From S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Summary
Note on cases of representative shells that are not clearly either varieties or species.
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 403 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1807 |
From S. P. Woodward 4 June 1856
Summary
SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.
Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.
Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].
| Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1889 |
From H. C. Watson 5 June 1856
Summary
Answers CD’s questions about plants common to U. S. and Britain and their distribution in Europe.
Variability of agrarian weeds.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 32 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1891 |
From H. C. Watson 10 June 1856
Summary
Evidence relevant to E. Forbes’s land-bridge theory.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1898 |
From Charles Lyell 17 June 1856
Summary
CD forgets an author [CD himself in Coral reefs] "who, by means of atolls, contrived to submerge archipelagoes (or continents?), the mountains of which must originally have differed from each other in height 8,000 (or 10,000?) feet".
CL begins to think that all continents and oceans are chiefly post-Eocene, but he admits that it is questionable how far one is at liberty to call up continents "to convey a Helix from the United States to Europe in Miocene or Pliocene periods".
Will CD explain why the land and marine shells of Porto Santo and Madeira differ while the plants so nearly agree?
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 475 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1905 |
From H. C. Watson 20 June 1856
Summary
Conveys [? J. T. I. Boswell-]Syme’s opinion of variability of agrarian weeds and ranges of species common to U. S. and W. Europe. The Hispano-Hibernian connection.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 June 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 34 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1907 |
From J. D. Hooker [26 June or 3 July 1856]
Summary
Can no longer make out story of NW. American plants; consulting Asa Gray.
Questionable validity of seed-salting experiments.
Aristolochia and Viscum seem to shed pollen before flower opens.
Ray Society should only do translations.
Thomas Thomson in India has rediscovered Aldrovanda, a rare relative of Drosera.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 June or 3 July] 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 197 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1911 |
From T. V. Wollaston [27 June 1856]
Summary
Madeiran insects. Regards the "Atlantic province" as a centre of the Coleoptera.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 137 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1912 |
From T. V. Wollaston [c. 27 June 1856]
Summary
On the relationship of the loss of the powers of flight [in Coleoptera] to increase of bulk.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 27 June 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 300 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1912A |
| letter | (9) |
| Watson, H. C. | (3) |
| Wollaston, T. V. | (2) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Watson, H. C. | (3) |
| Wollaston, T. V. | (2) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
