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:
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
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From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 311
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow 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
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 83
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow 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
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[17 November 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 20
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 286
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 293
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 82
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow 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:
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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From:
William Colchester
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 November 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 100
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project