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DCP-LETT-2201

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 220
Summary:

On papilionaceous flowers and CD’s theory that there are no eternal hermaphrodites. Connects this theory to absence of small-flowered legumes in New Zealand and the absence of small bees as pollinators.

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DCP-LETT-2201F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 265–8)
Summary:

Went to the show and saw EWVH’s birds.

Thinks he will give up his pigeons at the end of the summer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2202

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 108)
Summary:

Asks to borrow W. C. Hewitson’s book [British oology, 2 vols. (1831–44)].

CD is searching for reliable information on slight variations in the degree of perfection of nests of the same species of birds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2203

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 221
Summary:

CD has never doubted probability of Bering Strait land connection.

Family illness.

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DCP-LETT-2205

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
17 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has received Burmese fowls’ skins from Walter Elliot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A50–1
Summary:

Mrs Henslow’s death stirs reminiscences of happier days.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
26 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Harris Manchester College Library, Oxford (Letter book D and Letter book D Add.)
Summary:

Asks WBC to plant some kidney beans [on Holy Island near Arran] and to see whether they are ever visited by bees. If no bees visit the island, it would be "curious" to observe what plants grow there.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:

Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
31 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 109)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for information on blackbirds’ nests [see Natural selection, p. 505].

Problem of choosing from among the load of curious facts for chapter on "Instinct" [Natural selection, ch. 10; Origin, ch. 7] perplexes him.

Asks about behaviour of chicks in danger and whether crossed animals are wilder than either parent.

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