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DCP-LETT-2626

From:
J. B. Bacon
To:
Elizabeth Pew, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Copland, Lady Drysdale; Elizabeth Drysdale, Lady Drysdale
Date:
[1857–62?]
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 93
Summary:

Heath is generally cut every six years, often in order to provide young growth for grazing. Also, the heath is in good condition for burning at six years growth.

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DCP-LETT-2029

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1857?]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 187
Summary:

Will be grateful for facts from Mr Linton on numbers of eggs from goldfinch–canary crosses.

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DCP-LETT-6538

From:
J. Knightly Ince
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1857–61?]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 20 (EH 88206072)
Summary:

Translates some German terms describing colour of horses.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-604

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 204
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-606

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 206
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FL-1095

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[c. 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 22
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1096

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[c. 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-2035

From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 166: 115
Summary:

Sexes of algae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2038

From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 237
Summary:

Will attend to any subject in Jamaica about which CD wants information.

Crithagra brasiliensis and canary refused to pair.

A collection of Jamaican land Mollusca will be presented to the British Museum.

Hurricanes are a considerable influence on diffusion of birds and insects.

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DCP-LETT-2039

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 Jan 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 394
Summary:

Enumerates fossil mammals known in Secondary strata.

Lack of angiosperm plants in rocks older than Chalk is no reason to anticipate rarity of warm-blooded quadrupeds.

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DCP-LETT-2040

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 188
Summary:

CD will advise W. F. Daniell on collecting.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2041

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 1 (EH 88205939)
Summary:

Asks THH question on flow of glaciers after ice has been fractured and fragmented.

CD had to leave Royal Society lecture [joint paper by THH and J. Tyndall, "On the structure and motions of glaciers", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 327–46] before the end because of headache.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2042

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 189
Summary:

CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.

CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.

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DCP-LETT-2033

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[after 20 Jan 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 190
Summary:

CD finds Alphonse de Candolle very useful, though JDH has low opinion.

CD argues for accidental introductions explaining some odd distributions, e.g., New Zealand vs Australian plants.

CD’s method.

Diverging affinities in isolated genera.

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DCP-LETT-3413

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
25 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 20 (EH 88206469)
Summary:

Dining with the Lubbocks.

JL’s paper on respiration of insects ["On the distribution of the tracheae in insects", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1860–2): 23–50].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-2044

From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1857
Source of text:
DAR 162: 235
Summary:

Sends specimens of Tortrix, which illustrate the extraordinary variation of markings in two or three species. In every family of Lepidoptera there seem to be species extremely prone to vary and in some localities they vary more than in others.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-469

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 January 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 234
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-470

From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 January 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 309(i) & (ii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FL-0386

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. D.
Date:
[c. February 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0387

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. February 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 16
Summary:

No summary available.

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