From:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26–7 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 61
Summary:
Has done extensive plant hybridisation: strawberry, raspberry, Rhododendron.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.120
Summary:
The missing parts will be sent in the Spring. The Academy would be pleased to receive any of JH's publications. Thanks for the pamphlet 'On Atoms.'
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
26 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Congratulations on marriage, which CD considers the best and only chance for happiness in this world.
Glad HWB is near completion of book.
Begs him to thank Wallace for Melastoma information; CD "cannot endure being beaten by a beggarly flower".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Trevelyan (Frank) Buckland
Date:
26 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (23 June 1993, lot 146)
Summary:
Asks FB’s help in identifying an article in The Field about the fins of fishes growing again after being cut off, and inquiring whether he has heard of the re-growth of organs in the mammalia or birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 176: 161
Summary:
Thanks CD for Origin.
TR has often thought naturalists do not pay enough attention to the effect of site, soil, and climate on animals and plants and "hence has arisen the enormous number of so-called species".
His observations on people of different counties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Rolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 176: 201
Summary:
Pleased that his book, Ch. Darwin’s Lehre [1863], has CD’s approval.
FR formerly a geologist, now a dealer in natural history objects.
Most active supporter of CD’s theory is Gustav Jäger in Vienna.
FR regards fossil Hipparion as a link between horse and pachyderms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
26 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Has WBT ever heard of a case of the regeneration of monstrous (extra) toe on fowls?
Inquires about a curious pigeon reported at the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.473
Summary:
WS's photographer may get a grant from the R.S.L. Object glass for new telescope was stolen. They are still using the old one.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 56
Summary:
Does not believe in regeneration of monstrous toe.
Pigeon and poultry experiments.
Peculiar pigeon at Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project