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DCP-LETT-889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11–12 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 36, 100: 43–7
Summary:

A son [George Howard Darwin] was born on Wednesday.

Sends queries on Galapagos flora.

Discusses JDH’s comments on [Journal of researches].

CD feels that with his views on descent "really Nat. Hist. becomes a sublimely grand result-giving subject".

"How differently people view the same subject, for I look at insular Floras … as leading to an opposite view to yours."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-883

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 43–7
Summary:

Answers CD’s questions relating to the flora of the Galapagos. [See 889.]

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DCP-LETT-884

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[mid-July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 49–50
Summary:

The translation of Humboldt’s Kosmos [Cosmos (1846–58)] is delayed.

Gives instances of peculiar genera with several good species in very small islands. Scarcity of insects on islands.

JDH cannot prove that there is much hybridising, but does not see why there should not be. "Bother variation, development & all such subjects, it is reasoning in a circle I believe after all."

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DCP-LETT-886

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 46.1: 87–8
Summary:

On marking and shipment of fossils.

Has met the artist, J. M. Rugendas.

Discusses British and French relations with Rosas government [of Argentina].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-887

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 100: 51–4
Summary:

Raises some points for revision of CD’s Journal of researches.

Southern island floras. "The more I ponder upon Insular Floras the less inclined I am to admit the mutation of species to any very great amount."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-890

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 19
Summary:

Notes the islands, where known, on which CD’s Galapagos beetles were found. Remarks that in none of the species whose place of origin is known, does he have specimens from more than one island.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 July – 19 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 37
Summary:

Thanks for facts on solitary islands having several species of peculiar genera; "it knocks on the head some analogies of mine".

Has long been trying to discover in how many flowers crossing is probable, but finds it difficult to show "even a vague probability of this".

Will JDH proof-read Galapagos chapter of Journal of researches?

Gives information on his Galapagos collection; explains why it differs from others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-893

From:
Louis Fraser
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 164: 213
Summary:

Informs CD about characteristics of certain species of Galapagos birds.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-894

From:
Louis Fraser
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24? July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 214
Summary:

Discusses colour of Zenaida from the Galapagos.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 145: 59
Summary:

CD has bought a farm in Lincolnshire. Criticises primogeniture and stamp laws on land purchase.

Announces birth of G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-897

From:
Hugh Cuming
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 267, 268
Summary:

Discusses names and distributions of Pacific shells. [Lists by CD and Edward Forbes record names and ranges of shells collected by HC in the Galapagos.]

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DCP-LETT-898

From:
William Yarrell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 183: 1
Summary:

Answers CD’s queries about the number and distribution of species in certain fish genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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