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From:
Darwin, A. E.
To:
Wedgwood?, M. S.
Date:
[1846–51]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 1 (p. 1)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, A. E.; Darwin, Francis
To:
Wedgwood, K. E.
Date:
[1846–51]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 1 (p. 2)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Annals and Magazine of Natural History
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56)
Summary:

Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[Oct–Dec 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks for address of the artist who drew the sections exhibited by WBC at BAAS meeting in September. CD needs drawings of minute corallines, Articulata, and Mollusca.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
1 Oct 1846
Source of text:
DAR 144: 119
Summary:

Has just heard of RF’s return [from New Zealand]. Hopes to see him.

CD and family are well, but he is a different man in strength and energy from when he was "Flycatcher" in the Beagle.

Has just finished his book [South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 65
Summary:

Hopes to start looking over his species notes in about a year.

Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50)
Summary:

Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[5 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A15–A16
Summary:

The third and last part of the Geology [South America] will be published in a few days. Apologises for not sending JSH the other volumes.

Has attended Southampton [BAAS] meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 66
Summary:

Sulivans are coming on Friday. Can JDH come?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 67
Summary:

Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?

CD intends writing paper on their propagation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
10 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].

Sends copy of South America.

Discusses action of the sea.

Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].

Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.

Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.

Mentions squirrels eating insects.

Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.

Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:
[18 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:

Knows nothing about missing fossils collected by J. L. Stokes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[19 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.51)
Summary:

Objects to the stupid way a plate is bound into South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 68
Summary:

Many thanks for JDH’s beautiful cirripede drawing. Questions on JDH’s observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
28 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 120
Summary:

Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 69
Summary:

Will be in London tomorrow and will try to pop over to Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[1 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5)
Summary:

Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
3 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:

CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[4 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010)
Summary:

Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project