To Herbert Spencer 11 March [1856]
Summary
Thanks for copy of HS’s Principles of psychology [1855].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
| Date: | 11 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 484a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1841 |
To Samuel Birch [12 March 1856]
Summary
Arranges an appointment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
| Date: | [12 Mar 1856] |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1489) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1841A |
To John Lubbock [March? 1856]
Summary
JL is studying Cynipidae. CD sends galls for his examination.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [Mar? 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 10 (EH 88206459) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2028 |
From John Morris 1 March 1856
Summary
Informs CD on age of land, freshwater, and marine Mollusca.
| Author: | John Morris |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 246 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1835 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Morris, John Darwin, C. R. …
- … R. Murchison in his Alps paper, but I have not the reference. I will look for it & others and write you again— The best evidence is (as you are aware) that the freshwater genera as genera have survived many mutations of the surface, and outlived many of the marine genera, of course I allude to the still living genera of Physa Planorbis, Melanopsis, Cyrena, Paludina, &c in the Purbeck & Wealden—so in the lower and middle tertiary, &c Yours sincerely | John Morris C Darwin …
To Syms Covington 9 March 1856
Summary
Thanks SC for his interesting account of the state of the colony. SC was wise to settle there where his sons have much better prospects.
Has finished his book on barnacles [1854]. Royal Medal awarded him chiefly for this work.
Asks SC whether he has observed any odd imported breeds of poultry, for his work on variation of species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1840 |
To M. J. Berkeley 18 March [1856]
Summary
Thanks MJB for information which he is including in his article for the Linnean Society.
Refers to the peas "which produce the black or intensely purple pods". [See 1834 and 1836.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1843A |
From Thomas Hutton 8 March 1856
Summary
TH believes that the progeny of hybrid crosses, in which a domesticated or "artificial" race is involved, tend to resemble the more "natural" of their parents [see Natural selection, p. 486].
Provides some information on local hybrid domestic geese [see Natural selection, p. 439] and pigeons.
| Author: | Thomas Hutton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 283 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1838 |
Matches: 2 hits
To C. J. Andersson 25 March [1856]
Summary
Thanks for proof sheets of Lake Ngami: or, exploration and discoveries during four years’ wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa (Andersson 1856).
Is very grateful for the information CJA has provided about cattle in South Africa, and wishes to ask further questions about native breeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1845F |
From M. J. Berkeley 7 March 1856
Summary
Reports on breeding experiments with various seeds: corn, aubergine, kidney beans, sugar-peas. Speculates that cause of changes in seed colour in sugar-peas may be mere variation rather than result of impregnation.
| Author: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1836 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 March [1856]
Summary
Asks WBT to try to purchase some specific pigeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1842 |
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 8 March 1856
Summary
Hopes GHKT will publish on variations in plant species at different elevations. Asks about variations among plants on heights of Ceylon.
Promises to publish on the species question.
Asks for pigeons’ skins from India or Ceylon, and for ducks’ skeletons. Mentions help promised by E. F. Kelaart.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.125) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1837 |
From W. D. Fox 8 March [1856]
Summary
Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.
Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1646 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 March [1856]
Summary
Discusses various pigeons and would welcome receiving any odd breed. Some pigeons have died from overeating bag salt.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 20 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1844 |
To W. D. Fox 15 March [1856]
Summary
Believes WDF’s case of mongrel Scotch deerhound is very valuable for him.
Mentions his work on pigeons and chickens.
Fears sometimes he will break down: "My subject gets bigger and bigger".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 15 Mar [1856] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 97) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1843 |
From Edward Blyth [c. 22 March 1856]
Summary
Gives references to works on fowls and pigeons.
Observations on Gallinaceae.
Musk ox skull from southern England is additional evidence for Agassiz’s glacial period. Owen is mistaken in calling it a buffalo.
EB describes the buffalo proper.
Will send domestic pigeon specimens.
Believes pigeons were not bred in India before the Mohammedan conquest. Describes Indian breeds.
Believes the ass is an African rather than an Asian production. Discusses various species of ass and their distribution.
Wild horned cattle on borders of Pilibhit and Shahjahanpur.
[Notes received by CD on 6 May 1856.]
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 22 Mar 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: 133–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1845 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hutton, Thomas | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Andersson, C. J. | (1) |
| Berkeley, M. J. | (1) |
| Birch, Samuel | (1) |
| Andersson, C. J. | (1) |
| Berkeley, M. J. | (2) |
| Birch, Samuel | (1) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Hutton, Thomas | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Morris, John | (1) |
| Spencer, Herbert | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
