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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
19 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Asks to borrow C. L. Brehm’s book [Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (1831)]. Wants to see how far Brehm went in splitting species.

Took finches from Madeira to British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Aug 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 93
Summary:

Believes intermediate varieties are generally less numerous in individuals than the two states that they connect.

Discusses the difficulties of deciding what is the typical form of a species

and gives some opinions on the variability of introduced species compared with indigenous species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[15–22 Aug 1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is collecting only pigeons that differ in proportions, so declines some birds offered by WBT.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 178
Summary:

One plant in self-sown patch of Aegilops has assumed a triticoidal character; JSH feels it may be an example of Aegilops passing to wheat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1856
Source of text:
DAR 100: 100–4
Summary:

JDH’s arguments against transmutation: 1. Plants do not show the confusion he would expect; 2. Under clearly similar physical conditions we do not find same species.

JDH’s argument against migration: commonality of alpine species. Believes migration opposes facts of botanical distribution in Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand; prefers continental extension theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 173
Summary:

Agrees that Lyell’s letters shed no new light on extensions issue. Continental extensions: opposes their being hypothesised all over world.

Commonality of alpine plants damns both extension and migration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
6 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A55–A56
Summary:

Reports on results of forcing and other attempts to produce variations in plants. Asks for some seeds.

Is correcting his Linnean Society paper ["On the action of sea-water", Collected papers 1: 264–71].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 174
Summary:

Antarctic plants most difficult to account for on any theory. Lyell’s iceberg transportal of seeds.

Are there more representative species of American origin in Tristan da Cunha than in Kerguelen land?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Inquires about pigeons seen at Anerley show.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ebenezer Norman
Date:
17 [Aug 1856]
Source of text:
Mrs K. M. B. Thompson (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks EN for copying a MS [on "Geographical distribution" (Natural selection, pp. 534–66)]. Increases his payment and offers EN work in the future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
21 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.135)
Summary:

Asks whether offspring of cross between African pig and common pig are fertile. Are Lord Rowland Hill’s African pigs domesticated?

Mentions pigeons’ skeletons.

Is working at a book on variation [Natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
23 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Instructions for delivering pigeons to Down.

Has Scandaroons for WBT.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
24 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (36)
Summary:

Rarity of intermediate varieties.

Variability of introduced plants.

Ranges of plants common to Europe and U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
27 [Aug 1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.136)
Summary:

Asks about strains of Herefordshire cattle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
30 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Will forward the Scandaroons.

Is crossing all his pigeons to see which are fertile.

Hopes WBT’s work on fowls’ skulls is not forestalled by T. C. Eyton who also has a grand collection of skeletons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
31 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.137)
Summary:

Asks whether number of incisors varies in domestic pigs. Is testing views of J. M. Bechstein.

Comments on TCE’s book [Herd book of Hereford cattle (1846–59)]. Mentions variations in the breed.

Will quote TCE on geese [Mag. Nat. Hist. 4 (1840): 90–2].

Problem of geographical distribution; his seed-salting experiments. Asks about distribution of seeds to islands. Do water-birds ever have dirty feet?

Could Eyton’s gamekeepers collect owl and hawk pellets? Asks for dace stomachs and contents.

Asks for cats’ skeletons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after Aug 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 160.2: 298
Summary:

On his breeding of Jacobin pigeons. How reciprocal crosses to produce mules work among canaries, goldfinches, linnets, and green linnets.

Will soon forward copies of Cottage Gardener for June.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
23 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Has received [C. L.?] Brehm’s work [unspecified]. Will return it in two or three weeks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
18 [Aug 1856 - Jan 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 303
Summary:

Is flattered by a proposal that he undertake some reviewing work, but has many years’ work in prospect on his present book on species and varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project