To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1858]
Summary
Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].
Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.
Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 31 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2248 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 6, letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 December 1857] ). Notes on Livingstone 1857 are …
- … Hooker, 23 February [1858] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [25] February [1858] ). Livingstone 1857 . …
- … 1857–61 , which CD recorded having read early in 1858 ( Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix IV, 128: 23). CD and Hooker had met Henry Thomas Buckle at a dinner party (see letter to J. D. …
To ? 26 March [1858?]
Summary
Returns the Greenland catalogue, which he has kept too long.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1858?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2246 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [March 1858]
Summary
Heartened that tabulations of small and large genera done in different ways yield good results. JDH has done some tabulations but has not followed CD’s method of getting equal numbers of small and large genera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 [Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2237 |
From H. C. Watson [after 23 March 1858]
Summary
Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 23 Mar 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 45: 16–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1808 |
To Richard Kippist 10 March [1858]
Summary
In great want of two books, which he had borrowed previously: Boreau Flora du Centre de la France and A. E. Fürnrohr, Naturhistorische Topographie von Regensburg, Bd 2 Flora Ratisbonensis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1858] |
| Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (15 November 2012) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2238 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Kippist, Richard | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Watson, H. C. | (1) |
