From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 198
Summary:
Describes experiments on rotation of tendrils and shoots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
2 July [1863]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 18 July 1863, p. 675
Summary:
Asks M. J. Berkeley to identify the microscopical spherical bodies CD found in drops of yellowish rain-water that fell on his garden in a brief shower.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 298
Summary:
Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.
C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
2 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B79; Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection)
Summary:
CD’s great interest in JS’s work on fertility of Primula crosses.
Thanks for Passiflora trials.
"By no means modify even in slightest degree any result."
CD wishes he had counted rather than weighed Primula seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 July [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 229)
Summary:
Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
3/15 July 1863
Source of text:
MM/10/70, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 July 1863
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 328–9)
Summary:
Includes comments about George Bentham’s anniversary address to the Linnean Society with particular notice of the favourable attention to Darwin, except for Natural Selection, and to AG’s essay in the Atlantic Monthly.
He defends [W. B.] Carpenter and [Jeffries] Wyman against [Richard] Owen.
Gossip about scientific honours and other matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 165: 127, 137
Summary:
Has extracted CD’s Linum paper [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 279–84].
Elaborate co-adaptations of orchids and insects demonstrate against "chance blows", whether few, as Oswald Heer would have, or many and slight as CD proposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Woronzow Greig
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 July 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.41
Summary:
Received the enclosed [manuscript] some time ago with instructions to forward it to JH. Delayed sending it as he was uncertain if JH could spare the time to look through it. Regarding R. A. C. Godwin-Austen and his discoveries of human fossils at Abbeville. WG will be going to Bath for a few months for health reasons.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 110
Summary:
Sends seeds of female Lychnis diurna; has found none in hermaphrodites.
On variation, hybridity, and inheritance of parasites in this plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Sigerson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 177: 162
Summary:
Discusses leaf form and phyllotaxy; clarifies a part of his paper ["On a protomorphic phyllotype", Atlantis (1863)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 July 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.107
Summary:
Has spent much time on figures and annotations for JH's nebula catalogue [see GA's 1863-6-5]; JH needs information from a paper in GA's hands.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 July 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.358.259
Summary:
Was surprised at the large vote in support of a parliamentary bill to abolish the British Standard of weights and measures; JH hopes bill will not pass.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward James Stone
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 July 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.109
Summary:
As G. B. Airy is in Scotland on vacation, ES sends the requested information [see JH's 1863-7-8].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Hector Tyndale
Date:
9th July 1863.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1447; MS JT/1/TYP/4/1657, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Forsell Kirby
Date:
9 July [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD is particularly struck by WFK’s observations on Corsican and N. American subspecies in his paper ["On the geographical distribution of European Rhopalocera", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 3d ser. 1 (1862–3): [!?bib has 1862–4] 481–92]. Thinks it would be interesting for WFK to examine specimens from the Shetland Islands, for even faint trace of differentiation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
9 July [1863]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
WBT progressing with breeding experiments for CD.
CD making quicker progress with Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
11 July [1863]
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:
Discusses rudimentary sixth toe of frogs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
12 Jul 1863
Source of text:
HS 16.368, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Somerville
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 July 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.368
Summary:
Introduces Signore Capellini, professor of geology at Bologna, to JH in letter. Asks JH to assist him in any way possible.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project