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DCP-LETT-1830

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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DCP-LETT-1951

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 269 (Letters), DAR 162: 38
Summary:

Responds to CD’s query about the blind fauna of Mammoth Cave.

Gives information from L. Agassiz. Distribution of Crustacea, especially along southern coastlines.

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FL-0281

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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FL-0282

From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10 December 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 13
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0380

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[20 March 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 9
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0381

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[24? March 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 10
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0382

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[2 April 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 11
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0383

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[early June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 12
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0384

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 December 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 13
Summary:

No summary available.

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FL-0385

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

DCP-LETT-11267

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:
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DCP-LETT-11799

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.

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DCP-LETT-1617

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:
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DCP-LETT-1620

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:
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DCP-LETT-1622

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.]

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DCP-LETT-1632

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1646

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 174
Summary:

Is trying to procure some cocks for CD.

Believes Scotch deerhounds are mongrels.

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DCP-LETT-1804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[26 Feb 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 8
Summary:

Writes of WED’s progress at school and events at home.

Discusses pigeons, with which he is "getting on splendidly".

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DCP-LETT-1806

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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1807

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 403
Summary:

Note on cases of representative shells that are not clearly either varieties or species.

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