To W. E. Darwin [before 11 September 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1619 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [before 29 September 1857]
Summary
Suggests CD use the common origin of the French "chef" and the English "head" or "évêque" and "bishop" to illustrate the parallels between extinction and transitional forms in language and palaeontology [see Natural selection, p. 384].
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: A80–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2070 |
To Asa Gray 5 September [1857]
Summary
Encloses an abstract of his ideas on natural selection and the principle of divergence; the "means by which nature makes her species".
Discusses varieties and close species in large and small genera, finding some data from AG in conflict with his expectations.
Has been observing the action of bees in fertilising kidney beans and Lobelia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 5 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2136 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2137 |
To Secretary, Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum 8 September [1857]
Summary
CD acknowledges honour of his election to the Academy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum |
Date: | 8 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 200–202 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2138 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857]
Summary
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2140 |
To T. H. Huxley 15 September [1857]
Summary
Thanks for three last lectures and the account of cirripedes.
Difficulty of classifying the higher groups.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 15 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 137) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2141 |
From Robert Schlagintweit 25 September 1857
Summary
Gives CD further details of the fertility of the offspring from cross of a yak and Indian cow, the so-called chooboos, whose fertility he has traced to the seventh generation [see Natural selection, pp. 437–8].
Author: | Robert Schlagintweit |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 52 (fragile) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2142 |
To William Walmisley Baxter 23 September [1857–9?]
Summary
The returned gloves are similar to some he has already, and he would prefer a pair with stiffer bristles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | 23 Sept [1857-9] |
Classmark: | Lyon & Turnbull, Edinburgh (dealers) (4 February 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2142F |
To T. H. Huxley 26 September [1857]
Summary
Agassiz’s superficiality and wretched reasoning powers. But he stirred up Europe on glaciers. Lyell has been working on their effects – testing work of others.
CD believes "Natural Systems" ought to be simply genealogical. "Time will come when we shall have true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of nature."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 26 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2143 |
From A. R. Wallace [27 September 1857]
Summary
Refers to CD’s letter of "May last". ARW’s views on order of succession of species are in accordance with CD’s.
Disappointed that his paper ["On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 16 (1855): 184–96] elicited no discussion; now ARW is trying to prove it. Paper merely states the theory.
On black jaguars breeding inter se: ARW has never heard of a parti-coloured one.
Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2145 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 29 September [1857]
Summary
Will collect no more pigeons. Is awaiting Burmese fowls’ skins coming via Berlin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 29 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2146 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1857]
Summary
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 210 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2148 |
To J. S. Henslow 25 September [1857]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his magnificent present. Hopes Hooker will bring the specimens.
Have water-fowl ever been seen at Ipswich on Mr Ransome’s great tank?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 25 Sept [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A58–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2329 |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Schlagintweit, Robert | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |