To J. D. Hooker 15 [June 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 137 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1700 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Hooker, 27 May [1855] and 5 June [1855] , and letter from J. D. …
- … Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See letters to J. D. …
- … Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See letter to J. D. …
- … June [1855] . In his letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 May [1855], CD had commented …
- … which he completed reading on 16 June 1855 (see n. 4, below) and on letter from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [August 1855]
Summary
When JDH goes to Germany, will he ask seed men if their marvellous true breeding lines are the result of selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [Aug 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 145 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1741 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … Gray, 8 June [1855] , and letter from Asa …
- … Gray , enclosed with Gray’s letter to CD. See letter to Asa Gray, 24 August [1855] . A. …
- … Gray , 25 April [1855]. See letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 30 June 1855 . The letter here referred to has not been found, but Gray’s four-page …
- … in DAR 165: 92–3. See letter from John Cattell, 13 August 1855 . CD’s notes on the plants …
- … on his European tour (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 August [1855] , n. 4). A note for …
- … Gray 1848 . See letters to J. D. Hooker, 13 April [1855] , and to Asa …
- … Natural selection . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 August [1855] . Louisa Mary Henslow . …
- … 1855, pp. 43–7. For CD’s previous interest in Hooker’s work on this genus, see letter …
To John Davy 3 January [1856]
Summary
Delighted to hear that JD’s research is continuing. CD has heard that JD’s paper will at last be published. He is flattered by the form [as a letter addressed to CD] of communication. [See 1651a and 1819a, published in Phil. Trans. R. S. 146 (1856): 21–9 and Proc. R. S. London 8 (1856–7): 27–33.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Davy |
Date: | 3 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 61, 1991) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1816A |
Matches: 6 hits
- … vol. 5, letter from John Davy, 21 March 1855 , and letters to John Davy , 25 …
- … Correspondence vol. 5, letter from John Davy, 30 January 1855 ). On 10 January 1856, Davy …
- … March [1855] and 26 March [1855] , and Correspondence vol. 6, letter from John Davy, 10 …
- … 1855 was ‘Down, Bromley, Kent’, not ‘Down, Farnborough, Kent’, but strong evidence supports dating the letter …
- … as a lapse. The letter from Davy has not been found. From November 1855 to January 1856 …
- … Both J. Davy 1855 and J. Davy 1856 were written in the form of letters to CD, and …
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1855]
Summary
Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.
Species theory does not touch origin of life.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 136 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1696 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . Letter from Asa …
- … Mimosa sensitiva . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See letter from J. D. …
- … Gray, 22 May 1855 . See letter to Asa …
- … Gray, 8 June [1855] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 April [1855] , n. 3. The map …
- … Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] . See CD’s annotations on letter from J. D. …
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1855]
Summary
JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.
On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1680 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … to J. D. Hooker, 7 March [1855] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 17 March 1855] …
- … the Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette on 26 May 1855 (see letter to Gardeners’ …
- … bituminous formations (Binney and Hooker 1855 ). See letter from J. D. Hooker, 25 August …
- … secular text. See letters to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 11 April [1855], and to J. D. Hooker, …
- … it as apterous ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 17 March 1855] ). Edward William …
- … 1855]). CD presented a more extensive report at the Linnean Society on 6 May 1856 (see Collected papers 1: 264–73). See letter …
- … 1855, pp. 451–2). An allusion to Hooker’s disappointment at losing the election to the chair of botany at Edinburgh University in 1845 (see Correspondence vol. 3, letter …
To Asa Gray 21 July [1855]
Summary
Geographical distribution. "Close" species. Hopes AG will write an essay on species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 21 July [1855] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1725 |
From Margaretta Hare Morris to Richard Chandler Alexander 17 June 1855
Author: | Margaretta Hare Morris |
Addressee: | Richard Chandler Alexander; Richard Chandler Prior |
Date: | 17 June 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 247 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1701 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 13 April [1855] , and letter from Asa Gray, 30 June 1855 . Richard Chandler Alexander …
- … by birds and insects. See letters to John Davy , 25 March [1855] and 26 March [1855] . …
- … See letters to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1855] and …
- … North America in 1849. See letters to J. D. Hooker, 7 April [1855] and 13 April [1855] . …
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1855]
Summary
CD has begun seed-salting experiments. Wants JDH to write which seeds he expects to be easily killed [in salt water].
CD’s idea that coal-plants lived in salt water like mangroves made JDH savage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1661 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … at Kew during his four-day visit to London, 20 to 24 March 1855 ( letter to C. J. F. …
- … floating in sea-water. See letters to John Davy , 25 March [1855] and 26 March [1855] . CD …
- … March 1855] , n. 1, and letter to Miles Joseph Berkeley, 7 April [1855] ). This sentence …
- … of the Hooker family. See letter from M. H. Morris to R. C. Alexander, 17 June 1855 . …
To J. D. Hooker 28 [July 1855]
Summary
Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.
CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 143a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1731 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 21 November [1855]
Summary
Sends final results of his experiments on the vitality of various kinds of seeds immersed in sea-water. Corrects a false assumption he made in an earlier letter [1684] that plants with ripe seeds would float for some weeks. Now finds that they sink within a month. Since all the seeds he tried sank in sea-water, his experiments are of little or no use "in regard to the distribution of plants by drifting of their seeds across the sea".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 21 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 47, 24 November 1855, p. 773 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1783 |
To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1855]
Summary
Thanks for seeds. Feels "almost foiled" in his experiments on sea transport – has found few plants that float after more than a week’s immersion.
Sends a list of queries [see 1779] on hollyhocks to put to growers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 10 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A103–A105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1778 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … he refers to an enclosure, the draft of which is dated 12 November 1855 (see next letter). …
- … has not been found, but CD’s draft, dated 12 November 1855, is in DAR 206 (Letters). …
- … 1855, p. 773 (see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 November [1855]). A more detailed …
- … See letter to J. S. Henslow, 12 November 1855 . William Chater was an Essex nurseryman …
- … See letters to J. S. Henslow, 2 July [1855] and 7 July [1855] . CD published a brief …
- … Paris Exhibition (see letter to J. S. Henslow, 29 October [1855] , n. 1). See Notebook …
To J. S. Henslow 21 July [1855]
Summary
Thanks JSH for all he has done. His botanical little girls are marvellous. His marking of the list of dubious species is what CD wanted. Explains that he wanted to ascertain whether closely allied forms belong to large or small genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 21 July [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A98–A100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1726 |
To Arthur Henfrey 31 March [1855]
Summary
Thanks AH for seeking reference. If AH cannot find Godron [see 1648] it is hopeless. Thanks for reference to C. F. Hornschuch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Henfrey |
Date: | 31 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1658 |
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1855]
Summary
He may insert his request for lizards’ eggs in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
His study of mongrel chicks is to ascertain whether the young of domestic breeds differ as much as their parents.
Has already sent a communication on means of distribution of plants by sea to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 23 May [1855] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1686 |
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … See Correspondence vol. 5, CD memorandum, [December 1855], and subsequent letters in …
- … Chronicle , 13 November [1855], and the first letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 29 …
- … shows (see Cottage Gardener 15 (1855–6): 208 and 227, and letter to W. B. Tegetmeier, 14 …
- … vol. 5, especially letters to W. D. Fox, 23 May [1855] and 22 August [1855] . Either …
- … 1855. CD used to read the Athenæum and then send it on to Fox (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter …
- … letter from W. D. Fox, 1 November 1834 ). His account of seeds from the island has not been traced. George Bentham had expressed a view similar to Hooker’s (see n. 8, above) in an article on the vitality of charlock seed in Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 10 November 1855, …
To Arthur Henfrey 17 March [1855]
Summary
Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arthur Henfrey |
Date: | 17 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1648 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … relationship to letter from J. D. Hooker, [before 7 March 1855] , and letter to J. D. …
- … Godron 1848–9 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, [before 7 March 1855] . Friedrich Hornschuch, …
- … 1855] , in which CD asks about Godron 1848–9 . Henfrey had translated Alexander Carl Heinrich Braun’s Rejuvenescence included in Botanical and physiological memoirs published by the Ray Society (Henfrey ed. 1853). See letter …
To J. D. Hooker 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD experiments: sowing seeds in fields; "breaking" seeds’ constitution with coloured light; plant hybridisation. Compiling works on hybridism.
Respect for W. B. Carpenter.
Note on "nectar secreting" to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 258–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 141 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1717 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … seeds for a hybridising experiment. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [July 1855] , n. 1. …
- … from T. B. Salter, 25 [June 1855] ). See letter to J. S. Henslow, 11 July [ …
- … was probably the letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , [before 21 July 1855], about nectar- …
- … soaking experiments (see letter to Gardeners’ Chronicle , 21 May [1855]). The note has not …
- … June 1855] , a response to CD’s complaints about his seed-soaking experiments (see letter …
- … was enclosed with the letter from H. C. Watson, 11 July [1855] . At the top, CD wrote: ‘ …
- … to me. C. Darwin’. See also letter to J. S. Henslow, 2 July [1855] , n. 3. Hooker had …
- … 1855 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 12). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–CUL. The section on hybridism is extensively scored. Carpenter’s experiments were also discussed in a paper on plant hybridisation by Thomas Bell Salter ( Salter 1852 ), which was fresh in CD’s memory (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 18 [October 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 18 [Oct 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 146 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1742 |
From Asa Gray [before 3 April 1858]
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Apr 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2249 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Gray, 8 June [1855] , and letter from Asa …
- … to a list Gray had drawn up for CD in 1855 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to Asa …
- … 1855 ). The first list (now in DAR 165: 92/3) was compiled from A. Gray 1848 . The new list was taken from the second edition of this work ( A. Gray 1856 ). Apparently there was also a covering note sent by Gray with this list, which is now lost. CD sent the note on to Joseph Dalton Hooker (see letter …
From H. C. Watson 11 October 1855
Summary
Sends London catalogue of British plants with close species marked.
Charges E. Forbes with fraudulent appropriation of others’ work.
Comments on, and cites possible cases of, CD’s imagined rule that individuals of one or more species in a genus vary in some of those characters by which the species of that genus are distinguished.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Oct 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 163a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1764 |
Matches: 3 hits
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