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DCP-LETT-1605

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 101
Summary:

Sends a count of the number of species of flowering plants and ferns on the islands of Fayal and Flores in the Azores.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1606

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
22 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1607

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 386
Summary:

George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.

JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1608

From:
James R. Garrett
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
1 Dec 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 232
Summary:

Discusses the transport of seeds by birds. William Thompson received letters on this subject from CD in 1848 and from Edward Forbes in 1850. Encloses copies of Thompson’s reply to Forbes’s letter of 23 Feb 1850 and of Thompson’s notes (1848–51) on transport of seeds by birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1609

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 158
Summary:

JDH’s "grand speech" on receiving the Royal Medal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 159
Summary:

Is Bentham’s list of aberrant genera biased by exclusion of genera with many species?

JDH’s belief that Aquilegia varieties are one species is consistent with their great interfertility.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1610F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Saba Smith; Saba Holland
Date:
4 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (19 January 2011)
Summary:

Thanks for Lady Holland’s kind present. Will only lend it to his sister-in-law and his aunt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1611

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 388–90
Summary:

Bentham’s list of aberrant genera: CD’s worry that he eliminated large genera a priori is half right. He eliminated those large, anomalous genera that virtually constitute natural orders. JDH criticises CD’s tabulations of aberrants.

Difficulty of distinguishing affinity and analogy in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 [Dec 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 148
Summary:

Debates aberrant species, e.g., Ornithorhynchus and Echidna, with JDH. CD argues they are result of extinction having removed intermediate links to allied forms.

Studying effects of disuse in wings of tame and wild ducks.

Tabulations showing that number of species in a genus is not correlated with number of genera in an order.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Turnbull
Date:
12 Dec [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 3 (EH 88206055)
Summary:

Thanks for subscription to Down Coal and Clothing Club, whose finances are improving.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1615

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
25 Dec 1854
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/83)
Summary:

Discusses his account. Mentions health of children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1629

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 214–15
Summary:

JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.

There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
28 May [1854]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/2)
Summary:

Discusses how Fuegians and other primitive peoples light fires.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000538

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
26 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/10/62, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000603

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Date:
17 September 1854
Source of text:
MM/11/60, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000604

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
2 October 1854
Source of text:
MM/11/61, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000605

From:
Thomas Romney Robinson
To:
Lord Rosse
Date:
23 September 1854
Source of text:
MM/11/62, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000818

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Peter Mark Roget
Date:
17 February 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/124, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000819

From:
Peter Mark Roget
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
17 February 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/125, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000820

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Tite
Date:
6 May 1854
Source of text:
MM/13/126, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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