To Edgar Leopold Layard 9 December 1855
Summary
Is collecting facts for Variation; would be grateful for skins of local [Cape of Good Hope] breeds of pigeons, ducks, and poultry.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edgar Leopold Layard |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1855 |
| Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (3)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1794 |
Matches: 1 hit
From William Henry Benson 5 December 1855
Summary
Observations on shells in India, listing some specimens with particular regard to their locality, elevation, and relationship to other known types.
| Author: | William Henry Benson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1855 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1790 |
Matches: 1 hit
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1855]
Summary
Seeds: worried they will turn into another barnacle job.
Studies plants colonising abandoned field.
Experiment on plant sleep movements.
CD objects to "Atlantis" because no evidence; does not affect species theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 June [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1693 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Benson, W. H. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Layard, E. L. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Benson, W. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Layard, E. L. | (1) |
