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DCP-LETT-4260F

From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 189: 9
Summary:

A memorandum describing the expressive behaviour of a cat with added notes by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6348

From:
R. S. Brown
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1863-8
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.112
Summary:

Sending papers to JH and would be glad if he would communicate them either to the B.A.A.S. or some influential journal.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4260

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
1 and 3 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 93: B24, B27–8, B70; DAR 147: 455
Summary:

Thanks JS for orchid paper [Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 7 (1863): 543–50]. JS presents excellent new facts on sterility of orchids.

His argument that coloured primroses are not hybrids is good, as is idea of discovering primrose parentage by breeding for colours.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel2969

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[1863-8]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #30
Summary:

Describes in vivid detail the account of an 'extraordinary meteor' in October 1854. Given by a person from Hurworth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1354

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
?-8?-1863?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-4260A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
Date:
2 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
Charterhouse Archives (ACC 013)
Summary:

Thanks LEB for the Lychnis seed [see 4258], which he will plant in the hope of fertilising the little ovaria.

Comments on the two forms of Linum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6582

From:
John Capellini
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.324
Summary:

Has received his letter and will visit him on Tuesday, arriving at Etchingham station at 3:35 p.m.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 201
Summary:

Tendril plants received.

Has just completed large crossing experiment with Lythrum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2025

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
July 29th 1863
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/523, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4263

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
4 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Asks AdeC to observe two species of Lythrum to see whether they are dimorphic as stated by Vaucher. CD can find no trace of this in dried specimens he has examined; "if either species present any difference in length of pistil and stamens, it is most likely that three forms should be presented".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10223

From:
F. Gough
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.109
Summary:

His note and the maps have arrived safely. Has made the necessary arrangements for the night of the 10th.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4262

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (83)
Summary:

Anticipated AG’s attitude on design in orchids. Does he not think that the variations that gave rise to fancy pigeon varieties were accidental?

Has been working hard at Lythrum

and spontaneous movements of tendrils.

Defends Drosera as a "sagacious animal" but does not know whether he will ever publish on it.

Comments on political situation in U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall2026

From:
George Hector Tyndale
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
August 6th 1853
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/57; MS JT/1/TYP/5/1959-60, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4264

From:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 5
Summary:

Sends a map of the province of Canterbury, marking his own and other explorations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4880

From:
John Crawfurd
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 237, 237/1
Summary:

Forwards an enclosure for CD, at Archdeacon John Sinclair’s request [extract from J. Sinclair’s Life and works of Sir John Sinclair (1837) 2: 83–5], showing how Dr Erasmus Darwin anticipated Justus von Liebig [in recognising the importance of phosphorus-rich manures].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7157

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.366
Summary:

Wife and family are on holiday at Portmadoc. Obtains his rhymes from Thomas Wright's Political Songs of England. Relates a tale of how a priest tricked a farmer in medieval times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4265

From:
Hermann Crüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1863
Source of text:
DAR 161: 277, 277/1
Summary:

Thanks for presentation copy of Linum paper [Collected papers 2: 93–105].

Ficus experiments confirm CD’s supposition that insects visit Melastoma for nectar, but HC thinks pollen-seekers fertilise the flowers.

Maranta fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8037

From:
John Wrottesley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 August 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.304
Summary:

Invites Herschels to visit Wrottesley [Hall, Staffordshire] to witness James Glaisher's 'last high Balloon Ascent' from Wolverhampton on 13 Aug.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE458

From:
Robert Mallet
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
10 Aug 1863
Source of text:
MSM 1 / 174, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-4266

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12–13 Aug [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 202
Summary:

Doubts Decaisne’s report of larkspur self-fertilisation.

Enthusiastically observes climbing plants. Needs to know how novel his observations are. Finds R. J. H. Dutrochet has made similar observations, so he has wasted some time. [See Climbing plants, p. 1 n.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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