From H. C. Watson 3 January 1858
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199 |
From Edward Blyth [8 January 1858]
Summary
Zebra-striped asses.
Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.
Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.
Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Jan 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A144–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2200 |
From John Innes 9 January [1858–9]
Summary
Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Jan [1858-9] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 242 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13818 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 January [1858]
Summary
On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 220 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2201 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 13 January [1858]
Summary
Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.
Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Date: | 13 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 265–8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2201F |
To W. D. Fox 14 January [1858]
Summary
Asks to borrow W. C. Hewitson’s book [British oology, 2 vols. (1831–44)].
CD is searching for reliable information on slight variations in the degree of perfection of nests of the same species of birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 14 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 108) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2202 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 January [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2203 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1858
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Jan 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 120–1; L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 453 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2204 |
To William Bernhard Tegetmeier 17 January [1858]
Summary
Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 17 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2205 |
To John Stevens Henslow 25 January [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 25 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A50–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2207 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 26 January [1858]
Summary
Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | 26 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2043 |
To George Bentham 27 January [1858]
Summary
Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 27 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13778 |
To W. D. Fox 31 January [1858]
Summary
Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].
Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.
Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 31 Jan [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2208 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 [February 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 [Feb 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 219 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2210 |
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 7 February [1858]
Summary
Thanks GHKT for letter on plant acclimatisation and variation among alpine and lowland forms in Ceylon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 7 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.150) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2211 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1858]
Summary
Six volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus confirm rule that small genera vary less than large. Labiatae an exception to rule.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Feb [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2212 |
From George Robert Waterhouse 10 February 1858
Summary
Bees’ cells. Observations on Osmia atricapilla.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Feb 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2213 |
From William Balfour Baikie 11 February 1858
Summary
Describes some species of fauna peculiar to Fernando Po. The ocean currents make it unlikely that animals have been floated to the little islands [off the west coast of Africa].
Author: | William Balfour Baikie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Feb 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 260 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2214 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 11 [February 1858]
Summary
Writes of domestic matters
and asks WED to observe cart-horses for traces of dark stripes on spine and cross-stripes on shoulder.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 11 [Feb 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2215 |
From G. R. Waterhouse 13 February 1858
Summary
GRW’s observations of and ideas on bees’ and wasps’ cells.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Feb 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2216 |
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