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 |
To George Bentham 1 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.
Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.
Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 1 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2177 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 4 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2180 |
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 |
To John Higgins 9 December 1857
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 9 Dec 1857 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2181F |
To J. D. Hooker 9 December [1857]
Summary
Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 13 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks for offer of pigeons, if breeding is successful; hopes to go to poultry show to see them.
Several questions about the Boz or Booz pigeon of Tunis.
If any of EWVH’s birds die and he does not want the skin, perhaps he would send it to CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Date: | 13 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 258–62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182F |
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 |
To George Bentham 15 December [1857]
Summary
For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 15 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2184 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 15 December [1857]
Summary
Will not accept invitation to Hastings, or offer to send pigeons to Down.
Is looking forward to seeing pigeons at Crystal Palace poultry show.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
Date: | 15 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 263–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2184F |
To T. H. Huxley 16 December [1857]
Summary
THH’s catalogue [THH and R. Etheridge, A catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865), part published in 1857] best résumé he has seen of science of natural history. On classification he is not quite sure that he wholly goes along with THH. Encloses a few criticisms of THH’s preface.[enclosure survives as copy only].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 151); DAR 145: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2185 |
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 |
To W. D. Fox 17 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his letter about a rabbit breed that he thinks is the Himalaya. He is particularly glad to hear of it because it breeds so true.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 17 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2187 |
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 |
To George Bentham 18 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 18 Dec [1857] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2189 |
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 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 December 1857
Summary
Comments on agreement of their respective views on distribution.
Reference to differences on subsidence.
Reports on progress of his work and praises ARW’s investigations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | 22 Dec 1857 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2192 |
letter | (23) |
Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Hewitt, Edward | (2) |
Watson, H. C. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Bentham, George | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Harcourt, E. W. V. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Bentham, George | (4) |
Harcourt, E. W. V. | (2) |
Hewitt, Edward | (2) |