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DCP-LETT-3421

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 142
Summary:

Is JDH sure it is a Bletia, just received? Its pollen very different from any Epidendreæ he has seen. If it is Bletia, Lindley’s grand divisions are fanciful.

Accepts JDH’s offer to collect cases of dimorphism.

James Bateman has sent a lot of orchids with Angraecum sesquipedale. What a proboscis the moth that sucks its 11½ inch nectary must have!

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3420

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses manuscript by H. W. Bates [Naturalist on the river Amazons (1863)].

Mentions CD’s forthcoming book [Orchids].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3430

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 Jan – 8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 14; DAR 111: 93
Summary:

Wrote a "frightful screed" about aristocracy’s being a necessary consequence of natural selection, and then burnt it.

H. W. Bates is the only man "thinking out" natural selection to any purpose. "I think I have driven Bates back to Nat. Sel. as the only way of solving his difficulties."

HWB’s mimetic butterflies.

JDH wishes he had time to do the same thing with plants.

Owen and Huxley involved in a "contemptible" squabble in the Edinburgh newspapers.

Maximovitch reports Stellaria bulbifera is a Siberian form which never ripens its seeds.

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DCP-LETT-3424

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
31 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encloses note from Murray, hoping it will be satisfactory. Murray is ready to see as much of MS as possible. Murray is considered honest but may be cautious, since HWB’s name is unknown to the public.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3424F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
Date:
31 Jan [1862]
Source of text:
Private collection (on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)
Summary:

Returns HH’s essay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10502

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 January 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.379
Summary:

Has been considering how to incorporate JH's suggestions regarding the insertion of the Julian dates in the Nautical Almanac. Would like his views. Quotes extracts from a letter of U. J. J. Leverrier.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3426

From:
Charles Kingsley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 169.1: 29
Summary:

CK defended CD’s theory at a shooting party with the Bishop of Oxford, the Duke of Argyll, and Lord Ashburton. The discussion started as a result of shooting some blue rock-pigeons which were different from blue rocks of other localities. CK held that all pigeons were descended from one species.

CK proposed that mythological races, e.g., elves and dwarfs, were intermediate species between man and apes, and have become extinct by natural selection; i.e., by competition with a superior white race of man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3432

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
1 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 23)
Summary:

Thanks for seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3356

From:
James Bateman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 160.1: 59
Summary:

Glad CD approves of the orchids he sent.

Believes the pollinia of Mormodes are projected; thinks CD should look at the pollinia of Chysis and investigate the hybrid between Limatodes and Calanthe.

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DCP-LETT-3433

From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 165: 206
Summary:

Agrees with CD’s estimate of the man [unidentified]. Hopes CD will use his influence with Lubbock to try to prevent the Council’s placing him at the head of the Zoological Society.

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DCP-LETT-3435

From:
Henry Holland, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 or 8] Feb 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 235
Summary:

Suggests a change in the postscript [referred to in 3423].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 223
Summary:

Returns a letter, which, when it is published, he believes will make readers take up THH’s lectures in a more impartial spirit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 694–6)
Summary:

Asks GB’s help to clear up discrepancies between his and John Lindley’s observations on pollination of Melastomataceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5878

From:
Jacques Babinet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.4
Summary:

On a static measure for gravity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2916

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–8 Feb 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 205.8: 69
Summary:

Cites descriptions of melastomads in C. V. Naudin, Annales des Sciences Naturelles 3d ser., vols. 12–18.

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Herschel7328

From:
Frederick Drew
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.504
Summary:

Is going to Kashmir for a geological survey. Wonders if while he is there he can carry out any meteorological research.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8344

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[4 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.147
Summary:

Notes ingenuity of JB's gravimetric balance. Astonished that it did not occur to anyone before. [Letter continues 5 Feb.:] Suggestion for improving torsion thread arrangement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7660

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 February 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.1.14; Reel 10
Summary:

Returned JH's 'original sheets of nebulae.' Kept sheets of calculations. Will write about money accounts later. Lord Palmerston's communication about Thomas Maclear's pension.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3438

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Returns "The Week" [unidentified].

Agrees with THH’s published letter that writer is a man of excellent spirit, but doubts he is a good logician.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3439

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Kingsley
Date:
6 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection); 19th Century Shop (dealer) (March 2014)
Summary:

Comments on CK’s letter [3426].

Identifies species of pigeon shot by party.

On CK’s "grand and awful" notion of genealogy of man, CD recalls how revolting was the thought that his ancestors must have been like the Fuegians. His present belief that they were hairy beasts is less revolting.

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