To W. B. Tegetmeier 8 September [1858]
Summary
Has finished with and is disposing of his pigeons.
Invites WBT to Down; would like to see his bees’ cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2325 |
To Trenham Reeks? 10 March [1858]
Summary
Asks whether correspondent can assist in determining value of slate slabs with relief figures executed for Josiah Wedgwood [I].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Trenham Reeks |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (GSM 1/501) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2236 |
From G. R. Waterhouse 13 February 1858
Summary
GRW’s observations of and ideas on bees’ and wasps’ cells.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2216 |
From Asa Gray [before 3 April 1858]
Summary
List of close species taken from AG’s Manual of botany [1848].
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2249 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 30 June 1855 ). The first list (now in DAR 165: 92/3) was compiled from A. Gray 1848 . The new list was taken from the second edition of this work ( A. Gray 1856 ). Apparently there was also a covering note sent by Gray with this list, which is now lost. CD sent the note on to Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 …
To W. E. Darwin [26 April 1858]
Summary
Has been at Moor Park since Tuesday. Is passing his time watching ants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Apr 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2265 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 March 1858 ( Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 9 (1857–9): 194–6). William Darwin was a keen amateur photographer (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to W. E. Darwin, [before 11 September 1857] ). William Greive Wilson was William Darwin’s tutor, with whom he was living. The payment of 50 guineas was entered in CD’s Account book (Down House MS) and dated 30 …
To W. D. Fox 14 January [1858]
Summary
Asks to borrow W. C. Hewitson’s book [British oology, 2 vols. (1831–44)].
CD is searching for reliable information on slight variations in the degree of perfection of nests of the same species of birds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 14 Jan [1858] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 108) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2202 |
From John Innes 9 January [1858–9]
Summary
Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1858-9] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 242 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13818 |
To W. E. Darwin 22 [September 1858]
Summary
Discusses domestic affairs.
Is working at the abstract of his book [Origin].
Asks WED to examine birds’ feet for dirt sticking to them, as this may represent a means of seed dispersal across seas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 22 [Sept 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2328 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10. Elizabeth Darwin , aged 11. On 19 September 1858, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary: ‘Lizzy poorly since Monday’. CD had come to believe that his children had inherited his ill-health. See Correspondence vol. 5, letters to W. D. Fox, 24 [October 1852] and 17 July [1853] ; and vol. 6, letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 …
To Charles Lyell 18 July [1858]
Summary
Thanks for abstract of Etna paper [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 703–86]. Never expected to see Élie de Beaumont’s theory ["craters of elevation"] so completely upset. "He must have picked out favourable cases for measurement."
More than satisfied by what was done at Linnean Society [joint reading of CD’s and Wallace’s papers: "Tendency of species to form varieties", Collected papers 2: 3–19]. Intends to prepare longer abstract.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 18 July [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.155) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2309 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10 June 1858. Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont believed that lava would not consolidate if it flowed down a slope at an angle greater than three degrees. He maintained that volcanic cones were formed by an eruption breaking through the horizontal layers of lava and elevating them to form the sides. See Correspondence vols. 3 and 4, and vol. 6, letter to Charles Lyell, 21 April [1856] . See letter from J. D. Hooker and Charles Lyell to the Linnean Society, 30 …
To Asa Gray 4 April [1858]
Summary
Discusses the variation of species in large and small genera.
Thanks AG for his list of close species.
Laments the slow progress he makes with his book [Natural selection].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 4 Apr [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2252 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 10, on the ‘Mental powers and the instincts of animals’ ( Natural selection , pp. 466–527), on 9 March 1858 (‘Journal’; Appendix II). The first volume of Agassiz 1857–62 was presented to CD by Louis Agassiz (see letter to Louis Agassiz, 21 February [1858] ). The work is in the Darwin Library–CUL and contains annotations and an abstract by CD. CD presumably refers to Agassiz’s discussion of ‘The gradation of structure among animals’ and ‘Prophetic types among animals’ ( Agassiz 1857–62 , 1: 26–30, …
From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 30 [July 1858] . CD had sent his manuscript on large and small genera to Hooker in May 1858 for his comments (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 6 May [1858] and 5 July [1858] ). Hooker’s comments are written on the manuscript and have been transcribed as footnotes by the editor of Natural selection , pp. 134–64. CD had previously sent Hooker a note advising him how to consider the manuscript (see the enclosure of the letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 …
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