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DCP-LETT-927

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 46
Summary:

Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.

"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."

Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-929

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 47
Summary:

Is busy with shell work and cannot make it to Kew. Invites JDH to Down. Intends asking Edward Forbes and Hugh Falconer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-930

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 48
Summary:

Can JDH come to Down on 6 December? If this is convenient, CD will ask Forbes, Falconer, and perhaps Waterhouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-931

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Nov 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 49
Summary:

Delighted that JDH will come to visit him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-932

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[1 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cannot find two specimens of S. American fossil shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-933

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[3 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Suggests location of lost shell specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-934

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[9? Dec 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses GBS’s completion of his descriptions of fossil shells for the appendix to South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-935

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 50
Summary:

CD’s enjoyment of JDH’s visit and "all our raging discussions".

Would like to compare insects from Kerguelen Islands with those from Tierra del Fuego.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-940

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[Nov–Dec 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121b
Summary:

Comments on book by George Grey [Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia (1841)]. "The whole expedition was that of a set of School Boys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-810

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[7–8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 22
Summary:

Mainly news of the three children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-821

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3–4 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:

News of the children and books he is reading.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
14 Feb [1845]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Discusses checks on growth of species population; use of term "mutation" in his species theory. His belief in species mutability.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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