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DCP-LETT-982A

From:
Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June – July 1846]
Source of text:
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Part 2) 2 1846: 59
Summary:

ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-983

From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1846
Source of text:
DAR 181: 143
Summary:

Variation in Mollusca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-983F

From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June [1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/3)
Summary:

Arrangements for publishing [South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-989

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 49
Summary:

Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-994

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 79
Summary:

Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.

Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-995

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 46
Summary:

Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-998

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 69–72
Summary:

Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.

Plant distribution and soil nature.

Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.

JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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