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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[6 September 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10 December 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 13
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[20 March 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24? March 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 April 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[early June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 December 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 13
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[late 1856 to early 1857?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 14
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society of London
Date:
27 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Science and Philosophy Collection, gift of J. Christian Bay)
Summary:
Orders Andrew Knight’s paper ["An account of some experiments on the fecundation of vegetables", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1799): 195–204] and J. E. Gray’s book [Gleanings from the menagerie and aviary at Knowsley Hall (1846)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
17 Nov [1856-7]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.62–63)
Summary:
Asks JM for four copies of his Journal of researches [2d ed.] at wholesale price. Also asks for total number of copies sold.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1856
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/98)
Summary:
Mr Hardy, CD’s tenant at Beesby, has spent £105 on improvements to the farm. JH suggests different ways of recompensing the tenant, and asks for CD’s decision.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov [1856-7]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.54–55)
Summary:
Thanks for gift [of books requested in 1026]. Sale is a good deal more than he had anticipated.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 111: A75–6
Summary:
Cites cases of leguminous plants whose cleistogamic flowers produce more seed than perfect flowers. [See Forms of flowers, p. 326.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 77: 170
Summary:
Informs CD that in his experience with peas he has never found the seed to deteriorate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 May [1856]
Source of text:
J. Hancock 1886, pp. 277–8
Summary:
Wants accurate information on "the economy of nature". Is interested in how far the struggle with other species checks the northern range of any species.
Thanks John Storey for information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hall Bakewell
Date:
30 Apr [1856-68]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (4 June 2008)
Summary:
Thanks for case of inherited malconformation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
[before 9 May 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 73: 159
Summary:
Adds comments to a list of Cape of Good Hope plants which are also European and gives some additions to the list [see Natural selection, p. 552].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[29 July 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 13 (EH 88206462)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot help JL; the point [unspecified] was always a trouble to CD also.
Has been to a poultry show.
Asks for the return of a lens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 162–3
Summary:
JDH not happy with CD’s explanation of the absence of north temperate forms in the Southern Hemisphere, given his explanation for the spread of sub-arctic forms to the south. [CD’s note is in response to JDH’s criticism.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
