From George Bentham 2 December [1856]
Summary
Cites cases of leguminous plants whose cleistogamic flowers produce more seed than perfect flowers. [See Forms of flowers, p. 326.]
Author: | George Bentham |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 111: A75–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11267 |
From W. D. Fox 19 December [1856]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 170 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11799 |
From J. D. Hooker [early December 1856]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [early Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1966 |
To J. D. Hooker [early December 1856]
Summary
Sends JDH part of MS for chapter 3 of Natural selection ["Possibility of all organic beings crossing"] to be corrected and returned.
JDH’s report of Podostemon flowering cleistogamously under water in Bengal.
[Copious revision by JDH.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [early Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 213 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1974 |
To J. S. Henslow [after 6 December 1856]
Summary
He is steadily and very hard at work on "Variation" [Natural selection] and finds the whole subject "deeply interesting but horribly perplexed".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [after 6 Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2006 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1856]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 185 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2008 |
From George Dickie 1 December 1856
Author: | George Dickie |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Dec 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 207: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2009 |
To George Bentham 3 December [1856]
Summary
Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Bentham |
Date: | 3 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 687) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2010 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 4 December [1856]
Summary
Is glad WBT is willing to describe the poultry CD can acquire. Sir James Brooke promises Borneo fowls.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
Date: | 4 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2011 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 6 December 1856]
Summary
CD is collecting all the evidence he can on natural crossing of varieties of plants. Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle to give evidence "showing either that Leguminous crops, when grown close together do sometimes cross or on the other hand that they may invariably be grown close together without any chance of deterioration".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 6 Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 6 December 1856, p. 806 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2012 |
From T. V. Wollaston [11 or 18 December 1856]
Summary
Informs CD that the "dishonest mollusks" were collected in May 1855 in Porto Santo. Describes some Madeira species. Though believing in "species" more and more, these may be "mere insular modifications".
Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 301 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2013 |
From J. D. Hooker 7 December 1856
Summary
Has done New Zealand flora calculations. Results support CD’s theory of necessity of crossing. Trees tend to have separate sexes.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Dec 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 113–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2014 |
From J. D. Dana 8 December 1856
Summary
Agassiz has informed him that the mice and rats of Mammoth Cave are American in type.
Alludes to CD’s doubt of the principle that "progress of life on the globe is parallel with the development in different tribes". Outlines his own ideas on the "unfolding of the type-idea" and its "parallelism with the law of development in the embryo".
Author: | James Dwight Dana |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 378 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2016 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 December [1856]
Summary
Grateful for Siebold’s wonderful facts [C. T. E. von Siebold, On a true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1856), trans. by W. S. Dallas (1857)].
Vitality of spermatozoa.
Hybridisation of bees. Bees are in one respect his greatest theoretical difficulty.
CD still convinced about the relation of cement receptacles and ovarian tubes [in Crustacea].
Birth of C. W. Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 42, 374) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2017 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 December [1856]
Summary
CD is convinced of relation between separation of sexes and tree-habit.
Recent hard blows against crossing theory.
CD long tormented by land molluscs on oceanic islands; found transport possible experimentally.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2018 |
To W. E. Darwin 10 [December 1856]
Summary
Writes of arrangements for the end of the school-term.
Condition of Emma and the new baby [C. W. Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 10 [Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2019 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 [December 1856]
Summary
Pleased by what THH says on cement glands and organs in higher Crustacea. Content to be moderately right.
Hopes THH will dissect the Conchoderma.
Asks for cases of organs in which there is no apparent transition from other organs or in which transition can be shown in an unexpected way and for instances of odd and inexplicable connections between parts, such that if one part varies the other varies also.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 [Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 44, 375) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2020 |
To James Dwight Dana 21 December [1856]
Summary
Thanks for sending paper on geological development (Dana 1856). Discusses infertility of species. Discusses first part of Asa Gray’s paper (A. Gray 1856–7). Thanks for note on the Cave Rat. Discusses a new species of fossil cirripede, in the genus Chthamalus. Explains his interest in pigeon breeding.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 21 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2003) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2020F |
To Thomas Davidson 23 December [1856]
Summary
Asks TD about variation among brachiopods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Davidson |
Date: | 23 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.142) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2021 |
To W. H. Harvey 24 December [1856]
Summary
W. J. Hooker thinks Harvey will be willing to give information on reproduction of higher marine plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
Date: | 24 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (21 April 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2021F |
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Darwin, C. R. | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Davidson, Thomas | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Bentham, George | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Bentham, George | (2) |
Dana, J. D. | (2) |
Davidson, Thomas | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Dickie, George | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Harvey, W. H. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Hotham, Harriet | (1) |
Lubbock, Harriet | (1) |
Tegetmeier, W. B. | (1) |
Watson, H. C. | (1) |
Wollaston, T. V. | (1) |