To Miss Holland [May 1856]
Summary
An entomologist who has been staying with CD [T. V. Wollaston] says the pupa she sent would turn into a lackey moth.
Adds that the great destruction of birds in the winter preceding the last is probable cause of survival of caterpillars and resulting numerous cocoons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Miss Holland |
| Date: | [May 1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1861 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … in his garden during that winter in Origin , p. 68. Emma Darwin’s note has been excised. …
- … who visited the Darwins from 25 to 28 April 1856 ( Emma Darwin’s diary). See n. 2, above. …
- … interlined in a different hand, possibly Emma Darwin’s , after ‘first-rate Entomologist’ …
- … Emma demands the rest of this note, so pray believe me, dear Miss Holland, yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1856]
Summary
Lyell urges CD to publish a sketch of species theory; CD asks JDH’s opinion on best course.
Concerned about opposition, particularly by Owen, to Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1870 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 31 May [1856]
Summary
Wants good rabbit specimens. Will be in London on 21 June and can pick up some pigeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 31 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1882 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 11 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks WBT for help with pigeons and poultry.
Will probably be away at the time of Anerley show.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 11 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1873 |
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 | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Holland, Miss | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Holland, Miss | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
