From [J. B. Innes] [after 8 February – August 1855]
Summary
Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.
Author: | John Brodie Innes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Feb – Aug 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13870 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … also letter to W. D. Fox, 22 [July 1855] ), probably for …
To Francis Galton 22 February [1855]
Summary
Thanks for FG’s note and trouble in searching out pigeons.
Is obliged to FG for obtaining C. J. Andersson’s offer of information about breeds of cattle in South Africa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 22 Feb [1855] |
Classmark: | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1554F |
From Francis Galton to Charles John Andersson [after 22 February 1855]
Summary
Sends on CD’s list of enquiries about native breeds of animals in South Africa.
Author: | Francis Galton |
Addressee: | Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson |
Date: | [after 22 Feb 1855] |
Classmark: | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1554G |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Galton to Charles John Andersson [after 22 February 1855] …
- … Town Francis Galton [after 22 Feb 1855] Charles John (Carl …
- … CD’s letter to him of 22 February [1855] (this volume, …
- … letter to Francis Galton, 22 February [1855] (this volume, …
- … letter to Francis Galton, 22 February [1855] . Damara, …
From Thomas Vernon Wollaston 2 March [1855]
Summary
Hybrid insects.
Description of the Salvages.
Variability of "transition groups" of insects; relation of variability to ranges of insects. The variability of wings, even within species. Reduction of flying ability on isolated islands.
Forbes’s "Atlantis" theory and insect fauna of the Atlantic islands, considered with regard to insect migrations.
Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1640 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Wollaston 1854 , pp. 22–3). CD’s reference is to Wollaston’ …
To John Davy 26 March [1855]
Summary
Discusses JD’s paper ["On ova of salmon"]. His experiments are of particular value regarding power of dispersal and geographical distribution and would make of them a very different subject. Hopes JD can test again the tenacity of life of non-developed ova being less than that of those fully developed – a result which surprised CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Davy |
Date: | 26 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | Royal Institution of Great Britain (Box XVII, 210) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1654 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … beds ( Davy 1856 , p. 22). Davy ascribed their death to the …
From Edward Blyth 21 April 1855
Summary
Indigenous domestic animals of the New World.
Relationship of Newfoundland and Esquimo dogs to the wolf. Dogs like the Esquimo occur in Tibet and Siberia. Indian pariah dogs and jackals occasionally interbreed.
Describes domestic cats of India; reports cases of their interbreeding with wild cats. Wild cats are tamed for hunting.
Races of silkworm in India are crossed [see 1690].
Domesticated plants, fish, and birds of India.
Comments on local races and species of crows; it is impossible to trace a line of demarcation between races and species.
Variation in the ability of hybrids to propagate.
Indian cattle breeds; differences between Bos indicus and Bos taurus.
Is not satisfied that aboriginally wild species of horse and ass exist.
Believes all fancy breeds of pigeon originated in the East. Wild ancestors of pigeons, ducks, geese, and fowls. Interbreeding of wild species of pheasant.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this letter.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A57–A68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1670 |
To Asa Gray 25 April [1855]
Summary
Is collecting facts on variation; questions AG on the alpine flora of the U. S.
Sends a list of plants from AG’s Manual of botany [1848] and asks him to append the ranges of the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 25 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1674 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 21 May [1855]
Summary
Reports on his experiments on action of sea-water on seeds and the bearing of his investigations on the theory of centres of creation and Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions to account for distribution of organic forms. CD’s experiments confirm germination powers were retained after 42 days’ immersion by seven out of eight kinds of seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 21 May [1855] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 21, 26 May 1855, pp. 356–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1684 |
From Asa Gray 22 May 1855
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D1–D2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1685 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1855]
Summary
Seeds: worried they will turn into another barnacle job.
Studies plants colonising abandoned field.
Experiment on plant sleep movements.
CD objects to "Atlantis" because no evidence; does not affect species theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 135 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1693 |
To Asa Gray 8 June [1855]
Summary
Suggests AG append ranges to the species in the new edition of his Manual.
Is interested in comparing the flora of U. S. with that of Britain and wishes to know the proportions to the whole of the great leading families and the numbers of species within genera. Would welcome information on which species AG considers to be "close" in the U. S.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 8 June [1855] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1695 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1855]
Summary
Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.
Species theory does not touch origin of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1696 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1855] . Letter from Asa Gray, 22 May 1855 . See letter to …
From J. S. Henslow 29 June 1855
Summary
Red and white campions: JSH regards them as races, not species; a flesh-coloured intermediate exists.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 June 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 177 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1706 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 2, letter to J. S. Henslow, [22 January 1843] , n. 1). …
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]
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … D. Fox, 26 April [1855] and 22 [July 1855] ). The passage is …
From Edward Blyth 22–3 August 1855
Summary
Gives extracts from a letter by Thomas Hutton.
Rabbits are kept (generally by Europeans) in the NW. provinces and breed freely. Canaries are not well adapted to the climate. Reports on domestic cats and pigeons of the area. EB gives references to further information on cats, pigeons, and silkworms.
[CD’s notes are an abstract of this letter.]
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22–3 Aug 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A79–A84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1746 |
Blyth, Edward | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Wollaston, T. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (34) |
Blyth, Edward | (8) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Gray, Asa | (4) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |