To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2042 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857] …
- … relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] , and to T. H. Huxley, …
- … Freeman Daniell . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] . See letter to T. …
- … 1857] . William Sharpey was a secretary of the Royal Society. The letter has not been found. Recorded in CD’s Experimental book, p. 19 (DAR 157a). CD refers to the children’s story ‘The old woman and the pig’. For CD’s earlier experiments to investigate fish as a means of distributing plant seeds, see Correspondence vol. 5, letters to W. D. Fox, 7 May [1855] , and to J. D. Hooker, …
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857] …
- … relationship to the letters to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] , and 20 January[1857]. …
- … See letters to J. D. Hooker, 17 January [1857] and 20 January [1857] . CD refers to a …
- … January [1857] . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 15 March [1857] , for an explanation of what …
- … Hooker, 7 March [1855] and 5 June [1855] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [6–9 June 1855] ). Wollaston 1854 and 1856. As Thomas Vernon Wollaston remarked in the introduction of Insecta Maderensia , ‘the total absence of numerous genera (and even of whole families) which are looked upon as all but universal, constitutes one of the most striking features of our entomological fauna. ’ ( Wollaston 1854 , p. x). See also letter from T. V. Wollaston, [12 April 1857] . …
To J. D. Hooker 17 January [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2040 |
From J. B. Bacon to Elizabeth Drysdale [1857–62?]
Summary
Heath is generally cut every six years, often in order to provide young growth for grazing. Also, the heath is in good condition for burning at six years growth.
Author: | J. B. Bacon |
Addressee: | Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale |
Date: | [1857–62?] |
Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2626 |
From Charles Lyell [16 January 1857]
Summary
Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.
Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 394 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2039 |
To Asa Gray 1 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].
Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.
Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2034 |
From William Henry Harvey 3 January 1857
Summary
Sexes of algae.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2035 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … J. D. Hooker, 21 [May 1856] ). Harvey had recently returned from a three-year visit to Ceylon and Australia, during which he had made extensive collections of Algae and other botanical and marine invertebrate specimens ( Memoir of W. H. Harvey … with selections from his journal and correspondence (London, 1869), pp. 244–312). Neither CD nor Hooker attended the Dublin meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 26 August – 2 September 1857. …
letter | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Bacon, J. B. | (1) |
Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Copland, Elizabeth | (1) |
Drysdale, Elizabeth | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Bacon, J. B. | (1) |
Copland, Elizabeth | (1) |
Drysdale, Elizabeth | (1) |