From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 138
Summary:
Variability of certain features within insect genera.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[1 Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 5 (EH 88206454)
Summary:
Discusses arthropod structure and the nature of the corium.
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From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 165: 95
Summary:
Outlines the ranges of northern U. S. species common to Europe. Hopes to investigate the resemblances between the floras of the north-eastern U. S. and western Europe. Discusses routes by which alpine plants appear to have reached U. S.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 100: 105–10
Summary:
JDH approves MS section on geographical distribution.
Never felt so shaky about species before.
His objections to some mechanisms of distribution that CD proposes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
C. J. F. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 November 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 296
Summary:
Greatly interested in CD’s experiments with seeds in salt water [see "Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Believes CD exaggerates the force of the objection, against migration, that seeds tend to sink.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11–12 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 181
Summary:
CD relieved by JDH’s positive response to his MS.
CD continues observations on means of transport.
JDH’s Raoul Island paper [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 22 (1857): 133–41], showing continuity of vegetation with New Zealand, best evidence yet of continental extension.
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From:
Thomas Bell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 November 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 17
Summary:
Makes arrangements for Linnean Society meeting. Discusses local politics and ‘Memoranda’ written by JSH.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 November 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 84
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin; George Howard Darwin
Date:
13 [Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 10
Summary:
Describes the funeral of Aunt Sarah [Elizabeth Wedgwood].
Contributor:
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From:
William Freeman Daniell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 270, 271
Summary:
Believes he can give CD information on Mammalia of St Thomas [São Tomé, Gulf of Guinea]. Quotes from a Portuguese history of the islands on unique species of monkeys and civet cats found there.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 182
Summary:
CD finds JDH’s objections to a mundane cold period significant, and he endeavours to show how they do not rule out mutability.
He is writing on crossing.
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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 November 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 183
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 183
Summary:
CD encloses letter from Asa Gray, although it is critical of JDH.
Role of struggle in forming species in retreat from advancing glaciers.
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From:
Frederick Temple
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 November 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 343
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A7–A10
Summary:
Discusses means of seed transport.
Considers the difficulty of deciding which, if any, botanical species are real.
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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 207: 15
Summary:
He is not sure whether he has seen Subularia flowering above the water, but thinks it probably is an aerial flowerer, at least sometimes.
Has been unable to find an anonymous book on pigeons in the University Library.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 100: 111–12
Summary:
Continued debate on formation of species as a result of retreat from glaciers.
JDH suggests internal powers of species modification, which he knows CD abhors.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 184
Summary:
CD, attempting to clarify debate, states more of his position. External conditions cause "mere variability". Formation of species due to selection. Relation of an organism to its associates far more important than external conditions.
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