To J. D. Hooker 22 December [1865]
Summary
Is working one hour a day now, on illegitimate seedlings of Lythrum and Primula.
Begins to doubt John Scott’s accuracy about primrose and cowslip.
Does JDH believe in Karsten’s denial of parthenogenesis of Coelebogyne?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 278, 278b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4953 |
To Ernst Haeckel 6 December [1865]
Summary
Not surprised at delay of his book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
P. M. Duncan taking side of evolution.
Has received paper on Geryonidae ["Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen", Monatsber. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1865): 85–94]. Had often speculated on whether such a case ever occurred in nature.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4947 |
From Thomas Gold Appleton 5 December [1865]
Summary
Sends specimen of Californian fish that inhabits mountain lakes. The lakes often dry up and the fish have developed legs to enable them to wander in search of water.
| Author: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5296 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 December 1865]
Summary
Will explain about the so-called hybrids of Lythrum when they meet.
JDH should not be proposed for Copley Medal this year because Royal Society Council has so few naturalists on it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 Dec 1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 279 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4959 |
From Robert Monsey Rolfe 28 December 1865
Summary
Sending cheque for Down parish charities.
| Author: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Dec 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 233 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4958 |
From George Henslow 2 December 1865
Summary
Has been writing a review of CD’s "Climbing plants" for Popular Science Review [5 (1866): 55–65].
| Author: | George Henslow |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1865 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 152, 152/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4944 |
To B. D. Walsh 19 December [1865]
Summary
Discusses a variety of subjects: Cynips, galls, potato bugs,
male Daphnia laying eggs.
His Primula experiment results differ from John Scott’s.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
| Date: | 19 Dec [1865] |
| Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4952 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Rolfe, R. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Henslow, George | (1) |
| Rolfe, R. M. | (1) |
| Walsh, B. D. | (1) |
