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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-885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[3 July 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 27–28)
Summary:

Thanks JM for present of 12 copies [of first part of Journal of researches, 2d ed.]. MS [of second part] will be sent to printer Monday or Tuesday.

Contributor:
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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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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."

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DCP-LETT-882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[5 July 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.43)
Summary:

Sends the first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.]. Explains his dedication of book to CL. Describes revisions.

Has received CL’s book [Travels in North America, 2 vols. (1845)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-888

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
[before 9 July 1845]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

"It is evident that you have not time now to pay me a visit, & indeed as Mrs Darwin is in daily expectation of her confinement I could hardly have asked you … When I saw your name & that of many other naturalists at Cambridge, I wished much to have been there; but my strength so often fails me, that I expected more mortification than pleasure …

I should have liked to have heard the Crater-of-Elevation discussion; after having read both sides, I cannot subscribe to that view; but I think there remains something unexplained about those many vast circular volcanic ruins …

I presume it is very unprobable [sic] that there will ever be a second German Edition of my Journal … I have largely condensed, corrected & added to the Second English Edition, & I am sure have considerably improved & popularised it".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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."

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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-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-891

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
16 [July 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.13–14)
Summary:

Sent MS [of second part of Journal of researches] to William Clowes [printer] on the 7th and has had only three sheets for correction. Asks JM to see to it that Messrs Clowes send a sheet a day, as CD’s health is uncertain, and he cannot do more at last moment if sheets accumulate.

Contributor:
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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-896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[27 July 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.15–16)
Summary:

Sent last sheet [of second part of Journal of researches] to printer yesterday. Will send half of MS for next part in four or five days.

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:
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DCP-LETT-899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[30 July – 2 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.44)
Summary:

Comments extensively on CL’s book [Travels in North America (1845)]. Lyell’s views on slavery, the clergy, education, and coalfields. Has difficulty in tracing Lyell’s course. Comments on geological portions, especially CL’s comparisons of living and fossil organisms to those of South America and Tasmania; animal formation of carbonic acid and effects of vegetable decay; Indians’ use of lumber. Discusses water-borne transportation of wood, fruit, and seeds. Notes distribution of Arctic flora.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-901

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 281
Summary:

CD’s criticism of his book [Travels in North America (1845)].

Compares invertebrate animals of Tasmania and England.

Mentions views of C. J. F. Bunbury on climate of the Carboniferous period.

Robert Brown says Australian flora has the widest range.

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DCP-LETT-900

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 or 22] Aug 1845
Source of text:
DAR 114: 38
Summary:

Sorry to hear about condition of JDH’s grandfather.

Sends proofs of Galapagos chapter of Journal of researches.

Grieves to hear labels are displaced on his plants.

May he annotate [F. Gérard’s] L’espèce [(1844), extracted from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, ed. C. D. d’Orbigny (1839–49)]?

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