To John Lubbock [November 1858]
Summary
Praise for abstract of JL’s paper on insects ["On the ova and pseudova of insects", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 9 (1857–9): 574–83].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 25 (EH 88206474) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2331 |
To J. D. Hooker 2 November [1858]
Summary
On moving the natural history collection of the British Museum to Kensington.
Subscription for John Ralfs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 2 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 252 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2351 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 November [1858]
Summary
Hooker has convinced him that move of British Museum by Government is anticipated. He is now willing to sign the memorial. Still fears for library needs, and objects to distant Kensington site. Lyell should be asked to sign.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 248) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2352 |
To W. E. Darwin 5 [November 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 5 [Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2353 |
To James Egan 8 November [1858]
Summary
Asks about dark stripes on shoulders and legs of Hungarian horses. Are stripes plainer in foal or adult?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Egan |
Date: | 8 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.160) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2354 |
To J. D. Hooker 9[–10] November [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 9[–10] Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 253 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2355 |
To J. S. Henslow 9 November [1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 9 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A60–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2356 |
To Robert Monsey Rolfe 10 November [1858]
Summary
Thanks RMR for contribution to Down charities. Declines invitation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth |
Date: | 10 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2357 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 13 November 1858]
Summary
Reports the decreased yield of pods resulting from excluding bees from the flowers of the kidney bean. Gives other observations suggesting the importance of bees in the fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers.
Cites cases of crosses between varieties of bean grown close together and requests observations from readers on the subject. States his belief "that is a law of nature that every organic being should occasionally be crossed with a different individual of the same species".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 13 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 13 November 1858, pp. 828–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2359 |
To W. D. Fox 13 November [1858]
Summary
Has suggested WDF’s name to Hooker and Henslow, who are sending a circular for aid to John Ralfs.
Is working steadily at his abstract, hopes to publish in spring.
Asks if WDF has seen a donkey with double shoulder stripe; also, has he seen a black greyhound with tan feet and a tan spot over each eye? "Such must exist because theory tells me it ought!"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 13 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2360 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 November [1858]
Summary
Hermaphrodite trees are enough to "knock" CD down. Can JDH observe Eucalyptus to see whether pollen and stigma mature at same time?
JDH’s facts showing European plants are more common in southern Australia than in South America are disturbing because they are improbable on CD’s views of migration.
JDH said he would give examples of Australian forms that have migrated north along the mountains of the Malay Archipelago.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 14 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2361 |
To J. D. Hooker [14 November 1858]
Summary
An enclosure sent with the letter to JDH, 14 November [1858] (Correspondence vol. 7) - questions and comments on lists of European species found in south-west Australia and Tasmania, and European genera found in Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [14 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 50: E55–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2361F |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 16 November [1858]
Summary
Wants WBT’s advice on poultry breeding experiments. Are certain birds true to their kind, and what should he pay for them?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 16 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2362 |
To Asa Gray 18 November [1858]
Summary
Wishes to know whether differences in constitution (such as disease susceptibility) are related to differences in complexion. "Liability to such a disease as yellow fever would answer my question in the best possible way."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Asa Gray |
Date: | 18 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2364 |
To the Chancellor of the Exchequer 18 November 1858
Summary
CD and eight zoologists and botanists publish a memorial on "the arrangements by which National Collections in Natural History can be best adapted to the advancement of science and its general diffusion among the Public".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Chancellor of the Exchequer |
Date: | 18 Nov 1858 |
Classmark: | Parliamentary Accounts and Papers, Finance; banking; revenue, &c., Session 3 December 1857–2 August 1858, 33: 499–503; Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 27 November 1858, p. 861 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2365 |
To W. A. Leighton 21 November [1858]
Summary
Thanks WAL for specimens and observations [on scarlet runner beans]. CD is perplexed whether to account for the changes as due to simple variation or to crossing. The information will be used when he finally comes to a conclusion on the subject [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 151].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | 21 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 112: B97–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2368 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 November 1858]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Nov 1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2369 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
To James Egan 25 November [1858]
Summary
Thanks JE for information about striped horses.
Says John Lindley wants to know about Hungarian horticulture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Egan |
Date: | 25 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.161) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2372 |
To Herbert Spencer 25 November [1858]
Summary
Thanks for HS’s Essays: [scientific, political, and speculative, vol. 1 (1858)]. Admires his general argument for the development theory.
CD is preparing an abstract on change of species. He treats subject as a naturalist, not from a general point of view. Otherwise he might have quoted HS’s argument to great advantage.
CD particularly liked articles on music and style. Expression is a favourite topic with CD. Agrees all expression is biological.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Herbert Spencer |
Date: | 25 Nov [1858] |
Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (MS.791/41) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2373 |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Egan, James | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Chancellor of the Exchequer | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (23) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Egan, James | (2) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |