From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
23 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A42
Summary:
Invites JSH to dine at CD’s brother’s house in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 143a
Summary:
Praise for JDH’s Flora Indica [J. D. Hooker and T. Thomson (1855)] from CD and C. J. F. Bunbury.
CD and J. S. Henslow dining in London. JDH invited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
28 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A43–A44
Summary:
Delighted JSH can dine. Has invited Hooker.
Thanks him for Lychnis seed.
Asks for umbel of wild celery. Wants to ascertain whether wild or tame plants produce most seed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
31 July [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 65)
Summary:
Has received the duck and bantam.
Anxious to get as many facts as possible on crossbreeding of dogs.
Reports on seeds that have germinated after 100 days immersion [in salt water].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
31 July [1855]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (28 September 2004)
Summary:
Mentions experiments on plants involving coloured glass. Encloses correspondence from glass maker and asks advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 [Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 143
Summary:
Burying charlock seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 144
Summary:
Morning with H. C. Watson; discussed problems of inferences from buried seeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129)
Summary:
Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.
When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?
Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 145
Summary:
When JDH goes to Germany, will he ask seed men if their marvellous true breeding lines are the result of selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 [Oct 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 146
Summary:
Seeds of two tropical island plants have floated for ten days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Council of the Royal Society
Date:
18 Aug 1855
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR3: 38)
Summary:
Recommends publication of W. B. Carpenter’s paper on Orbitolites [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 146 (1856): 181–236]. Discusses style and the cost of the plates.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
22 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 94a)
Summary:
Reports on his collection of skeletons of young and adults of various breeds of fowls and specimens still needed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
23 [Aug or Sept] 1855
Source of text:
DAR 93: A112–13
Summary:
Asks JSH to identify an umbellifer.
Describes his efforts to compare number of seeds of wild and cultivated plants.
Asks that more wild celery be collected and seeds counted. Seeks to verify whether "most typical form produces most seed" and whether cultivation lessens fertility.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (10)
Summary:
"Close" species in large and small genera.
Alphonse de Candolle on geographical distribution [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)].
Species variability.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[26 Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 53
Summary:
On geographical distribution of plants. Plant systematics and natural classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
31 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for WBT’s offer to supply carcasses of good poultry breeds. Encloses list [missing] of birds in which he is interested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood
Date:
5 Sept [1855]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections)
Summary:
Thanks HAW for columbine and asparagus seeds and for counting pods for him. CD is astonished at the number of pods. Needs more seeds for one of his experiments.
Has he met Huxley yet? He is a very clever man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[13 Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Would welcome any distinct breed of poultry and would be glad to have any good pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 [Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 21); Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:
Responds to THH’s questioning of his observations on cirripede anatomy with extensive discussion of what he observed. Admits his elementary knowledge of microscopical structures but seriously doubts he has erred. Cement glands, ovarian tubes, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 [Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 18)
Summary:
Approves drawing. No one who cannot draw should attempt to be a naturalist. Suggests corrections to [Lepas?] drawing. Comments on position of ganglia, cement glands, and stomach.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project