To W. E. Darwin 29 [November 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 [Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1689 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 3 November 1855]
Summary
CD requests further details about a rain of shells on the Isle of Wight reported by a Gardeners’ Chronicle correspondent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 3 Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 44, 3 November 1855, p. 726 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1771 |
To Charles Lyell 4 November [1855]
Summary
Comments on two pamphlets by John Bachman [probably Continuation of the review of "Nott and Gliddon’s types of mankind" (1855) and An examination of the characteristics of genera and species as applicable to the doctrine of the unity of the human race (1855)].
CD’s pigeon breeding and plant hybridization experiments.
Invites CL to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.115) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1772 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 November [1855]
Summary
Naudin’s theory, in J. Decaisne’s review of Flora Indica, of subspecies descended from a single stock only adds to the confusion. John Lindley and M. J. Berkeley cut down species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1773 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [November 1855]
Summary
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 154 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1774 |
From H. C. Watson 8 November 1855
Summary
Artificiality of orders and genera in botany.
Difficulties in numerical analysis of close species in large and small genera.
HCW has "pretty strong bias towards the view that species are not immutably distinct".
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1775 |
From Edward Blyth [8 November 1855]
Summary
History of the rose in India.
Looks forward to reading what Hooker and Thompson say on species and varieties in their Flora Indica [1855].
Domestication of the turkey in America. The Peruvians had domestic dogs. W. W. Robinson of Assam reports that otters are extensively trained for fishing but cormorants never are. Gives Robinson’s comments on local domestic geese, rabbits, and cats.
EB has skins of jungle fowl from different localities to send.
Author: | Edward Blyth |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [8 Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A108–A109 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1776 |
To J. R. Crowe 9 November 1855
Summary
Thanks him for seeds used in immersion experiment.
Sends thanks to M. N. Blytt and says to tell him species names.
Mentions meeting Edward Sabine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Rice Crowe |
Date: | 9 Nov 1855 |
Classmark: | Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway), Oslo (Brevs. 66) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1777 |
To J. S. Henslow 10 November [1855]
Summary
Thanks for seeds. Feels "almost foiled" in his experiments on sea transport – has found few plants that float after more than a week’s immersion.
Sends a list of queries [see 1779] on hollyhocks to put to growers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 10 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A103–A105 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1778 |
To J. S. Henslow 12 November 1855
Summary
Draft of queries on the varieties of hollyhocks. [To be transmitted to William Chater by JSH; probably enclosed with 1778.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 12 Nov 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 206: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1779 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 13 November [1855]
Summary
Reports a case of charlock seeds that retained their vitality for at least eight or nine years. He suggests that their power of retaining vitality when buried in damp soil may be an element in preserving the species and therefore seeds may be specially endowed with this capacity, while the power of retaining vitality in dry, artificial conditions may be an indirect accidental quality of little or no use to the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 13 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 46, 17 November 1855, p. 758 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1780 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1855]
Summary
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 155 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1781 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 16 November [1855]
Summary
Is going to London on Thursday [22nd] and would like to call on WBT on Friday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 16 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1782 |
To the Secretary, Royal Society 18 November [1855]
Summary
Reluctantly agrees to write a paper (the citation of award of the Royal Medal to J. O. Westwood [Abstracts and papers of RSL 1855]), but feels unfitted for the job.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
Date: | 18 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1782A |
To Armand de Quatrefages 20 November [1855]
Summary
Thanks for gift of Souvenirs d’un naturaliste (Quatrefages 1854).
Can AdeQ ask M. J. P. Flourens about experiments which show that hybrid offspring of dogs, wolves and jackals are sterile between themselves in the third generation.
CD cannot obtain a copy of Dureau de la Malle’s work on breeds of horse: can AdeQ assist?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 20 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | Bibliothèque nationale de France, département des Manuscrits (Collection d’autographes formée de la correspondance reçue ou acquise par Étienne de Jouy, Jules Lacroix, Paul Lacroix MS-9623 (2035)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1782F |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 21 November [1855]
Summary
Sends final results of his experiments on the vitality of various kinds of seeds immersed in sea-water. Corrects a false assumption he made in an earlier letter [1684] that plants with ripe seeds would float for some weeks. Now finds that they sink within a month. Since all the seeds he tried sank in sea-water, his experiments are of little or no use "in regard to the distribution of plants by drifting of their seeds across the sea".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 21 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 47, 24 November 1855, p. 773 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1783 |
To T. C. Eyton 26 November [1855]
Summary
Asks TCE’s advice on preparation of birds’ skeletons.
His pigeon collection is growing; now has pairs of ten varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 26 Nov [1855] |
Classmark: | Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1784 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1855]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 157 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1785 |
letter | (18) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Watson, H. C. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Crowe, J. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (3) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Blyth, Edward | (1) |
Crowe, J. R. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages | (1) |
Royal Society of London | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Watson, H. C. | (1) |