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DCP-LETT-1236

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 113
Summary:

CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.

JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?

CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.

Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.

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DCP-LETT-1237

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
30 Mar 1849
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254
Summary:

Reports on developments in recent years, his father’s death, his own poor health, publications, and work on barnacles. Asks SC to collect some specimens, if he lives near the sea.

News of FitzRoy and B. J. Sulivan.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[24 June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 143
Summary:

Declines to canvass for Richard King.

Water-cure has benefited health.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1239

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Apr 1849
Source of text:
DAR 114: 114
Summary:

Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum.

CD criticises JDH’s observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed.

CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.

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DCP-LETT-1240

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
18 Apr [1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73a)
Summary:

Continues to improve, but water-cure has produced "indolence and stagnation of mind".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
6 May 1849
Source of text:
DAR 145: 63 and Bernard Quaritch (dealers) (2023)
Summary:

Describes cold water cure he has been taking for two months at J. M. Gully’s establishment.

Plans to go to BAAS meeting at Birmingham if health improves.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1241A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
[before 30 May 1849]
Source of text:
Murchison 1849, p. 67 n.
Summary:

CD believes that floating ice and glaciers produce indistinguishable effects in actions such as scoring or polishing rocks.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1242

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[14–28 June 1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.78)
Summary:

Mentions illness of Emma Darwin.

Comments on CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849].

His water treatment by J. M. Gully.

CD’s contribution ["Geology"] to J. W. Herschel’s Manual of scientific enquiry [(1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1243

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
5 June [1849]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/26)
Summary:

Comments on his account.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
7 June [1849]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.14–15)
Summary:

CD’s vexation at the serious printer’s error in his "Geology" [Collected papers 1: 227–50].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1245

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
12 June [1849]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.16–17)
Summary:

Appreciates what Murray and the printer are doing to rectify the error [transposition of pages of text in "Geology"]. But if the responsible person will be fined heavily, CD would want to "make some present".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1246

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
13 June [1849]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 16)
Summary:

Thanks JFWH for the trouble he has taken to correct printing error in "Geology".

Discusses Dr Gully’s water-cure.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1248

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 July [1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.79)
Summary:

Discusses CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849]. Corrects CL’s error regarding location of Megatherium finds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1249

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 [July 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 74)
Summary:

Continues water-cure treatment at home and must do so for a year. Considers himself absolutely cured.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1249F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Harriet Kerrison, Lady Mahon, Countess Stanhope, Lady Stanhope; Emily Harriet Stanhope, Lady Mahon, Countess Stanhope, Lady Stanhope
Date:
9 Aug [1849]
Source of text:
Kent History and Library Centre (U1590 C481/18)
Summary:

Accepts EHS’s invitation for Thursday.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
12 Aug [1849]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Describes his research on cirripedes: an "anatomical and systematic catalogue". Asks to borrow specimens.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1251

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
20 Aug [1849]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 229)
Summary:

Thanks J. D. Dana for cirripede specimens. Describes his work. Comments on Ibla. Would like to see AAG’s notes and figures on Anatifa. Asks for references to cirripede descriptions by T. A. Conrad.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1252

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[2 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.80)
Summary:

Discusses effect of subsidence and elevation on deposits. Cites examples along coasts of South America and Wales. Proposes theory to explain thickness of deposits in south Wales.

Asks CL’s opinion of his theory of "craters of elevation" described in Volcanic islands.

Mentions CL’s comparison of Mississippi beds to the Pampas.

Comments on Poulett Scrope’s views on the separation of basalt and trachyte.

Describes his cirripede work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[21 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes his research on cirripedes.

Comments on paper by AH ["Notice of a burrowing barnacle", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14]. Asks to borrow specimens.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1254

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A92–A95
Summary:

Describes the Birmingham meeting [1849] of BAAS.

His health is poor. Continues with water-cure with considerable benefit.

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