From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 76
Summary:
Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.
Thanks for the corallines.
Mention of JDH’s capital speech.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 77
Summary:
Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Parker
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 December 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 244
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
3 December 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 7652.IE.153
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
4 Dec 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/41)
Summary:
Asks for assistance investigating raised beaches on the river Tweed around Galashiels.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
19 Dec 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/42)
Summary:
Thanks for the observations WK has sent.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[23 Dec 1846 – Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 138
Summary:
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Thinks it unsound to designate a geological epoch after man. Doubts people’s confidence in date of man’s introduction.
Criticises A. D. d’Orbigny’s theory of elevation of the Cordillera.
Lists sections of South America of special interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project