From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 341
Summary:
Two parcels of MS [of Variation] have arrived. Will proceed with printing immediately after Christmas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
24 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 152
Summary:
Thanks WT for information about rudimentary parts in man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 127–8
Summary:
Analysis of New Zealand flora; proportion of indigenous annuals.
Uniform climates are poor in species.
Evergreen and deciduous vegetation: relationship to flora and fauna.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 287
Summary:
Discusses the South American mission.
Has been busy digging out fossil leaves from local Eocene deposits.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 310, 310b
Summary:
B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?
Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 114
Summary:
Thanks for "Climbing plants" and other papers [as requested in 5316].
Sends specimens of a variety of Primula not mentioned by CD [in Primula paper, Collected papers 2: 45–63?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 129–30
Summary:
Suggests fossil leaves go to Heer.
Agrees with CD on cut pages in books.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John William Salter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 12
Summary:
JWS is seeking financial help. He is in debt and struggling and wonders if there is any paid service he might perform for CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project