From Bartholomew James Sulivan 2 February [1855]
Summary
The only mainland vegetation he saw on Falkland Island shores were trees. Remembers no strange birds there, but on journey home saw a woodcock more than 500 miles from the nearest land.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Feb [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 251 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1551 |
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. E. Darwin 29 [November 1855]
Summary
Is sorry to hear that WED has been ill.
Discusses pigeons and his pigeon work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 29 [Nov 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1689 |
To John Lubbock 14 [July 1855]
Summary
CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.
Thanks for Lepidoptera book.
Invites JL to dinner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 14 [July 1855] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1831 |
To W. D. Fox 7 May [1855]
Summary
William Yarrell has assured him that call ducks cross freely with common varieties. CD would like a seven-day duckling and an old one that dies a natural death.
CD is depressed – all his experiments are going wrong, "all nature is perverse and will not do as I wish it". Feels he is getting out of his depth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 7 May [1855] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 90) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1678 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 June [1855]
Summary
Asks whether THH will attend Council of Royal Society and speak for him on Joachim Barrande and J. D. Dana.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 June [1855] |
| Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1697 |
To Charles James Fox Bunbury [20 March 1855]
Summary
CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Date: | [20 Mar 1855] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13784 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1855]
Summary
CD upset because salted seeds do not float.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 [May 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 147 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1681 |
To W. E. Darwin [25 April 1855]
Summary
The new pigeon house is nearly complete.
CD is busy trying all sorts of experiments on salting seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [25 Apr 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1660 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [13 September 1855]
Summary
Would welcome any distinct breed of poultry and would be glad to have any good pigeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | [13 Sept 1855] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1754 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
