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To T. H. Huxley 27 May [1856]
Summary
Has written very strong notes to Lord Overstone and Sir J. W. Lubbock and hopes they will be of service to THH.
Acknowledges receipt of THH’s lecture [unidentified].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 174) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1878 |
To S. P. Woodward 27 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."
Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 27 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1879 |
To W. B. Tegetmeier 31 May [1856]
Summary
Wants good rabbit specimens. Will be in London on 21 June and can pick up some pigeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bernhard Tegetmeier |
| Date: | 31 May [1856] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1882 |
From Edward William Vernon Harcourt 31 May 1856
Summary
Extensive notes on Madeiran birds: when and where seen on the island and under what conditions.
| Author: | Edward William Vernon Harcourt |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 May 1856 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 100 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1883 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Edmondston, Laurence | (1) |
| Harcourt, E. W. V. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (3) |
| Bunbury, C. J. F. | (2) |
| Edmondston, Laurence | (2) |
| Harcourt, E. W. V. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Tegetmeier, W. B. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Holland, Miss | (1) |
| Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
| Oldfield, H. A. | (1) |
