CD memorandum July 1857
Summary
Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | unknown |
Date: | July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115F |
To [W. W. Baxter?] [after June 1857]
Summary
Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | [after June 1857] |
Classmark: | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889F |
To W. E. Darwin 21 [July 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 21 [July 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2097 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [19 July 1857]
Summary
Has acquired some runts. Thanks WBT for information. Lists pigeons he is sending.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [19 July 1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 July [1857]
Summary
George Henslow’s curtness to JDH: "an attack of religion".
Embryonic leaves. Adaptive functions and taxonomic significance of cotyledons.
Asa Gray. Separation of sexes in U. S. trees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2116 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 July [1857]
Summary
Does JDH’s Wahlenbergia confirm CD’s law? Variations of one species assume the character of a distinct but allied species or genus.
Seed-salting: old ones float and germinate.
Owen’s "grand paper" [? J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 203 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2117 |
To T. H. Huxley 5 July [1857]
Summary
Asks THH’s opinion on embryological views of G. A. Brullé [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 (1844): 484–6] and F. M. Barnéoud [Ann. des Sci. Nat. ser. 3, Bot. 6 (1846): 268–96] and on Milne-Edwards’ classification.
Has been reading John Goodsir ["On the morphological constitution of the skeleton of the vertebrate head", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 2d ser. 5 (1857): 123–78].
Has embryology of bats ever been worked out?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 July [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2118 |
From T. H. Huxley 7 July 1857
Summary
THH comments on G. A. Brullé’s paper ["Researches upon the transformations of the appendages of the Articulata", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 (1844): 484–6].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 11.1: 41a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2119 |
From Asa Gray 7 July 1857
Summary
Believes, with CD, that extinction may be an important factor in explaining plant distributions, but sees no reason why the several species of a genus must ever have had a common or continuous area. "Convince me of that, or show me any good grounds for it … and I think you would carry me a good way with you". It is just such people as AG that CD has to satisfy and convince.
Feels that the crossing of individuals is important in repressing variation and perhaps in perpetuating the species, but instances some plants in which it cannot, apparently, take place.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 381; DAR 165: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2120 |
To Francis Galton 7 July [1857]
Summary
Encloses signed document.
"Much interested about all domestic animals of all savage nations."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 7 July [1857] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/1/27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2121 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 July [1857]
Summary
Thanks THH for his cautionary response on Brullé, but departs from THH in thinking that Barnéoud, if true, would shed light on Milne-Edwards’ proposition that the wider apart classes of animals are the earlier they depart from common embryonic plan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 July [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2122 |
To John Lubbock 14 [July 1857]
Summary
Thanks JL for saving him from "a disgraceful blunder". Following their conversation he has divided the New Zealand flora as JL suggested and finds genera with four or more species are more variable than those with three or less. It will take several weeks to go back over all his material.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 14 [July 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 18 (EH88206467) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2123 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 July [1857]
Summary
Asks to borrow several Floras. Must redo calculations as John Lubbock has shown him an important error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 July [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 204 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2124 |
To Asa Gray 20 July [1857]
Summary
Believes species have arisen, like domestic varieties, with much extinction, and that there are no such things as independently created species. Explains why he believes species of the same genus generally have a common or continuous area; they are actual lineal descendants.
Discusses fertilisation in the bud and the insect pollination of papilionaceous flowers. His theory explains why, despite the risk of injury, cross-fertilisation is usual in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, even in hermaphrodites.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 20 July [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2125 |
To T. C. Eyton 22 [July 1857]
Summary
Sends TCE West African dog’s skin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 22 [July 1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.148) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2126 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 25 July 1857]
Summary
CD has saved an enormous amount of labour since he replaced the chain on his deep well with wire rope. He now asks readers whether they have had experience of saving on the weight of the bucket by using some material other than oak.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 25 July 1857] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 25 July 1857, p. 518 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2127 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 27 July [1857]
Summary
Arrangements for delivery of pigeons and poultry to Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 27 July [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2128 |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
unknown | (1) |