To J. D. Hooker 9 February [1858]
Summary
Six volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus confirm rule that small genera vary less than large. Labiatae an exception to rule.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2212 |
To Asa Gray 21 February [1858]
Summary
Asks whether botanists tend to record varieties more carefully in large genera or small genera.
Wants information on the ranges of varieties of a species compared to the range of the species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (21) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2218 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 24 February [1858]
Summary
Congratulations on birth of THH’s daughter [Jessie].
On aboriginal dun colour of horses.
Examples of inaccuracies and perpetuation of errors [on hybrids] by "compilers, of which I am one".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 107) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2224 |
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 7 February [1858]
Summary
Thanks GHKT for letter on plant acclimatisation and variation among alpine and lowland forms in Ceylon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
| Date: | 7 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.150) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2211 |
From Frederick Smith 26 February 1858
Summary
Identifies an ant described by CD and discusses the predatory habits of Formica sanguinea.
Describes some wasps’ nests.
| Author: | Frederick Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 191 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2226 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1858]
Summary
Fertilisation of clover by bees in New Zealand.
Uneasy about biggest genera and their varieties.
H. T. Buckle’s sophistry [History of civilisation in England (1857)].
Working on bees’ cells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 224 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2222 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Thwaites, G. H. K. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Smith, Frederick (a) | (1) |
