To J. D. Hooker 6 September [1857]
Summary
Some negative results in variety tabulation survey.
Galls on wild carrot.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2137 |
To J. S. Henslow 25 September [1857]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his magnificent present. Hopes Hooker will bring the specimens.
Have water-fowl ever been seen at Ipswich on Mr Ransome’s great tank?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A58–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2329 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857]
Summary
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 11 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2140 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To J. D. Hooker 11 September [1857] …
- … n. 5, below). See letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 August [1857] , 22 August [1857] , and 6 …
- … Johan Andersson (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 August [1857] ). CD was preparing chapter …
- … J. D. Hooker and Thomson 1855 are in DAR 16.2: 230. For the final figures, see Natural selection , p. 151. Berthold Carl Seemann and his brother Wilhelm E. G. Seemann edited Bonplandia , the botanical journal of the Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum . Berthold Seemann, who worked at Kew, was elected an adjunct member of the academy in 1857. …
To J. D. Hooker 30 September [1857]
Summary
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 30 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 210 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2148 |
To Secretary, Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum 8 September [1857]
Summary
CD acknowledges honour of his election to the Academy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Academia Caesarea Leopoldino-Carolina Naturae Curiosorum |
| Date: | 8 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 200–202 ) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2138 |
To Asa Gray 5 September [1857]
Summary
Encloses an abstract of his ideas on natural selection and the principle of divergence; the "means by which nature makes her species".
Discusses varieties and close species in large and small genera, finding some data from AG in conflict with his expectations.
Has been observing the action of bees in fertilising kidney beans and Lobelia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 5 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2136 |
