1862]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:
Thanks for answers to CD’s questions; would appreciate any new information on similarity of moths of distinct races.
CD has been "atrociously abused by religious countrymen, but it does not hurt except when it comes from an old friend like Prof. Owen".
Wishes French translator of Origin had known more natural history.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 175: 8
Summary:
Their views on transformism differ a great deal, as CD says, but perhaps not as much as CD thinks. Sending his [Physiologie comparée: métamorphoses de l’homme et des animaux (1862)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John William Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.402
Summary:
JH's conjectures are natural but Augustus De Morgan had nothing to do with JL's Treatise on Probability. JL wrote it in conjunction with J. E. Drinkwater Bethune, although the title page does not show the names of the authors. Understands what JH means about the moon but cannot see what will be gained. Sorry to hear of JH's mishap.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 171.1: 68
Summary:
Will be sending information on peloric plants from his father [William Masters] soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 65
Summary:
Offers more Epipactis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Down Friendly Society
To:
Bromley Savings Bank
Date:
[before 14 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 3v
Summary:
Notification of the Society’s intent to withdraw funds from its account.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1862
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 23, 41–2, 81–2
Summary:
Sends observations on Valeriana officinalis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Smith
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.187
Summary:
Relating to writing for the Cornhill Magazine, and spare copies of the Cape Results.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
14 July [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (70)
Summary:
Adaptations of orchid flowers. Believes the structure of all irregular flowers is adaptation to insect fertilisation.
Linum grandiflorum distinguishes its own pollen so that when placed on stigma of same flower the pollen-tube is not even exserted.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project