To ? 9 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1972 |
To Librarian, Royal Society of London 27 October [1856]
Summary
Orders Andrew Knight’s paper ["An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1799): 195–204] and J. E. Gray’s book [Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 27 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Science and Philosophy Collection, gift of J. Christian Bay) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1013 |
To J. D. Hooker [16 October 1856]
Summary
Note accompanying MS of part of chapter 11 ["Geographical distribution"] of Natural selection [1975].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [16 Oct 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: E9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1965 |
To W. D. Fox 3 October [1856]
Summary
Finds his grief over his daughter Anne’s death still strong.
Is following Lyell’s advice about publishing his species doctrine. It is not to be a sketch, however, but as perfect as his 19 years of work will allow. His work on pigeons has been invaluable on many points. "No subject gives me so much trouble as means of dispersal of terrestrial production in the oceanic islands."
Finds "most remarkable differences" in skeletons of rabbits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 3 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1967 |
To T. C. Eyton 5 October [1856]
Summary
Offers TCE dog’s skin and skull received from W. F. Daniell in West Africa.
Mentions his experiments involving hawk pellets in seed distribution.
Reminds TCE about pig crosses and incisors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 5 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.139) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1968 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 October [1856]
Summary
Agrees with JDH that Cytisus report [presumably of a large change] not sound. CD pleased because, if true, species would change too quickly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1969 |
From William Freeman Daniell 8 October – 7 November 1856
Summary
Responds to CD’s queries on Sierra Leone: fertility of European animals introduced to W. Africa, relationship of health and complexion of Europeans, etc.
Author: | William Freeman Daniell |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Oct – 7 Nov 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1970 |
To the Royal Society 8 October [1856?]
Summary
The bearer has called for the books. Requests volumes of Isis for 1828 and 1829.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 8 Oct [1856?] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 111 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1970A |
To J. D. Hooker 9 October [1856]
Summary
CD coming to London.
Read JDH’s review [Hooker’s Kew J. Bot. 8 (1856): 54–64 et seq.] of Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique raisonnée [1855] long ago.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 180 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1971 |
To Asa Gray 12 October [1856]
Summary
Thanks AG for the first part of his "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403]
and for information on social and varying plants.
Would like to know number of genera of introduced plants in U. S.
Is surprised at some affinities of northern U. S. flora and asks for any climatic explanations.
Asks what proportion of genera common to U. S. and Europe are mundane.
Is glad AG will work out the northern ranges of the European species and the ranges of species with regard to size of genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 12 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1973 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 October [1856]
Summary
Has received fowls from interior of Sierra Leone.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 15 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1975 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 19 October [1856]
Summary
African fowls from Sierra Leone are pugnacious and amorous.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 19 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1976 |
To J. D. Hooker [19 October 1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [19 Oct 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1977 |
To W. D. Fox 20 October [1856]
Summary
Has taken birds with seeds in crops to Zoological Society and fed them to eagles and owls. Pellets with seeds in perfect condition were "thrown up" in 18 and 16 hours, showing an effective means of distribution.
Asks WDF to write to his nephew in Jamaica to try experiments with floating lizards’ and snakes’ eggs in sea-water, to see if they survive.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 20 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 99) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1978 |
To John Lubbock 27 October [1856]
Summary
Comments on JL’s paper on Daphnia, ["An account of methods of reproduction in Daphnia and of the structure of the ephippium", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 27 Oct [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 14 (EH 88206463) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1979 |
letter | (15) |
Darwin, C. R. | (14) |
Daniell, W. F. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Royal Society of London | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Royal Society of London | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |