From [J. B. Innes] [after 8 February – August 1855]
Summary
Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.
| Author: | John Brodie Innes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 8 Feb – Aug 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 163: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13870 |
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 Francis Galton 22 February [1855]
Summary
Thanks for FG’s note and trouble in searching out pigeons.
Is obliged to FG for obtaining C. J. Andersson’s offer of information about breeds of cattle in South Africa.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1855] |
| Classmark: | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1554F |
To T. H. Huxley 20 February [1855]
Summary
Sends specimens of sessile cirripedes for corroboration of their cementing apparatus.
Absence of anus in Brachiopoda and Alcippe cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1855] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 23, 372, 376) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1635 |
From John Rae 21 February 1855
Summary
Comments on possibility of transport of seeds of Arctic plants by ice.
| Author: | John Rae |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1855 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 249 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1636 |
To Syms Covington 28 February 1855
Summary
Pleased to hear that SC is prospering.
News of FitzRoy, Sulivan and J. L. Stokes.
The Crimean War is badly mismanaged, but Englishmen are behaving nobly.
Wishes he knew what to do with his boys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 28 Feb 1855 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, pp. 254–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1637 |
| letter | (6) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Rae, John | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Innes, J. B. | (1) |
| Rae, John | (1) |
| Sulivan, B. J. | (1) |
