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DCP-LETT-716F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
1 Dec [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/22) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

Robert Brown has cast much doubt on the integrity of the seed-planting experiment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-717

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1843
Source of text:
DAR 100: 1–4
Summary:

Thanks for use of CD’s collection.

Comments and queries on the botany of the Southern Hemisphere.

Looks forward to seeing CD’s Galapagos plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-718

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[3 or 17] Dec 1843
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 3)
Summary:

Comments on GRW’s paper [Rep. BAAS (1843): 65–7; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 (1843): 399–412]. CD says by "link" between any two groups he never understood a half-way link, merely one in a long series. Observes that one cannot have a simple species intermediate between two great families. Criticises GRW’s use of circles to represent groups, which leads to thinking that groups are of equal value.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-719

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1843
Source of text:
DAR 154: 87
Summary:

Thanks SD for some furniture. Describes arrangement of furnishing at Down and work carried out on the grounds. Children are "very full of their approaching lessons".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-720

From:
William Kemp
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1843
Source of text:
DAR 50: A19–20
Summary:

Describes circumstances surrounding discovery of seed in sand-pit. Encloses certificates testifying to the good character of the men involved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-720F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
7 Dec [1843]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/25) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

Has sent WK’s paper to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Kemp 1844).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-721

From:
Francis Walker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1843
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 294
Summary:

Chalcidites collected by CD are all similar to those of Europe. Mentions other specimens quite different from European forms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-722

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 2
Summary:

Thanks JDH for short sketch of botanical geography of Southern Hemisphere. Comments on his own S. American collections and observations; notes other Galapagos collections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-723

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Dec 1843 – 11 Jan 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 206–7
Summary:

Henslow has sent him CD’s Galapagos plants along with Macrae’s. JDH impressed by the island endemism, which "overturns all our preconceived notions" on centres of radiation. Describes the extent, and the sharp demarcation at longitude 60° W, of the American and European Northern Hemisphere floras. CD’s plants among those he is using to do Antarctic flora. Drimys winteri shows a graded series of states down the length of the South American continent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-724

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.33)
Summary:

Description and defence of his view of the tosca in Banda Oriental, along the Rio Uruguay and at the Rio Negro, taking issue with A. D. d’Orbigny. Refers to the pumice in the Patagonian Territory. Two tables show the layered tosca formation along the Uruguay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-725

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
16 Dec 1843
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

"You will have been sorry to have seen in the newspapers, the disturbances & fightings with the New Zealanders. – I have lately been much interested in reading your chapters on the slow decrease in numbers … of these poor people. The case appears to me very curious, especially as the decrease has commenced or continued since the introduction of the potato – the relation between the amount of population & of food is hence inverted. It would have been a case for the great Malthus to have reflected on".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-970

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Holland
Date:
[after 12 July 1843]
Source of text:
John L. McDonald (private collection)
Summary:

Discusses fossil bones found in Australia by Mr Isaac. Suggests they be sent to Richard Owen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000528

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
6/18 October 1843
Source of text:
MM/10/52, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001113

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Herschel
Date:
3 November 1843
Source of text:
MM/16/152, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001516

From:
Benjamin Collins Brodie
To:
unknown
Date:
9 August 1843
Source of text:
MM/19/125, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001611

From:
Thomas Phillips
To:
John William Lubbock
Date:
19 August 1843
Source of text:
MM/21/51, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE276

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Herschel
Date:
12 Nov 1843
Source of text:
HS 16.347, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE277

From:
John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
1 Dec 1843
Source of text:
HS 2.304, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE470

From:
Harriet Marineau
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
5 Oct 1843
Source of text:
MSM 3 / 187, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10118

From:
Robert Grahame, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 November 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.10
Summary:

Does not have a complete list of his father's publications. Some he wished to suppress. Approves of JH's suggestion to send the manuscript of the history to Harvard. Is gratified by Dr. [Josiah?] Quincy's letter and also JH's impression of his father's character.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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