To J. D. Hooker [2 May 1857]
Summary
JDH has shaved the hair off the alpine plant.
CD apologises for his criticism.
Apparent but false relations of plant structure to climate: heath-like foliage of all Cape of Good Hope plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 May 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2087 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 May 1857]
Summary
JDH’s last letter demolishes woolly alpine plant theory.
Correlation of apetalous flowers and cold climate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 May 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2088 |
To Asa Gray 9 May [1857]
Summary
Thanks for new part of "Statistics".
Interested in disjoined species; do they tend to belong to large or small genera, and are they generally members of small families?
Is glad AG will tackle introduced plants; has noticed that the proportion of a particular family to the whole flora tends to be similar in introduced and indigenous plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 9 May [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2089 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 12 [May 1857]
Summary
Accepts a dozen eggs of rumpless Polands. Having so many enables him to see whether the breed "comes true".
Asks what colour turbits have dark tails – "it is just the class of facts which interest me".
Do fowls when crossed throw odd and unexpected colours like pigeons?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 12 [May 1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2090 |
To W. E. Darwin 13 May [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 13 May [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2091 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [May 1857]
Summary
Asks JDH’s opinion, and botanical evidence, on important law: parts that are highly developed in comparison to other allied species are very variable.
Interest in hairiness of alpine plants revived by reading A. Moquin-Tandon [Éléments de tératologie végétale (1841)]; correlation with dryness. CD seeks interpretation independent of direct environmental effect.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 [May 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 197 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2092 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 18 May [1857]
Summary
Lists pigeons and poultry he is forwarding to WBT.
Wants details of WBT’s Poultry book [1856–7]
and is anxious to purchase his long-winged runt.
Thanks him for help and information on fowl crosses.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 18 May [1857] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2093 |
To William Sharpey 22 May [1857]
Summary
Agrees with Thomas Henry Huxley that Albany Hancock has a good claim on a Royal Society medal. Thinks that geology has not been sufficiently honoured by the Royal Society, and suggests Joseph Prestwich. Expresses his strong opinion that Charles Lyell would be a worthy recipient of the Copley Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sharpey |
Date: | 22 May [1857] |
Classmark: | D. and E. Lake Ltd (dealers) (June 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2093F |
To J. D. Dana 25 May [1857]
Summary
Thanks him for information concerning Crustacea.
Comments on natural history study in the U. S.
Mentions work done by Huxley on Crustacea ["Description of a new crustacean", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 363–9];
John Lubbock on larvae of Diptera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 25 May [1857] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Silliman Family Papers (MS 450) Box 19, folder 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2094 |
To W. E. Darwin [November 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [Nov 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2095 |
To W. E. Darwin 21 [July 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 21 [July 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2097 |
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 |
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 |
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