From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Nov 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 20
Summary:
Would like JDH to visit. Regrets he will not be fit to visit JDH.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
25 [Nov 1844]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
On checks to increase of species and the observations which led him to regard species as mutable in form. Would welcome "at some future time" LJ’s criticism of the "sketch" of his conclusions.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot)
Date:
28 Nov [1844]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:
Mentions his Plutonic view of earth history.
Cites Lyell’s opinions on loess.
CD doubts contemporaneousness of extinct great animals with ice period.
Cites applicability of Forbes’s theory of glacier structure to structure of volcanic obsidian.
CD is falling astern in the geological race for knowledge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 28
Summary:
Would like to visit on the weekend of 7–8 December.
Differences in floras of St Helena and Ascension.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 21
Summary:
Instructions for JDH’s trip to Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 22
Summary:
Change in train times.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
6 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 114
Summary:
Asks WBC if he will examine a specimen of calcareous rock.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 35–40
Summary:
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 29–31
Summary:
Thanks for pleasant stay at Down.
Remarks on boulders found on southern islands.
Describes the alpine character of the Andes flora and relays information on other mountain floras.
Quotes instances of seeds that retained their vitality after being carried by ocean currents.
Sends notes on the comparative floras of New Zealand, Australia, and west coast of South America.
Encloses a copy of part of a letter from George Gardner in Ceylon concerning the European character of the mountain flora.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 23
Summary:
Thanks for botanico-geographical remarks. CD greatly appreciates JDH’s valuable generalisations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
20 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 70)
Summary:
Tells of his father’s ill health.
Discusses mesmerism and Harriet Martineau’s recovery. If animals could be put into a stupor, he would be convinced. Suggests WDF have some mesmeriser attempt it with cats.
Contributor:
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From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 39: 33–5
Summary:
Discusses microscopic examination of rock specimens taken from Pampas deposit and from Chilean tuff. Says he finds organic remains only in the tuff.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 24
Summary:
Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. America; wishes to know botanical relations between other southern islands. Botanico-geographical discussions and comments on books sent by JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
25 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
Jeffrey D. Stillwell (private collection)
Summary:
Is obliged for the account of the structure of the Pampas specimen and its difference from specimens of the modern calcareous bed of Coquimbo in Chile. If he thinks that J. S. Bowerbank can make out the nature of the specimens, they should be shown to him.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 32–4
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s comments on "sketch".
Lengthy discussion of geographical distribution and island floras.
Has been "delighted with" [Robert Chambers’] Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Galapagos flora work goes on well.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[27 Nov 1844?]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A9–10
Summary:
Sends thanks for money.
Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.
Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Sabine
To:
John Frederic Daniell
Date:
2 February 1844
Source of text:
MM/3/9, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
3 February 1844
Source of text:
MM/9/52, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
1/13 June 1844
Source of text:
MM/10/53, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
1/13 November 1844
Source of text:
MM/10/54, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
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- Archer, Frederick Scott1
- Argelander, F. W. A.1
- Astronomische Nachrichten1
- Babbage, Benjamin Herschel1
- Babbage, Charles2
- Bache, Alexander Dallas1
- Baillie, Agnes2
- Baily, B.2
- Baily, Francis8
- Baldwin, Mary3
- Beaufort, Francis2
- Becher, Alexander Bridport1
- Bell, Catherine1
- Bentham, George6
- Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm3
- Birt, William Radcliffe4
- Blomefield, Leonard2
- Boguslawski, Palm Heinrich Ludwig2
- Boye, [I. I.]1
- Brewster, David1
- Burke, John1
- Carpenter, W. B.4
- Challis, James1
- Compton, Spencer J. A.1
- Cooper, Edward Joshua2
- Custance, R.1
- Daniell, John Frederic1
- Darwin, C. R.96
- Darwin, E. A.3
- Darwin, Emma3
- Darwin, S. E.1
- Dawes, William Rutter5
- De Morgan, Augustus46
- Denny, Henry8
- Dieffenbach, Ernst3
- Draper, John William1
- Dumas, Jean Baptiste André1
- Eardley-Wilmot, F. M.1
- Egerton, P. de M. G.-1
- Ehrenberg, C. G.5
- Everest, George1
- Falconer, Hugh2
- Fitton, William Henry1
- Forbes, Edward1
- Forbes, J. D.3
- Forbes, James David1
- Forster, Thomas I. M.3
- Fox, W. D.1
- Fuss, Paul Heinrich1
- Galloway, Thomas13
- Gardeners’ Chronicle5
- Gardner, Thomas1
- Gauss, Carl Friedrich1
- Geological Society of London1
- Gordon, James A.2
- Grahame, Jr., Robert4
- Griesbach, John Henry3
- Hamilton, William A. Baillie-1
- Harrison, J. Park1
- Harvey, William Henry2
- Hawtrey, Edward Craven1
- Headlam, Thomas Emerson2
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Herschel, Caroline Lucretia4
- Herschel, John379
- Herschel, Margaret Brodie4
- Herschel, William James1
- Holland, P. H.3
- Hooker, J. D.40
- Horner, Leonard1
- Humboldt, Alexander von2
- Hunt, Robert10
- Inglis, Robert Harry2
- Ivory, William2
- Jackson, Julian1
- Jeffreys, Henry Anthony2
- Jenyns, Leonard2
- Jones, Richard1
- Jopling, Joseph1
- Kemp, William1
- Kupffer, Adolph Theodor3
- König, Charles D. E.1
- Lawrence, Thomas1
- Leighton, W. A.1
- Lemon, Charles3
- Lindley, John2
- Lloyd, Humphrey4
- Longman and Co.1
- Lowe, Edward Joseph1
- Lubbock, John William4
- Lyell, Charles2
- Mackay, W. S.1
- Maclear, Thomas6
- Main, Robert2
- Morgan, Augustus De5
- Morlot, C. A.3
- Moxon, Charles1
- Murchison, Roderick Impey7
- Mädler, Johann Heinrich1
- Mühry, Adalbert Adolf2
- Nelson, John Henry1
- Newman, W. L.2
- Owen, Richard1
- Peacock, George3
- Phillips, John2
- Piper, Jesse1
- Pritchard, Charles1
- Quetelet, Adolphe4
- Quincy, Josiah2
- R.S.L. Committee of Physics (including Meteorology), Chairman of1
- Roberts, Martyn1
- Royal Geographical Society2
- Sabine, Edward40
- Santini, Giovanni1
- Schumacher, Heinrich Christian1
- Sedgwick, Adam2
- Sheepshanks, Richard18
- Smyth, Ann2
- Smyth, Charles Piazzi1
- Smyth, William Henry3
- Somerville, Mary11
- Somerville, William1
- Sowerby, G. B.1
- Stewart, James Calder2
- Stewart, James [Struthers]1
- Stewart, Peter2
- Stewart, [James Calder]1
- Stratford, William Samuel12
- Struve, Wilhelm4
- Sykes, William Henry1
- Talbot, William Henry Fox2
- Taylor, Richard1
- Thomson, Thomas1
- Unidentified3
- Waterhouse, G. R.4
- Watson, Thomas1
- Wauchope, Robert1
- Wedgwood, Emma3
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III3
- Weld, Charles Richard1
- Whewell, William6
- Wicksted, Charles1
- Wilson, Alexander3
- Winther, H. T.1
- Wood, C. A.1
- Wrench, Mrs.1
- [B.A.A.S.]1
- [Birt, William Radcliffe]5
- [Bosse?, M.]1
- [Hunt?, Robert]3
- [Newnham-]Collingwood, [Sarah]1
- [Sr.], Elizabeth Drummond1
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