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DCP-LETT-1243

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
5 June [1849]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/26)
Summary:

Comments on his account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1244

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
7 June [1849]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.14–15)
Summary:

CD’s vexation at the serious printer’s error in his "Geology" [Collected papers 1: 227–50].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1245

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
12 June [1849]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.16–17)
Summary:

Appreciates what Murray and the printer are doing to rectify the error [transposition of pages of text in "Geology"]. But if the responsible person will be fined heavily, CD would want to "make some present".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1246

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Frederick William Herschel, 1st baronet
Date:
13 June [1849]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (HS6: 16)
Summary:

Thanks JFWH for the trouble he has taken to correct printing error in "Geology".

Discusses Dr Gully’s water-cure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1242

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[14–28 June 1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.78)
Summary:

Mentions illness of Emma Darwin.

Comments on CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849].

His water treatment by J. M. Gully.

CD’s contribution ["Geology"] to J. W. Herschel’s Manual of scientific enquiry [(1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[24 June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 143
Summary:

Declines to canvass for Richard King.

Water-cure has benefited health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1247

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 187–8 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Pleasure at receiving CD’s scientific letters to JDH and Hodgson.

The H. Wedgwoods’ pecuniary loss.

Condolences at CD’s father’s death.

Rajah harasses JDH’s work. Lack of supplies, rain, malarial valleys, and landslips make going difficult. Cannot get into Tibet.

"Twenty species [of plants] here [Camp Sikkim] to one there [Tierra del Fuego?] always are asking me the vexed question, ""where do we come from?""."

From observation of terraces descending to steppes and plains of India, he thinks that the Himalayas were once a grand fiord coast.

Has information CD requested on Yangsma valley. JDH’s detailed hypothesis of origin of dam there. Does not agree with CD’s interpretation.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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