From:
Richard Trevor Clarke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr? 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 164
Summary:
Encloses strawberry blossoms used in his crossing experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1–11] Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 108: 183, DAR 177: 86 (fragile)
Summary:
Studying self-sterility, particularly in Oncidium, where abortion occurs consistently but stigma functions normally. His hybrid orchid crosses show sterility occurs capriciously. Thus it is not a "special endowment".
Disputes Asa Gray’s and Hermann Crüger’s view of rostellar germination.
Doubts absolute sterility of Catasetum.
Disappointed by results with homomorphic cowslips.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Turner
Date:
[1 Apr – 16 June 1863?]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 12
Summary:
Asks correspondent whether, when growing hollyhocks, he finds it necessary to space out the different varieties to prevent crossing and thus to obtain true seed [see Variation 2: 108].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Anderson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 59
Summary:
Sends CD seeds of Cattleya crispa as requested [see Collected papers 2: 77–8].
Anticipates success for his attempts to cross orchids artificially. Has not had a single seed germinate from a pod that was not produced by artificial crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 22
Summary:
Conducted crosses on Gladiolus varieties exactly according to CD’s letter. Flowers of same variety are self-sterile, whether from the same plant or not.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
1 April 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.57-58, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Rawson
Date:
2 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (10 December 2013); Xiling Yinshe Auction Company (dealers) (Autumn 2017 lot 2184)
Summary:
Discusses unusual primula flowers and asks for details of Rawson’s experiments with gladioli. Asks for loan of Cypripedium but admits he will probably mutilate it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/523, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Farnaby Cator, 1st baronet; John Farnaby Lennard, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Apr 1863
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (24 July 1995)
Summary:
Testimony by the parishioners of Down, Kent, to the moral character and integrity of George Snow, District Surveyor. Signed by nearly fifty local residents, including CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
3 April 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.56, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas P. Kirkman
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 April 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.47
Summary:
Has lately resumed the study of the theory of groups. Further comments on the French Academy and the award of the mathematical medal.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
5 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 57
Summary:
JL’s review of Lyell’s Antiquity of man (1863) [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 211–19].
Owen’s review of W. B. Carpenter in Athenæum [28 Mar 1863, pp. 417–19].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.256
Summary:
Sent information on meteor spotted in Belgium and in Germany. Has heard differing opinions on heights of meteors. Talks about statistics of population.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
6 Apr [1863]
Source of text:
Catherine Barnes (dealer) (January 2002)
Summary:
Comments on MTM’s article ["On the existence of two forms of peloria", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 258–62]. Cites interesting case of peloric flower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Rawson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 176: 23
Summary:
Provides evidence of self-sterility in Gladiolus.
Has observed three seed-leaves in some Dianthus seedlings.
Cannot cross, or grow from seed, Dielytra spectabilis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 205
Summary:
Has seen some curious hybrid ducks and geese of Bartlett’s. Bartlett will do experiments suggested by CD when he has time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Joseph Edward Addison
Date:
7th Ap. 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/657, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 39
Summary:
JL is off to visit Scotch "kjökken möddings".
Hopes Lyell is not really vexed by his article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William James Herschel
Date:
[7 April 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0558; Reel 1053
Summary:
Family eagerly awaits WJH's return home after ten years in India. JH is visiting cousins in Halton. Locations of WJH's brothers and sisters. If possible, stop in Malta and visit William Lassell's equatorial reflector. Alexander Herschel will lecture on meteors at Royal Institution.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
[8–13 Apr 1863]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Sends two spikes of Corydalis.
Admits he may have drawn false inference from MTM’s division of peloria into two classes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project