From:
Adalbert Adolf Mühry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.376
Summary:
Letter accompanying AM's book on climatology.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Arthur-Auguste De La Rive
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
19 December 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Bentham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[16 or 17 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 151
Summary:
Returns CD’s lists [sent with 2184]. Confusion in genera of Silene is great in continental botanic gardens. One would have to know whether C. F. v. Gärtner had the right names for species in his experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Bishop
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
3 Dec 1857
Source of text:
DAR 160: 189
Summary:
Gives observations to be forwarded to CD of impregnation in Balanus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Buckman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 2 January 1858, p. 11
Summary:
Discusses the relative growth of native and foreign weeds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 December 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 66 & 66(ii) & 66(iii)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Darwin
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 December 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library, DAR 92, 31-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 December 1857
Source of text:
RS MS 241, f.151
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Christopher Hansteen
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
30 December 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3)
Summary:
Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.
Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.
Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 216
Summary:
Inquiries on effect of dry heat on temperate plants for glacial chapter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
Date:
8 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A31–2
Summary:
Asks whether British or north European perennial plants can, under cultivation, withstand the climate of S. Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 Dec 1857
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 217
Summary:
Survey of species with well-marked varieties: JDH’s Labiatae case a "great blow", but result is very generally consistent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
13 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 258–62)
Summary:
Thanks for offer of pigeons, if breeding is successful; hopes to go to poultry show to see them.
Several questions about the Boz or Booz pigeon of Tunis.
If any of EWVH’s birds die and he does not want the skin, perhaps he would send it to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681
Summary:
For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Harcourt dep. adds. 346, fols. 263–4)
Summary:
Will not accept invitation to Hastings, or offer to send pigeons to Down.
Is looking forward to seeing pigeons at Crystal Palace poultry show.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 151); DAR 145: 178
Summary:
THH’s catalogue [THH and R. Etheridge, A catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865), part published in 1857] best résumé he has seen of science of natural history. On classification he is not quite sure that he wholly goes along with THH. Encloses a few criticisms of THH’s preface.[enclosure survives as copy only].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 105)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for his letter about a rabbit breed that he thinks is the Himalaya. He is particularly glad to hear of it because it breeds so true.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a)
Summary:
Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project