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From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 95
Summary:

Responds to CD’s questions about mountain vegetation of the Cape of Good Hope. The distribution of some plants provides problems for both migration and special creation hypotheses.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1856
Source of text:
DAR 160: 374, DAR 205.4: 97
Summary:

Has heard CD is much interested in questions relating to varieties and species. Mentions a case of a seminal variety of Colletia spinosa, described by John Lindley, which appears identical with another wild species of Colletia from S. America. Hopes CD will one day "enlighten us very much" on "the laws of species". There are many different views on the limits of species; M. F. Dunal made 50 species of Solanum which George Bentham considers are all varieties of S. nigrum.

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From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 218
Summary:

Is interested by what CD tells him about his researches and speculations on species, variation, and distribution. Hopes he will not give up the idea of publishing his views. Advises CD on need for caution and candour. Raises some difficulties with "specific centre" theory of distribution.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
[20 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University
Summary:

CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
[before 9 May 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 73: 159
Summary:

Adds comments to a list of Cape of Good Hope plants which are also European and gives some additions to the list [see Natural selection, p. 552].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
21 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds (Bunbury Family Papers E18/700/1/9/6)
Summary:

CD writes on geographical distribution – "a grand game of chess with the world for a board".

Gives his hypothetical explanation why zoology of Cape [of Good Hope] is not so peculiar as its botany: it was once a group of islands – later united.

Tries hard to set forth the difficulties of his [species] theory.

Tells CJFB in confidence of his theory of the glacial epoch and its effect on plant distribution, such as identical species being found on summits of mountains in the tropics. Invites him to attack his "doctrine".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
9 May [1856]
Source of text:
Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds (Bunbury Family Papers E18/700/1/9/6)
Summary:

On geographical dispersal of plants. Would be interested in CJFB’s views on representative species and on his hypothesis of a mundane cold period, which CD cannot prove geologically, but thinks, if it explains many facts of geographical distribution, may be admitted as probable. Hooker and Alphonse de Candolle do not agree with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
3 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Carnegie Book Shop (dealers) (catalogue 359)
Summary:

Thanks for note; correcting proofs for 2d ed. [of Origin].

"If your are at all staggered I shall be quite interested."

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