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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[17 November 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. D.
Date:
[c. February 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. February 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 16
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[25? September 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[c. 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[c. 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 23
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after June 1857]
Source of text:
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection)
Summary:
Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Hewitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Dec 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 196
Summary:
Hybrid varieties of pheasant and common fowl. Reply to CD queries.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Sept 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 17
Summary:
Writes of the extension to Down House.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 14
Summary:
Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.149)
Summary:
Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1857?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 187
Summary:
Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
[before 5 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Have all varieties been bred from the same set of eggs so that there can be no doubt they are all the same species?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 20 Jan 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 190
Summary:
CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.
CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.
CD’s method.
Diverging affinities in isolated genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (7)
Summary:
Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].
Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.
Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 115
Summary:
Sexes of algae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 48)
Summary:
Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].
Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
8 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Dr Heather Whitney (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Harvey
Date:
7 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Sheffield City Archives (Gatty family autograph albums X561/1/1)
Summary:
Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.
Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 237
Summary:
Will attend to any subject in Jamaica about which CD wants information.
Crithagra brasiliensis and canary refused to pair.
A collection of Jamaican land Mollusca will be presented to the British Museum.
Hurricanes are a considerable influence on diffusion of birds and insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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