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DCP-LETT-2421

From:
Thomas Mayo Brewer
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
[Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 305, 305/1, 305/2
Summary:

Writes regarding CD’s query on yellow-billed cuckoo and the laying of eggs in other birds’ nests.

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DCP-LETT-2231

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A146–7
Summary:

States his belief that there is a tendency to note varieties in the larger genera rather than in the very small ones.

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DCP-LETT-2233

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
4 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 21)
Summary:

Notes views of Hooker and George Bentham on monotypic forms.

Has tabulated several floras and finds that large genera show preponderance in numbers of varieties. Now sees his results are quite worthless.

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HENSLOW-496

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 March 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 236
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2235

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 [Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 226
Summary:

C. C. Babington agrees with JDH that botanists tend to note varieties more in large genera than in very small ones.

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DCP-LETT-2235A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Smith
Date:
[before 9 Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR Pamphlet collection (bound with Smith, Frederick (a) 1854)
Summary:

Four queries regarding the habits of bees and ants with answers by FS interlined between each query.

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HENSLOW-497

From:
John Phillips
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 March 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 255
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 227
Summary:

Heartened that tabulations of small and large genera done in different ways yield good results. JDH has done some tabulations but has not followed CD’s method of getting equal numbers of small and large genera.

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FL-0389

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[11? March 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 18
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-2239

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Mar [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 228
Summary:

JDH’s "objection" that small local genera do not vary and mundane ones do, is exactly CD’s point. Local floras useful to test idea that varieties are incipient species. Same genus in different countries cannot be lumped.

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HENSLOW-498

From:
Henry Philpott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 March 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 259
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2240

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 182–5
Summary:

Summary of JDH’s objections to CD’s survey of floras and conclusion that large genera vary more than small.

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HENSLOW-499

From:
Henry Philpott
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 March 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 260
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2242

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 229
Summary:

Thanks JDH for his objections; will respond by sending fair copy of MS when written.

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DCP-LETT-2243

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Mar 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 115e–f
Summary:

Continued objections to methods and conclusions of CD’s survey.

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HENSLOW-500

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 March 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 237
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2245

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Mar 1858
Source of text:
DAR 98: A23–4
Summary:

Discusses the ranges of species in large and small genera; difficulties involved in limiting the discussion to Britain.

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DCP-LETT-1808

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Mar 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 16–17
Summary:

Extracts from MS of vol. 4 of HCW’s Cybele Britannica [1847–59] showing the diversity of views on species among botanists.

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HENSLOW-501

From:
C. W. Dilke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 March 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 114
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2397

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
30 [Mar? 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 23 (EH 88206472)
Summary:

Comments and criticisms on JL’s paper [possibly: "On the development of Chloëon dimidiatum", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 24 (1863): 61–78].

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