From Frederick Currey 5 July 1866
Summary
Fritz Müller’s paper ["Notes on climbing plants"] is about to appear [in J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9]. Would CD approve of figures being reduced in size?
| Author: | Frederick Currey |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5146 |
From B. D. Walsh 17 July 1866
Summary
On H. A. Dubois’ attack on "Darwin, Huxley and Lyell"
and H. J. Clark’s Mind in nature [1865].
BDW’s work [on Cynipidae].
| Author: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 July 1866 |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5159 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 July 1866]
Summary
Working on "Insular floras" lecture for BAAS Nottingham meeting [see 5135].
Puzzled at distribution of Madeiran and Canaries plants and insects.
Supports Forbes’s Atlantis hypothesis [see 956], which he has reread and to which he will allude.
Wollaston disappointing on Madeiran insects.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [24 July 1866] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2 (letters): 239 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5165 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 13), Harriet Anne (12), Charles Paget (11), and Brian Harvey Hodgson (6) ( Allan 1967 ). St Albans is a market-town in Hertfordshire, England. The Hookers had friends in St Albans ( Correspondence vol. 12, letter …
- … 12). Oswald Heer advanced a further Atlantis hypothesis in which Europe, Africa, and North America were connected by a land-bridge ( Heer 1855 and 1860). See also Correspondence vol. 13, letter …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Currey, Frederick | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Currey, Frederick | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
