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DCP-LETT-958

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Mar] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 63–8
Summary:

Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.

Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-960

From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39: 62–3
Summary:

Describes Infusoria in Rio Gallegos samples.

"Fluthgebiete" means estuary deposit.

Discusses dust samples from Malta. Asks for further samples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-961

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56
Summary:

Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.

Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[24 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 57
Summary:

C. G. Ehrenberg wants specimen grasses from Ascension Island.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Mar or 5 Apr] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 114: 58
Summary:

If JDH can send grasses CD will write to Ehrenberg enclosing them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-964

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 188–91
Summary:

JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.

Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.

French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.

Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.

Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.

Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
25[–31?] Mar [1846]
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43 Bl. 15–17)
Summary:

Sends copy [of "Fine dust in the Atlantic Ocean", Collected papers 1: 199–202]. Attempting to obtain further samples for CGE.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-967

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
30 Mar [1846]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses publication of his book [South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-967F

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1846
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 123 Bl. 9)
Summary:

Sends specimens of grasses from Ascension Island for CD to forward to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.

Includes list of indigenous flowering plants of Ascension Island.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-968

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 64–5
Summary:

Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-968F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Gold Appleton
Date:
31 Mar [1846]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Thanks for the gift of Frémont 1845. Has had a visit from R. J. Mackintosh and his wife Mary, Appleton’s sister.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-969

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
Date:
31 [Mar 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for his note; as soon as CD knows how many Cordillera Tertiary fossil shells require illustration he will make arrangements for GBS jr to begin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000594

From:
John Smeaton
To:
Council of the Royal Society
Date:
31 March 1846
Source of text:
MM/11/10, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10451

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.329
Summary:

Has not been able to secure any angles of Gamma Virginis due to poor weather. Perplexed over the difference between J. H. Mädler and W. R. Dawes. George Bishop will be pleased to send any measures he may require.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11774

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.134
Summary:

William Mann returns to England still in poor health. Expresses concern over running of Edinburgh Observatory by C. P. Symth. Regrets poor data from Cape Observatory on Comet of 1843. Observed Comet Gambert. Situation with Caffres hostile.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11976

From:
John Stuart Mill
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.338
Summary:

The first volume of JM's Logic has been printed and the printers require what is ready of the second volume. In Book Three would like comments from JH regarding the difference with P. S. Laplace's theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12045

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.409
Summary:

Thanks for his congratulations. Gives a resume of the events leading up to the knighthood. Saw Hugh Falconer yesterday. Sister-in-law has just died.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12312

From:
Hans Christian Oersted
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.168
Summary:

Printed notice of thanks for memoir presented by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1295

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[2 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.71
Summary:

The committee dealing with applying to the government for aid should meet soon, and so JH wants some questions answered from one of the authors of Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1296

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 March 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.72 & 73
Summary:

As HF is likely to be immediately ordered back to India, he is in no position to prepare himself to appear before the government seeking funds to publish Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis. Encloses a brief statement to the above effect to be read to the B.A.A.S. committee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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