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 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 James Buckman [1 December 1857]
Summary
Discusses the relative growth of native and foreign weeds.
Author: | James Buckman |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 2 January 1858, p. 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2177F |
From J. D. Hooker [2 December 1857]
Summary
News of Mrs Henslow’s death.
Studying Impatiens, which bears on CD’s problems. Though genus is endemic to India, with over 100 species, CD will be glad to know they do not run into one another.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 178–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2178 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 December 1857]
Summary
Finds CD’s results [of his survey of well-marked varieties from A. P. and Alphonse de Candolle’s Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis (1824–73)] "very curious and suggestive". Thinks the Labiatae will present an obstacle to him as it is a very large and distinct order with well-defined species and genera. Would like to see him tackle more volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus, as his case can only be established by evidence from mundane plants. CD should beware of generalising from local species variability. A comparison of C. C. Babington’s and G. Bentham’s [British] Floras [Babington Manual of British botany (1843, 4th ed., 1856); Bentham Handbook of British flora (1858)] would be invaluable. Suggests CD write to Ferdinand Müller and Charles Moore in Australia. Moisture favouring extension of species is important for CD’s view.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 195–6, DAR 47: 192 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2181 |
From H. C. Watson 14 December [1857]
Summary
Will shortly return CD’s list of varieties of British plants. Discusses the situations in which different varieties of species are often found and the ranges of varieties relative to those of the species.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2183 |
From George Bentham [16 or 17 December 1857]
Summary
Returns CD’s lists [sent with 2184]. Confusion in genera of Silene is great in continental botanic gardens. One would have to know whether C. F. v. Gärtner had the right names for species in his experiments.
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [16 or 17 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2186 |
From J. D. Hooker [17–23 December 1857]
Summary
Sending more Candolle volumes for survey of species with well-marked varieties.
Has begun his introduction [to Flora Tasmaniae]; will not make generalisations.
J. D. Dana’s pamphlet too metaphysical for JDH.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [17–23 Dec 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2188 |
From H. C. Watson 20 December [1857]
Summary
Finds he cannot annotate CD’s list of subspecies and varieties as wanted. Mentions again his difficulties with "species"; he "cannot find the proof of species being definite and immutable whatever they may seem to be at any one time and spot".
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2190 |
From Edward Hewitt 22 December 1857
Summary
Replies to more queries about fowl hybrids.
Author: | Edward Hewitt |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Dec 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2193 |
letter | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Hewitt, Edward | (2) |
Watson, H. C. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Buckman, James | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Hewitt, Edward | (2) |
Watson, H. C. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Buckman, James | (1) |
Hunt, James (a) | (1) |