From J. D. Hooker 13–15 July 1858
Summary
Sends proofs [of "On the tendency of species to form varieties … ", read 1 July 1858, Collected papers 2: 3–19]. CD could publish his abstract [later the Origin] as a separate supplemental number of [Journal of the Linnean Society].
JDH has studied in detail CD’s manuscript on variable species in large and small genera and concurs with its consequences. Discusses methodological idiosyncrasies of systematists, e.g., Bentham, Robert Brown, and C. C. Babington, which complicate CD’s tabulations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 or 15] July 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 116–19, 168 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2307 |
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 |
From Charles Moore 11 August 1858
Summary
Encloses a list of British perennials which seed in New South Wales and explains the source of his information. Lists plants which have become weeds in the country.
| Author: | Charles Moore |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Aug 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2322 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 6 May 1858]
Summary
Reports that N. J. Andersson finds every European willow bar one is also American.
Has heard from David Livingstone and reports on his progress.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 6 May 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 155 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2277 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 January 1858
Summary
Has gone over to CD’s side on the fertilisation of clover in New Zealand by bees.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Jan 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 120–1; L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 453 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2204 |
From Edward Blyth [8 January 1858]
Summary
Zebra-striped asses.
Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.
Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.
Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.
| Author: | Edward Blyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [8 Jan 1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A144–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2200 |
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 |
From Asa Gray 21 June 1858
Summary
Self-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
[CD note on bees’ visiting some members of Fumariaceae.]
| Author: | Asa Gray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 June 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 76: B15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2288 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1857] ). CD investigated the subject experimentally in June 1858 (see n. 2, below). The note forms part of CD’s record of observations made in May and June on the fertilisation of these and similar leguminous flowers by bees. The letter is bound with CD’s other slips and notes on the topic in DAR 76. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, …
From H. C. Watson 3 January 1858
Summary
Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 98: A19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1857] ). CD evidently wrote again with questions about the ranges of varieties as compared with species. The fourth volume of Watson 1847–59 was published in 1859. CD’s copies of all four volumes, presented to him by Watson, are in the Darwin Library–CUL. Volume four is annotated by CD. See also letter to J. D. Hooker, [ …
| letter | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Moore, Charles (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
| Blyth, Edward | (1) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
