To C. J. F. Bunbury [before 9 May 1856]
Summary
Adds comments to a list of Cape of Good Hope plants which are also European and gives some additions to the list [see Natural selection, p. 552].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Date: | [before 9 May 1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 73: 159 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1617 |
To J. D. Hooker 9 May [1856]
Summary
Lyell urges CD to publish a sketch of species theory; CD asks JDH’s opinion on best course.
Concerned about opposition, particularly by Owen, to Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 161 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1870 |
To E. W. V. Harcourt 9 May [1856]
Summary
Has seen EWVH’s list of the birds of Madeira, and would like to know more about the ‘occasional visitants’.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
| Date: | 9 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 248–9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1870F |
To C. J. F. Bunbury 9 May [1856]
Summary
On geographical dispersal of plants. Would be interested in CJFB’s views on representative species and on his hypothesis of a mundane cold period, which CD cannot prove geologically, but thinks, if it explains many facts of geographical distribution, may be admitted as probable. Hooker and Alphonse de Candolle do not agree with him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet |
| Date: | 9 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds (Bunbury Family Papers E18/700/1/9/6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1871 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (2) |
| Harcourt, E. W. V. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (2) |
| Harcourt, E. W. V. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
