To Journal of Horticulture [before 2 December 1862]
Summary
Asks for authentic information on following questions: 1. Has the weight of the gooseberry variety London subsequently exceeded the 1845 record of 880 grains?
2. Is any record kept of the diameter of the largest pansies?
3. How early does any variety of Dahlia flower and do some varieties withstand frost better than others?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Journal of Horticulture |
| Date: | [before 2 Dec 1862] |
| Classmark: | Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman n.s. 3 (1862): 696 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3840 |
From T. H. Huxley 2 December 1862
Summary
Sends first three of his Lectures to working men [on our knowledge of the phenomena of organic nature (1863)]. Does not intend them to be widely circulated.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 296 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3841 |
From Robert Swinhoe 2 December 1862
Summary
Sends CD a Chinese breed of guinea-pig. Has heard it claimed that the domestic guinea-pig will not interbreed with the wild rock cavy and that, therefore, artificial selection has formed a new species.
| Author: | Robert Swinhoe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1862 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 327 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3842 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Journal of Horticulture | (1) |
| Swinhoe, Robert | (1) |
