CD memorandum July 1857
Summary
Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | unknown |
Date: | July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2115F |
To [W. W. Baxter?] [after June 1857]
Summary
Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
Date: | [after June 1857] |
Classmark: | Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13889F |
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 |
To W. E. Darwin [before 11 September 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 11 Sept 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1619 |
To W. E. Darwin [17 February 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [17 Feb 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1805 |
To John Innes [after 16 February 1857]
Summary
Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Brodie Innes |
Date: | [after 16 Feb 1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.149) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2025 |
To [W. E. Darwin] [1857?]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [1857?] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2029 |
To Henry Doubleday [before 5 February 1857]
Summary
Have all varieties been bred from the same set of eggs so that there can be no doubt they are all the same species?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
Date: | [before 5 Feb 1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2032 |
To J. D. Hooker [after 20 January 1857]
Summary
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [after 20 Jan 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 190 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2033 |
To Asa Gray 1 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].
Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.
Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 1 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2034 |
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 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 January [1857]
Summary
Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].
Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037 |
To Henry Doubleday 8 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Doubleday |
Date: | 8 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Dr Heather Whitney (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037F |
To W. H. Harvey 7 January [1857]
Summary
Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.
Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
Date: | 7 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | Sheffield City Archives (Gatty family autograph albums X561/1/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2037G |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 17 January [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2040 |
To T. H. Huxley 17 January [1857]
Summary
Asks THH question on flow of glaciers after ice has been fractured and fragmented.
CD had to leave Royal Society lecture [joint paper by THH and J. Tyndall, "On the structure and motions of glaciers", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 327–46] before the end because of headache.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 17 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 1 (EH 88205939) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2041 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2042 |
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 |
letter | (179) |
Darwin, C. R. | (47) |
Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (12) |
Huxley, T. H. | (10) |
Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (179) |
Hooker, J. D. | (36) |
Gray, Asa | (12) |
Huxley, T. H. | (12) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (12) |