To John Murray 17 November [1856–7]
Summary
Asks JM for four copies of his Journal of researches [2d ed.] at wholesale price. Also asks for total number of copies sold.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 17 Nov [1856-7] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.62–63) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1026 |
From John Higgins 17 November 1856
Summary
Mr Hardy, CD’s tenant at Beesby, has spent £105 on improvements to the farm. JH suggests different ways of recompensing the tenant, and asks for CD’s decision.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/98) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1026F |
To John Murray 20 November [1856–7]
Summary
Thanks for gift [of books requested in 1026]. Sale is a good deal more than he had anticipated.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 20 Nov [1856-7] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.54–55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1028 |
From J. D. Hooker [16 November 1856]
Summary
JDH not happy with CD’s explanation of the absence of north temperate forms in the Southern Hemisphere, given his explanation for the spread of sub-arctic forms to the south. [CD’s note is in response to JDH’s criticism.]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 162–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1622 |
To John Lubbock [1 November 1856]
Summary
Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1 Nov 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 5 (EH 88206454) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1980 |
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 |
From Asa Gray 4 November 1856
Summary
Outlines the ranges of northern U. S. species common to Europe. Hopes to investigate the resemblances between the floras of the north-eastern U. S. and western Europe. Discusses routes by which alpine plants appear to have reached U. S.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1982 |
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 Charles Lyell 10 November [1856]
Summary
Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.
Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.
Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].
Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1984 |
From H. C. Watson 10 November 1856
Summary
Greatly interested in CD’s experiments with seeds in salt water [see "Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Believes CD exaggerates the force of the objection, against migration, that seeds tend to sink.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1985 |
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 |
From W. F. Daniell 14 November 1856
Summary
Believes he can give CD information on Mammalia of St Thomas [São Tomé, Gulf of Guinea]. Quotes from a Portuguese history of the islands on unique species of monkeys and civet cats found there.
Author: | William Freeman Daniell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 270, 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1988 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 November [1856]
Summary
CD finds JDH’s objections to a mundane cold period significant, and he endeavours to show how they do not rule out mutability.
He is writing on crossing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1989 |
To J. W. Lubbock 18 November [1856]
Summary
Obliged for JWL’s note [missing]. Will forward it to Mr Wedgwood.
Remarks, "it was … blunder of A. Woods about your wanting the Furniture."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1990 |
To J. D. Hooker 18 November [1856]
Summary
CD encloses letter from Asa Gray, although it is critical of JDH.
Role of struggle in forming species in retreat from advancing glaciers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1991 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 19 November [1856]
Summary
Emma’s illness prevents his attending Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club].
Expects larger collection of skins from West Africa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 19 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1992 |
To John Higgins 19 November [1856]
Summary
Is very glad to hear of the increased rent. Prefers lien agreement with tenant, Mr Hardy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 19 Nov [1856] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1993 |
From H. C. Watson 19 November 1856
Summary
Discusses means of seed transport.
Considers the difficulty of deciding which, if any, botanical species are real.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A7–A10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1994 |
From J. D. Hooker 22 November 1856
Summary
Continued debate on formation of species as a result of retreat from glaciers.
JDH suggests internal powers of species modification, which he knows CD abhors.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 111–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1995 |
From Charles Cardale Babington 22 November 1856
Summary
He is not sure whether he has seen Subularia flowering above the water, but thinks it probably is an aerial flowerer, at least sometimes.
Has been unable to find an anonymous book on pigeons in the University Library.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 207: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1996 |
letter | (34) |
Darwin, C. R. | (21) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Watson, H. C. | (3) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Daniell, W. F. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Watson, H. C. | (3) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Babington, C. C. | (1) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Daniell, W. F. | (1) |
Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Thompson, John | (1) |
Westwood, J. O. | (1) |
Wollaston, T. V. | (1) |