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:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 199
Summary:
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 200
Summary:
"Law" [see 2092] correlating variability and abnormal development not confirmed by JDH for plants.
CD studies struggle for existence in his weed garden.
Scotch fir observed at Moor Park.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 201
Summary:
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 205
Summary:
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Aug [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 206, 207
Summary:
Important issue at stake with new flora calculations: evidence that species are only strongly marked varieties. Planning large-scale survey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Aug [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A122
Summary:
Delighted that JSH is coming to Down. Sends correct train time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 Aug [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 208
Summary:
Tabulation of varieties goes on; very important as it shows the branching of forms. Mentions his principle of divergence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Oct 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 18
Summary:
Reports progress of work on the new rooms [at Down].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 209
Summary:
Some negative results in variety tabulation survey.
Galls on wild carrot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
29 [Oct 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 19
Summary:
Discusses WED’s future education, the work on the extension, and other domestic affairs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 210
Summary:
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[22 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 22 (EH 88206471)
Summary:
Huxley and William Sharpey praise JL’s paper [? on Daphnia, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100] at Philosophical Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
14 Oct [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A119
Summary:
JSH’s Myosotis is beginning to sport. Asks whether some features are not odd.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
18 Oct [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A45–6
Summary:
Sends details on Myosotis sports. Feels sure he could make any flower in some degree monstrous in four or five generations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
