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DCP-LETT-13816A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 [Jan 1844 - Mar 1882]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 and 28 May 1983)
Summary:

Discusses books returned

and invites him to Down for a few days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13852

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Invites GRW and his family to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[May 1844]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:

Family financial matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[Dec? 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 17
Summary:

Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]

and sends queries on silkworms.

A bed is ready any time HF will come.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2026

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 79
Summary:

Regularly attends Owen’s lectures. Owen at pains to show groups are not linked. Thus makes Lepidosiren appear fish-like.

GRW thinks embryology will become chief guide to insect classification. But contradictions between classification based on embryological and adult characters do occur.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-653F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
25 Nov [1844-6]
Source of text:
Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (May 2013)
Summary:

Thanks for procuring cuttings of weeping yew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-678

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Oct 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 3
Summary:

Writes about canal shares EAD holds as trustee.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 23
Summary:

Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.

CD has been "wonderfully strong".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-727

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May 1844 – 1 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 28–30
Summary:

Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].

Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-728

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
[3 Jan 1844]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/8/92)
Summary:

Asks that A. d’Orbigny’s geological map of S. America be sent to him with a card of the Society’s evening meetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-729

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11 Jan 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 3
Summary:

Queries on ratios of species to genera on southern islands. CD’s observations on distribution of Galapagos organisms, and on S. American fossils, and facts he has gathered since, lead him to conclusion that species are not immutable; "it is like confessing a murder".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
20 Jan [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.37)
Summary:

Discusses sending HD lice specimens. Asks him to check with G. R. Waterhouse.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-732

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
25 Jan 1844
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

Delighted to be able to contribute Infusoria to ED’s "great countryman Ehrenberg". Includes a list of eight substances from his collection described in detail, which Ehrenberg might find useful in his researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-733

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 Jan 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 4
Summary:

C. G. Ehrenberg would like some earth from Galapagos, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falklands; wishes to hunt for Infusoria.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-734

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Jan 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 5–7
Summary:

Remarks on geographical divisions of the flora of the Southern Hemisphere.

JDH beginning Galapagos plants. Value of studying insular floras with respect to inquiries about adaptation of species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-734F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
5 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
Jeremy and Helen Evans (private collection)
Summary:

Dicussion of some specimens from the Beagle voyage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-735

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3–17 Feb 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 5
Summary:

Thanks for information for Ehrenberg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-735A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Wicksted
Date:
13 Feb [1844?]
Source of text:
George Clive (private collection)
Summary:

Inquires about the habits of a litter of foxhounds whose sire was particularly good at recovering the scent in paths or roads.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-736

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 6
Summary:

Has just completed Volcanic islands.

Sends queries on Galapagos flora in particular and island floras in general; also on relationship of wide-ranging species to wide-ranging genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-736F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Kemp
Date:
23 Feb [1844]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/34) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond)
Summary:

Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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