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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[December 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 34
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 256
Summary:
Examining JDH’s list. CD struck by how many plants are common to Europe, S. America, and Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[9 Dec 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A18, A25–8
Summary:
Approves of WED’s moving into CD’s old rooms [at Christ’s College]. Gives fatherly advice on Cambridge’s temptation to idleness. Christmas plans.
Health poor of late.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
W. H. Miller
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
9 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 103
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
15 December [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 22
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 166: 289
Summary:
K. E. von Baer’s view of the air bladder of fishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 81
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 128–30
Summary:
Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.
Still regards plant types as older than animal types.
The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 257
Summary:
Wide-ranging species more "improved" than relics in small areas because they exist in large numbers and thus are subject to intense competition.
His abstract is 330 folio pages long so far.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 Dec 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 125–6
Summary:
JDH cannot abide CD’s connection of wide-ranging species and "highness". Australian flora contradicts this in many ways.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
27 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IIG.32
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 398
Summary:
Responds to CD’s queries about the thickness of various geological formations. [See Origin, p. 284.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Dec [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 35
Summary:
Replies at length to JDH’s worried reaction to his comments on lowness of Australian plants. CD distinguishes between "competitive highness", i.e., which fauna would be exterminated and which survive if two faunas were placed in competition, and ordinary "highness" of classification.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
31 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 288
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project