To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857]
Summary
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 206, 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2130 |
To John Stevens Henslow 11 December [1851]
Summary
Sends cirripede specimens for Ipswich Museum.
Asks how much a village fireworks display would cost.
Comments on the need in education for good habits of expression and accurate observation instead of making "wretched Latin verses".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 11 Dec [1851] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A85–A88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1463 |
To William Kemp 1 December [1843]
Summary
Robert Brown has cast much doubt on the integrity of the seed-planting experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Kemp |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1843] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/22) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-716F |
From William Kemp 24 November 1843
Summary
Approves of the paper CD has drawn up concerning WK’s seed discovery.
Mentions article in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
| Author: | William Kemp |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1843 |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: A18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-716 |
To John Lindley 8 [April 1843]
Summary
CD sends seeds found by W. Kemp of Galashiels with explanation and request that they be planted and a report sent to him, so that Kemp may publish his discovery if results are interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lindley |
| Date: | 8 [Apr 1843] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 189–90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-668 |
To William Kemp 7 April [1843]
Summary
CD will sent seeds to specialists for identification.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Kemp |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1843] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/14) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-667F |
To W. J. Broderip 19 January [1839]
Summary
Hopes Richard Owen will have time to do CD’s shells in spirits.
Doubts WJB’s suggestion that moles may play a part in formation of mould.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William John Broderip |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1839] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-488 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to J. S. Henslow, [1 November 1836] ), but the shells in spirits remained undescribed. CD’s lists of specimens are in DAR 29.1 and 29.3. The fossil shells were described by George Brettingham Sowerby and Edward Forbes in Volcanic islands and South America (see Appendixes of both volumes). Published in 1840 …
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 J. D. Hooker 22 August [1857]
Summary
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 208 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2134 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1840 ). CD’s calculations are in DAR 16.1: 137a, 199–203 and DAR 16.2: 204–6. For CD’s later use of these calculations, with some revisions, see the tables in Natural selection , pp. 149– 52. John Stevens Henslow had visited Down on 13 August (see letter to John Lubbock, 12 [August 1857] ). The Swedish botanist Nils Johan Andersson was then working at Kew (see letter to J. …
From J. D. Hooker 29 January 1844
Summary
Remarks on geographical divisions of the flora of the Southern Hemisphere.
JDH beginning Galapagos plants. Value of studying insular floras with respect to inquiries about adaptation of species.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Jan 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 5–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-734 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Herbert, William | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Kemp, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Kemp, William | (2) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Kemp, William | (3) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
