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DCP-LETT-1023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
13 Nov [1845]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Sends corrections and suggestions for an advertisement for Zoology and Geology of "Beagle".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 or 12] Nov 1845
Source of text:
DAR 114: 45
Summary:

Thanks for Antarctic flora [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].

Agrees geographical distribution will be "the key which will unlock the mystery of species".

Could JDH look over a rough sketch on species?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-925

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Hitchcock
Date:
6 Nov [1845]
Source of text:
Amherst College Archives (Edward and Orra White Hitchcock papers: 2 Edward Hitchcock: Correspondence, Box 3, Folder 8)
Summary:

Thanks EH for his Final report on the geology of Massachusetts [1841]. Comments on EH’s discovery of fossil footprints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-926

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
12 [Nov 1845]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Asks for a meeting in order to go over the shells [which GBS was to describe in the appendix on Tertiary fossil shells in South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-927

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 46
Summary:

Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.

"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."

Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-928

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 57–8
Summary:

Answers CD’s queries arising from Flora Antarctica.

Would like CD to come to town and go over Galapagos plants with him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-929

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 47
Summary:

Is busy with shell work and cannot make it to Kew. Invites JDH to Down. Intends asking Edward Forbes and Hugh Falconer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-930

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 48
Summary:

Can JDH come to Down on 6 December? If this is convenient, CD will ask Forbes, Falconer, and perhaps Waterhouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-931

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 49
Summary:

Delighted that JDH will come to visit him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-940

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121b
Summary:

Comments on book by George Grey [Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia (1841)]. "The whole expedition was that of a set of School Boys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE286

From:
John Herschel
To:
Spencer J A Compton
Date:
2 Nov 1845
Source of text:
RS MC.4.92, Epsilon
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE287

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
2 Nov 1845
Source of text:
HS 16.352, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE288

From:
Spencer J A Compton
To:
John Herschel
Date:
11 Nov 1845
Source of text:
HS 5.269, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel10137

From:
James William Grant
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.24
Summary:

Attended the General Assembly of the Church in Edinburgh in May last. Comments on its proceedings. Travelled around Scotland. Is now on his way to India. Has had good weather for the most part. Comments on Gibraltar, Malta, and North Africa.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10447

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.325
Summary:

Communicating the elements of Castor and Corona by JH's method. Comments on these readings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10713

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander von Humboldt
Date:
[2 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.253
Summary:

Sends thanks and very high praise for AH's first volume of Kosmos. Also comments on a number of other astronomical matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12473

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Hasledine Pepys
Date:
[9 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.339 & 22.256
Summary:

Asks WP to recall the particulars of an experimental session [see WP's 1823-3-11] where JH tried to demonstrate the polarization of light by an electrical current in a coil of wire.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12474

From:
William Hasledine Pepys
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.340
Summary:

WP identifies date and people present at the time of the experiment referred to by JH in his 1845-11-9.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12592

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Merz & Son
Date:
[7 November 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.29
Summary:

Is now finally empowered to order the telescope he inquired about [see JH's 1843-9-2].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1581

From:
Georg Merz
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 November 1845]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0357.1
Summary:

Provides more specific prices and information for the refractor that GM believes will meet the specified needs [see GM's 1843-9-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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