From Laurence Edmondston [before 3 May 1856]
Summary
The vaunted fidelity of the ark bird has its exceptions.
Gives some details on wild pigeons.
Answers in the affirmative CD’s query about drifted trees.
Author: | Laurence Edmondston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 May 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 229 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1865 |
To Charles Lyell 3 May [1856]
Summary
Discusses possibility of publishing a sketch of his views.
Comments on CL’s letter [1862].
Mentions various geological topics.
Asks to borrow publication by Heer.
Mentions flight of Colymbetes over ocean.
Recalls visit by Wollaston.
Notes views of Hooker and Huxley on species.
Mentions ability of ducks to transport plant seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 May [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.127) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1866 |
To Laurence Edmondston 3 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for reply to queries.
Requests that a wild rock-pigeon be sent. Have they been domesticated as William Macgillivray says [History of British birds (1837) 1: 275–84; see also Variation 1: 185n.]?
Is rabbit wild in Shetlands?
LE’s information on drifted trees adds an archipelago to his list.
Requests information on variation in domesticated Shetland animals;
bones of large quadrupeds in peat.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Laurence Edmondston |
Date: | 3 May [1856] |
Classmark: | L. D. Edmondston (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1867 |
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Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution
Summary
The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’. Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…
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- … The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the …