From George Howard Darwin [28 November 1856]
Summary
Letter from school with instructions where to put away his belongings at home.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [28 Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 251: 2222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2003F |
Matches: 6 hits
- … an hour by a nose-bleed ( letter from Emma Darwin to W. E. Darwin, [1 December 1856] , …
- … n. 4, below), and by references in Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242). The only Thursday in …
- … ill while at home: for 25 November 1856 Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) records, ‘G. very …
- … Darwin, 25 [November 1856] ). Henrietta Emma Darwin later wrote, ‘Mrs Morrey’s gingerbread …
- … we have ever tasted before or since’ ( Emma Darwin (1915), 2: 106). Petleys was auctioned …
- … CD’s and Emma’s aunt, who had died 6 November 1856 ( Freeman 1978 ). The Darwin children, …
From Bernard Peirce Brent [after August 1856]
Summary
On his breeding of Jacobin pigeons. How reciprocal crosses to produce mules work among canaries, goldfinches, linnets, and green linnets.
Will soon forward copies of Cottage Gardener for June.
| Author: | Bernard Peirce Brent |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after Aug 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160.2: 298 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2850 |
From Charles Lyell 1–2 May 1856
Summary
Urges CD to publish his theory with small part of data.
Corrects names of land shells on list of shells picked up at Down.
Discusses transport of Ancylus from one river-bed to another by water-beetle.
"I hear that when you & Hooker & Huxley & Wollaston got together you made light of all Species & grew more & more unorthodox."
Mentions discussion of old Atlantis by Oswald Heer.
Comments on Helix and Nanina.
Mentions beetle discovered with small bag of eggs of water-spider under wing.
Madeira evidence favours single species birth-place theory.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1–2 May 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 282 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1862 |
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 |
| letter | (4) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Brent, B. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
