To J. D. Hooker 21 [May 1856]
Summary
Huxley’s "vehement" [Royal Institution?] Lectures make it difficult to propose him for Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 [May 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1876 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vehement" [Royal Institution? ] Lectures make it difficult to propose him for Athenaeum. …
- … of these Lectures in relation to the Athenæum, but I am inclined quite to agree with you & …
- … earnest to get a great Naturalist into Athenæum & fail, is far worse than doing nothing— …
- … Huxley was not proposed for election to the Athenæum Club in 1856 but was elected in 1858 …
To William Erasmus Darwin [26 February 1856]
Summary
Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.
Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [26 Feb 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1804 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … was a member of the committee of the Athenæum Club; he was one of the trustees from 1857 …
- … 1975 ). William Darwin was not elected to the Athenæum Club until 1884 ( Waugh [1888] ). …
- … Press. 1985–. [Cowell, F. R. ] 1975. The Athenaeum Club and social life in London, 1824– …
- … Francis Gledstanes. [1888. ] Members of the Athenæum Club, 1824 to 1887. N.p. : privately …
- … I have had to strike out your name for Athenæum Club, as you cannot be entered till 18 …
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1856]
Summary
Lyell urges CD to publish a sketch of species theory; CD asks JDH’s opinion on best course.
Concerned about opposition, particularly by Owen, to Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1870 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 May 1856
Summary
Non-endemic Ascension Island plants brought by man, not wind-transported.
Bentham has found intermediates between oxlip and cowslip in Herefordshire.
JDH finds quantity of albumen in seeds is not variable within a species.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 May 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 94–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1869 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1856]
Summary
CD is unsure about JDH’s recommendation that he publish a separate "Preliminary Essay". It is unphilosophical to publish without full details.
CD will work for Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 162 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1874 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to publish without full details. CD will work for Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum. …
To W. D. Fox 3 January [1856]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his help and reports on progress in "the Cock and Hen line of business". Has written to every quarter of the world for skins of poultry and pigeons.
As for seeds, Hooker and Bentham obstinately refuse to believe they can live even a few years in the ground.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 86) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1815 |
To John Maurice Herbert 2 January [1856]
Summary
Thanks JMH for book of poems.
Recalls early days together. He cannot visit due to health.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.121) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1814 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … shall have to send at end of week to Athenæum & will there get the volume of Poems, which …
To Leonard Horner [1856–7]
Summary
Thanks LH for memorandum [missing] by K. R. Lepsius.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | [1856–7] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2618 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … by Lepsius ( Lepsius 1842 ) in the Athenæum ( ibid. , Appendix IV, 128: 14). In Variation …
To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1856]
Summary
Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 160 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Collins Brodie. The full list is given in Athenæum , 1 December 1855, p. 1403. See n. 7, …
From Edward Blyth 8 January [1856]
Summary
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1817 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … near a railway; but think it was in the London Athenæum, in the review of some continental …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Herbert, J. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
