To W. D. Fox 7 May [1855]
Summary
William Yarrell has assured him that call ducks cross freely with common varieties. CD would like a seven-day duckling and an old one that dies a natural death.
CD is depressed – all his experiments are going wrong, "all nature is perverse and will not do as I wish it". Feels he is getting out of his depth.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 7 May [1855] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 90) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1678 |
To Charles Lyell 8 May [1855]
Summary
Mentions his paper ["Transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. Discusses ice-borne rock. Reference to unpublished paper on icebergs [?"Power of icebergs to make grooves", Collected papers 1: 252–5]. Remarks on scoring by icebergs. Comments on judgment of theories by Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 8 May [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.113) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1679 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 May [1855]
Summary
JDH to be appointed Assistant Director at Kew.
On where to publish seed-salting paper. Floating problem perhaps more important than germination.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1680 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 [May 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 [May 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1681 |
To W. D. Fox 17 May [1855]
Summary
Asks WDF to induce schoolboys to collect eggs of lizards and snakes for him. He will see whether they float and stay alive on sea-water.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 17 May [1855] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1683 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 21 May [1855]
Summary
Reports on his experiments on action of sea-water on seeds and the bearing of his investigations on the theory of centres of creation and Edward Forbes’s theory of continental extensions to account for distribution of organic forms. CD’s experiments confirm germination powers were retained after 42 days’ immersion by seven out of eight kinds of seeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 21 May [1855] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 21, 26 May 1855, pp. 356–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1684 |
From Asa Gray 22 May 1855
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 May 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: D1–D2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1685 |
To W. D. Fox 23 May [1855]
Summary
He may insert his request for lizards’ eggs in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
His study of mongrel chicks is to ascertain whether the young of domestic breeds differ as much as their parents.
Has already sent a communication on means of distribution of plants by sea to Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 23 May [1855] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1686 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 26 May 1855]
Summary
Will be obliged if any reader can provide eggs of lizard Lacerta agilis. Wants to ascertain whether they float in sea-water. Offers reward of a few shillings to boys for collecting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 26 May 1855] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 21, 26 May 1855, p. 360 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1686A |
To John Higgins 26 May 1855
Summary
Discusses his account.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 26 May 1855 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1687 |
To J. D. Hooker 27 May [1855]
Summary
CD’s seed paper in Gardeners’ Chronicle [Collected papers 1: 255–8];
CD attacks Forbes’s "Atlantis".
Considers solutions to floating problem. Decides to test Azores seeds.
Photographs and drawings of CD.
Plant movement experiments with Hedysarum gyrans.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 27 May [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1688 |
letter | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Fox, W. D. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |