Apologises for being a poor correspondent to [Charles] Darwin [CD] & [Charles] Lyell. At Darjeeling, JDH is staying with [Brian Houghton] Hodgson [BHH]; a Himalayan naturalist. JDH collects beetles. Discusses [Hugh] Falconer's health, work, East India Company pension & bad behaviour; incl. offending the Asiatic Society President, Colvile. For the rainy season JDH has sent out collectors for live plants & is drying them himself. JDH has not been above 10,000 ft but must see that flora to complete a transverse section of the range & its botanical regions. Lord Dalhousie is seeking permission from the Rajah for JDH to go to Sikkim. Permission granted to travel through Nepaul [Nepal] to Tibet passes. In Dec will explore the Terai recording the rocks, plants, climate & zoology. Has formed good idea of the main plants that define the 'central region'. Discusses geology of the region incl terraces & structure of the mountains. Explains composition of the soil, concentrations of organic material & coal deposits- Mueller does the chemical analysis. Discusses elevations of glaciers. Speculates on geology of Kinchin [Kanchenjunga] & the sudden transition from the sub Himal to higher peaks. The Himalayas need to be studied fully to understand their makeup, so far only the North West corner is known, nobody has explored east of the Kemaon [Kumaon]. JDH is anxious to be the first in this terra nova. BHH sends CD some pamphlets to share with Waterhouse. Relates BHH's answers to CD's questions re: climate for seedlings in India, cultivation of European vegetables, tea plants at Cathmandu [Kathmandu], introduction of the Junma goat, interbreeding of Axis medius & Hemitragus quadri-mammis & Yak or Bison with Buffalo to produce zobos, breeding of wild & domesticated fowl & dogs , bulls covering deer like Rusa hippelaphus, the habits of Tussa silk moth. Duel, death & children of Captain C.. Sends wishes to Darwin family, Wsdgewoods, Westwood, Forbes, Lyells, Horners, Owen & Bell.
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 October 1848
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.112-114, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock
Date:
[Dec 1848–9]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.70)
Summary:
Belittles the loss of a book borrowed from CD.
Acknowledges cheque in payment for purchase of microscope for John Lubbock.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Thomas Quekett; Royal College of Surgeons of England
Date:
7 Sept [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.62)
Summary:
Asks about collection of mollusc specimens he had lent to Richard Owen.
Asks about seeing cirripede collection of the College.
Comments on larva of Scalpellum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20–1 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 27
Summary:
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[22 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 28
Summary:
His health not good.
Has been reading John Evelyn’s Life of Mrs Godolphin, and Mme Sévigné.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[23 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 29
Summary:
Family news. Finds Shrewsbury too noisy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 30
Summary:
Anxiety about R. W. Darwin’s health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[27–8 May 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 31
Summary:
Has been unwell but is improving. His father also very ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279)
Summary:
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279)
Summary:
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 32
Summary:
CD fears he must wear Emma with his unwellness and complaints.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker
Date:
[17 Dec 1848]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books
Summary:
Returns letters [from her son, J. D. Hooker, in India].
Asks that B. H. Hodgson’s zoological pamphlets be sent to him at Athenaeum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Date:
[10 July 1848]
Source of text:
Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124
Summary:
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Breton, Philip le1
- Buckland, William1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Darwin, C. R.79
- Darwin, Catherine2
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, S. E.1
- Dixon, E. S.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Gray, J. E.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Heywood, James1
- Higgins, John1
- Hooker, J. D.6
- Horsman, Edward1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Langton, Catherine2
- Lyell, Charles1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Thompson, William (a)1
- Verney, Harry1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1
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- Darwin, C. R.
- Herschel, John10
- Hooker, J. D.8
- Cresy, Edward, Jr6
- Darwin, Emma6
- Wedgwood, Emma6
- Gray, J. E.5
- Higgins, John5
- Lyell, Charles4
- Owen, Richard4
- Phillips, John4
- Henslow, J. S.3
- Chambers, Robert2
- Darwin, Catherine2
- Innes, J. B.2
- Langton, Catherine2
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)2
- Ramsay, A. C.2
- Smith of Jordanhill, James2
- Williamson, W. C.2
- Agassiz, Louis1
- Baily, W. H.1
- Ball, Robert1
- Boott, Francis1
- Bowerbank, J. S.1
- Breton, Philip le1
- Buckland, William1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, S. E.1
- De la Beche, H. T.1
- Dixon, E. S.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gould, A. A.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Hamilton, W. A. B.1
- Hawkins, B. W.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Heywood, James1
- Hooker, Maria (a)1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Hotham, Harriet1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Lubbock, Harriet1
- Milne-Edwards, Henri1
- Norman, G. W.1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Quekett, J. T.1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Ross, J. C.1
- Royal College of Surgeons of England1
- Russell, John1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Sharpe, Daniel1
- Thompson, William (a)1
- Turner, Maria (a)1
- Unidentified1
- Verney, Harry1
- Waterhouse, G. R.1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III1
- Woodward, S. P.1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1