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From:
W. C. Trevelyan
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 345
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 January 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 10
Summary:
Writes in relation to a batch of lenses for JSH, includes a list of lens types and a price for the whole batch. Includes instructions for mounting them.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 January 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 11
Summary:
Discusses intention to rectify error in sending books to JSH and arranges receipt of batch of lenses by JSH.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 January 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 174
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 January 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 264
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
John Davy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 227
Summary:
Responds to CD’s letter. The ova of Salmonidae exposed to air, if kept moist, will stay alive up to 72 hours.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 January 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 177
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 251
Summary:
The only mainland vegetation he saw on Falkland Island shores were trees. Remembers no strange birds there, but on journey home saw a woodcock more than 500 miles from the nearest land.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Feb – Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 5
Summary:
Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Rae
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1855
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 249
Summary:
Comments on possibility of transport of seeds of Arctic plants by ice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 February 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 298 & 298(ii)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Edward Knox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Mar 1855-7
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 243
Summary:
CD has suggested an explanation of how pike were introduced to a remote lake in Ireland by cormorants [carrying pike spawn on their feet or in their gullets].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 136
Summary:
Hybrid insects.
Description of the Salvages.
Variability of "transition groups" of insects; relation of variability to ranges of insects. The variability of wings, even within species. Reduction of flying ability on isolated islands.
Forbes’s "Atlantis" theory and insect fauna of the Atlantic islands, considered with regard to insect migrations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 47: 133–4
Summary:
Gives instances of sexual differences in the number of tarsi within species of Coleoptera and also variation in the number of tarsi between related species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 216–17
Summary:
CD’s tabulation of colonists curious but explicable.
Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian distribution: Tasmania and Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New South Wales.
Trying to establish new journal at Linnean.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
7 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 126
Summary:
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.
T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Roach Smith
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 March 1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 321
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 20
Summary:
Comparison of skulls of Ichthyosaurus and Cetacea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
13 Mar 1855
Source of text:
DAR 93: A25
Summary:
Acknowledges a list [of plants?].
Looks forward to new edition [of British plants growing wild in the parish of Hitcham, Suffolk, 2d ed. (1855)].
JSH should not trouble about Anacharis until he is less busy. Will send cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 17 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 210–13
Summary:
JDH criticises C. J. F. Bunbury’s paper on Madeira [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 1 (1857): 1–35].
Absence of Ophrys on Madeira suggests to JDH a sequence in creation of groups.
Why are flightless insects common in desert?
Australian endemism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
