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DCP-LETT-545

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander (Alexander) von Humboldt
Date:
1 Nov 1839
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. Alexander von Humboldt, gr. Kasten 4, Nr. 22, Bl. 1–2)
Summary:

Gratified by AvH’s letter.

Sends data on temperature of the sea in the Galapagos, South Pacific, and the Abrolhos Islands.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-544

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
1 Nov [1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

CD thinks report of a rock imbedded in an iceberg is remarkable; wants to write a note for the [Journal] about it. Asks for location of the sighting and a chart of the Antarctic Sea. [See "Rock seen on an iceberg", Collected papers 1: 137–9.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-543

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[10 Nov 1839]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 7127)
Summary:

Urges JSH to describe Galapagos species in a paper on the flora of the islands.

Has been interested in geographical distribution and would be interested to have a paper by JSH on the general character of flora of Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia.

"I keep on steadily collecting every sort of fact which may throw light on the origin & variation of species."

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-546

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hallowes Miller
Date:
22 [Nov 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks if WHM would be interested in the meteorological observations of the Falkland Islands made by B. J. Sulivan on a recent survey. Such observations are rare and appear to CD to have many points of interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-546A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date:
27 Nov 1839
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:

Encloses the Smith, Elder & Co. account for the fourth number now published of the third part of the Zoology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-547

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
[30 Nov 1839]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.17)
Summary:

Sends bird specimens for examination by TCE [for Birds].

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