From:
Richard Sutton Ford
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1839
Source of text:
DAR 186: 44
Summary:
Answers to [Questions about breeding].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Embury; George Tollet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[10 May 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 186: 51
Summary:
Replies to [Questions about breeding].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 or 16] June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 144
Summary:
Has not yet had time to read CD’s Journal of researches attentively. He is sure there is no expression referring to himself personally that he could wish were not in it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 176
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 183
Summary:
Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Henry Fitton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 178
Summary:
Thanks CD for Journal of researches. Praises its "want of pretension"; "the Geology seems … to be excellent – and a good part of it new".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Lonsdale
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 182
Summary:
Acknowledges Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1839]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 147
Summary:
Robert Brown has mistreated Capt. P. P. King by holding back for nine years the plants collected on King’s voyage of the Adventure and Beagle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
Date:
26 June 1839
Source of text:
DAR 185: 65–6
Summary:
CD is led to believe there are no true permanently inbreeding, sexually reproducing beings. Thanks for replies to breeding questions.
Asks for clarification of Hippeastrum crosses: is selfing or crossing with individual of same species intended and was increased fertility due to constitution of foreign parent or due to the pollen coming from another plant? Has WH known any hybrid or mongrel to revert or to vary in a manner unlikely to be effect of soil?
Sends Journal of researches.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Herbert, dean of Manchester
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 June 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 67
Summary:
Rejects necessity of outbreeding and any general law of reversion.
Describes further experiments with Hippeastrum showing greater fertility with foreign pollen than with individual’s own pollen or with pollen from another individual of same species.
Does not believe CD’s questions about reversion can be answered in present state of knowledge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 185
Summary:
Acknowledges Journal of researches and in return sends the first volume of his History of British birds [1839–43].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 7–10
Summary:
Detailed evidence for and against geological elevation along coast of the Indian subcontinent, South Asia, and Arabia. Extensive references to geological literature about these areas.
Describes coral sand-dune and salt-marsh formation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Jean-Baptiste-Armand-Louis-Léonce (Léonce) Elie de Beaumont
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 177
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of CD’s gift of the Journal of researches. Praises CD’s "ingenious" views.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Carl Friedrich Alexander Hartmann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Aug 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 179
Summary:
Thanks CD for his Journal of researches, "one of the best scientific travelworks of this time", which CFAH intends to translate into German.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 11
Summary:
Observations on the geology of Arabia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander (Alexander) von Humboldt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Sept 1839
Source of text:
DAR 204: 180
Summary:
Praises CD’s Journal of researches and comments on some of CD’s observations and conclusions. Considers volcanic activity and its effect on past climate and changes in climate over time. Discusses glacial phenomena. Believes the climate of the coast of Peru is modified by cold sea-currents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 12–14
Summary:
Sends notes on soundings made on coral banks in the China Sea.
His recent geological observations.
Finds a difficulty with CD’s erratic block theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
[27 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 154: 54
Summary:
Describes his routine for a typical day – writing Coral reefs, studying German.
FitzRoy’s "Deluge Chapter" [Narrative 2, ch. 28] will amuse her.
His opinion of Carlyle’s Critical and miscellaneous essays [1839].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1839
Source of text:
DAR 39: 15–17
Summary:
Sends specimens of coralline with vermiform holes.
J. Allan’s observations of Aldabra and the Cormoros [see Coral reefs, p. 186] and news of his experiments on the growth of coral.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Grant Malcolmson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
DAR 50: C24–5
Summary:
Comments on the discussion of erratic blocks in Journal of researches [pp. 619, 621–2].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
