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 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 3 November [1856]
Summary
Has received nine skins from Walter Elliot of Madras; WBT may describe them if he wishes.
Expects some Persian fowls.
Can WBT inquire about the fertility of certain duck hybrids?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1981 |
To John Lubbock 23 September [1856]
Summary
Sends review by Quatrefages [de Bréau] of Owen’s Parthenogenesis [1849].
J. D. Dana’s congratulations on JL’s marriage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 283: 12 (EH 88206461) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1960 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 11, 563–7, 618–23; 13: 27–30, 131–4, 157–60, 278–81, 383–6, 462–3, 537–8, 586–8, 635–9; 14: …
- … 11 September 1856 ( The Times , 12 September 1856). The wedding took place in Down church. CD’s daughter, Henrietta Emma, aged 13, apparently attended. Letter from J. D. Dana, 8 September 1856 . The passage quoted was probably in the section of the letter that is now missing. Lubbock had published his researches on Entomostraca in Lubbock 1855 . See letter to John Lubbock, [14 …
To T. H. Huxley 27 May [1856]
Summary
Has written very strong notes to Lord Overstone and Sir J. W. Lubbock and hopes they will be of service to THH.
Acknowledges receipt of THH’s lecture [unidentified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 174) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1878 |
To Charles Lyell 3 May [1856]
Summary
Discusses possibility of publishing a sketch of his views.
Comments on CL’s letter [1862].
Mentions various geological topics.
Asks to borrow publication by Heer.
Mentions flight of Colymbetes over ocean.
Recalls visit by Wollaston.
Notes views of Hooker and Huxley on species.
Mentions ability of ducks to transport plant seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 3 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.127) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1866 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 December [1856]
Summary
Grateful for Siebold’s wonderful facts [C. T. E. von Siebold, On a true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1856), trans. by W. S. Dallas (1857)].
Vitality of spermatozoa.
Hybridisation of bees. Bees are in one respect his greatest theoretical difficulty.
CD still convinced about the relation of cement receptacles and ovarian tubes [in Crustacea].
Birth of C. W. Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1856] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 42, 374) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2017 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [May 1856]
Summary
Huxley’s "vehement" [Royal Institution?] Lectures make it difficult to propose him for Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [May 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1876 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 July [1856]
Summary
Asks for information on geographical distribution of ascidians; are any closely allied species or genera found in north and south temperate zones that do not have representatives in the tropics?
Answers some questions on [cirripede] antennae.
If THH ever sees a tree washed ashore, will he observe whether any earth is embedded between roots?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 1 July [1856] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 175, 37–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1914 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 November 1856
Summary
JDH approves MS section on geographical distribution.
Never felt so shaky about species before.
His objections to some mechanisms of distribution that CD proposes.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 105–10 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1983 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1856]
Summary
CD is unsure about JDH’s recommendation that he publish a separate "Preliminary Essay". It is unphilosophical to publish without full details.
CD will work for Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1874 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 11 May [1856] ). CD had presented this paper, ‘On certain areas of elevation and subsidence in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as deduced from the study of coral formations’, at a meeting of the Geological Society of London on 31 May 1837 ( Collected papers 1: 46–9). He subsequently published Coral reefs in 1842. See letter from Charles Lyell, 1–2 May 1856 . On 14 …
To John Thompson 26 November [1856]
Summary
Thanks for promise of rabbit carcase and for information about rabbit at Zoological Society’s Garden.
Requests correspondent to ask Mr Vivian for carcase of an old "Creve-coeur" cock. CD has found that the skull in this breed is modified to support its comb.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Thompson |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1856] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library Add 4251: 337 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2001 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 14 June [1856] , in which CD refers to having asked for the carcass of a Himalayan rabbit from the gardens of the Zoological Society. The letter also precedes a payment for rabbits made in January 1857 (see n. 1, above). Probably the silver grey rabbit paid for in January 1857 (see n. 1, above). CD’s interest in silver grey rabbits later led him to study the origin of their peculiar colouring and their possible contribution to the ancestry of other well-known breeds, in particular the Himalayan rabbit (see Variation 1: 109–11). …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
| Thompson, John | (1) |
