From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 152
Summary:
Congratulates JDH on receipt of Royal Medal.
CD gathering facts on aberrant genera of insects.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
12 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Summary:
Regrets he cannot come to hear DS’s paper ["On the structure of Mont Blanc", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 11 (1855): 11–27]. Has a lively interest in the subject.
Edward Forbes has misrepresented his view on foliation and cleavage [Athenæum 30 Sept 1854].
CD is convinced DS’s view will replace Huttonian and Lyellian view of metamorphic schists.
Recommends H. C. Sorby’s paper [probably "On the origin of slaty cleavage", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 156
Summary:
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109)
Summary:
Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.
Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:
17 Nov 1854
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Summary:
Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
22 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:
Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project