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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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To Francis Galton   22 February [1855] …
  • … Town Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 Feb [1855] Francis Galton …
  • … Down Farnborough Kent Feb y . 22 My dear Galton Many thanks …

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

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Blyth, 4 August 1855 , n.  22. The brown crayon numbers that …
  • … western Africa. 2 vols. Vols. 22 and 23 of Jardine, William, …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … the letter from Asa Gray, 22 May 1855 , and is in DAR 46.2 ( …
  • … c. — I see that there are 22 species common to the White M …

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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … list in DAR 27.1 (ser.  7): 22 headed ‘Hooker’s Seeds’ which …
  • … days in the ice-cold water. (22) Trifolium incarnatum is the …

From Asa Gray   22 May 1855

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Has filled up CD’s paper [see 1674].

Distribution and relationships of alpine flora in U. S.

Author:  Asa Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 May 1855
Classmark:  DAR 106: D1–D2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1685

Matches: 3 hits

  • … From Asa Gray   22 May 1855 …
  • … D1–D2 Asa Gray unstated 22 May 1855 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … Harvard University. May 22 d . 1855. My Dear Sir I remember …

To J. D. Hooker   5 June [1855]

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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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … children. Asa Gray’s letter of 22 May had been sent to Kew …
  • … having everyone died after 22 days, wheras cabbage itself …
  • … Cavendish Sq r . on 21 st or 22 d . for I hope to be up for …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … See letters from Asa Gray , 22 May 1855  and 30  June 1855 . …
  • … your remarkably kind letter of the 22 d ult o . , & for the …
  • … of Science and Arts 2d ser. 22: 204–32; 23: 62–84, 369–403. …

To J. D. Hooker   10 June [1855]

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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]

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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

Matches: 4 hits

  • … Sends a list of 22 plants that grow at Hitcham and in the …
  • … I have copied out the 22 plants, which grow at Hitcham & are …
  • … Scirpus lacustris Carex— any 2 species. —— 22 kinds ——ramme …
  • … you have a good many of the 22 kinds together. I hope that …

To J. D. Hooker   19 July [1855]

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … See letter from Asa Gray, 22 May 1855 . See letter from Asa …
  • … of Science and Arts 2d ser. 22: 204–32; 23: 62–84, 369–403. …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To W.  D. Fox   22 [July 1855] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 [July 1855] William Darwin Fox …
  • … Down Farnborough Kent 22 d . My dear Fox Many thanks for the …

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

Matches: 3 hits

  • … To Robert Hunt   22 July [1855] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 22 July [1855] Robert Hunt …
  • … Down Farnborough Kent July 22 d My dear Sir I thank you most …

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

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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

Matches: 2 hits

  • … From Edward Blyth   22–3 August 1855 …
  • … A79–A84 Edward Blyth Calcutta 22–3 Aug 1855 Charles Robert …
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