From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 21
Summary:
Is trying to find a tutor for WED.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 16: 223
Summary:
He was unaware that varieties occurred proportionately more in large genera.
Recommends a work [Leonard Gyllenhaal, Insecta Suecica, 4 vols. (1808–27)] for tabulating varieties.
Lists "close geographical representatives of Europaean species" based on the species numbers [in T. V. Wollaston, Catalogue of the coleopterous insects of Madeira (1857)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
2 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/42)
Summary:
Has TCE observed whether hybrids of Chinese and common forms [of geese] were wilder, or less tame, than both parents?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 192
Summary:
Responds to CD’s article on kidney beans [Collected papers 1: 275–7]. Sends beans as evidence of crossing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 11.2: 65a
Summary:
Sends drawings of two forms of workers of Cryptocerus discocephalus in response to CD’s request for examples of insects whose workers show disparity of form.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , 14 November 1857, p. 779
Summary:
Asks writer of an article on weeds why he supposes "there is too much reason to believe that foreign seed of an indigenous species is often more prolific than that grown at home?" The point is of interest to CD "in regard to the great battle of life which is perpetually going on all around us". Cites analogous observations by Asa Gray and J. D. Hooker. Does writer know "of any other analogous cases of a weed introduced from another land beating out … a weed previously common in any particular field or farm?"
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[before 12 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 58)
Summary:
Glad THH has taken up aphid question versus Owen ["On the agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–236].
Fertilisation and inheritance discussed. Speculates that fertilisation may be a mixture rather than a fusion. Can understand in no other way why crossed forms tend to go back to ancestral forms.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
12 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
W. E. Praeger 1935 , p. 714
Summary:
The [Irish] rabbits arrived safely. "They shall be skeletonized." CD now has rabbits from Shetland, Madeira and Ireland; hopes to receive one from Jamaica.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Coe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 161: 193
Summary:
More on kidney bean crosses.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 [Nov 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 215
Summary:
Rule that species vary most in larger genera seems universal.
Response to Gardeners’ Chronicle note on "Bees and kidney beans" [Collected papers 1: 275–7].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Williams & Norgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 91: 81
Summary:
CD is informed that a certain work [unspecified] is not available separately.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 213
Summary:
Mrs J. S. Henslow’s illness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
21 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
When he has reviewed his work, he will give up pigeons and will probably give them away next summer. Wants a few Malay eggs in the spring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[22 Nov 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 22 (EH 88206471)
Summary:
Huxley and William Sharpey praise JL’s paper [? on Daphnia, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 79–100] at Philosophical Club.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
23 Nov 1857
Source of text:
DAR 144: 20
Summary:
Can HF ask Col. E. Dickie [probably Col. Edward John Dickey] enclosed questions about Indian horses? [Questions relate to striped markings on the Kutch breed of horses.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
29 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (22 October 2014)
Summary:
Asking for specific information about reproduction in barnacles.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
29 Nov [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (18)
Summary:
Thanks AG for his criticisms of CD’s views; finds it difficult to avoid using the term "natural selection" as an agent.
Discusses crossing in Fumaria and barnacles.
Has received a naturally crossed kidney bean in which the seed-coat has been affected by the pollen of the fertilising plant.
Finds the rule of large genera having most varieties holds good and regards it as most important for his "principle of divergence".
Contributor:
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