From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
21 [July 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 16
Summary:
Writes of WED’s recent excursion to Manchester and his future educational plans.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
unknown
Date:
July 1857
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 23
Summary:
Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 198
Summary:
George Henslow’s curtness to JDH: "an attack of religion".
Embryonic leaves. Adaptive functions and taxonomic significance of cotyledons.
Asa Gray. Separation of sexes in U. S. trees.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 July [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 203
Summary:
Does JDH’s Wahlenbergia confirm CD’s law? Variations of one species assume the character of a distinct but allied species or genus.
Seed-salting: old ones float and germinate.
Owen’s "grand paper" [? J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 2 (1858): 1–37].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 [July 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 18 (EH88206467)
Summary:
Thanks JL for saving him from "a disgraceful blunder". Following their conversation he has divided the New Zealand flora as JL suggested and finds genera with four or more species are more variable than those with three or less. It will take several weeks to go back over all his material.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 July [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 204
Summary:
Asks to borrow several Floras. Must redo calculations as John Lubbock has shown him an important error.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
