From Robert FitzRoy [2 or 16 June 1839]
Summary
Has not yet had time to read CD’s Journal of researches attentively. He is sure there is no expression referring to himself personally that he could wish were not in it.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [2 or 16] June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 144 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-516 |
From William Buckland 7 June 1839
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of Journal of researches.
Author: | William Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-518 |
From Richard Owen 11 June 1839
Summary
Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".
Author: | Richard Owen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 183 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-519 |
From William Henry Fitton 13 June 1839
Summary
Thanks CD for Journal of researches. Praises its "want of pretension"; "the Geology seems … to be excellent – and a good part of it new".
Author: | William Henry Fitton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 178 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-520 |
From William Lonsdale 15 June 1839
Summary
Acknowledges Journal of researches.
Author: | William Lonsdale |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1839 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-521 |
From Robert FitzRoy 20 June [1839]
Summary
Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.
Author: | Robert FitzRoy |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 June [1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 147 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-522 |
From William Herbert [c. 27 June 1839]
Summary
Rejects necessity of outbreeding and any general law of reversion.
Describes further experiments with Hippeastrum showing greater fertility with foreign pollen than with individual’s own pollen or with pollen from another individual of same species.
Does not believe CD’s questions about reversion can be answered in present state of knowledge.
Author: | William Herbert, dean of Manchester |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 27 June 1839] |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-524 |
letter | (7) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Fitton, W. H. | (1) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Herbert, William | (1) |
Lonsdale, William | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (2) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Fitton, W. H. | (1) |
Herbert, William | (1) |