[Houghton, William.] 1865. Gleanings from the natural history of the tropics. Quarterly Review 118: 166–93.
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- … 1865. Gleanings from the natural history of the tropics. Quarterly Review 118: 166–93. NW6 …
To J. D. Hooker 3 January [1860]
Summary
High praise and detailed comments on JDH’s introductory essay to Flora Tasmaniae, which CD has now finished reading.
Disagrees on power of transoceanic migration. Advocates glacial transport of plants.
CD’s response to reviews of Origin in Saturday Review [8 (1859): 775–6] and John Lindley’s in Gardeners’ Chronicle [but see 2651].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2635 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … northern plants migrated south through the tropics, a view set out in detail in Origin , …
- … European species having migrated through the tropics to Australia in Hooker 1859 , pp. …
- … of the coexistence of at least forms of Tropics & Temperate regions. I can give parallel …
- … which of these genera are absent in Tropics of world, ie confined to Temperate regions. — …
- … Tropical plants formed in big area & fitted for Tropics & not for temperate parts have …
- … almost exterminated Australian Flora of Tropics. —’ In his essay ( Hooker 1859 , p. l), …
- … of these genera are not found in lowland Tropics & include species representative of those …
To H. W. Bates 26 March [1861]
Summary
Comments on the great extent of variations and on the acknowledgment of the new idea of greater female variety.
Expresses belief that the glacial period did affect the tropics, though HWB’s arguments have confounded him.
Poses a series of questions concerning sexual selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 26 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3100 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … that the glacial period did affect the tropics, though HWB’s arguments have confounded …
- … a letter some days ago to him, that the Tropics of S. America seem to have suffered less …
- … may have been formed more rapidly within Tropics than one would have expected. I freely …
- … period did to certain extent affect the Tropics. — Would you kindly answer me 2 or 3 …
- … most beautiful in our eyes? Do you know in Tropics any strictly nocturnal moths with gaudy …
To C. J. F. Bunbury 21 April [1856]
Summary
CD writes on geographical distribution – "a grand game of chess with the world for a board".
Gives his hypothetical explanation why zoology of Cape [of Good Hope] is not so peculiar as its botany: it was once a group of islands – later united.
Tries hard to set forth the difficulties of his [species] theory.
Tells CJFB in confidence of his theory of the glacial epoch and its effect on plant distribution, such as identical species being found on summits of mountains in the tropics. Invites him to attack his "doctrine".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Date: | 21 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds (Bunbury Family Papers E18/700/1/9/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1856 |
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- … being found on summits of mountains in the tropics. Invites him to attack his "doctrine". …
- … temperate plants would spread into the Tropics, whilst the arctic plants reached the foot …
- … Some, I consider it possible might cross the Tropics & survive at C. of Good Hope, T. …
- … del Fuego & S. Australia; but within the Tropics, when warmth returned, all would be …
- … African forms, as wanderers across the Tropics, into N. Africa & Europe: is not this so …
- … water. I look at the vegetation of the Tropics, during the cold period, as having been …
To J. S. Henslow 18 May – 16 June 1832
Summary
His first letter to JSH since December. Recounts his seasickness, geologising and marine collecting at St Jago [Santiago, Cape Verde Is.]; his first tropical forest. Collecting small insects from the tropics. His Welsh trip with Sedgwick has been extremely valuable.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 18 May & 16 June 1832 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 12 DAR/1/1/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-171 |
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- … forest. Collecting small insects from the tropics. His Welsh trip with Sedgwick has been …
- … raised in the mind on first entering the Tropics. — I am now collecting fresh-water & land …
- … insects in the collections from the Tropics. — I tell Entomologists to look out & have …
- … as much as you would one in the glorious Tropics. — We sail for Monte Video at the end of …
- … period before we again cross the Tropic. — I am sometimes afraid I shall never be able to …
To William Jackson Hooker 17 February [1851]
Summary
Encloses letter from J. D. Hooker. Glad he will soon be home.
Everyone will be astonished at oaks and birches of tropics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | 17 Feb [1851] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1390 |
To Caroline Darwin 2–6 April 1832
Summary
CD’s enjoyment of the beauty of the tropics is worth all the misery of seasickness. His mail gave him great pleasure. For two weeks he will visit a large estate in the country, and on return live at Botofogo for some weeks, collecting and learning to know the tropics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | 2–6 Apr 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-164 |
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- … CD’s enjoyment of the beauty of the tropics is worth all the misery of seasickness. His …
- … on return live at Botofogo for some weeks, collecting and learning to know the tropics. …
- … The great difference of climate in the Tropics & colder zones consists in the higher temp: …
- … for my collections & for knowing the Tropics. Moreover I shall escape cauking & painting & …
From J. D. Hooker 22 June 1868
Summary
The grass [see 6243] is Sporobolus elongatus, common in the tropics.
Visit to Oxford with X Club.
On his forthcoming address.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 June 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 218–19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6254 |
To J. E. Gray 1 July [1856]
Summary
Requests information on ranges of echinoderms for his essay on variation [Natural selection]. Are there genera with representative species in northern and southern seas, but none in tropics?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 1 July [1856] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 69) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1915 |
From Oswald Heer 23 March 1875
Summary
Discusses his work [Flora fossilis Arctica, vol. 4, pt 1 (1876)].
Sends copy of [Fossile Pflanzen von Sumatra (1874)]. Comments on climate in Tertiary period, especially on Sumatra.
Comments on theory of Thomas Belt concerning climatic change in ice age.
Author: | Oswald Heer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Mar 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9901 |
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- … temperatures dropped in all zones beyond the tropics. This hypothesis would of course …
- … to get hold of fossil plants from the tropics. I have just now dispatched to you a small …
- … the climate now, that the climate in the tropics has stayed the same, and that the great …
- … that it drew back to the area between the tropics only relatively late. That the retreat …
- … development of the organic world in the tropics will have been different in many ways from …
- … while this factor is absent in the tropics. Recently, Mr Belt has skilfully defended a …
To Charles Lyell 8 July [1856]
Summary
Thanks CL for loan of [Matthew Fontaine?] Maury’s map.
Discusses possibility of submerged continental extension including Madeira, Canaries, and Azores.
Mentions icebergs as carriers of European plants.
Hooker’s work on Antarctic flora.
Comments on coolness of tropics in glacial period and consequent migrations. Hooker’s views on this.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 July [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.134) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1920 |
To H. W. Bates 13 January [1862]
Summary
Has been in bad health and has just read HWB’s MS in the last two days. Praises the book; assured it will be successful. Offers to write to Murray. Hooker interested in conclusions on colour.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Walter Bates |
Date: | 13 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3382 |
From Edward Blyth 23 February 1856
Summary
Opposition to EB within the Asiatic Society.
Possibility of establishment of a zoological garden at Calcutta.
Has seen Gallus varius alive for the first time.
Will procure domestic pigeons for CD; could CD pay for them by returning hardy creatures, such as macaws and marmosets, which EB can sell for a high price in India?
Does not recall his authority for genealogy of the asses of Oman. If a genuine wild ass exists EB believes it will be in south Arabia.
Infertility of Irish and Devon red deer.
Details of an unusual species of wild dog.
Fertility of canine hybrids. General tendency toward hybrid sterility.
Has skins of hybrid Coracias and the parent species.
Wide-ranging species; skua found in Europe and Australia, but not in the tropics.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Feb 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A128–A132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1832 |
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- … species. Wide-ranging species; skua found in Europe and Australia, but not in the tropics. …
- … has lately been observed within the tropics. Is Gould’s Australian crested Grebe really …
- … the north; & this bird has never been seen within the tropics . ’ In his abstract of this …
- … CD noted: ‘Refers about Skua Gull not in Tropics, but in Australia, to Gould; & I have …
- … birds found in Australia but not in the tropics ( Natural selection , p. 554); the skua …
From J. D. Hooker 22 December 1858
Summary
Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.
Still regards plant types as older than animal types.
The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 128–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2382 |
Agassiz, Louis. 1867. The geological formation of the valley of the Amazon. The river, its basin and tributories. The ancient glaciers in the tropics. The aquatic animals of the Amazon. The land animals of South America. The monkeys and native inhabitants. [Six lectures read at the Cooper Institute, New York, 5, 11, 12, 18, 20, and 26 February 1867.] New York Herald Tribune, 6 February 1867, p. 8, 12 February 1867, p. 5, 13 February 1867, p. 5, 19 February 1867, p. 8, 21 February 1867, p. 5, 27 February 1867, p. 8.
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- … tributories. The ancient glaciers in the tropics. The aquatic animals of the Amazon. The …
To J. D. Hooker 18 March [1861]
Summary
Argument, based on geographical distribution and competition, for a mundane glacial period rather than cooling of one longitudinal belt at a time.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Mar [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3091 |
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- … either from north or south, till the Tropics became slightly cooled, and a few temperate …
- … exterminate the productions of the cooled Tropics; but would become partially mingled with …
- … slowly coming on and the plants under the tropics travelling towards the equator; and it …
- … countries immediately north of the northern tropic were at the same time warmer, so as to …
To T. H. Huxley 1 July [1856]
Summary
Asks for information on geographical distribution of ascidians; are any closely allied species or genera found in north and south temperate zones that do not have representatives in the tropics?
Answers some questions on [cirripede] antennae.
If THH ever sees a tree washed ashore, will he observe whether any earth is embedded between roots?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 July [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 175, 37–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1914 |
To Susan Darwin 14 July – 7 August [1832]
Summary
Regrets leaving the tropics, despite interest in a land where Europeans have never been. They have experienced political turmoil at Montevideo. Natural history going well.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | 14 July – 7 Aug [1832] |
Classmark: | DAR 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-177 |
From G. B. Sowerby 7 February 1846
Summary
Gives his opinion on the tropical character of fossil shells listed by CD. The shells of Navidad [Chile] are not particularly tropical.
Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-949 |
To Caroline Darwin [28 April 1831]
Summary
Had a pleasant week in London and is now enjoying Cambridge, where he is busy with work and social engagements.
Writes with great enthusiasm of his prospective trip to "the Tropics" [Canary Islands]. Henslow will cram him in geology. He is working regularly at Spanish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood |
Date: | [28 Apr 1831] |
Classmark: | DAR 154: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-98 |
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Life sciences in Commentary
Movement in Plants
Summary
The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … begun to produce aerial roots. Darwin had hoped to study the tropic movements of such roots, but …