To ? 9 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1972 |
To Librarian, Royal Society of London 27 October [1856]
Summary
Orders Andrew Knight’s paper ["An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1799): 195–204] and J. E. Gray’s book [Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 27 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Science and Philosophy Collection, gift of J. Christian Bay) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1013 |
To John Murray 17 November [1856–7]
Summary
Asks JM for four copies of his Journal of researches [2d ed.] at wholesale price. Also asks for total number of copies sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 17 Nov [1856-7] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.62–63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1026 |
From John Higgins 17 November 1856
Summary
Mr Hardy, CD’s tenant at Beesby, has spent £105 on improvements to the farm. JH suggests different ways of recompensing the tenant, and asks for CD’s decision.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/98) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1026F |
To John Murray 20 November [1856–7]
Summary
Thanks for gift [of books requested in 1026]. Sale is a good deal more than he had anticipated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 20 Nov [1856-7] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.54–55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1028 |
From George Bentham 2 December [1856]
Summary
Cites cases of leguminous plants whose cleistogamic flowers produce more seed than perfect flowers. [See Forms of flowers, p. 326.]
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267 |
From W. D. Fox 19 December [1856]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11799 |
To Albany Hancock 25 May [1856]
Summary
Wants accurate information on "the economy of nature". Is interested in how far the struggle with other species checks the northern range of any species.
Thanks John Storey for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 25 May [1856] |
Classmark: | J. Hancock 1886, pp. 277–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1332 |
To R. H. Bakewell 30 April [1856–68]
Summary
Thanks for case of inherited malconformation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hall Bakewell |
Date: | 30 Apr [1856-68] |
Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (4 June 2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13770F |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 19 August [1856]
Summary
Asks to borrow C. L. Brehm’s book [Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (1831)]. Wants to see how far Brehm went in splitting species.
Took finches from Madeira to British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Date: | 19 Aug [1856] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1451 |
To C. J. F. Bunbury [before 9 May 1856]
Summary
Adds comments to a list of Cape of Good Hope plants which are also European and gives some additions to the list [see Natural selection, p. 552].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Date: | [before 9 May 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 73: 159 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1617 |
To John Lubbock [29 July 1856]
Summary
Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.
Has been to a poultry show.
Asks for the return of a lens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [29 July 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 13 (EH 88206462) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1620 |
From J. D. Hooker [16 November 1856]
Summary
JDH not happy with CD’s explanation of the absence of north temperate forms in the Southern Hemisphere, given his explanation for the spread of sub-arctic forms to the south. [CD’s note is in response to JDH’s criticism.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1622 |
From George Gulliver 20 January [1856]
Summary
Discusses the similarity in size, shape, and structure of the blood corpuscles of the Aves. Notes differences between the corpuscles of the domestic dog and some wild species.
Author: | George Gulliver |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR (CD library – Gulliver, George 1846) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1632 |
From W. D. Fox 8 March [1856]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1646 |
To W. B. D. Mantell 10 April [1856]
Summary
Thanks WBDM for his reply [missing] to CD’s previous letter [1603].
Asks for more details on the erratic blocks.
Asks also if there is good evidence that there formerly existed [in New Zealand] some animal with hair, like an otter or beaver.
Finally, do the uncivilised natives have the same ideal of [human] beauty as Europeans?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
Date: | 10 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1663 |
To William Erasmus Darwin [26 February 1856]
Summary
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1804 |
From Thomas Vernon Wollaston [February 1856]
Summary
Sends Madeira specimens, including frogs recently introduced into the island, and flourishing.
Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Feb 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1806 |
From S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 403 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1807 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 1 January [1856]
Summary
Will attend the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club] if he possibly can.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 1 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1813 |
Darwin, C. R. | (189) |
Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
Watson, H. C. | (7) |
Blyth, Edward | (6) |
Wollaston, T. V. | (5) |