From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 194
Summary:
Seeks advice for John Scott on job offer in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 May 1863
Source of text:
148, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
23 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B15–16
Summary:
Has written to Hooker for his advice about the Darjeeling position. JS should not refuse the position on account of his experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
23 May [1863]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 56)
Summary:
CD has drawn up a paper from RT’s orchid notes on the fertilisation of Disa grandiflora for the Linnean Society [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 7 (1863): 144–7].
CD would welcome seeds of any Cape Oxalis for his investigation of dimorphism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.362
Summary:
Hopes JH will present the essay prepared for the Leeds Astronomical Society lecture series in person. Describes format of the series and background of the society members.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 May 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 143–6
Summary:
Flora of Cameroons shakes JDH’s faith in ability to explain past or present migrations. Sees need for a major novel explanation such as natural selection, glacial cold, or continental connections.
Lyell in a bad way about feud with Falconer.
JDH’s opinion of Wallace, Bates, J. E. Gray, Owen, Asa Gray, Lubbock, and Bentham.
Bentham’s Linnean Society address [see 4118].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Crüger
Date:
25 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 359
Summary:
Thanks for news about fertilisation of Melastomataceae.
Discusses fertilisation of orchids.
Mentions observations by John Scott.
Asks about "bud-variations".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
25 May [1863]
Source of text:
RR Auction (dealers) (November 2006)
Summary:
Sends cheque to pay for photographs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
25 and 28 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 93: B41–4
Summary:
CD does not think he could be wrong about the stigma of Bolbophyllum.
Will not write up Drosera for years.
Praises JS’s experiments. Invites him to send a paper to Linnean Society.
L. C. Treviranus says all species of Primula present two forms except P. longiflora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
Date:
[26 or 27 May 1863]
Source of text:
Journal of Botany 7: 291–2
Summary:
Thinks the dark purple anthers are a mass of a Cryptogamic plant, allied to the smut of Wheat. There remains a case of a reversion from a diœcious to a hermaphrodite condition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.11.5; Reel 10 (ACCS: RGO 6.200.93)
Summary:
Addresses each error JH discovered in reduction of JH's catalogue of nebulae [see JH's 1863-5-15].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 135
Summary:
Discusses recent correspondence in the Athenæum: the disagreement between Lyell and Hugh Falconer and Owen’s remarks on heterogeny [see 4110].
Briefly discusses orchids and some problems in phyllotaxy.
Mentions the political situation and the quarrelsome behaviour of the English.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Anthony Jeffreys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1863]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/6.12 verso; Reel 10
Summary:
Gratitude for copy of JH's Iliad. Hopes [Margaret] Herschel is [recovering from] her journey and that accounts from Ireland are still good.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 91
Summary:
Discusses Darjeeling position. Thanks CD for advice.
Will send orchid paper [see 4087].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Thomas Austen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1863
Source of text:
DAR 159: 149
Summary:
Has written to G. Dennen to ask him for an explanation regarding his behaviour in a financial transaction involving the savings bank of which JTA and CD are trustees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 109
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s paper [not named].
Inquires whether Lychnis, as an hermaphrodite, is more susceptible to fungus, disease, other weaknesses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28 May 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/232; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1387, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 May 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.334
Summary:
The delay in thanking him for his gift of the Iliad has been occasioned by ill health.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Thursday M.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/215, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Scott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 92
Summary:
Sends abstract from Edinburgh Courant of his orchid sterility paper [see 4087]. Balfour altered title to obscure its theoretical nature.
Sends specimens showing curious variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project