From:
Geraldine Jewsbury
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 25--1863--
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/30; MS JT/1/TYP/2/657, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 175: 2
Summary:
Charles Martins of Montpellier will collect the varieties of silkworm for CD.
QdeB is battling with the polygenists in the Société d’Anthropologie.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 [Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 188
Summary:
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.
Latent characters and reversion.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 18
Summary:
Discusses the female parts of the Primula flower; the true character of the free placenta is not completely understood.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 203
Summary:
Wants to know when he may visit CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Hector Tyndale
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27th March 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/53, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 173: 23
Summary:
Sends some specimens for CD.
Is busy with W. African Amomum, whose floral structure he discusses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
27 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Manuscripts NAF 11824 ff. 76–7)
Summary:
Specimens obtained from Charles Martins will be most interesting.
Comments on QdeB’s book [Physiologie comparée (1862)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Wolstenholme
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[27 Mar 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 140
Summary:
Responds belatedly with advice about Cambridge colleges with particular reference to mathematics. Of the large ones Trinity stands out. Of the small ones Christ’s or possibly Caius.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Mar] – 11 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 175: 3
Summary:
Continues to support, in debates at the Société d’Anthropologie, the view that variability of animals and anatomical modifications are produced by environment. Wishes to use CD’s niata cattle example from Journal of researches [2d ed., pp. 145–6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francois-Napoleon-Marie Moigno
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/106, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 121–2
Summary:
Evidence of tropical floras continuous since Tertiary cannot fit CD’s position on intermittent cold periods.
Agrees with CD on reversion and latency.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/2002-3, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
28 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 43 (EH 88206026)
Summary:
Nectar secretion in Edwardsia. Could the stamen protect stigma?
Sends monstrous Primula with three pistils.
Had never heard of Robert Caspary, but what DO thinks is the placenta could be a whorl of pistils without stigmas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 189
Summary:
CD regrets he used "creation" in Origin when he meant "appeared".
An Oken-like article in "Owenian style" in Athenæum.
Tropical plants continue to be troublesome.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Alexander J. Ellis
Date:
30th March 1863
Source of text:
131, AdB
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Dr. Lawson
Date:
Saturday
Source of text:
MS 7777/81-81a, Wellcome
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
30 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.293)
Summary:
Thanks GHKT for specimens of Sethia. Discusses functions of their dimorphism for insect fertilisation.
Discusses polymorphism and fertilisation in Lythraceae.
Asks for seed of Limnanthemum.
Describes his interest in galls.
Discusses curious specimens of Gomphia and Lesemia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[31 Mar 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 126–7
Summary:
Owen is the author of the Athenæum article [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19]. JDH dismisses it as vulgar rubbish. W. B. Carpenter intends to write a reply.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
