From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 209
Summary:
Some negative results in variety tabulation survey.
Galls on wild carrot.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[before 11 Sept 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 17
Summary:
Writes of the extension to Down House.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 211; DAR 115: 73a
Summary:
Representative species may complicate tabulation of varieties.
Questions for Mr Anderson about horse colouring in Norway.
Has been writing an "audacious little discussion" to show that "organic beings are not perfect, only perfect enough to struggle with their competitors".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A58–9
Summary:
Thanks JSH for his magnificent present. Hopes Hooker will bring the specimens.
Have water-fowl ever been seen at Ipswich on Mr Ransome’s great tank?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Sept [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 210
Summary:
C. F. Ledebour [Flora rossica (1842–53)] particularly useful for variety tabulation. Results generally favourable.
Additions to Down House.
Last two chapters of MS took six months to write.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
