To G. R. Gray [June–October 1839]
Summary
Asks for some Anthus skins to examine [for Birds]. Fears they may turn out to be all one species. Sends details from his notes on Falkland Island specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Gray |
Date: | [June–Oct 1839] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 235–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-508 |
From Robert FitzRoy [2 or 16 June 1839]
Summary
Has not yet had time to read CD’s Journal of researches attentively. He is sure there is no expression referring to himself personally that he could wish were not in it.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 or 16] June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-516 |
To Mr Folthorp of Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1839]
Summary
CD has heard from the Treasury; they will pay the account [for the Zoology] as soon as Smith, Elder & Co. like.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 6 June [1839] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-517 |
From William Buckland 7 June 1839
Author: | William Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-518 |
From Richard Owen 11 June 1839
Summary
Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".
Author: | Richard Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-519 |
From William Henry Fitton 13 June 1839
Summary
Thanks CD for Journal of researches. Praises its "want of pretension"; "the Geology seems … to be excellent – and a good part of it new".
Author: | William Henry Fitton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-520 |
From William Lonsdale 15 June 1839
Author: | William Lonsdale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-521 |
From Robert FitzRoy 20 June [1839]
Summary
Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June [1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-522 |
To William Herbert 26 June 1839
Summary
CD is led to believe there are no true permanently inbreeding, sexually reproducing beings. Thanks for replies to breeding questions.
Asks for clarification of Hippeastrum crosses: is selfing or crossing with individual of same species intended and was increased fertility due to constitution of foreign parent or due to the pollen coming from another plant? Has WH known any hybrid or mongrel to revert or to vary in a manner unlikely to be effect of soil?
Sends Journal of researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
Date: | 26 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 65–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-523 |
From William Herbert [c. 27 June 1839]
Summary
Rejects necessity of outbreeding and any general law of reversion.
Describes further experiments with Hippeastrum showing greater fertility with foreign pollen than with individual’s own pollen or with pollen from another individual of same species.
Does not believe CD’s questions about reversion can be answered in present state of knowledge.
Author: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 27 June 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-524 |
To Thomas Green [after 30 June 1839]
Summary
Returns proof sheets and requests revises. Gives his opinion of Mr Walkers’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Green |
Date: | [after 30 June 1839] |
Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (21 September 2015) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-524F |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Fitton, W. H. | (1) |
Herbert, William | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Gray, G. R. | (1) |
Green, Thomas | (1) |
Herbert, William | (1) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Herbert, William | (2) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Fitton, W. H. | (1) |