To George Bentham 1 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.
Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.
Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2177 |
To J. D. Hooker 4 December [1857]
Summary
Inquiries on effect of dry heat on temperate plants for glacial chapter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 4 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 216 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2180 |
To John Higgins 9 December 1857
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1857 |
| Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2181F |
To J. D. Hooker 9 December [1857]
Summary
Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 13 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks for offer of pigeons, if breeding is successful; hopes to go to poultry show to see them.
Several questions about the Boz or Booz pigeon of Tunis.
If any of EWVH’s birds die and he does not want the skin, perhaps he would send it to CD.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 258–62) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2182F |
To George Bentham 15 December [1857]
Summary
For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2184 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 15 December [1857]
Summary
Will not accept invitation to Hastings, or offer to send pigeons to Down.
Is looking forward to seeing pigeons at Crystal Palace poultry show.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
| Date: | 15 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 263–4) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2184F |
To T. H. Huxley 16 December [1857]
Summary
THH’s catalogue [THH and R. Etheridge, A catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865), part published in 1857] best résumé he has seen of science of natural history. On classification he is not quite sure that he wholly goes along with THH. Encloses a few criticisms of THH’s preface.[enclosure survives as copy only].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 16 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 151); DAR 145: 178 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2185 |
To W. D. Fox 17 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks WDF for his letter about a rabbit breed that he thinks is the Himalaya. He is particularly glad to hear of it because it breeds so true.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 17 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 105) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2187 |
To George Bentham 18 December [1857]
Summary
Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Bentham |
| Date: | 18 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2189 |
To A. R. Wallace 22 December 1857
Summary
Comments on agreement of their respective views on distribution.
Reference to differences on subsidence.
Reports on progress of his work and praises ARW’s investigations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1857 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2192 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1857]
Summary
Species with marked varieties.
Dana’s pamphlet also too metaphysical for CD.
Natural selection chapter on hybridism completed.
Doubts JDH will resist theory in his introduction to Flora Tasmaniae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2194 |
To Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller 8 December [1857]
Summary
Asks whether British or north European perennial plants can, under cultivation, withstand the climate of S. Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
| Date: | 8 Dec [1857] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A31–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2378 |
| letter | (13) |
| Bentham, George | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Harcourt, E. W. V. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Bentham, George | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Harcourt, E. W. V. | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Mueller, Ferdinand von | (1) |
| Wallace, A. R. | (1) |
