From Benjamin Silliman Jr 27 October 1860
Summary
On the suggestion of Jeffries Wyman, he writes about the rats that he captured in Mammoth Cave in 1850. They were indeed blind. Reginald Mantell studied them and learned that with long exposure to graduated light, they became somewhat sensitised. Sends copy of an abstract which he wrote as a letter to A. H. Guyot ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. Journal of Sci. and Arts 2d ser. 11 (1851)]. [See 3007.]
Author: | Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Oct 1860 |
Classmark: | Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL (bound with Silliman 1851) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2966B |
To Benjamin Silliman Jr 4 December [1860]
Summary
Thanks for information on cave rat.
CD is obliged for news of J. D. Dana’s recovery.
Will use BS’s information about cave rat in revised [3d] edition of Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
Date: | 4 Dec [1860] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3007 |
From Benjamin Silliman Sr and Benjamin Silliman Jr 24 May 1839
Summary
Thanks for copies of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, with a request for items (listed) missing from their set.
Offer to supply, if they can, any copies missing from the Geological Society’s run of the American Journal of Science.
Author: | Benjamin Silliman, Sr; Benjamin Silliman, Jr |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin; William John Hamilton |
Date: | 24 May 1839 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-511F |
letter | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
Silliman, Benjamin, Jr | |
Silliman, Benjamin, Sr | (1) |