From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 43–7
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions relating to the flora of the Galapagos. [See 889.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[mid-July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 49–50
Summary:
The translation of Humboldt’s Kosmos [Cosmos (1846–58)] is delayed.
Gives instances of peculiar genera with several good species in very small islands. Scarcity of insects on islands.
JDH cannot prove that there is much hybridising, but does not see why there should not be. "Bother variation, development & all such subjects, it is reasoning in a circle I believe after all."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 87–8
Summary:
On marking and shipment of fossils.
Has met the artist, J. M. Rugendas.
Discusses British and French relations with Rosas government [of Argentina].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 51–4
Summary:
Raises some points for revision of CD’s Journal of researches.
Southern island floras. "The more I ponder upon Insular Floras the less inclined I am to admit the mutation of species to any very great amount."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 19
Summary:
Notes the islands, where known, on which CD’s Galapagos beetles were found. Remarks that in none of the species whose place of origin is known, does he have specimens from more than one island.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Fraser
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 164: 213
Summary:
Informs CD about characteristics of certain species of Galapagos birds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Fraser
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24? July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 214
Summary:
Discusses colour of Zenaida from the Galapagos.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Cuming
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 267, 268
Summary:
Discusses names and distributions of Pacific shells. [Lists by CD and Edward Forbes record names and ranges of shells collected by HC in the Galapagos.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 183: 1
Summary:
Answers CD’s queries about the number and distribution of species in certain fish genera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project