To [W. E. Darwin] [1857?]
Summary
Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [1857?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 187 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2029 |
To W. H. Harvey 7 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.
Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
| Date: | 7 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | Sheffield City Archives (Gatty family autograph albums X561/1/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037G |
To Henry Doubleday 8 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | Dr Heather Whitney (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037F |
To John Lubbock 25 January [1857]
Summary
Dining with the Lubbocks.
JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 20 (EH 88206469) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3413 |
From Charles Lyell [16 January 1857]
Summary
Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.
Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [16 Jan 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 394 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2039 |
To William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society 24 January [1857]
Summary
Feels unqualified to offer advice on research by the expedition; he has never attended to natural history of the region. Suggests collecting Carboniferous plants and studying the geographical extension of sea-borne erratic boulders.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 24 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (MC17: 336) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2206 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 January [1857]
Summary
Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].
Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 4 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037 |
From Henry Doubleday 26 January 1857
Summary
Sends specimens of Tortrix, which illustrate the extraordinary variation of markings in two or three species. In every family of Lepidoptera there seem to be species extremely prone to vary and in some localities they vary more than in others.
| Author: | Henry Doubleday |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 235 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2044 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 20 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 189 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2042 |
From J. Knightly Ince [1857–61?]
Summary
Translates some German terms describing colour of horses.
| Author: | J. Knightly Ince |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1857–61?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 20 (EH 88206072) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6538 |
From William Henry Harvey 3 January 1857
Summary
Sexes of algae.
| Author: | William Henry Harvey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2035 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise W. F. Daniell on collecting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2040 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Hooker, J. D. …
- … r . D. would not do a fair amount of work, it w d . be very wrong in us to send him out in this way. — On other hand it seems to me no reason not to send him out, under the very special circumstance, because he is not a first rate man. — I shall be guided by you, after you have consulted others. Yours affect y | C. Darwin …
To Asa Gray 1 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].
Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.
Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 1 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2034 |
To T. H. Huxley 17 January [1857]
Summary
Asks THH question on flow of glaciers after ice has been fractured and fragmented.
CD had to leave Royal Society lecture [joint paper by THH and J. Tyndall, "On the structure and motions of glaciers", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 327–46] before the end because of headache.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 1 (EH 88205939) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2041 |
From Richard Hill 10 January 1857
Summary
Will attend to any subject in Jamaica about which CD wants information.
Crithagra brasiliensis and canary refused to pair.
A collection of Jamaican land Mollusca will be presented to the British Museum.
Hurricanes are a considerable influence on diffusion of birds and insects.
| Author: | Richard Hill |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Jan 1857 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 237 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2038 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Hooker, J. D. …
- … r . Bentham (if he will read this) who have attended so much to the principles of classification think of this. Perhaps the best way would be to think of half-a-dozen most isolated groups of plants, & then consider whether the affinities point in an unusual number of directions . C. Darwin …
- … C. Darwin What a time it takes to make out the truth as we see in the Glaciers! I am glad the Irish orchid is dished. — [Enclosure] Memorandum You know how I work subjects, namely if I stumble on any general remark, & if I find it confirmed in any other very distinct class, then I try to find out whether it is true, if it has any bearing on my work. — The following perhaps may be important to me. D r . …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
| Hill, Richard (b) | (1) |
| Ince, J. K. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
| Harvey, W. H. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
