To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 3 November 1855]
Summary
CD requests further details about a rain of shells on the Isle of Wight reported by a Gardeners’ Chronicle correspondent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 3 Nov 1855] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 44, 3 November 1855, p. 726 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1771 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … shells and suggested that Winchester’s informant had seen only hungry snails brought out …
From Edward Blyth [1–8 October 1855]
Summary
Notes on Lyell’s Principles, vol. 2.
EB does not believe in connecting links between genera; there is no tendency to gradation between groups of animals.
Does not believe shortage of food can directly produce any heritable effect on size.
Comments on significance of variations discussed by Lyell. Variation in dentition and coloration.
Behaviour of elephants and monkeys.
When varieties are crossed EB considers that the form of the offspring, whether intermediate or like one or other of the parents, depends upon how nearly related the parents are.
Thinks that in the struggle for existence hybrids, and varieties generally, must be expected to give way to the "beautiful & minute adaptation" of the pure types.
Colours of Indian birds.
Vitality of seeds.
Variation among palms.
Fauna of Malaysia and New Zealand. Ranges of bird species.
[Memorandum originally enclosed with 1760.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1–8 Oct 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A37–A50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1762 |
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- … a lot of them in course of training. My informant is the Rev D r M c Dougall (Bishop elect …
| letter | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Earthworms
Summary
As with many of Darwin’s research topics, his interest in worms spanned nearly his entire working life. Some of his earliest correspondence about earthworms was written and received in the 1830s, shortly after his return from his Beagle voyage, and his…
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- … to collect information on worms. Some of his most faithful informants and observers of the actions …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
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- … before. He also made efforts to expand his network of informants, especially among breeders of …
