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DCP-LETT-1014

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
28 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 120
Summary:

Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 70
Summary:

Observations on barnacles.

Would like to meet JDH in London.

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DCP-LETT-1022

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 71
Summary:

Will JDH be in London?

Cirripede observations.

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DCP-LETT-1024

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 72
Summary:

Proposes to visit Kew.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1025

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 73
Summary:

Will come to Kew on Friday.

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DCP-LETT-1027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 74
Summary:

CD’s visit to Kew.

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HENSLOW-971

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
W. J. Hooker
Date:
20 November 1846
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251:641
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1029

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[22 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A1–A2
Summary:

Concerned about Father’s health.

Forwards a letter from FitzRoy.

Dr Erasmus Darwin’s scientific prophecies are the talk of London.

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DCP-LETT-1030

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
23 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121a
Summary:

J. D. Hooker has described Capt. King’s Tierra del Fuego plants and CD’s Galapagos plants [in Flora Antarctica, pt 2 (1847)] which have extraordinary interest and novelty.

A malicious person has sent George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, a letter CD had written to J. L. Stokes, containing a derogatory statement likening Grey’s expedition to "a set of school boys".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1031

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 75
Summary:

Has read JDH’s paper ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 116–233] and thinks it the best essay on geographical distribution he has ever met with. Comments on the paper.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1032

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 77–8
Summary:

Thanks for reading paper. Accepts CD’s criticisms; discussion of some points.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1035

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.

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DCP-LETT-1036

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.

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HENSLOW-326

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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HENSLOW-983

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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KEMP61

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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KEMP62

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

DCP-LETT-977

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.

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