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DCP-LETT-13778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:

Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13818

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1858-9]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 242
Summary:

Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
26 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.)
Summary:

Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2199

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A19–20
Summary:

Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2200

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Jan 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A144–5
Summary:

Zebra-striped asses.

Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.

Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.

Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 220
Summary:

On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2201F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 265–8)
Summary:

Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.

Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2202

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 108)
Summary:

Asks to borrow W. C. Hewitson’s book [British oology, 2 vols. (1831–44)].

CD is searching for reliable information on slight variations in the degree of perfection of nests of the same species of birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2203

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 221
Summary:

CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.

Family illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2204

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 120–1; L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 453
Summary:

Has gone over to CD’s side on the fertilisation of clover in New Zealand by bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2205

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
17 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A50–1
Summary:

Mrs Henslow’s death stirs reminiscences of happier days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
31 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 109)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].

Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.

Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001419

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
1 January 1858
Source of text:
MM/19/16, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001420

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
4 January 1858
Source of text:
MM/19/17, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE308

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
20 Jan 1858
Source of text:
HS 16.360, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10176

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Henry Griesbach
Date:
[13 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.63
Summary:

Sorry to hear he has been laid up, but his recovery has been quicker than his own. Unable to help him as his own lands have to be sold, but encloses a check for £20, which please acknowledge with a promissory note.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10616

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.495
Summary:

Has had a volume of essays of JH's and wonders if the first one [address to the subscribers of Windsor Public Library] has been published separately; if not, he would like to issue it in a cheap form.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11665

From:
James Maclaren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.30
Summary:

Is obliged for JH's observations on his statement of [Joseph?] Hume's doctrine. These errors are discreditable and will diminish the utility of the book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11666

From:
James Maclaren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.31
Summary:

Has been thinking over the names of solicitors and believes he can recommend Messrs. Lewin of Southampton St. The senior partner is a brother of JM and JH should keep his papers when he concludes his business with his present solicitors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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