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DCP-LETT-834

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Mar? 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 53–5
Summary:

Comments on G. B. Sowerby’s identifications of South American fossil shells [812]. [Notes from more than one original memorandum].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-835

From:
William Hopkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1845
Source of text:
DAR 39: 53
Summary:

Comments on a compass diagram designed to show the dip, strike, and anticlinal lines of a geological formation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-836

From:
William Hallowes Miller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 42
Summary:

Discusses cleavage planes of mineralogical specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-837

From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar 1845
Source of text:
DAR 39: 59a–c
Summary:

Regrets J. D. Hooker did not visit Berlin.

Describes legal difficulties of Ernst Dieffenbach.

Lists species of Infusoria found in dust samples. Discusses origin of Atlantic dust. Discusses Infusoria in cosmetic paint from Tierra del Fuego and Patagonian earth. Thanks CD for samples. Would like samples from sea-bed.

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DCP-LETT-838

From:
Trenham Reeks
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Mar 1845
Source of text:
DAR 39: 47–8
Summary:

Discusses chemical reaction involving common salt and carbonate of lime.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-839

From:
John Higgins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Mar 1845
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 5
Summary:

Reports that he has an offer of an estate of about 325 acres that CD may find suitable.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-842

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Mar [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 28
Summary:

Would like to borrow the pamphlet on variation [Frédéric Gérard, "De l’espèce dans les corps organisés" (1844), extract from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, ed. C. D. d’Orbigny].

Glad to hear Humboldt’s views on migration. CD believes we cannot "put any limit to the possible and even probable migration of plants".

Wants good book on plant morphology.

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DCP-LETT-844

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[23] Mar 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 41–2
Summary:

JDH recommends Augustin de Saint-Hilaire’s Leçons de botanique [1841]. Relates opinions of European botanists on migration and plant distribution.

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DCP-LETT-846

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

Has received pamphlet from JDH [John Murray, Strictures on morphology (1845)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-847

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Mar [1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 30
Summary:

Hopes JDH will enjoy Edinburgh.

Has just finished Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on animal monsters [Anomalies de l’organisation chez l’homme et les animaux (1832–7)], "and a nasty curious subject it is".

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