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To W. D. Fox 26 April [1855]
Summary
Explains more clearly what he is looking for in his work on poultry: relative variation at different ages, the effect of disuse on different parts, breeding between wild and domestic, and degree of fertility of "mongrels of very diverse races".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1855] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 89) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1675 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 August [1855]
Summary
Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.
When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?
Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1855] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1738 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 October [1855]
Summary
Sick of seed-salting.
Reading Candolle with great interest.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 151 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1763 |
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- … letter from Glasgow to you; I don’t know whether you received it, but do not fash yourself on any account by writing to me now that you must be very busy. — I was much pleased with, & extremely obliged by the excessive kindness of M r Gourlie at Glasgow, to whom you once introduced me at the Gardens. — Adios. I suppose you will soon set to work like a Trojan. Farewell. | C. Darwin …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
