To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857]
Summary
Species with marked varieties.
Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.
Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.
Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2194 |
To J. D. Hooker [June 1857]
Summary
Request for Floras of Pacific Islands and Greenland.
Individual variation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [June 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 222b |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2198 |
To William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society 24 January [1857]
Summary
Feels unqualified to offer advice on research by the expedition; he has never attended to natural history of the region. Suggests collecting Carboniferous plants and studying the geographical extension of sea-borne erratic boulders.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 24 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (MC17: 336) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2206 |
To Edward Sabine 16 March [1857]
Summary
Would rather not serve on Royal Society committee [for a North American exploring expedition]. Suggests subjects for geological investigation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Sabine |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1857] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (MM4: 39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2241 |
To J. S. Henslow 25 September [1857]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his magnificent present. Hopes Hooker will bring the specimens.
Have water-fowl ever been seen at Ipswich on Mr Ransome’s great tank?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A58–9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2329 |
To Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller 8 December [1857]
Summary
Asks whether British or north European perennial plants can, under cultivation, withstand the climate of S. Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2378 |
To John Lubbock [6 March 1857]
Summary
Voting to elect JL [a member of Athenaeum].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 71 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2392 |
To John Lubbock 12 [August 1857]
Summary
Invites JL to dine and meet J. S. Henslow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 12 [Aug 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 19 (EH 88206468) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2396 |
To John Lubbock 11 August [1857]
Summary
Asks JL not to call as he has a "very old friend" [J. S. Henslow] coming to visit him.
Yesterday visited poultry show at Crystal Palace.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 11 Aug [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 21 (EH 88206470) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2481 |
To John Lubbock 25 January [1857]
Summary
Dining with the Lubbocks.
JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 25 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 263: 20 (EH 88206469) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3413 |
To Hugh Falconer [7 March 1857]
Summary
Thinking about HF’s paper on Plagiaulax [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 13 (1857): 261–82]. Owen might answer that all Purbeck mammals are marsupials.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3791 |
To Richard Kippist 23 February [1857]
Summary
Sends cheque for subscription [£20].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Kippist; Linnean Society |
| Date: | 23 Feb [1857] |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2058 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (12) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
| Gray, Asa | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (132) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (31) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (12) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (10) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (8) |
