To ? 7 December [1855–7?]
Summary
Concerning specimens he wants collected in the Azores.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 7 Dec [1855-7] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 93 (photocopy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13867A |
CD memorandum [December 1855]
Summary
Requests skins of domestic breeds or races of poultry, pigeons, rabbits, cats, and dogs from any unfrequented region. [Attached is a list of people to whom CD has written for pigeon and poultry skins.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Dec 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 206: 34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1812 |
To Charles James Fox Bunbury [20 March 1855]
Summary
CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
Date: | [20 Mar 1855] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13784 |
To Roderick Impey Murchison 3 June [1855]
Summary
Accepts invitation for the 20th.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 June [1855] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13831 |
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 |
To William and Julius Fairbeard [October 1855 – May 1856]
Summary
Five questions on variability in peas.
W & JF recommended to CD by Mr Cattell.
CD planted an experimental pea garden this summer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William & Julius Fairbeard |
Date: | [Oct 1855 – May 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 206: 38 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1467 |
From J. D. Dana [before 6 December 1855]
Summary
Responds to CD’s criticism of his use of word "Kingdom" in discussing geographical distribution of Crustacea.
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 Dec 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR (CD library – Dana, J. D. 1853) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1544 |
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 |
From Charles Cardale Babington [c. June 1855]
Summary
Reports that he sees the oxlip, cowslip, and primrose as really distinct species; hybrids are formed between any two.
Author: | Charles Cardale Babington |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. June 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1584 |
DCP-LETT-1618
Summary
Cancelled: part of 1757. Has examined a specimen of [of what he had previously described as the ovaria of Lepadidae, see Living Cirripedia 1: 57-8]. Could not find cells resembling ovigerms. When THH has seen the organ in different states, and can say positively that in none could ovigerms be in formation, CD will 'give up the ghost handsomely and entirely'.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 161, 222 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1618 |
From Arthur Edward Knox [c. March 1855–7?]
Summary
CD has suggested an explanation of how pike were introduced to a remote lake in Ireland by cormorants [carrying pike spawn on their feet or in their gullets].
Author: | Arthur Edward Knox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | Mar 1855-7 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 243 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1624 |
From G. R. Waterhouse [after 2 March 1855]
Summary
Gives instances of sexual differences in the number of tarsi within species of Coleoptera and also variation in the number of tarsi between related species.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 2 Mar 1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 133–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1625 |
To Charles Lyell 10 January [1855]
Summary
Discusses views of Daniel Sharpe on foliation and cleavage. Recalls his own previous discussion [in South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Jan [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.110) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1626 |
To Francis Galton 1 January [1855]
Summary
Thanks FG for book [The art of travel (1855)].
Is looking for a house in London for a month.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 1 Jan [1855] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1627 |
To J. W. Lubbock 10 January [1855]
Summary
Reports that his intercession with Folliott Baugh [Rector of Chelsfield, Kent] has had no effect. Baugh still believes Farnborough’s rights have not been attended to if entire fund is applied to the school at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 10 Jan [1855] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1628 |
To Charles Lyell 14 January [1855]
Summary
Has found a house on Baker Street to take for a month.
Mentions Daniel Sharpe’s study of the Grampians.
Association of various metamorphic rocks and relationship of their foliation to their dip and strike. Discusses foliation of schists and its origin. Comments on fluidity of gneiss and schists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Jan [1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.111) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1630 |
To J. W. Lubbock 15 [January 1855]
Summary
CD called on Baugh but found him adamant; he has already laid the case before the [Charity] Commissioners and if necessary will take it to a Court of Equity.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | 15 [Jan 1855] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1631 |
To Charles Lyell [21 January – 11 February 1855]
Summary
Relationship of schists to alternating beds of slate in western Tierra del Fuego and the Chonos Islands.
Comments on Sharpe’s theory of curved cleavage planes.
Example of metamorphosis in a "clay-slate porphyry region". Importance of previous lines of cleavage and stratification in foliation of metamorphosed rock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [21 Jan – 11 Feb 1855] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.112) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1633 |
From John Davy 30 January 1855
Summary
Responds to CD’s letter. The ova of Salmonidae exposed to air, if kept moist, will stay alive up to 72 hours.
Author: | John Davy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1855 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.2: 227 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1634 |
Darwin, C. R. | (140) |
Blyth, Edward | (12) |
Watson, H. C. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Davy, John | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Hooker, J. D. | (28) |
Henslow, J. S. | (17) |
Fox, W. D. | (12) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (10) |