To J. S. Henslow 12 October [1855]
Summary
Is impressed by all JSH is doing with his lectures and exhibitions at Hitcham.
Has read admirable Hooker MS on variation, geographical range, etc. [Introductory essay to the Flora Indica (1855)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 12 Oct [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A117–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1765 |
From Bartholomew James Sulivan 2 February [1855]
Summary
The only mainland vegetation he saw on Falkland Island shores were trees. Remembers no strange birds there, but on journey home saw a woodcock more than 500 miles from the nearest land.
Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Feb [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1551 |
To J. S. Henslow 27 June [1855]
Summary
Asks whether JSH considers Lychnis diurna and L. vespertina species or varieties.
Asks for help with his work on hybrids.
Would like JSH to go over London catalogue of British plants, marking "close species", i.e., those he considers real species but which are very closely allied. Withholds his motive as it might influence the result.
Has found Agrostis with worms in every germen and no stamens on stigma.
Now has 46 kinds of peas all growing together.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 27 June [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A28–A30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1705 |
To J. S. Henslow 13 March 1855
Summary
Acknowledges a list [of plants?].
Looks forward to new edition [of British plants growing wild in the parish of Hitcham, Suffolk, 2d ed. (1855)].
JSH should not trouble about Anacharis until he is less busy. Will send cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 13 Mar 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1647 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 20 February 1878]
Summary
Discusses the structure of grass embryos; states differing theories regarding which part of the seed corresponds to the cotyledon.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 20 Feb 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 209.4: 432 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11220 |
To J. S. Henslow 16 June [1856]
Summary
Sends a cultivated specimen of Myosotis (first generation) grown from seed sent by JSH. Asks for a tuft of flower.
Hopes JSH will publish a book on teaching botany, because he has no idea how to begin with his children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 16 June [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A110–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1903 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 August [1857]
Summary
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Aug [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 206, 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2130 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 March [1854]
Summary
CD welcomes the prospect of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society as means for seeing old acquaintances and making new ones. Will try to go up to London regularly.
Admits that the warning from JDH and Asa Gray (that more harm than good will come from combat over the species issue) makes him feel "deuced uncomfortable".
Reflects upon the complexity of Agassiz; how singular that a man of his eminence and immense knowledge "should write such wonderful stuff & bosh".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 Mar [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1562 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 February 1854]
Summary
Is relieved his book [Himalayan journals] has been well received and glad he has successfully completed it.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [26 Feb 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 86–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1557 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Oswald Heer 8 March [1875]
Summary
Thanks OH for his book [see 9876]; agrees that the sudden appearance of many dicotyledons in the Upper Chalk is a perplexing phenomenon for the evolutionist.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Oswald Heer |
Date: | 8 Mar [1875] |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Nachlass Oswald Heer 213.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9881 |
To John Lubbock 24 April [1855]
Summary
Praise for JL’s interesting paper ["On the freshwater entomostraca of South America", Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. n.s. 3 (1854–6): 232–46].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 24 Apr [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 11 (EH 88206460) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1673 |
To Daniel Oliver [before 27 November 1863]
Summary
Recommends Wyman’s short notice ["Report on Dr Jeffries Wyman’s experiment on the cause of contractility in vegetable tissues"] in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 (1852–7): 167.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Oliver |
Date: | [before 27 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.10: 53 (EH 88206036) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4327 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1854 ( Oliver 1863e , p. 419). Oliver, an assistant and librarian in the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, often sent CD botanical information and references to articles (see, for example, letters from Daniel Oliver , 22 January 1863 and 17 February 1863 ). Joseph Dalton Hooker’s son William Henslow Hooker had been suffering from scarlet fever (see letter from J. …
To Albany Hancock [29 or 30 October 1849]
Summary
Thanks him for specimens of Alcippe.
Comments on sketches by AH and on cirripede paper by Lovén.
Discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | [29 or 30] Oct 1849 |
Classmark: | Maine Historical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1262 |
letter | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Heer, Oswald | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Henslow, J. S. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Heer, Oswald | (1) |