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From:
Darwin, A. E.; Darwin, Francis
To:
Wedgwood, K. E.
Date:
[1846–51]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 1 (p. 2)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, A. E.
To:
Wedgwood?, M. S.
Date:
[1846–51]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 1 (p. 1)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846–54]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 216 (Letters)
Summary:
Lateral teeth in Arcadae.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846?]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 319
Summary:
Gives CD page references [in The new statistical account of Scotland, vol. 14, pp 446, 507] for information regarding parallel roads.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Prestwich
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 269
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 5
Summary:
Note on editorial details concerning names of fossil shells [for South America, appendix]. The Latin for "Darwin" is "Darvinius".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Jan 1846
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 1c–2
Summary:
Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 53
Summary:
Disappointed with Webb and Berthelot.
Delighted to hear of more species from the Galapagos, surprised to hear W. Indian character of flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39.2: 128–9, DAR 43.1: 66–7
Summary:
Sends identifications of CD’s Bahia Blanca fossil shells [see 830].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 60–2
Summary:
Goes on the assumption that each species has one origin, is immutable, and migrates.
Disagrees with Gaudichaud[-Beaupré] that volcanic island species are polymorphous.
Some mundane genera vary, others do not (Senecio vs Gnaphalium).
John Lindley’s doctrine of longevity of trees is amazing.
Edward Forbes’s health is better.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[5 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 51
Summary:
Will come to visit Kew if Claude Gay speaks English. Otherwise would prefer to wait until spring.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Brettingham Sowerby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1846
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 3–4
Summary:
Gives his opinion on the tropical character of fossil shells listed by CD. The shells of Navidad [Chile] are not particularly tropical.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8? Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 52
Summary:
Will visit JDH in spring.
Will JDH ask Gay what birds, reptiles, or mammifers inhabit Juan Fernández [Island]?
Has JDH seen William Herbert’s paper ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9]?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 54
Summary:
Thinks JDH’s explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands is probably correct.
Proposes experimental test to see whether alpine form of a plant is inherited like a true variety.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Coleman
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
12 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add.8856/293
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 54c
Summary:
Has had to make a Post Office order to JDH payable at Charing Cross instead of Kew.
Does Sir William [Hooker] know the Dean of Manchester’s London address?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Albert Way
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 349
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb – 2 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56c
Summary:
Sends enclosure for JDH to read [letter from E. Forbes, 956]. "I cannot see my way about his post-miocene land."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 151
Summary:
Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Feb 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 55
Summary:
Glad to hear of JDH’s botanical appointment [with Geological Survey].
Edward Forbes has written about his subsidence doctrine; CD objects to its hypothetical base.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
