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DCP-LETT-1584

From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. June 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 1
Summary:

Reports that he sees the oxlip, cowslip, and primrose as really distinct species; hybrids are formed between any two.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel12993

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[1855-6 or later]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0406; Reel 1055
Summary:

Transfer of annuity to Mrs. Baldwin from JH's account as executor for Thomas Baldwin. Julia and Constance [Herschel] doing well at Anstey Cottage. News of [Isabella] is not good. Margaret had bad time but is now comfortable.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1091

From:
William Thomson
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 1, 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/13, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1692

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 June [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 134
Summary:

Asks JDH not to send H. C. Watson’s paper on Azores plants [Hooker’s Lond. J. Bot. 2 (1843): 1–9, 125–31, 394–408; 3 (1844): 582–617; 6 (1847): 380–97].

CD cannot endure trying all the Azorean seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1092

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
3rd June 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/603, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-13831

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
3 June [1855]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Accepts invitation for the 20th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1693

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 June [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 135
Summary:

Seeds: worried they will turn into another barnacle job.

Studies plants colonising abandoned field.

Experiment on plant sleep movements.

CD objects to "Atlantis" because no evidence; does not affect species theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13545

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
A. J. Stotherd
Date:
[5 June 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0767; Reel 1089
Summary:

JH has no knowledge of government's plan to issue Benedetto Pistrucci's Waterloo medallion to public.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1694

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–9 June 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 90–3
Summary:

Finds Forbes’s continental theories, migration, and double creation are all unsatisfactory explanations of geographical distribution of plants.

Is currently working on problems of sea transport of plant species.

European plants on Australian Alps only explicable by double creations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1093

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
Frankland, 202, JRL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1094

From:
Thomas Archer Hirst
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June | Wednesday. Morn
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/484, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1695

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 June [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (2)
Summary:

Suggests AG append ranges to the species in the new edition of his Manual.

Is interested in comparing the flora of U. S. with that of Britain and wishes to know the proportions to the whole of the great leading families and the numbers of species within genera. Would welcome information on which species AG considers to be "close" in the U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1095

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1006, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1696

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 June [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 136
Summary:

Detailed response to JDH’s critique of sea transport and continental connection theories. JDH’s claim that low plants are widely distributed fits both theories.

Species theory does not touch origin of life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 June [1855]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether THH will attend Council of Royal Society and speak for him on Joachim Barrande and J. D. Dana.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1096

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
June 11 1855
Source of text:
MS JT/1/L/47, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-1698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
11 June [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 93)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for specimens and his great help to CD in his work on variations in young and adult ducks and poultry. Has found feet of tame adult ducks weigh twice as much as those of wild ones.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
12 June [1855]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA 6001/134/43)
Summary:

Thanks for approval of seed-soaking experiments in Gardeners’ Chronicle ["Does sea-water kill seeds?", 26 May 1855; Collected papers 1: 255–8]. They seem not to have convinced Hooker of consequences for geographical distribution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1700

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [June 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 137
Summary:

Thanks for Hedysarum.

Pleasure in identifying field plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13036

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[James Calder] Stewart
Date:
[16 June 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0449; Reel 1055
Summary:

Thanks for report of JS's position. [Lucy?] is at Mr. Buillier's.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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