To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857]
Summary
Rule that species vary most in larger genera seems universal.
Response to Gardeners’ Chronicle note on "Bees and kidney beans" [Collected papers 1: 275–7].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 [Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2170 |
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- … To J. D. Hooker 14 [November 1857] …
- … 1847–59 from Hooker (see letters to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1857] , 20 October [ …
- … 1857] ). See letter to J. D. Hooker, [23 October 1857] . Candolle and Candolle 1824–73 . …
- … Wiegmann 1828 . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 June [1857] . John Lindley , whom Hooker …
- … 1848–]1853. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 20 October [1857] . Letter from Henry Coe, 4 …
To J. D. Hooker 21 November [1857]
Summary
Mrs J. S. Henslow’s illness.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 213 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2174 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 12 November 1857]
Summary
Asks writer of an article on weeds why he supposes "there is too much reason to believe that foreign seed of an indigenous species is often more prolific than that grown at home?" The point is of interest to CD "in regard to the great battle of life which is perpetually going on all around us". Cites analogous observations by Asa Gray and J. D. Hooker. Does writer know "of any other analogous cases of a weed introduced from another land beating out … a weed previously common in any particular field or farm?"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 12 Nov 1857] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 14 November 1857, p. 779 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2169 |
To Asa Gray 29 November [1857]
Summary
Thanks AG for his criticisms of CD’s views; finds it difficult to avoid using the term "natural selection" as an agent.
Discusses crossing in Fumaria and barnacles.
Has received a naturally crossed kidney bean in which the seed-coat has been affected by the pollen of the fertilising plant.
Finds the rule of large genera having most varieties holds good and regards it as most important for his "principle of divergence".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 29 Nov [1857] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2176 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
