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DCP-LETT-2050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.145)
Summary:

Discusses a proposed expedition to Australia. Urges collecting and investigating productions of isolated islands. Recommends dredging the sea-bottom.

Mentions keeping Helix pomatia alive in sea-water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1335

From:
Oscar Schulze
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
den 11tn Febr. 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/60, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2051

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
11 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD is sending two pairs of Persian fowl, from Hon. C. Murray.

Thanks WBT for various offers: a drake, a young silk fowl, a rumpless chick.

The German pouters are not old-fashioned ones but fancy birds, probably crosses since they do not breed true.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2053

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 165: 96
Summary:

Discusses the ranges of alpine species in U. S. and considers the possible migration routes of such species from Europe.

Lists those U. S. genera which he considers protean and describes the U. S. character of some genera which are protean in Europe.

Describes how he distinguishes introduced and aboriginal stocks of the same species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1337

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1896, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1336

From:
Walter Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb. 16th.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1896, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2025

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.149)
Summary:

Recommends he read passages on bees by C. T. E. von Siebold [in On the true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1857)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1805

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[17 Feb 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 14
Summary:

Is glad WED is in the sixth [form]. Discusses WED’s intention to become a barrister.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1338

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Tuesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1189; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2113, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1339

From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
Wednesday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1897, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2054

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has some fowls from Sir James Brooke, which WBT might like to display at Zoological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1340

From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19 Fevrier 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/62, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1341

From:
Charles Babbage
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21 Feb 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/B/1; MS JT/1/TYP/1/136, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1342

From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
21 February 1857.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/471-2, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2056

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
22 Feb 1857
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 255
Summary:

Sends news of his family, Sulivan, and FitzRoy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2057

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
22 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 101–2)
Summary:

Helix pomatia is quite healthy after 20 days’ submersion in salt water.

On peas, the evidence is on WDF’s side, but CD cannot see how they can avoid being crossed.

He is working hard, wishes he "could set less value on the bauble fame"; would work as hard, but with less gusto, if he knew his book would be published forever anonymously.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2058

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
23 Feb [1857]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends cheque for subscription [£20].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1343

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feby. 25th. | 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/164; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1899, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1344

From:
Henry Clifton Sorby
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Feb. 26/57.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/4/1347-8, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2059

From:
Jean Aimé Victor (Victor) de Robillard
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 287
Summary:

The species of Mollusca at Mauritius are almost all different from those of surrounding islands, which confirms the belief that the islands were elevated from the ocean rather than separated from the continent by volcanic action.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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