From:
Thomas Carew Hunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1855
Source of text:
DAR 166: 282
Summary:
Answers queries on Azores fauna and flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Bashford; Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 3 July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A56
Summary:
Notes on the interbreeding of different races of silkworm. [Forwarded with explanatory note by Edward Blyth.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 July 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 192–3
Summary:
Australian Leguminosae problem: of 900 species not ten are common to southwest and southeast. No migration; hence either creation or variation.
Himalayan thistles: graded intermediates between large and small English species, "shakes species to their foundations". Similarity of CD’s and his views on species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 27
Summary:
Returns CD’s list of Azores plants with information on the distribution of the species added. Encloses a list, extracted from CD’s list, of those plants common to Europe and the Azores that were probably not introduced by man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July 1855
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 17
Summary:
Discusses how best to simulate the light at a particular point on the earth’s surface using coloured glass; considers sunlight as composed of three "principles", varying in proportion according to latitude, which affect germination, lignification, and floriation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1855
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 18
Summary:
Informs CD which colours of glass accelerate germination, lignification, and floriation; advises CD on obtaining such glass and offers his help in any experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project