To Gaston de Saporta 10 September 1876
Summary
Hopes GdeS will publish on subjects discussed in his letter [10587]. CD had noted similar persistence of variation in fossil shells.
Calls his attention to Nägeli’s work on Hieracium.
Expresses skepticism about O. Heer’s view that dicotyledonous plants developed suddenly. Believes they must have developed slowly in some part of the globe completely isolated from other regions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1876 |
| Classmark: | Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10591 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 October [1856]
Summary
CD coming to London.
Read JDH’s review [Hooker’s Kew J. Bot. 8 (1856): 54–64 et seq.] of Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique raisonnée [1855] long ago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 180 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1971 |
Layard, Edgar Leopold. 1852–3. Rambles in Ceylon. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 9: 329–39; 11: 224–36, 302-14, 386–98.
Bates, Henry Walter. 1861–6. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Coleoptera: Longicornes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 8 (1861): 40–52, 147–52, 212–19, 471–8; 9 (1862): 117–24, 396–405, 446–58; 12 (1863): 100–9, 275–88, 367–81; 13 (1864): 43–56, 144–64; 14 (1864): 11–24; 15 (1865): 213–25, 382–94; 16 (1865): 101–13, 167–82, 308–14; 17 (1866): 31–42, 191–202, 288–303, 367–73; 425–35.
Humboldt, Alexander von and Bonpland, Aimé Jacques Alexandre. 1808–9. Plantes equinoxiales, recueillies au Mexique, dans l’îsle de Cuba, dans les provinces de Caracas, de Cumana et de Barcelone, aux Andes de la Nouvelle- Grenade, de Quito et du Pérou, et sur les bords du Rio-Negro, de l’Orénoque et de la rivière des Amazones. 2 vols. Paris: F. Schoell. Tübingen: J. G. Cotta.
From H. C. Watson 17 August 1855
Summary
Sends a catalogue of plants [missing] with the close species marked.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1855 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 28 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1743 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [July 1858]
Summary
JDH’s letter to Wallace perfect. CD’s feelings about priority. Without Lyell’s and JDH’s intervention CD would have given up all claims to Wallace. Now planning 30-page abstract for a journal.
Observations on floral structure
and slave-making ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 [July 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2306 |
From J. D. Hooker 16 August 1875
Summary
JDH reports his battle with Lord Henry Lennox over whether to locate new Herbarium on the Queen’s or public part of Garden.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Aug 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10120 |
From Emanuel Bonavia [before 7 September 1868]
Summary
Peloric forms of flowers: Clitoria Ternatea.
| Author: | Emanuel Bonavia |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 Sept 1868] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 26 September 1868, p. 1013 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6352F |
Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1865b. On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago. Ibis n.s. 1: 365–400.
From H. C. Watson [after 23 March 1858]
Summary
Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 45: 16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1808 |
To J. S. Henslow 28 October [1845]
Summary
Comments on potato disease and its effects on the poor.
Describes visit to his Lincolnshire farm,
to York where he discussed hybrids with the Dean of Manchester [William Herbert],
his meeting with Charles Waterton, and his delight with Chatsworth.
Disappointed at Hooker’s failure to receive the Edinburgh chair; believes JDH will make a great botanist.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1845] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-921 |
Hawkshaw, John Clarke. 1878. On the action of limpets (Patella) in sinking pits in and abrading the surface of the chalk at Dover. [Read 18 April 1878.] Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology. 14 (1877–9): 406–11.
To J. D. Hooker 10 March [1854]
Summary
More praise for Himalayan journals.
How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?
Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.
Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1558 |
To John Lubbock 17 December [1859]
Summary
Local affairs and finances.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 31 (EH 88206480) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2586 |
From Frédéric Baudry 4 December 1872
Summary
Sends anecdotes relating to Expression;
criticises CD’s use of Hensleigh Wedgwood’s views on language.
Complains about J. J. Moulinié’s translation of Descent.
| Author: | Frédéric Baudry |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 95, 95/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8543 |
To A. C. Thomson 11 February 1876
Summary
Writes regarding affairs of the Down Friendly Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Christie Thomson |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1876 |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10386 |
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