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 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 |
From J. Burningham [10 September 1858?]
Summary
Reports his observations on an ants’ nest.
| Author: | James Burningham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [10 Sept 1858?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 186 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4891 |
To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
To John Lubbock 30 [March? 1858]
Summary
Comments and criticisms on JL’s paper [possibly: "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 30 [Mar? 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 23 (EH 88206472) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2397 |
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
To W. E. Darwin [3 May 1858]
Summary
Discusses bees’ cells
and WED’s botanical interests.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [3 May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2268 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 May 1858] . In CD’s notes relating to bees’ cells (DAR 48 (ser. 2): 1), there is a cut-out figure which, when folded, would give a hexagonal prism resembling a bee’s cell. This is possibly the ‘hexagon’ made by William Darwin . Across the figure CD wrote in pencil: ‘Miller can give me better Diagram’. See letters to W. E. Darwin, 11 [ …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Burningham, James | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Burningham, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
