To G. R. Waterhouse 29 August [1854]
Summary
Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1854] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1583 |
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- … To G. R. Waterhouse 29 August [1854] …
From G. R. Waterhouse 11 November 1854
Summary
Sends list of aberrant forms of Curculionidae.
Discusses in detail the artificiality of Carl Johan Schönherr’s classification. Sound generalisations about geographical distribution depend on sound classifications. Warns against putting too much faith in current catalogues.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1854 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 401 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1598 |
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- … From G. R. Waterhouse 11 November 1854 …
- … G. R. Waterhouse, [ c . 2 August 1843] and 9 August 1843). The issue had arisen again in letters with Joseph Dalton Hooker (see Correspondence vol. 3, letter to J. D. Hooker, 31 March [1844] , and, in this volume, [3 November 1854]). …
To J. D. Hooker 15 November [1854]
Summary
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1601 |
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- … s views. See letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 11 November 1854 , n. 2, for CD’ s purpose in …
- … 1854, pp. 727–8, carried a short extract from Bentham 1855 describing Antonio Targioni Tozzetti’s view that the garden fig ( Ficus carica ) had often been reared from the wild fig (the Caprificus ), supposedly an entirely different genus. Jekel ed. 1849 . See letter from G. R. Waterhouse, …
To J. D. Hooker 5 November [1854]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on receipt of Royal Medal.
CD gathering facts on aberrant genera of insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1597 |
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- … 1853] ). See letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 11 November 1854 . For the meeting of the …
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1854]
Summary
JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.
There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 214–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1629 |
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- … query, see letter from G. R. Waterhouse, 11 November 1854 , n. 2. J. D. Hooker 1854b . …
To W. E. Darwin 25 [August 1859]
Summary
Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 25 [Aug 1859] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2483 |
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- … 1854. George Howard Darwin had long had an interest in heraldry (see Correspondence vol. 5, letters to W. E. Darwin, 3 October [1851] and 24 [February 1852] ). George had begun collecting butterflies and moths in 1855 (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to G. R. Waterhouse, …
To J. D. Hooker 27 [June 1854]
Summary
CD gives his definition of "highness" and "lowness" as "morphological differentiation" from a common embryo or archetype. JDH’s view, with which CD agrees when it can be applied, is the same as Milne-Edwards’, i.e., the physiological division of labour. There is little agreement among zoologists and CD admits his own lack of clarity.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 27 [June 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 121 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1573 |
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- … G. R. Waterhouse, [31 July 1843] ). The view generally held by naturalists at the time, drawn from embryology, was that an advance from lower to higher organisms was an advance from the more general to the more special form (see Ospovat 1981 , pp. 216–28 and Appel 1987 , pp. 216–22). CD’s views on highness and lowness in the particular context of ranking the Cirripedia were discussed in Living Cirripedia (1854): …
From Frederick Smith 26 February 1858
Summary
Identifies an ant described by CD and discusses the predatory habits of Formica sanguinea.
Describes some wasps’ nests.
| Author: | Frederick Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1858 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 191 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2226 |
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- … 1854 ). In CD’s copy of the work, Smith’s description of a similar attack on a nest was marked ( p. 99). Smith had exhibited the nests of a Brazilian species of the wasp Polistes at a meeting of the Entomological Society on 1 June 1857 ( Transactions of the Entomological Society of London n.s. 4 (1856–8), Proceedings, p. 77). Smith believed that Polistes originally constructed a hexagonal cell, not, as George Robert Waterhouse suggested, cylinders that later became hexagons (see letter from G. R. …
From Thomas Vernon Wollaston 2 March [1855]
Summary
Hybrid insects.
Description of the Salvages.
Variability of "transition groups" of insects; relation of variability to ranges of insects. The variability of wings, even within species. Reduction of flying ability on isolated islands.
Forbes’s "Atlantis" theory and insect fauna of the Atlantic islands, considered with regard to insect migrations.
| Author: | Thomas Vernon Wollaston |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1640 |
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- … G. R. Waterhouse, [after 2 March 1855] . CD had recently expanded his survey of the number of species in aberrant genera to investigate the number of species and the geographical range of common or successful genera. He believed that organisms which ranged over a large geographical area and were individually numerous would be the forms most likely to vary and adapt to changing conditions ( Browne 1980 ). Wollaston stated that the two principal features of the Madeiran Coleoptera were the general dullness of the colouring and a tendency to be wingless ( Wollaston 1854 , …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
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