From Edward Hewitt 18 December 1857
Summary
Hybrid varieties of pheasant and common fowl. Reply to CD queries.
Author: | Edward Hewitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1614 |
From William Henry Harvey 3 January 1857
Summary
Sexes of algae.
Author: | William Henry Harvey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Jan 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2035 |
From Richard Hill 10 January 1857
Summary
Will attend to any subject in Jamaica about which CD wants information.
Crithagra brasiliensis and canary refused to pair.
A collection of Jamaican land Mollusca will be presented to the British Museum.
Hurricanes are a considerable influence on diffusion of birds and insects.
Author: | Richard Hill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Jan 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 237 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2038 |
From Charles Lyell [16 January 1857]
Summary
Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.
Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 394 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2039 |
From Henry Doubleday 26 January 1857
Summary
Sends specimens of Tortrix, which illustrate the extraordinary variation of markings in two or three species. In every family of Lepidoptera there seem to be species extremely prone to vary and in some localities they vary more than in others.
Author: | Henry Doubleday |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Jan 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 235 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2044 |
From Henry Doubleday 5 February 1857
Summary
The variations of Peronea caused A. H. Haworth and J. F. Stephens to create 30 or 40 species based on colour and markings. HD was first to be convinced these would be reduced to two.
Discusses species that closely resemble one another;
cites species that differ in variation in different localities;
in some double-brooded species the broods differ markedly in size and colour.
Encloses his list of varieties of Peronea.
Author: | Henry Doubleday |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Feb 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 236 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2047 |
From Asa Gray 16 February 1857
Summary
Discusses the ranges of alpine species in U. S. and considers the possible migration routes of such species from Europe.
Lists those U. S. genera which he considers protean and describes the U. S. character of some genera which are protean in Europe.
Describes how he distinguishes introduced and aboriginal stocks of the same species.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2053 |
From Victor de Robillard 26 February 1857
Summary
The species of Mollusca at Mauritius are almost all different from those of surrounding islands, which confirms the belief that the islands were elevated from the ocean rather than separated from the continent by volcanic action.
Author: | Jean Aimé Victor (Victor) de Robillard |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Feb 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 287 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2059 |
From H. C. Watson 10 March 1857
Summary
HCW is trying to define what CD means by "variable" genera.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 35 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2063 |
From Richard Hill 12 March 1857
Summary
Comments on transport of ducks to Jamaica by hurricanes,
fish feeding on seeds,
and sterility of birds in captivity.
Author: | Richard Hill |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Mar 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 238 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2064 |
From James Tenant 31 March 1857
Author: | James Tenant |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Mar 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 257 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2069 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood [before 29 September 1857]
Summary
Suggests CD use the common origin of the French "chef" and the English "head" or "évêque" and "bishop" to illustrate the parallels between extinction and transitional forms in language and palaeontology [see Natural selection, p. 384].
Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: A80–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2070 |
From Edwards Crisp 4 April 1857
Author: | Edwards Crisp |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2071 |
From J. D. Hooker [11 April 1857]
Summary
JDH cites W. H. Harvey’s observations on Fucus and David Don’s on Juncus as examples of variations that are independent of climate. There are many such cases. Gives his working scheme for categorising variation.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 Apr 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 198–201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2074 |
From T. V. Wollaston [12 April 1857]
Summary
Lists groups of insects absent from the Madeiran fauna.
Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Apr 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2076 |
From George Robert Waterhouse 14 April 1857
Summary
Has found no reference to construction of bees’ cells in works referred to by CD. Describes cell of Osmia atricapilla. Hive-bees’ cell was described at Entomological Society.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2078 |
From James Tenant 23 April 1857
Author: | James Tenant |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 258 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2081 |
From J. D. Dana 27 April 1857
Summary
In reply to CD’s query [see 2072], JDD describes what little is known about the crustacea of the Antarctic and southern lands.
Knows of no species of the cold temperate south identical with those of the cold temperate north.
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2083 |
From James Hunt [before 29 December 1857]
Summary
Birds that have been hybridised.
Author: | James Hunt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 281 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2096 |
From Asa Gray 1 June 1857
Summary
Comments on species with disjoined ranges; does not feel, despite CD’s expectations, that they tend to belong to small families.
Gives the proportion of U. S. trees in which the sexes are separate [see Natural selection, p. 62].
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 8: 47bA |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2098 |
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