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From Thomas Vernon Wollaston [February 1856]
Summary
Sends Madeira specimens, including frogs recently introduced into the island, and flourishing.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Feb 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 299 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1806 |
To T. V. Wollaston 6 June [1856]
Summary
Comments on TVW’s book [On the variation of species with special reference to the Insecta (1856)].
On TVW’s Unitarianism. Predicts TVW will fall further away from Christianity.
[Letter sent by TVW to Charles Lyell.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Date: | 6 June [1856] |
| Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Gen. 1999/1/30) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1893 |
From T. V. Wollaston [27 June 1856]
Summary
Madeiran insects. Regards the "Atlantic province" as a centre of the Coleoptera.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1912 |
From T. V. Wollaston [c. 27 June 1856]
Summary
On the relationship of the loss of the powers of flight [in Coleoptera] to increase of bulk.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 27 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1912A |
From T. V. Wollaston [11 or 18 December 1856]
Summary
Informs CD that the "dishonest mollusks" were collected in May 1855 in Porto Santo. Describes some Madeira species. Though believing in "species" more and more, these may be "mere insular modifications".
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 301 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2013 |
From T. V. Wollaston [early November 1856]
Summary
Variability of certain features within insect genera.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [early Nov 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 138 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2030 |
Document type
| letter | (6) |
Author
| Wollaston, T. V. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Wollaston, T. V. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Wollaston, T. V. |
