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DCP-LETT-1894

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edgar Leopold Layard
Date:
8 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.143)
Summary:

Admires ELL’s plan to visit Madagascar.

Asks about fertility of hybrid cats, crosses among dogs in Africa, and appearance of feral pigeons at Ascension. Doubts existence of N. African greyhound.

Asks for specimens of pigeons and ducks from the Cape of Good Hope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
8 [June 1856]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-10)
Summary:

The responses to his queries on domestic variations are coming in from all over; believes he will make an interesting collection. At present concerned with rabbits and ducks.

Has told Lyell of his views on species and CL urges CD to publish a preliminary essay. Has begun to work on it, with fear and trembling at its inadequacies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 4 (EH 88206452)
Summary:

Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.

Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7048

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.284
Summary:

Has long held the view that a pipe underneath the strings of a piano would increase the resonance. Had not conceived such an instrument as JH suggested. Why are 3rds and 6ths more agreeable to the ear than 4ths and 5ths?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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