From Edward Blyth [8 November 1855]
Summary
History of the rose in India.
Looks forward to reading what Hooker and Thompson say on species and varieties in their Flora Indica [1855].
Domestication of the turkey in America. The Peruvians had domestic dogs. W. W. Robinson of Assam reports that otters are extensively trained for fishing but cormorants never are. Gives Robinson’s comments on local domestic geese, rabbits, and cats.
EB has skins of jungle fowl from different localities to send.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Nov 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A108–A109 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1776 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [November 1855]
Summary
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 [Nov 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 154 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1774 |
From H. C. Watson 8 November 1855
Summary
Artificiality of orders and genera in botany.
Difficulties in numerical analysis of close species in large and small genera.
HCW has "pretty strong bias towards the view that species are not immutably distinct".
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Nov 1855 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1775 |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
