From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[June 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 222b
Summary:
Request for Floras of Pacific Islands and Greenland.
Individual variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1857
Source of text:
DAR 8: 47bA
Summary:
Comments on species with disjoined ranges; does not feel, despite CD’s expectations, that they tend to belong to small families.
Gives the proportion of U. S. trees in which the sexes are separate [see Natural selection, p. 62].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 199
Summary:
Qualifications of John Lindley, Huxley, Albany Hancock, Joseph Prestwich, J. C. Ross, and Francis Beaufort for Royal Medal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
2 June [1857]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Lowell Autograph File 84)
Summary:
Supports nomination of John Lindley for award of Royal Medal of the Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 200
Summary:
"Law" [see 2092] correlating variability and abnormal development not confirmed by JDH for plants.
CD studies struggle for existence in his weed garden.
Scotch fir observed at Moor Park.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 201
Summary:
Royal Society medals.
Correlation of variability and abnormal development is G. R. Waterhouse’s law. Relation of this law to polymorphism.
Colouring and marks of ancestral horse deduced from facts observed in pigeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
9 June [1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.146)
Summary:
Comments on TCE’s work [Catalogue of the species of birds in his collection (1856)].
Mentions African dog’s skin.
Asks about colours of horses
and about variation in tracheae of male birds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 13 June 1857]
Source of text:
Gloucestershire Archives (T. C. Morton deposit D1021/8/4)
Summary:
Requests information from readers on breeding of dun or mouse-coloured ponies with a dark stripe down their backs. Must one or both parents be dun?
Contributor:
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 207: 20
Summary:
Sends a reference to Subularia which bears on a query CD made some time ago [see 2002]. Subularia was seen to flower in the air in a remarkably dry season.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 June [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (9a)
Summary:
Thanks for AG’s remarks on disjoined species. CD’s notions are based on belief that disjoined species have suffered much extinction, which is the common cause of small genera and disjoined ranges.
Discusses out-crossing in plants.
Has failed to meet with a detailed account of regular and normal impregnation in the bud. Podostemon, Subularia, and underwater Leguminosae are the strongest cases against him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[18 June 1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Is glad WBT is investigating "the tail question"; hopes he will work out "down & colour point". Is much interested in runts, which seem to vary more than other breeds.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
23 June [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
CD anxious to examine rumpless chick 24 hours before hatching.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 June [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 205
Summary:
Seedling leaves of gorse look like clover leaves. This is like young lions being striped. Thus, laws of animal embryology apply to plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
25 [June 1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Needs only one nearly-hatched chick.
Has all published numbers of Poultry book [1856–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
26 [June 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.147)
Summary:
Ill.
Comments on TCE’s study of birds’ bones.
His work on variation progresses.
Asks about horses with bars like zebra or ass.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27] June 1857
Source of text:
DAR 100: 115
Summary:
Embryology of plants of low systematic order. Comparative development begins only with first post-cotyledonary leaves.
Curt letter to JDH from George Henslow.
Contributor:
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