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DCP-LETT-13778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:

Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13818

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1858-9]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 242
Summary:

Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1504F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
7 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (15 July 2015, lot 176)
Summary:

Wrote some weeks ago about Burmese fowl-skins; is willing to send them, carriage paid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1808

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 16–17
Summary:

Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.

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DCP-LETT-2043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
26 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.)
Summary:

Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2152

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Skeffington Poole
Date:
13 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks about Indian horses. Encloses questions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2195

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 48: B18
Summary:

Calculations relating to bees’ cells.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2199

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A19–20
Summary:

Discusses the ranges and distribution of varieties relative to the type species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2199F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Librarian
Date:
[c. June 1858 or later]
Source of text:
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188)
Summary:

Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2200

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Jan 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A144–5
Summary:

Zebra-striped asses.

Markings of a Bengal jungle cock.

Refers to some of his own articles on birds in India.

Reports the arrival of the "glorious garrison of Lucknow". The "wonderful superiority of the European to the Asiatic" made the success of the insurrection inconceivable.

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DCP-LETT-2201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 220
Summary:

On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2201F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 265–8)
Summary:

Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.

Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2202

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 108)
Summary:

Asks to borrow W. C. Hewitson’s book [British oology, 2 vols. (1831–44)].

CD is searching for reliable information on slight variations in the degree of perfection of nests of the same species of birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2203

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 221
Summary:

CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.

Family illness.

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DCP-LETT-2204

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Jan 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 120–1; L. Huxley ed. 1918, 1: 453
Summary:

Has gone over to CD’s side on the fertilisation of clover in New Zealand by bees.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2205

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
17 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A50–1
Summary:

Mrs Henslow’s death stirs reminiscences of happier days.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
31 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 109)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].

Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.

Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2209

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Feb 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 222
Summary:

General success of survey makes CD very concerned about sources of error. Wants to meet JDH for an important talk about big genera. Arranges meeting.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 [Feb 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 219
Summary:

Returns books by Candolle and Robert Brown.

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