From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
19 Jan [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 130
Summary:
Further comments on JAHdeB’s MS.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ray Society
Date:
[before 23 Jan 1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Summary:
"A letter having been read from Mr. Darwin stating that the MSS of the 2nd vol. of his work [Living Cirripedia] extended to 900 pages it was resolved that the whole be published in one volume."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
31 Jan [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 389)
Summary:
Declines the honour of writing a biography of Leopold von Buch, on grounds that he would not do it well; nor does he hold Buch so high as the world at large does.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
5 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 390)
Summary:
Thanks ES for his note [missing]. CD had understood that what was wanted was a eulogy [of Leopold von Buch] combined with historical criticism, after the French practice. Agrees that historico-critical sketches of work of great foreigners have a place in Philosophical Transactions and wishes he had taste and capacity for it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 or 16] Feb 1854
Source of text:
Oliver N. Hooker (private collection)
Summary:
Has received JDH’s book [Himalayan journals (1854)]. Is very gratified by the dedication to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.108)
Summary:
Comments on CL’s plan to visit Tenerife.
Discusses inclination of strata on islands and around mountains.
Personal affairs of several scientists.
Visit by Henslow.
Notes publication by Hooker [Himalayan journals (1854)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
20 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11)
Summary:
Honoured and gratified by the dedication [to CD] of Hooker’s book [Himalayan journals].
News of Lyell from Madeira.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Gidley King
Date:
21 Feb 1854
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 3447/2 Item 1)
Summary:
PGK’s letter stirred memories of their old days in the Beagle.
Gives news of his work on cirripedes. Would like to examine Scalpellum papillosum of King from Patagonia if PGK’s father has a duplicate in his collection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Palaeontographical Society
Date:
[before 24 Feb 1854]
Source of text:
British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes)
Summary:
Letter from CD about a monograph of fossil Balanidae. Resolved that CD be asked to complete the monograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 118
Summary:
Thanks JDH for dedication of Himalayan journals. CD praises the work and suggests stylistic revisions.
Lyell’s remarks on lava beds in letter from Madeira are not original – they refer exclusively to Élie de Beaumont’s data.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 119
Summary:
More praise for Himalayan journals.
How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?
Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.
Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/75)
Summary:
Discusses price of a farm.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
23 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/76)
Summary:
Discusses investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 March [1854]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 114: 120
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
26 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 120
Summary:
CD welcomes the prospect of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society as means for seeing old acquaintances and making new ones. Will try to go up to London regularly.
Admits that the warning from JDH and Asa Gray (that more harm than good will come from combat over the species issue) makes him feel "deuced uncomfortable".
Reflects upon the complexity of Agassiz; how singular that a man of his eminence and immense knowledge "should write such wonderful stuff & bosh".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
28 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 56)
Summary:
Asks for parts of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror [1844–75].
Asks about the arrangement of cirripedes at the Museum; hopes JEG will keep CD’s names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
28 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D20)
Summary:
Distressed to find himself in conflict with JWL on appointment of a Guardian [for the parish].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
6 Apr [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:
He has returned William Thompson’s MSS and, he believes, all his specimens of Cirripedia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 Apr [1854]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/79)
Summary:
Discusses his investments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
26 Apr [1854]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (Grove Papers)
Summary:
Is honoured by his election to the Philosophical Club [of the Royal Society].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project