To J. D. Hooker 20 [October 1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers [Collected papers 2: 19–25].
JDH’s reactions to CD’s theory.
Discussed human fossil evidence with Hugh Falconer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 [Oct 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 250 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2345 |
From W. B. Clarke 20 September 1862
Summary
Acknowledges presentation copy of Orchids.
Asks advice on what to do with all his fossils. Sending various specimens.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Sept 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3733 |
From W. B. Clarke 21 January 1862
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Jan 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 173 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3401 |
To Charles Lyell 26 April [1858]
Summary
Comments on letter from Georg Hartung to CL dealing with erratic boulders.
Discusses migration of plants and animals.
A letter from Thomas Thomson on heat endured by temperate plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 26 Apr [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.151) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2262 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 December [1857]
Summary
Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182 |
To Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller 8 December [1857]
Summary
Asks whether British or north European perennial plants can, under cultivation, withstand the climate of S. Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
Date: | 8 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A31–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2378 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1857]
Summary
Finds CD’s results [of his survey of well-marked varieties from A. P. and Alphonse de Candolle’s Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis (1824–73)] "very curious and suggestive". Thinks the Labiatae will present an obstacle to him as it is a very large and distinct order with well-defined species and genera. Would like to see him tackle more volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus, as his case can only be established by evidence from mundane plants. CD should beware of generalising from local species variability. A comparison of C. C. Babington’s and G. Bentham’s [British] Floras [Babington Manual of British botany (1843, 4th ed., 1856); Bentham Handbook of British flora (1858)] would be invaluable. Suggests CD write to Ferdinand Müller and Charles Moore in Australia. Moisture favouring extension of species is important for CD’s view.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 195–6, DAR 47: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2181 |
From T. H. Huxley 30 July 1871
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 July 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 325 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7888 |
From George Varenne Reed 12 January 1863
Author: | George Varenne Reed |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3912 |
From W. B. Clarke 20 June 1862
Summary
Has received Australian government grant to collect and publish on fossils. Has collected thousands of fossils.
Author: | William Branwhite Clarke |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 161.2: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3616 |
From Charles Moore 11 August 1858
Summary
Encloses a list of British perennials which seed in New South Wales and explains the source of his information. Lists plants which have become weeds in the country.
Author: | Charles Moore |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2322 |
To George Varenne Reed 1 July [1859]
Summary
Sends payment for Francis Darwin’s tutoring. Inquires about possible arrangements for his son Leonard, who is slow and not well, to attend with Francis.
Asks whether he can have a cutting of GVR’s carrion-smelling Arum which he needs for an experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Varenne Reed |
Date: | 1 July [1859] |
Classmark: | Buckinghamshire Record Office (D 22/39/2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2474 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 18 February 1876
Summary
Thanks for plants supplied from Kew.
On structure and function of leaf glands of certain plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 18 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 39–40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10402 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … letter from Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 February [1876] and n. 2. Thiselton-Dyer sent CD a letter he received from Thomas Moore …
- … Moore to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 15 February 1876 ). At this time, the plant was placed in the genus Senecio (ragworts and groundsels), although it had formerly been classified as Cineraria (a related genus that is now mostly restricted to South African species). See letter from Charles and Francis Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, 14 February [1876] and n. 3. Pleroma (a synonym of Tibouchina ) is a neotropical plant genus of the family Melastomataceae. See letter …
To W. D. Fox [23 January 1831]
Summary
Congratulates WDF on passing his examination for the curacy; hopes he will find it comfortable.
CD is pleased at his own good showing.
Asks about WDF’s examination, books, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [23 Jan 1831] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-89 |
To J. B. Innes 10 May [1875]
Summary
On colour changes in rabbits. Suspects JBI’s is of impure origin.
Is correcting proof of Insectivorous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | 10 May [1875] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9975 |
To Charles Lyell 29 [December 1859]
Summary
Encloses letter concerning Edward Blyth’s application for a position with the China expedition.
Mentions reviews of the Origin. Guesses that Huxley wrote the Times review.
Alludes to discussion of relations between fossil and modern types [in Principles of geology 3: 144].
Discusses destruction of tropical forms in the glacial period.
Mentions letter from Dana concerning Dana’s illness.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2612 |
To Edward Frankland 21 September [1873]
Summary
Although CD’s experiments with pepsin were unsuccessful, he observed that the glands [of Drosera] as far as acid is concerned act just as the stomach of a mammal. Further experiments detailed. The secretion must contain something analogous to pepsin. [See 9062.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 21 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061A |
To the Palaeontographical Society [before 22 February 1850]
Summary
Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Palaeontographical Society |
Date: | [before 22 Feb 1850] |
Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1304 |
Matches: 1 hit
Wedgwood, Emma (1808–96)
Matches: 1 hit
- … Moore and Janet Browne, ‘Darwin, Charles Robert (1809–1882)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7176, accessed 20 Feb 2013] Emma Darwin (1904) and (1915). Bibliography Emma Darwin (1904): Emma Darwin, wife of Charles Darwin. A century of family letters. …
To W. D. Fox 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.
He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Pritchard , who later became Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford ( Moore 1977 p. 53). The final proofs of Living Cirripedia (1854) were not sent to the printer until July 1854, and the proofs of Fossil Cirripedia (1854) were not ready until mid-September. The sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum ( Living Cirripedia (1851): 281–93). See letter …
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