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DCP-LETT-1870

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 May [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 161
Summary:

Lyell urges CD to publish a sketch of species theory; CD asks JDH’s opinion on best course.

Concerned about opposition, particularly by Owen, to Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.

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DCP-LETT-1874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 May [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 162
Summary:

CD is unsure about JDH’s recommendation that he publish a separate "Preliminary Essay". It is unphilosophical to publish without full details.

CD will work for Huxley’s admission to Athenaeum.

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HENSLOW-442

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 May 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 71
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-443

From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 May 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 327
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [May 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 163
Summary:

Huxley’s "vehement" [Royal Institution?] Lectures make it difficult to propose him for Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1883

From:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1856
Source of text:
DAR 166: 100
Summary:

Extensive notes on Madeiran birds: when and where seen on the island and under what conditions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-1885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 164
Summary:

CD (and Emma) had a good laugh over JDH’s mortified response to a misinterpretation (in print) concerning his position on multiple creation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1889

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 303
Summary:

SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.

Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.

Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].

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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.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1890

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 72: 59–61
Summary:

Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1891

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 181: 32
Summary:

Answers CD’s questions about plants common to U. S. and Britain and their distribution in Europe.

Variability of agrarian weeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-445

From:
Joseph George Cumming
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 106
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-444

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 285
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[8 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 4 (EH 88206452)
Summary:

Wishes to borrow fly pincers for his son George.

Discusses T. V. Wollaston’s book on insect variation [On the variation of species (1856)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-446

From:
H. T. Stainton
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 June 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 328
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1898

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 181: 33
Summary:

Evidence relevant to E. Forbes’s land-bridge theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
[after 10 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 52
Summary:

Do the plants that are common to Europe and North America nearly all live north of the Arctic Circle? CD bases his question on HCW’s "capital" comparison between relations of Europe to North America and Europe to E. Asia if the intervening land had been submerged. CD has been led to speculate that in the mid-Pliocene the organisms now living in middle Europe and northern U. S. lived within the Arctic Circle. Subsequent movements of this flora with advance and retreat of glaciers would explain present distribution better than Forbes’s vast submergences.

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DCP-LETT-1900

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
12 [June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 3 (EH 88206450)
Summary:

Smallpox in the village. Death of Joseph Parslow’s son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1903

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
16 June [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A110–11
Summary:

Sends a cultivated specimen of Myosotis (first generation) grown from seed sent by JSH. Asks for a tuft of flower.

Hopes JSH will publish a book on teaching botany, because he has no idea how to begin with his children.

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