To J. D. Hooker 7 May [1860]
Summary
To understand Leschenaultia pollination CD requires field observations in the native country.
Has observed two forms of cowslips, which he calls male and female. The same two forms are found in primroses.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 52 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2785 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 May [1860]
Summary
Observations on changes in physical proportions of pigeons.
The Saturday Review of 5 May has a defence of CD and THH by "a jolly good fellow".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 7 May [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 117) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2786 |
From Charles Lyell 7 May 1860
Summary
Saw Salter’s Spirifer specimens; a very good proof of indefinite modifiability.
Beginning to think gap between Cambrian and Lower Silurian enormous.
Édouard Lartet to give paper before Geological Society ["On coexistence of man with certain extinct quadrupeds", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 16 (1859–60): 471–5].
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1860 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 396 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2787 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
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