To J. E. Gray 19 January [1856]
Summary
Is obliged for JEG’s assistance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 19 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1491) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1822A |
To J. S. Henslow 22 January [1856]
Summary
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 22 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A108–A109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1823 |
To Walter Elliot 23 January 1856
Summary
Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.
Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].
Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Elliot |
Date: | 23 Jan 1856 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1824 |
To John Phillips 28 January [1856]
Summary
Thanks JP for beautiful book [? The rivers, mountains and sea-coast of Yorkshire, 2d ed. (1855)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 28 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1828 |
To William Yarrell 6 [February 1856]
Summary
"The Pigeons are all quite well".
Sends thanks to Mrs Cotton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Yarrell |
Date: | 6 [Feb 1856] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1829 |
To Samuel Birch 6 February [1856]
Summary
Is grateful for SB’s note and assistance. Will call upon him in London in a fortnight.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
Date: | 6 Feb [1856] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1492) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1829A |
To M. J. Berkeley 29 February [1856]
Summary
Preparing paper on seed-soaking for Linnean Society ["Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Wants to use MJB’s results. Lost ardour when he found seeds would not float.
Has grown MJB’s purest pea seeds and got a few variants. Gärtner’s experiments suggest direct action of pollen, but CD thinks it is "mere variation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | 29 Feb [1856] |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1834 |
To George Henry Kendrick Thwaites 8 March 1856
Summary
Hopes GHKT will publish on variations in plant species at different elevations. Asks about variations among plants on heights of Ceylon.
Promises to publish on the species question.
Asks for pigeons’ skins from India or Ceylon, and for ducks’ skeletons. Mentions help promised by E. F. Kelaart.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Henry Kendrick Thwaites |
Date: | 8 Mar 1856 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.125) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1837 |
To Syms Covington 9 March 1856
Summary
Thanks SC for his interesting account of the state of the colony. SC was wise to settle there where his sons have much better prospects.
Has finished his book on barnacles [1854]. Royal Medal awarded him chiefly for this work.
Asks SC whether he has observed any odd imported breeds of poultry, for his work on variation of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Syms Covington |
Date: | 9 Mar 1856 |
Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1840 |
To Herbert Spencer 11 March [1856]
Summary
Thanks for copy of HS’s Principles of psychology [1855].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 11 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 484a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1841 |
To Samuel Birch [12 March 1856]
Summary
Arranges an appointment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
Date: | [12 Mar 1856] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1489) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1841A |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 15 March [1856]
Summary
Asks WBT to try to purchase some specific pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 15 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1842 |
To W. D. Fox 15 March [1856]
Summary
Believes WDF’s case of mongrel Scotch deerhound is very valuable for him.
Mentions his work on pigeons and chickens.
Fears sometimes he will break down: "My subject gets bigger and bigger".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 15 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1843 |
To M. J. Berkeley 18 March [1856]
Summary
Thanks MJB for information which he is including in his article for the Linnean Society.
Refers to the peas "which produce the black or intensely purple pods". [See 1834 and 1836.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | 18 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1843A |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 20 March [1856]
Summary
Discusses various pigeons and would welcome receiving any odd breed. Some pigeons have died from overeating bag salt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 20 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1844 |
To C. J. Andersson 25 March [1856]
Summary
Thanks for proof sheets of Lake Ngami: or, exploration and discoveries during four years’ wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa (Andersson 1856).
Is very grateful for the information CJA has provided about cattle in South Africa, and wishes to ask further questions about native breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles John (Carl Johann) Andersson |
Date: | 25 Mar [1856] |
Classmark: | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1845F |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 2 April [1856]
Summary
Invitation to THH and wife to come to Down to meet H. C. Watson, T. V. Wollaston, and the Hookers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1847 |
To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 3 April [1856]
Summary
Reminds WBDM of his promise of information about the quartz boulders and an iceberg with fragment of rock seen in southern ocean.
Sends other questions [on separate sheet (missing)] which WBDM will think ridiculous, but all bear on plants and animals under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
Date: | 3 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1848 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1856]
Summary
Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851 |
To Samuel Birch 8 April [1856]
Summary
His thanks for the extracts sent by SB.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Birch |
Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1494) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851A |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (24) |
Lubbock, John | (10) |
Lyell, Charles | (9) |
Huxley, T. H. | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (189) |
Hooker, J. D. | (30) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (24) |
Lubbock, John | (10) |
Lyell, Charles | (9) |