From:
Achille Brachet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 November 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.210
Summary:
Concerning telescopes and their fittings, and queries relative to them. Intends to publish a work on them.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A108–A109
Summary:
History of the rose in India.
Looks forward to reading what Hooker and Thompson say on species and varieties in their Flora Indica [1855].
Domestication of the turkey in America. The Peruvians had domestic dogs. W. W. Robinson of Assam reports that otters are extensively trained for fishing but cormorants never are. Gives Robinson’s comments on local domestic geese, rabbits, and cats.
EB has skins of jungle fowl from different localities to send.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Nov 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 154
Summary:
Very impressed by Candolle’s book [Géographie botanique raisonnée (1855)]. Wants to recalculate his results.
CD’s pigeon fancy is getting on.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 November 1855
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Nov 1855
Source of text:
DAR 181: 31
Summary:
Artificiality of orders and genera in botany.
Difficulties in numerical analysis of close species in large and small genera.
HCW has "pretty strong bias towards the view that species are not immutably distinct".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project