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 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 June [1857]
Summary
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2099 |
To William Sharpey 2 June [1857]
Summary
Supports nomination of John Lindley for award of Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sharpey |
Date: | 2 June [1857] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2100 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 June [1857]
Summary
"Law" [see 2092] correlating variability and abnormal development not confirmed by JDH for plants.
CD studies struggle for existence in his weed garden.
Scotch fir observed at Moor Park.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 200 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2101 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 June [1857]
Summary
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 5 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2102 |
To T. C. Eyton 9 June [1857]
Summary
Comments on TCE’s work [Catalogue of the species of birds in his collection (1856)].
Mentions African dog’s skin.
Asks about colours of horses
and about variation in tracheae of male birds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 9 June [1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.146) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2103 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 13 June 1857]
Summary
Requests information from readers on breeding of dun or mouse-coloured ponies with a dark stripe down their backs. Must one or both parents be dun?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 13 June 1857] |
Classmark: | Gloucestershire Archives (T. C. Morton deposit D1021/8/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2105 |
From H. C. Watson 14 June [1857]
Summary
Sends a reference to Subularia which bears on a query CD made some time ago [see 2002]. Subularia was seen to flower in the air in a remarkably dry season.
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 207: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2106 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier [18 June 1857]
Summary
Is glad WBT is investigating "the tail question"; hopes he will work out "down & colour point". Is much interested in runts, which seem to vary more than other breeds.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | [18 June 1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2108 |
To Asa Gray 18 June [1857]
Summary
Thanks for AG’s remarks on disjoined species. CD’s notions are based on belief that disjoined species have suffered much extinction, which is the common cause of small genera and disjoined ranges.
Discusses out-crossing in plants.
Has failed to meet with a detailed account of regular and normal impregnation in the bud. Podostemon, Subularia, and underwater Leguminosae are the strongest cases against him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 June [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2109 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 23 June [1857]
Summary
CD anxious to examine rumpless chick 24 hours before hatching.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 23 June [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2110 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 25 [June 1857]
Summary
Needs only one nearly-hatched chick.
Has all published numbers of Poultry book [1856–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 25 [June 1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2111 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 June [1857]
Summary
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 25 June [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2112 |
To T. C. Eyton 26 [June 1857]
Summary
Ill.
Comments on TCE’s study of birds’ bones.
His work on variation progresses.
Asks about horses with bars like zebra or ass.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 26 [June 1857] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.147) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2113 |
From J. D. Hooker [27] June 1857
Summary
Embryology of plants of low systematic order. Comparative development begins only with first post-cotyledonary leaves.
Curt letter to JDH from George Henslow.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [27] June 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2114 |
To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [June 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
letter | (16) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Watson, H. C. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Eyton, T. C. | (2) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (3) |
Eyton, T. C. | (2) |
Gray, Asa | (2) |