To J. D. Hooker [5 August 1858]
Summary
Working on abstract, which now is to consist of a number of sections each to be read at Linnean Society and to be published as a unit. Has finished section on variation under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 Aug 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 246 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2313 |
From G. R. Waterhouse 2 August 1858
Summary
Bees’ cells; is the hexagonal shape deliberate or merely the result of lateral pressure on cylinders?
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Aug 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2317 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 August 1858]
Summary
Thanks JDH for stylistic corrections on MS of large and small genera.
Observations, while walking along headlands, on thistle-down blown out to sea and then blown inland.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10 Aug 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 245 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2318 |
To T. C. Eyton 4 August [1858]
Summary
Has finished arranging his pigeons’ skeletons. May consult TCE on them.
CD is at work on an abstract of his conclusions on species and varieties [Origin]. His "bigger book" [Natural selection] will take two or three more years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Campbell Eyton |
Date: | 4 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.156) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2319 |
To J. S. Henslow 4 August [1858]
Summary
CD and his family have come to the seashore, driven from home by scarlet fever at Down, death [of Charles Waring Darwin], and other family illness. Sorry to miss seeing JSH.
Would be grateful to hear his objections to CD’s species speculations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 4 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A53–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2320 |
To Asa Gray 11 August [1858]
Summary
Species migration since the Pliocene. Effect of the glacial epoch. Present geographical distribution, especially similarities of mountain floras, explained by such migration; mountain summits as remnants of a once continuous flora and fauna.
Cross-fertilisation in Fumariaceae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 11 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (42 and 9a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2321 |
From Charles Moore 11 August 1858
Summary
Encloses a list of British perennials which seed in New South Wales and explains the source of his information. Lists plants which have become weeds in the country.
Author: | Charles Moore |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1858 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 232 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2322 |
To Trenham Reeks? 13 August [1858]
Summary
Has been asked to set a price on slate relief slabs [see 2236]. Would appreciate advice from correspondent as he would like to buy pictures with the money.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Trenham Reeks |
Date: | 13 Aug [1858] |
Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (GSM 1/501) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2323 |
To John Lubbock [August–September 1858]
Summary
Variations in the structure of Pelargonium flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Aug–Sept 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 24 (EH 88206473) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2390 |
letter | (9) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Moore, Charles (b) | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Eyton, T. C. | (1) |
Gray, Asa | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |