From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856
Summary
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 475 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1905 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. D. Hooker 1857 ). CD’s reply indicates that he thought Lyell referred to Raoul …
- … Hooker described as the same as that of New Zealand in J. D. Hooker 1853–5 , 1: vii, or to Raoul Island, in the Kermadec group, which also possesses a New Zealand flora but is some 600 miles from New Zealand. Hooker wrote a paper on the botany of Raoul Island in 1857 ( …
To J. D. Hooker 11–12 November [1856]
Summary
CD relieved by JDH’s positive response to his MS.
CD continues observations on means of transport.
JDH’s Raoul Island paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 22 (1857): 133–41], showing continuity of vegetation with New Zealand, best evidence yet of continental extension.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11–12 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1986 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1856]
Summary
Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851 |
To J. S. Henslow 6 August [1856]
Summary
Reports on results of forcing and other attempts to produce variations in plants. Asks for some seeds.
Is correcting his Linnean Society paper ["On the action of sea-water", Collected papers 1: 264–71].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 6 Aug [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A55–A56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1939 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 June or 3 July 1856]
Summary
Can no longer make out story of NW. American plants; consulting Asa Gray.
Questionable validity of seed-salting experiments.
Aristolochia and Viscum seem to shed pollen before flower opens.
Ray Society should only do translations.
Thomas Thomson in India has rediscovered Aldrovanda, a rare relative of Drosera.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 June or 3 July] 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1911 |
To Edward Sabine 23 April [1856]
Summary
CD and Hooker suggest Sir John Richardson for Royal Medal. Other suggestions are George Bentham, Joseph Prestwich, Albany Hancock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Sabine |
Date: | 23 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (Sa: 387) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1858 |
To J. D. Hooker 24 December [1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2022 |
To M. J. Berkeley 29 February [1856]
Summary
Preparing paper on seed-soaking for Linnean Society ["Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Wants to use MJB’s results. Lost ardour when he found seeds would not float.
Has grown MJB’s purest pea seeds and got a few variants. Gärtner’s experiments suggest direct action of pollen, but CD thinks it is "mere variation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | 29 Feb [1856] |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1834 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1855] ). Berkeley had reported his results of experiments on immersing seeds in sea-water in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 1 September 1855, p. 278. CD’s paper summarising his results and those of Berkeley was read at the Linnean Society of London on 6 May 1856. The paper was entitled ‘On the action of sea-water on the germination of seeds’ ( Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 1 (1857): …
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Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Sabine, Edward | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Sabine, Edward | (1) |