From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 13
Summary:
Jaw with teeth found associated with Archaeopteryx fossil. Waterhouse pronounces it a fish’s jaw.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
18 Jan 63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2251-2, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
19 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (57)
Summary:
Comments on his own review of Bates’s butterfly paper [Collected papers 2: 87–92].
Thanks AG for information on Platanthera.
Has been wasting more time with Melastomataceae; can find no nectar in Monochaetum; is there any in Rhexia?
Hopes Lincoln’s "fiat against Slavery" will have some effect.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[19 January 1863]
Source of text:
RAS MSS Add.26.9
Summary:
Austrian consul, Mr. Schaeffer, sent JH one copy of Voyage of the Navara and map, care of R.A.S. If parcel arrives, send it to Smith, Elder & Co.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Emil Suchsland
Date:
[after 19 Jan 1863]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 618, item 441)
Summary:
Returns book by Friedrich Rolle. Author has sent copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Isaac Anderson; Isaac Anderson Henry
Date:
20 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 1
Summary:
Discusses hybrid strawberry–raspberry
and his research on Primula and Linum.
Suggests breeding experiments.
Doubtful about Donald Beaton’s statement about Pelargonium.
Mentions experiments on peloric flowers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
20 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 30
Summary:
If jaw belongs to Archaeopteryx, it will show great peculiarity. A German author has advanced the case as argument for Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Baptiste Elie de Beaumont
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.31
Summary:
Regarding their journals and publication dates.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
20 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 38 (EH 88206021)
Summary:
Has been copying out references from Natural History Review [possibly D. Oliver, "The structure of the stem in dicotyledons; being references to the literature of the subject", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 298–329].
Suggests DO study high incidence of separate sexes in freshwater plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
20. Jan. 63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2253-4, RI
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B15–16
Summary:
Will be glad to have CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 176: 160
Summary:
Sends some trees to CD.
Would be pleased to receive the copy of Origin offered by CD as gift.
Will give CD any tree or shrub he may want.
Refers to curious strawberry hybrids noticed in Journal of Horticulture [I. Anderson-Henry, "Crossing strawberries", J. Hortic. n.s. 4 (1863): 45–6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott
Date:
21 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 93: B56–7, B75–6
Summary:
Urges JS to publish on orchid pollen-tubes.
Suggests comparing stigmatic tissue of sterile hybrids and fertile parent; he would expect hybrid plant’s cell contents not to be coagulated after 24 hours in spirits of wine.
Suggests JS coat orchid stigmas with plaster of Paris for his work on rostellar germination.
Asks for list of "bud-variation" cases; CD has devoted a chapter to the subject.
Inquiries about I. Anderson-Henry’s observational competence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.108
Summary:
Is grateful for the note and brochure. Is grieved to hear of the illness in his family. His own health is not good. Comments on the article on Telescopes by JH in the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
22 Jan 1863
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
Thanks JvH for his address [to the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury], his Geological Report [Topographical and geological exploration of the western districts of the Nelson province, New Zealand (1861)],
and for the "honourable" notice of Origin.
CD especially interested in JvH’s facts on the old glacial period.
Asks about fossil remains [of supposed living mammalia] which CD thinks may be like "the Solenhofen bird-creature" [Archaeopteryx].
Urges the recording of rate and manner of spreading of European weeds and plants and observation on which native plants "most fail".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
22 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 127)
Summary:
Asks that a copy of Origin be sent to Thomas Rivers.
Curious about sale of Orchids. It is too stiff for the public. "If praise from Botanists would sell, it would go off well."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 19
Summary:
The number of "aquatic" flowers is reduced if one considers only those that expand under water.
Lecturing at Norwich.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[22 January 1863]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207109 (C: RS:HS 24.7)
Summary:
Thanks WW for and comments on WW's Lectures on Political Economy. Has learned that the theory of rent is exploded. JH's daughter Julia is seriously ill.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Francis Boott
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 254
Summary:
His son wants CD’s opinion about a cub supposed by Frank Buckland to be progeny of a lioness and mastiff.
Lyell working at last proofs [of Antiquity of man]; he is scornful of Owen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Jan [1863-4]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254)
Summary:
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project