To W. E. Darwin [before 29 October 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | [before 29 Oct 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2135 |
To W. E. Darwin 29 [October 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 29 [Oct 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2147 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 October [1857]
Summary
Thinks naturalists look for something further than Cuvier’s view of classification. Poses a theoretical problem on the classification of the races of man to prove that a genealogical system is best.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 139) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2150 |
To James Buckman 4 October [1857]
Summary
Asks JB to obtain information about pigeons.
Inquires where his article has been published ["On the discovery of Cnicus tuberosus at Avebury, Wilts.", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 20 (1857): 337–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Buckman |
Date: | 4 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | Dorset County Museum (tipped into Origin 1st ed.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2151 |
To J. S. Henslow 14 October [1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 14 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2153 |
To J. S. Henslow 18 October [1857]
Summary
Sends details on Myosotis sports. Feels sure he could make any flower in some degree monstrous in four or five generations.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 18 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A45–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2154 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle 18 October [1857]
Summary
Describes his experiments with kidney beans to test the agency of bees in their fertilisation. His results suggest they are essential.
Asks what George Swayne could mean by the advantage of artificial fertilisation of early beans [Trans. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 5 (1824): 208–13].
Has observed that hive-bees, which normally suck nectar from the flower of the kidney bean, will use holes cut through the calyx by humble-bees, though the holes cannot be seen from the mouth of the flower. Suggests hive-bees see humble-bees at work and understand what they are doing and "rationally" take advantage of the shorter path to the nectar. [See also 2359.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | 18 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 24 October 1857, p. 725 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2155 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 October [1857]
Summary
Returns some of the systematics books borrowed from JDH. Will now take on A. P. and Alphonse de Candolle [Prodromus].
Arrangements for a visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 212, 222c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2156 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1857]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Oct 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2157 |
To W. D. Fox 30 October [1857]
Summary
Has come to think his brains were not made for thinking – he immediately feels better when at Moor Park.
News of his family.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 30 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 104) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2161 |
letter | (10) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Buckman, James | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Buckman, James | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |