From S. P. Woodward [15 July 1856]
Summary
Lists Lusitanian shells with wide ranges beyond that geographical province.
Antiquity and elevation of land mass is more important than latitude for the distribution of shells.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 July 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 305 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1928 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Europe generally; Madeira; Caucasus; Tibet; Cape (introduced); Mass. Missouri — Costata , …
- … Brit. Sweden, Russia, Caucasus; Iskardo, Tibet 7200 feet. — fulva . Brit. Sweden. US. …
- … Sweden — nitida , Müll. Brit. Iskardo, Tibet. Finmark, Sweden. Mass. US. ( arborea , Say) …
- … Atlantic, 35 o –45 o Lat. — peregra Brit. + Tibet. Siberia 63 o Sweden — auricularia Physa …
- … plain of Kashmir is 5,300 feet above the sea— Iskardo Tibet, 7,200 feet—& the Brit. Limnæa …
- … said to have been found at 18000 feet in Tibet. — I have not yet asked Dr Hooker about it. …
From S. P. Woodward 15 July 1856
Summary
Has reduced 20 Cyrena species to geographical varieties of one species, Cyrena fluminalis. Hooker is reducing Indian flora at the rate of 19 to 1.
Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850].
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1927 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … week, —on the L. & Fr. water shells of Tibet & Kashmir, but as that will not be printed …
From Edward Blyth 8 January [1856]
Summary
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1817 |
To S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Summary
Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 72: 59–61 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1890 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in N. America. ) Brit. F. W. shells in Tibet— Limnæa stagnalis, peregra, auricularis …
From Edward Blyth 23 January 1856
Summary
Believes the goldfish originates from a wild, gold variety of Chinese carp.
Gallinaceous birds.
Crested turkeys.
EB divides the gallinaceous birds into five families on anatomical distinctions.
Wild dog species of India and Asia; ranges of some species, specific identity of others.
The fauna of the Seychelles.
Breeding of fowls in India and Africa.
Occurrence of turkeys in Africa.
Refers to some of his own papers giving fuller details of points raised previously.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Jan 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A122–A125 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1825 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … has an immense range, from the Altai, Tibet, &c, over all altitudes of the Himalaya, to …
| letter | (5) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (3) |
| Blyth, Edward | (2) |
Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles
Summary
Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…
Matches: 1 hits
- … own practical and personal achievements in gaining access to Tibet and previously closed areas of …
Women’s scientific participation
Summary
Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Matches: 1 hits
- … completed an expedition through the Sikkim Himalaya and Tibet. Letter 4139 - Darwin …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
