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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.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 205
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
S. P. Woodward
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 360
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
C. G. B. Daubeny
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 January 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 133
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A106–A107
Summary:
Thanks for JSH’s letter, which has been of real use.
Complains of the trouble caused by reports to Government required of Benefit Clubs.
Interested in case of Canada geese with seed in crop, because means of distribution is now a great hobby.
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From:
Charles Crump
To:
Edward Blyth
Date:
[before 8 Jan 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A114–A116
Summary:
Reports upon a breed of wild cattle found in southern India. The herd is reputedly descended from a wild, red bull that mated with tame cows.
[This memorandum was forwarded to CD enclosed with 1817.]
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21
Summary:
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[14 Jan 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 6 (EH 88206455)
Summary:
Inquires about a Mr Smith, who might prove helpful "in the domestic bird line".
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From:
George Gulliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR (CD library – Gulliver, George 1846)
Summary:
Discusses the similarity in size, shape, and structure of the blood corpuscles of the Aves. Notes differences between the corpuscles of the domestic dog and some wild species.
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From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 January 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 232
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
22 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A108–A109
Summary:
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A122–A125
Summary:
Believes the goldfish originates from a wild, gold variety of Chinese carp.
Gallinaceous birds.
Crested turkeys.
EB divides the gallinaceous birds into five families on anatomical distinctions.
Wild dog species of India and Asia; ranges of some species, specific identity of others.
The fauna of the Seychelles.
Breeding of fowls in India and Africa.
Occurrence of turkeys in Africa.
Refers to some of his own papers giving fuller details of points raised previously.
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From:
William Colchester
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 January 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 98(i) and(ii)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Benjamin Maund
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 January 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 211
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Feb 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 299
Summary:
Sends Madeira specimens, including frogs recently introduced into the island, and flourishing.
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From:
S. C. Hall
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 February 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 212
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 February 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 233
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1856
Source of text:
DAR 160: 374, DAR 205.4: 97
Summary:
Has heard CD is much interested in questions relating to varieties and species. Mentions a case of a seminal variety of Colletia spinosa, described by John Lindley, which appears identical with another wild species of Colletia from S. America. Hopes CD will one day "enlighten us very much" on "the laws of species". There are many different views on the limits of species; M. F. Dunal made 50 species of Solanum which George Bentham considers are all varieties of S. nigrum.
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From:
William Clark
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 February 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 93
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
William Colchester
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 February 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 99
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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