To J. S. Henslow 14 July [1855]
Summary
Sends a list of 22 plants that grow at Hitcham and in the Azores and are, according to H. C. Watson, least likely to have been imported [by man]. Will pay the little girls of Hitcham liberally to collect the seeds for his experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 14 July [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A40–A41, A57 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1718 |
To J. D. Hooker 19 July [1855]
Summary
Parcels sent to Down by coach may get lost.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 19 July [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 139 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1722 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 30 June 1855 , like that of 22 May 1855, was directed to …
To Asa Gray 21 July [1855]
Summary
Geographical distribution. "Close" species. Hopes AG will write an essay on species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 July [1855] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1725 |
To W. D. Fox 22 [July 1855]
Summary
Describes his method of putting young poultry to death.
Asks questions arising from WDF’s reply about crossed mongrels.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 22 [July 1855] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1728 |
To Robert Hunt 22 July [1855]
Summary
Mentions RH’s book on light [Researches on light in its chemical relations, 2d ed. (1854)]. Asks about coloured glass used in experiments on plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hunt |
| Date: | 22 July [1855] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1727 |
To W. D. Fox 31 July [1855]
Summary
Has received the duck and bantam.
Anxious to get as many facts as possible on crossbreeding of dogs.
Reports on seeds that have germinated after 100 days immersion [in salt water].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 31 July [1855] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 65) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1733 |
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- … D. Fox, 26 April [1855] and 22 [July 1855] ). The passage is …
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hunt, Robert | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
