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.
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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.
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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.]
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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.
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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.
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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:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A110–13, A117–21
Summary:
Encloses "notes for Mr. D" [see 1818] and a memorandum on the wild cattle of southern India [see 1819].
Breeds of silky fowl of China and Malaya. Black-skinned fowl.
Doubts any breed of canary has siskin blood; all remain true to their type.
Wild canary and finch hybrids.
Hybrids between one- and two-humped camels.
Does not regard zebra markings on asses as an indication of interbreeding but as one of the many instances of markings in the young which more or less disappear in the adult.
Crossing of Coracias species at the edges of their ranges.
Regional variations and intergrading between species of pigeons.
Regards the differences in Treron as specific [see Natural selection, p. 115 n. 1].
Gives other instances of representative species or races differing only in certain details of colouring.
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From:
John Davy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1856
Source of text:
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 8 (1856–7): 27–33
Summary:
On the vitality of the ova of the Salmonidae at different stages of development.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From:
George Gulliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
DAR (CD library – Gulliver, George 1846)
Summary:
Discusses the similarity in size, shape, and structure of the blood corpuscles of the Aves. Notes differences between the corpuscles of the domestic dog and some wild species.
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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.
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From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1856
Source of text:
DAR 98: A122–A125
Summary:
Believes the goldfish originates from a wild, gold variety of Chinese carp.
Gallinaceous birds.
Crested turkeys.
EB divides the gallinaceous birds into five families on anatomical distinctions.
Wild dog species of India and Asia; ranges of some species, specific identity of others.
The fauna of the Seychelles.
Breeding of fowls in India and Africa.
Occurrence of turkeys in Africa.
Refers to some of his own papers giving fuller details of points raised previously.
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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.
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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)].
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.39
- Tegetmeier, W. B.24
- Lubbock, John10
- Lyell, Charles10
- Woodward, S. P.10
- Fox, W. D.9
- Gray, Asa8
- Huxley, T. H.8
- Watson, H. C.8
- Harcourt, E. W. V.7
- Blyth, Edward6
- Henslow, J. S.6
- Wollaston, T. V.6
- Bunbury, C. J. F.5
- Dana, J. D.5
- Bentham, George4
- Darwin, W. E.4
- Eyton, T. C.4
- Mantell, W. B. D.4
- Berkeley, M. J.3
- Birch, Samuel3
- Edmondston, Laurence3
- Gray, J. E.3
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)3
- Royal Society of London3
- Andersson, C. J.2
- Bosquet, J. A. H. de2
- Daniell, W. F.2
- Darwin, G. H.2
- Davidson, Thomas2
- Davy, John2
- Gosse, P. H.2
- Herbert, J. M.2
- Higgins, John2
- Layard, E. L.2
- Murray, John (b)2
- Phillips, John2
- Babington, C. C.1
- Bakewell, R. H.1
- Brent, B. P.1
- Covington, Syms1
- Dickie, George1
- Elliot, Walter1
- Everest, Robert1
- Falconer, Hugh1
- Galton, Francis1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gulliver, George1
- Gurney, J. H.1
- Hancock, Albany1
- Harvey, W. H.1
- Holland, Miss1
- Horner, K. M.1
- Horner, Leonard1
- Hotham, Harriet1
- Hutton, Thomas1
- Lowe, R. T.1
- Lubbock, Harriet1
- Lyell, K. M.1
- Mackintosh, F. E. E.1
- Morris, John1
- Norman, Ebenezer1
- Oldfield, H. A.1
- Quatrefages de Bréau, Armand de Quatrefages1
- Reed, G. V.1
- Richardson, John1
- Robillard, Victor de1
- Sabine, Edward1
- Spencer, Herbert1
- Stainton, H. T.1
- Thompson, John1
- Thwaites, G. H. K.1
- Unidentified1
- Wallace, Peter1
- Wedgwood, F. E. E.1
- Wedgwood, Godfrey1
- Westwood, J. O.1
- Yarrell, William1