From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 152
Summary:
Congratulates JDH on receipt of Royal Medal.
CD gathering facts on aberrant genera of insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 401
Summary:
Sends list of aberrant forms of Curculionidae.
Discusses in detail the artificiality of Carl Johan Schönherr’s classification. Sound generalisations about geographical distribution depend on sound classifications. Warns against putting too much faith in current catalogues.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
12 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:
Regrets he cannot come to hear DS’s paper ["On the structure of Mont Blanc", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 11 (1855): 11–27]. Has a lively interest in the subject.
Edward Forbes has misrepresented his view on foliation and cleavage [Athenæum 30 Sept 1854].
CD is convinced DS’s view will replace Huttonian and Lyellian view of metamorphic schists.
Recommends H. C. Sorby’s paper [probably "On the origin of slaty cleavage", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 385
Summary:
Fossil leaves from Disko Island.
JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.
Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.
Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 156
Summary:
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109)
Summary:
Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.
Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
17 Nov 1854
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:
Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.
Contributor:
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[19 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 402
Summary:
In response to CD’s query, HCW says he cannot supply "any list of species as the flora of a single and sterile soil". Suggests a possible source of information, and provides some figures for Britain, but these apply to diverse soils.
Contributor:
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From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 101
Summary:
Sends a count of the number of species of flowering plants and ferns on the islands of Fayal and Flores in the Azores.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
22 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:
Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 386
Summary:
George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.
JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Nov 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 214–15
Summary:
JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.
There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Martins
To:
Secretary of the Royal Society
Date:
9 November 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/10, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
13 November 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/7, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
James Clark Ross
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
3 November 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/94, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
William Sharpey
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
7 November 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/95, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
the editor of The Builder
Date:
c. November 1854
Source of text:
The Builder, 11 November 1854, 12: 585
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
David Brewster
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 November 1854
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.19
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
7 November 1854
Source of text:
RGO 6/405, f.154
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Boosey et al.
To:
Dundee Glasite Church
Date:
7 November 1854
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project