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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1857?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 187
Summary:

Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.

Contributor:
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From:
J. Knightly Ince
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1857–61?]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 20 (EH 88206072)
Summary:

Translates some German terms describing colour of horses.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (7)
Summary:

Thanks AG for 2d part of "Statistics [of the flora of the northern U. S.", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 22 (1856): 204–32; 2d ser. 23 (1857): 62–84, 369–403].

Is glad AG concludes species of large genera are wide-ranging, but is "riled" that he thinks the line of connection of alpine plants is through Greenland. Mentions comparisons of ranges worth investigating.

Believes trees show a tendency toward separation of the sexes and wonders if U. S. species bear this out. Asks which genera are protean in U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 115
Summary:

Sexes of algae.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 48)
Summary:

Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].

Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Harvey
Date:
7 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Sheffield City Archives (Gatty family autograph albums X561/1/1)
Summary:

Thanks for information, which is just the amount he wanted.

Will not go to the BAAS meeting in Dublin: the frightful voyage deters him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
8 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
Dr Heather Whitney (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for a kind note, and asks not to answer until better.

Contributor:
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From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 237
Summary:

Will attend to any subject in Jamaica about which CD wants information.

Crithagra brasiliensis and canary refused to pair.

A collection of Jamaican land Mollusca will be presented to the British Museum.

Hurricanes are a considerable influence on diffusion of birds and insects.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 394
Summary:

Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.

Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 188
Summary:

CD will advise W. F. Daniell on collecting.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 1 (EH 88205939)
Summary:

Asks THH question on flow of glaciers after ice has been fractured and fragmented.

CD had to leave Royal Society lecture [joint paper by THH and J. Tyndall, "On the structure and motions of glaciers", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 327–46] before the end because of headache.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 189
Summary:

CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.

CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 20 Jan 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 190
Summary:

CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.

CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.

CD’s method.

Diverging affinities in isolated genera.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
24 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (MC17: 336)
Summary:

Feels unqualified to offer advice on research by the expedition; he has never attended to natural history of the region. Suggests collecting Carboniferous plants and studying the geographical extension of sea-borne erratic boulders.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
25 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 20 (EH 88206469)
Summary:

Dining with the Lubbocks.

JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 235
Summary:

Sends specimens of Tortrix, which illustrate the extraordinary variation of markings in two or three species. In every family of Lepidoptera there seem to be species extremely prone to vary and in some localities they vary more than in others.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 104)
Summary:

Thanks THH for his response on glacial movement. Hopes Tyndall will experiment on broken ice and explain how two pieces of ice can freeze together.

Sorry to hear of THH’s row with Richard Owen.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 2 (EH 88205940)
Summary:

CD is "as ignorant of mechanics as a pig", but glaciers have interested him greatly. Hopes to hear that JT’s experiments with ice will explain the freezing together of ice below the freezing point.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
[before 5 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Have all varieties been bred from the same set of eggs so that there can be no doubt they are all the same species?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 236
Summary:

The variations of Peronea caused A. H. Haworth and J. F. Stephens to create 30 or 40 species based on colour and markings. HD was first to be convinced these would be reduced to two.

Discusses species that closely resemble one another;

cites species that differ in variation in different localities;

in some double-brooded species the broods differ markedly in size and colour.

Encloses his list of varieties of Peronea.

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