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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
28 February 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 [Mar] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 63–8
Summary:
Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.
Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. D. Hooker
Date:
9 March 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 9537/2/11
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Mar 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39: 62–3
Summary:
Describes Infusoria in Rio Gallegos samples.
"Fluthgebiete" means estuary deposit.
Discusses dust samples from Malta. Asks for further samples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 56
Summary:
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[24 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 57
Summary:
C. G. Ehrenberg wants specimen grasses from Ascension Island.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[25 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 188–91
Summary:
JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.
Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.
French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.
Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.
Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.
Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[29 Mar or 5 Apr] 1846
Source of text:
DAR 114: 58
Summary:
If JDH can send grasses CD will write to Ehrenberg enclosing them.
Contributor:
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From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 64–5
Summary:
Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Apr [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 59
Summary:
Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.
Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11–15 Apr 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 205
Summary:
Hugh Falconer gives no specific objections to Forbes’s views.
Botanical contrast between Cape of Good Hope and the rest of Africa is as strong as that between Australia and India.
Wishes CD would leave off snuff.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[16 Apr 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 60
Summary:
CD’s suggestions for improving a paragraph by JDH.
On distribution of certain species and their variation relative to a central, typical form.
Contributor:
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From:
William Hopkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39: 54–6
Summary:
Writes concerning CD’s "geometrico-geological problem". Attempts to square some of CD’s observations with certain geometrical theories concerning geological elevation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[May 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 61
Summary:
Interested in sterility of alpine plants in lowland and sterility of some plants in cultivation.
Curious to see Galapagos paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Hopkins
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May 1846
Source of text:
DAR 39: 57–8
Summary:
Discussion of CD’s geological problem, relating to elevation of laminated beds around a rising granitic ridge.
Contributor:
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From:
George Grey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1846
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121c
Summary:
Returns letter from CD to J. L. Stokes [see 940 and 1030].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 May 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 62
Summary:
CD brought some plants in spirits from Tierra del Fuego. Did JDH see them?
Problems of explaining formation of coalfields. Comments on recent work on coal formation.
Contributor:
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From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 280
Summary:
Hybrid geese.
Contributor:
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From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1846
Source of text:
DAR 181: 143
Summary:
Variation in Mollusca.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[24 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 24
Summary:
News of progress in remodelling. He and Etty [Henrietta] miss the rest of the family.
Was sick, but "two pills of opium righted me".
Contributor:
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