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DCP-LETT-4038

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12–13 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.290)
Summary:

[On Antiquity of man] CD is "convinced that at times … you have … given up immutability". "A clear expression from you, if you could have given it, would have been potent with the public."

Objects to CL’s description of CD’s view "as a modification of Lamarck’s doctrine". Quotes Henrietta [Darwin]’s observations on this description.

Comments on CL’s controversy with Owen concerning the human brain.

The controversy between Falconer and CL.

The "wretched" review of CL [Antiquity of man, Athenæum 14 Feb 1863, pp. 219–21] and Huxley [Man’s place in nature].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4035F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 14)
Summary:

Discusses partnership in bank and whether Atherley would like to retire.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4037

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 178
Summary:

Discusses crossed varieties of sheep and ducks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8376

From:
[Pridler?] Sons & Co.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.176a
Summary:

Requests payment of JH's coal bill.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4039

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 [Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 186
Summary:

Lyell’s position on mutability.

Fertilisation of trees by bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9516

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[13 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.327
Summary:

Comments on RF's ideas on the gravitational effect of the sun and moon on the earth's atmosphere.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1980

From:
Alexander Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1863 Mar 15th
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/82; MS JT/1/TYP/2/583, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4040

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 117–20
Summary:

JDH battling with Lyell over treatment of species question in Antiquity of man. Distressed by Lyell’s raising false priority issue between JDH and CD. Falconer involved in a priority squabble.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1981

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Mar 15/63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/100; MS JT/1/TYP/2/533; HS/24/14, RI; RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4041

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1863
Source of text:
K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 364–6
Summary:

Lyell has received compliments for letting readers draw own inferences [on species question]. Now feels he earlier did Lamarck injustice. [CD’s] substitution of variety-making power for volition [as in Lamarck] in some respects only a change of names.

Thinks Huxley taking on too many responsibilities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3562

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[15 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.14 (C: RI 522)
Summary:

Thanks for lectures on heat motion theory and radiation through earth's atmosphere, and for brochure on 'conformation' of the Alps. Asks about upcoming lecture of JH's son [Alexander].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas White Woodbury
Date:
15 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
B. Altman & Co. ( New York Times , 12 October 1975, p. 39)
Summary:

TWW should look at bee and comb specimens received by CD from Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
16 [Mar 1863]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 137)
Summary:

If WDF should hear what ram was put to the ewes, CD would like to add it [see Variation 2: 30].

Will add "cautiously" that WDF believes white and slate muscovy ducks breed true [Variation 2: 40].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1982

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Alexander Herschel
Date:
16.th March 1863
Source of text:
MS 7777/05, Wellcome
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1983

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
16th March 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/523, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3644

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.393a (C: RI 523)
Summary:

Remarks on upcoming lecture of JH's son [Alexander], and on glacial movement.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4045

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 174: 5
Summary:

Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences
Date:
16 Mar 1863
Source of text:
Archiv der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (II–III–120: 67)
Summary:

Thanks Academy on his election as a Corresponding Member.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4046

From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 70: 180, DAR 178: 184
Summary:

RT has sent his observations on orchids to CD. Has found only one case of an insect with a pollinium adhering to it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4069

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Journal of Horticulture
Date:
[17–24 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener n.s. 4 (1863): 237
Summary:

Reports the observations of Hermann Crüger and John Scott that fruit is set by orchids whose flowers never open and that pollen-tubes are emitted from pollen-masses still in their proper position. These cases convince CD that in Orchids he underestimated the power of tropical orchids to produce seed without insect aid but he is not shaken in his belief that the structure of the flowers is mainly related to insect agency.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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