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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
From John Obadiah Westwood 23 November 1856
Summary
The Kentucky cave insects (Adelops) are evidently identical to European species of the same genus, some of which are cave insects, others found in damp, dark places.
| Author: | John Obadiah Westwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 297 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1998 |
From H. C. Watson 26 November 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s query on Subularia and Limosella. There are discrepancies among authorities on whether Subularia flowers out of water. Limosella certainly flowers out of water.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Nov 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 207: 19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2002 |
From George Howard Darwin [28 November 1856]
Summary
Letter from school with instructions where to put away his belongings at home.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251: 2222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2003F |
From T. V. Wollaston [early November 1856]
Summary
Variability of certain features within insect genera.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [early Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2030 |
| letter | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Watson, H. C. | (3) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
| Daniell, W. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Watson, H. C. | (3) |
| Babington, C. C. | (1) |
| Daniell, W. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Westwood, J. O. | (1) |
| Wollaston, T. V. | (1) |
