From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3–4 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:
News of the children and books he is reading.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[7–8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 22
Summary:
Mainly news of the three children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Brayley
Date:
7 Feb 1845
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.41)
Summary:
Discusses EWB’s application for a position and his qualifications.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Trenham Reeks
Date:
[before 8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 51–2
Summary:
CD sends queries on chemical composition of various Beagle mineral specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.42)
Summary:
Remarks on fossils described in A. D. d’Orbigny’s Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale.
Asks CL whether he has talked with John Murray concerning 2d ed. [of Journal of researches].
Mentions conversation with Hugh Cuming about South American shells. Has had G. B. Sowerby (elder) look at some specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 27
Summary:
Congratulates JDH and condoles with him on possible position at Edinburgh. Although CD will miss him bitterly, he encourages JDH to view it as a good opportunity.
Sorry to hear that Humboldt is failing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[13 Feb 1845]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69a)
Summary:
News of his family and his own health. He is able to work three hours a day on the geology of South America.
Harriet Martineau is greatly excited by mesmerism.
Tells of Sydney Smith’s dream.
Asks for some [S. American] potatoes to test "sporting".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
14 Feb [1845]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Discusses checks on growth of species population; use of term "mutation" in his species theory. His belief in species mutability.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project