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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 251
Summary:

The only mainland vegetation he saw on Falkland Island shores were trees. Remembers no strange birds there, but on journey home saw a woodcock more than 500 miles from the nearest land.

Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 86–9
Summary:

Is relieved his book [Himalayan journals] has been well received and glad he has successfully completed it.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 25 Mar 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 382
Summary:

JDH summarises letter from Humboldt.

JDH answers CD’s questions on glacial action in Himalayas.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 June 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 202–4
Summary:

Birth of JDH’s second child.

Asks CD’s view of "highness" and "lowness" in animals. Gives his own for plants; extent of deviation from type, e.g., floral parts deviating from leaf.

Reading B. C. Brodie’s Psychological inquiries [1854].

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 June 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 383
Summary:

JDH on "highness" of Coniferae: they are genuine Dicotyledons, not a link to cryptogams; that is a geologists’ fallacy. Thus they are highest plants in Carboniferous.

Does not agree with CD’s "elastic" species theory. Long correspondence with Lyell on this.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 384
Summary:

JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.

Insects found in coal.

Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.

JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].

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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. June 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 1
Summary:

Reports that he sees the oxlip, cowslip, and primrose as really distinct species; hybrids are formed between any two.

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From:
Richard Thomas Lowe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Sept 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 392
Summary:

The land shells, both fossil and recent, of Madeira and Porto Santo have features peculiar to them, so RTL would have no difficulty in identifying them.

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From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 401
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.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 385
Summary:

Fossil leaves from Disko Island.

JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.

Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.

Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.

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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 402
Summary:

In response to CD’s query, HCW says he cannot supply "any list of species as the flora of a single and sterile soil". Suggests a possible source of information, and provides some figures for Britain, but these apply to diverse soils.

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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 101
Summary:

Sends a count of the number of species of flowering plants and ferns on the islands of Fayal and Flores in the Azores.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 386
Summary:

George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.

JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 388–90
Summary:

Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.

Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.

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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.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 162–3
Summary:

JDH not happy with CD’s explanation of the absence of north temperate forms in the Southern Hemisphere, given his explanation for the spread of sub-arctic forms to the south. [CD’s note is in response to JDH’s criticism.]

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From:
Arthur Edward Knox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1855-7
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 243
Summary:

CD has suggested an explanation of how pike were introduced to a remote lake in Ireland by cormorants [carrying pike spawn on their feet or in their gullets].

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From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 133–4
Summary:

Gives instances of sexual differences in the number of tarsi within species of Coleoptera and also variation in the number of tarsi between related species.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 214–15
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?

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From:
George Gulliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR (CD library – Gulliver, George 1846)
Summary:

Discusses the similarity in size, shape, and structure of the blood corpuscles of the Aves. Notes differences between the corpuscles of the domestic dog and some wild species.

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