To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1857]
Summary
Independence of variation from climate shown by several plant genera; CD asks for confirmation.
Progressing with book [Natural selection].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 191 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2073 |
To W. D. Fox [30 April 1857]
Summary
His impressions of the hydropathic establishment and E. W. Lane. Is convinced the only thing for "chronic cases" is the water-cure.
Asks if WDF knows of any breed of pig that originated or was modified by a cross with a Chinese or Neapolitan pig, and whether the crossbreed bred true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [30 Apr 1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 103) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2085 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Emma Darwin’s diary). CD returned to Moor Park for two weeks in June (‘Journal’; Appendix II). For CD’s belief that his condition was much relieved by the water-cure, see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to W. D. Fox, 7 [July 1849] . …
- … letters to Susan Darwin, [19 March 1849] , and to W. D. Fox, 4 September [1850]. Lane believed that a change of scenery was an essential constituent of therapy, the site of Moor Park having been chosen for its location in a ‘picturesque district abounding in pleasant and varied walks, with a dry soil under-foot and the fresh breezes of health playing about … over-head from morning till night’ ( Lane 1857 , p. 43). Emma Darwin …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
