From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
26 [Dec 1843 - Apr 1846 or Sept 1855 - Oct 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 311
Summary:
Says Hooker does not want plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[8 Dec 1843]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A14–15
Summary:
Thanks father for loan. Explains difficulty of acquiring the land through which the approach to Down House now runs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
From:
John Herschel
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
1 Dec 1843
Source of text:
HS 2.304, RS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
William Henry Harvey
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.248
Summary:
Owing to ill health has had to quit H.M. service at the Cape and has been residing with his brother. Intends applying for the position of curator of the herbarium at Trinity College, Dublin, and would welcome a testimonial from JH. Sending this letter c/o W. J. Hooker as he does not know JH's address.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 December 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.448
Summary:
Believes the enclosed letter from W. H. Harvey refers to his candidature for a position in Dublin College. Thinks him a worthy candidate. Would like to show the Herschels round Kew anytime.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir William J. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.449
Summary:
Regarding the habits and flowering of Cape bulbs. Has just had a good collection from the Cape. The Dublin post is still vacant.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Hunt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 December 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.105
Summary:
Would like his views on a name for the combination of hydrogen and chlorine. Comments on the various theories. Has replied to [L. F.] Moser.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
N. Spahr
Date:
[27 December 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.20
Summary:
A letter of even greater urgency about the very serious state of health of Madame Gerlach, the aunt of NS [see JH's 1843-10-20]. Madame Gerlach is living with the Herschels [as tutor? or governess?].
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
N. Spahr
Date:
[31 December 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.6.21
Summary:
As JH has not heard from NS, he has arranged for Madame Gerlach to stay with Mrs. Mason, now living in part of JH's former residence at Slough. But under no circumstances can Madame Gerlach return to her duties with JH's family.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Robert Harry Inglis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 December 1843]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.230
Summary:
May he submit JH's name as a candidate for the Honorary membership of the Literary Society; gives list of the other candidates.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project