From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 107
Summary:
On scheduling farewell meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 106
Summary:
Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 111
Summary:
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[31 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 26
Summary:
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 109
Summary:
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 110
Summary:
CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grey
Date:
13 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (2))
Summary:
Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
18 Nov [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.66)
Summary:
Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.
Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Clapham
Date:
[29 Oct 1847?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.47)
Summary:
Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.
Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
11 Dec [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/7)
Summary:
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
18 Dec 1847
Source of text:
British Museum (Central Archive ‘Original Papers’, vol. XXXVIII)
Summary:
Seeks permission from the Trustees of the British Museum to borrow the cirripede specimens in the public collection. Explains his intention to produce a monograph of the Cirripedia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
31 Dec 1847
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 384)
Summary:
Asks JCR to collect cirripedes for him on forthcoming expedition [to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[18 Dec 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71)
Summary:
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter
Date:
2 Oct [1847?]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections
Summary:
Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1847 or 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 329
Summary:
Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Nov 1847–51]
Source of text:
John K. Lattimer (private collection)
Summary:
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
23 Dec [1847-54]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Date:
5 May [1847]
Source of text:
Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a)
Summary:
Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[6 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192)
Summary:
A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.
Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.
Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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- Alan Wedgwood (private collection)2
- American Philosophical Society14
- Auckland Public Library1
- Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution1
- British Museum1
- Burgerbibliothek Bern4
- Cambridge University Library45
- Geological Society of London1
- Germanisches National Museum1
- Heritage Auctions (dealers)1
- Herzog-August-Bibliothek1
- Huntington Library1
- J. A. Stargardt (dealers)1
- John K. Lattimer (private collection)1
- Lehigh University Libraries2
- Lincolnshire Archives3
- National Library of Israel1
- National Library of Scotland1
- National Museum of Wales1
- Natural History Museum and Archives1
- Rachel Salt (private collection)1
- Royal College of Surgeons of England1
- Royal Society2
- Smithsonian Libraries1
- The British Library1
- Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin1
- UCL Library Services1
- University of Akron1
- University of Oklahoma Library1
- Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library1
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