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DCP-LETT-4147

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 76: B188–90
Summary:

Describes the structure of Corydalis and its arrangement for making pollen accessible to bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7702

From:
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.8.14; Reel 10
Summary:

Is sending JH several lists of nebulae, and comments about some of the items. [Almost illegible.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4154

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 134
Summary:

JDH encourages a Mr Salwyn [Osbert Salvin] to collect in Galapagos; would like CD to add his encouragement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2005

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Couch Adams
Date:
8th May. /63
Source of text:
MS 7777/06, Wellcome
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall2006

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Rudolf Clausius
Date:
8th May. 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/233, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4147F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Snow
Date:
8 May 1863
Source of text:
Lawrences Auctioneers (dealers) (30 April – 2 May 2019, Lot 207)
Summary:

Has pleasure in giving GS a testimonial for the office of surveyor for the Bromley District.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3639

From:
Count Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.246
Summary:

Will help JH or JH's son [Alexander], whose mind PS admires, in any way possible.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4149

From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 164: 138
Summary:

Sends photos of the niata ox skull presented by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 192
Summary:

Lists the six honest believers in his species theory in England.

Asa Gray complains that Lyell acts like a judge on species, whereas CD complains of Lyell’s indecision.

CD working on divergence of leaves.

Distribution of Cameroon plants and the glacial theory.

Survival of island relics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4149F

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 May 1863
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection Coll-203/B9)
Summary:

Has been to Osborne on the Isle of Wight to visit Queen Victoria, who had lots of questions about CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
[9 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 84
Summary:

Doubts the fruit will stick on his Chinese double peach and asks TR to send him a couple when ripe.

Would like to grow seeds of the "curious monstrosity" of a wall-flower, to see whether the monstrosity is hereditary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2007

From:
Samuel Haughton
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 May 1863.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/488, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel7154

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.363
Summary:

Like Professor Olearius Schneiderhausen, AD has had only one coat in two years. JH will go on for many more years. Sends one of his theorems.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4151

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 111
Summary:

Thanks WED for his botanical specimens and observations.

Discusses Corydalis and the fertilisation of Fumariaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4152

From:
Henry Fletcher Hance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 95
Summary:

Sends sketch of Catasetum tridentatum fruit at request of Edward Bradford.

CD incorrectly asserted that Catasetum is male [Orchids, pp. 236–8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2008

From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
10th May | 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/323; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2005, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3887

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 11 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 51: 6–7
Summary:

Notes, calculations, and diagrams on phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4153

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
11 May [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (59)
Summary:

CD despairs when men like AG and Lyell consider themselves incapable of judging on change of species by descent.

Is confused over phyllotaxy.

Has been looking at Plantago lanceolata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4153A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Osbert Salvin
Date:
11 [May 1863]
Source of text:
Sybil Rampen (private collection)
Summary:

At the suggestion of J. D. Hooker CD offers his opinion on the value of a proposed collection to be made at the Galápagos. The display would not be attractive or appealing to amateurs in natural history, but the scientific value of good collections of every species would be very great if those of each island are rigorously kept separate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4158A

From:
Horace Benge Dobell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1863
Source of text:
Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with G 395, Dobell 1862)
Summary:

Sends copy of the table, which now embodies CD’s suggestions [see 4117].

Gives instances of persons born with two thumbs and comments on hereditary factor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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