From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 [Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 7
Summary:
Is sorry to hear that WED has been ill.
Discusses pigeons and his pigeon work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 153
Summary:
Naudin’s theory, in J. Decaisne’s review of Flora Indica, of subspecies descended from a single stock only adds to the confusion. John Lindley and M. J. Berkeley cut down species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 154
Summary:
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A103–A105
Summary:
Thanks for seeds. Feels "almost foiled" in his experiments on sea transport – has found few plants that float after more than a week’s immersion.
Sends a list of queries [see 1779] on hollyhocks to put to growers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
12 Nov 1855
Source of text:
DAR 206: 39
Summary:
Draft of queries on the varieties of hollyhocks. [To be transmitted to William Chater by JSH; probably enclosed with 1778.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 155
Summary:
Candolle discusses social plants. CD devises criterion for showing sociability not inherent.
Bentham’s buried seed plan rejected.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
18 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 112
Summary:
Reluctantly agrees to write a paper (the citation of award of the Royal Medal to J. O. Westwood [Abstracts and papers of RSL 1855]), but feels unfitted for the job.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 157
Summary:
CD not sure that he can come to London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
