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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[17 November 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. D.
Date:
[c. February 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. February 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 16
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[25? September 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[c. 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[c. 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Edward Hewitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 196
Summary:
Hybrid varieties of pheasant and common fowl. Reply to CD queries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 14
Summary:
Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1857?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 187
Summary:
Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (7)
Summary:
Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].
Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.
Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 115
Summary:
Sexes of algae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 48)
Summary:
Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].
Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
8 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Dr Heather Whitney (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Harvey
Date:
7 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Sheffield City Archives (Gatty family autograph albums X561/1/1)
Summary:
Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.
Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 237
Summary:
Will attend to any subject in Jamaica about which CD wants information.
Crithagra brasiliensis and canary refused to pair.
A collection of Jamaican land Mollusca will be presented to the British Museum.
Hurricanes are a considerable influence on diffusion of birds and insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 394
Summary:
Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.
Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 188
Summary:
CD will advise W. F. Daniell on collecting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 1 (EH 88205939)
Summary:
Asks THH question on flow of glaciers after ice has been fractured and fragmented.
CD had to leave Royal Society lecture [joint paper by THH and J. Tyndall, "On the structure and motions of glaciers", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 327–46] before the end because of headache.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 189
Summary:
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 235
Summary:
Sends specimens of Tortrix, which illustrate the extraordinary variation of markings in two or three species. In every family of Lepidoptera there seem to be species extremely prone to vary and in some localities they vary more than in others.
Contributor:
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