From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[1856–7]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Thanks LH for memorandum [missing] by K. R. Lepsius.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Will attend the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club] if he possibly can.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
2 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.121)
Summary:
Thanks JMH for book of poems.
Recalls early days together. He cannot visit due to health.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Davy
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
David Schulson (dealer) (Catalogue 61, 1991)
Summary:
Delighted to hear that JD’s research is continuing. CD has heard that JD’s paper will at last be published. He is flattered by the form [as a letter addressed to CD] of communication. [See 1651a and 1819a, published in Phil. Trans. R. S. 146 (1856): 21–9 and Proc. R. S. London 8 (1856–7): 27–33.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 86)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for his help and reports on progress in "the Cock and Hen line of business". Has written to every quarter of the world for skins of poultry and pigeons.
As for seeds, Hooker and Bentham obstinately refuse to believe they can live even a few years in the ground.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
3 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A106–A107
Summary:
Thanks for JSH’s letter, which has been of real use.
Complains of the trouble caused by reports to Government required of Benefit Clubs.
Interested in case of Canada geese with seed in crop, because means of distribution is now a great hobby.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
4 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.144)
Summary:
The information correspondent hopes to get from M.-J.-P. Flourens will be valuable.
CD is keeping all varieties of pigeons, poultry, ducks, etc. for his work on variation.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
14 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1490, 1488)
Summary:
Requests that JEG secure the assistance of Samuel Birch in regard to information about varieties of domesticated animals and plants in China. Encloses memorandum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[14 Jan 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 6 (EH 88206455)
Summary:
Inquires about a Mr Smith, who might prove helpful "in the domestic bird line".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Is attempting to get skins of poultry from all quarters of the world. Wants to inspect poultry collections.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
18 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.122)
Summary:
Discusses chapter [6] on cleavage and foliation in South America. Notes especially cleavage where two series cross and cleavage as basis of foliation in metamorphosed rock. Notes foliation in rocks that have been liquefied by heat. Mentions case described in his "Geology of the Falkland Islands" [Collected papers 1: 203–12]. Discusses relationship of cleavage to beds. Speculations on association between grauwacke and clay-slates.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
19 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1491)
Summary:
Is obliged for JEG’s assistance.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
22 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A108–A109
Summary:
Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique [raisonnée (1855)] strikes him as a wonderful, admirable work.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Elliot
Date:
23 Jan 1856
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.123)
Summary:
Requests WE’s measurements of tigers.
Asks about a work on domestic pigeons in an Eastern language. Will consult [Ayeen Akbery or, the institutes of the Emperor Akber, trans. from Persian by Francis Gladwin, 2 vols. (1777, 1800)].
Asks for specimen skins of domestic pigeons and poultry. [See Variation 1: 205.]
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell
Date:
26 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.124)
Summary:
Suggests that J. E. Gray and/or G. R. Waterhouse might be willing to set her butterfly collection. Recommends that her children should collect their own butterflies.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Phillips
Date:
28 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection))
Summary:
Thanks JP for beautiful book [? The rivers, mountains and sea-coast of Yorkshire, 2d ed. (1855)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[1 Feb 1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Has been invited to see Mr Bult’s pigeons.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Feb [1856]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/4)
Summary:
Can FG use his influence with Rev. [Erhardt] to get information about domesticated poultry in Africa for CD?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Birch
Date:
6 Feb [1856]
Source of text:
British Museum (Department of the Middle East, correspondence 1826–67: 1492)
Summary:
Is grateful for SB’s note and assistance. Will call upon him in London in a fortnight.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Yarrell
Date:
6 [Feb 1856]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
"The Pigeons are all quite well".
Sends thanks to Mrs Cotton.
Contributor:
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