CD memorandum July 1857
Summary
Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | unknown |
Date: | July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115F |
To [W. W. Baxter?] [after June 1857]
Summary
Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | [after June 1857] |
Classmark: | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889F |
To W. E. Darwin [before 11 September 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1619 |
To W. E. Darwin [17 February 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [17 Feb 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1805 |
To John Innes [after 16 February 1857]
Summary
Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | [after 16 Feb 1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.149) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2025 |
To [W. E. Darwin] [1857?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [1857?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2029 |
To Henry Doubleday [before 5 February 1857]
Summary
Have all varieties been bred from the same set of eggs so that there can be no doubt they are all the same species?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
Date: | [before 5 Feb 1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2032 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
To Asa Gray 1 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].
Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.
Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2034 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 January [1857]
Summary
Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].
Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037 |
To Henry Doubleday 8 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
Date: | 8 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Dr Heather Whitney (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037F |
To W. H. Harvey 7 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.
Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
Date: | 7 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Sheffield City Archives (Gatty family autograph albums X561/1/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037G |
To J. D. Hooker 17 January [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2040 |
To T. H. Huxley 17 January [1857]
Summary
Asks THH question on flow of glaciers after ice has been fractured and fragmented.
CD had to leave Royal Society lecture [joint paper by THH and J. Tyndall, "On the structure and motions of glaciers", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 327–46] before the end because of headache.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 1 (EH 88205939) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2041 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2042 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 February [1857]
Summary
Thanks THH for his response on glacial movement. Hopes Tyndall will experiment on broken ice and explain how two pieces of ice can freeze together.
Sorry to hear of THH’s row with Richard Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 104) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2045 |
To John Tyndall 4 February [1857]
Summary
CD is "as ignorant of mechanics as a pig", but glaciers have interested him greatly. Hopes to hear that JT’s experiments with ice will explain the freezing together of ice below the freezing point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 4 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 2 (EH 88205940) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2046 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 6 February [1857]
Summary
Would welcome eggs of any rumpless fowl so that he can investigate how early in development rudimentary organs are rudimentary.
Has not noticed much difference between skeletons of ducks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 6 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2048 |
To Bernard Peirce Brent 7 February [1857]
Summary
Sympathises with Brent’s legal difficulties. Declines offer of a cock silk fowl, but accepts offer of a German old fashioned pouter pigeon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
Date: | 7 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | Richard Brent (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2048F |
To W. D. Fox 8 February [1857]
Summary
Birth of his sixth son [C. W. Darwin]. It is dreadful "to think of all the sendings to school and the professions afterwards".
CD is not well but has not the courage for water-cure again; trying mineral acids.
Working hard on the book [Natural selection]; is overwhelmed with riches in facts and interested in way facts fall into groups.
To his surprise [Helix pomatia] has withstood 14 days in salt water.
Pigeons’ skins come in from all parts of the world.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 8 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2049 |
Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (12) |
Huxley, T. H. | (10) |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Gray, Asa | (7) |
Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum | (1) |
Bate, C. S. | (1) |
Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (3) |
Brent, B. P. | (1) |
Buckman, James | (1) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Doubleday, Henry | (2) |
Edmondston, Laurence | (2) |
Eyton, T. C. | (4) |
Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (5) |
Galton, Francis | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
Gosse, P. H. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (7) |
Harcourt, E. W. V. | (2) |
Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
Huxley, T. H. | (10) |
Innes, J. B. | (1) |
Kippist, Richard | (1) |
Linnean Society | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (6) |
Lyell, Charles | (2) |
Mueller, Ferdinand von | (1) |
Patterson, Robert | (2) |
Sabine, Edward | (1) |
Sharpey, William | (4) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (12) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Wallace, A. R. | (2) |
unknown | (1) |