From:
Edgar Leopold Layard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept–Oct 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 185–6
Summary:
Preference of stallions for hybrid mares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Peter Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 261
Summary:
Reports on the naturalised animal life of Ascension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean Aimé Victor (Victor) de Robillard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 286
Summary:
C. T. Beke has communicated to the Mauritius Natural History Society a letter he received from CD. VdeR attempts to answer questions on transport of seeds by the ocean.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Sept 1856
Source of text:
DAR 165: 94
Summary:
Plants that are social in the U. S. but are not so in the Old World.
Distribution of U. S. species common to Europe.
Gives Theodor Engelmann’s opinion on the relative variability of indigenous and introduced plants and notes the effects of man’s settlement on the numbers and distribution of indigenous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
