To G. R. Gray [June–October 1839]
Summary
Asks for some Anthus skins to examine [for Birds]. Fears they may turn out to be all one species. Sends details from his notes on Falkland Island specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Gray |
| Date: | [June–Oct 1839] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Egerton MS 2348: 235–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-508 |
To Mr Folthorp of Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1839]
Summary
CD has heard from the Treasury; they will pay the account [for the Zoology] as soon as Smith, Elder & Co. like.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Date: | 6 June [1839] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-517 |
To William Herbert 26 June 1839
Summary
CD is led to believe there are no true permanently inbreeding, sexually reproducing beings. Thanks for replies to breeding questions.
Asks for clarification of Hippeastrum crosses: is selfing or crossing with individual of same species intended and was increased fertility due to constitution of foreign parent or due to the pollen coming from another plant? Has WH known any hybrid or mongrel to revert or to vary in a manner unlikely to be effect of soil?
Sends Journal of researches.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
| Date: | 26 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 65–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-523 |
To Thomas Green [after 30 June 1839]
Summary
Returns proof sheets and requests revises. Gives his opinion of Mr Walkers’s work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Green |
| Date: | [after 30 June 1839] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams, New York (dealers) (21 September 2015) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-524F |
| letter | (4) |
| Gray, G. R. | (1) |
| Green, Thomas | (1) |
| Herbert, William | (1) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Gray, G. R. | (1) |
| Green, Thomas | (1) |
| Herbert, William | (1) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
