From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Oct 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 3
Summary:
Writes about canal shares EAD holds as trustee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Oct 1844
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 977)
Summary:
CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot)
Date:
10 Oct [1844]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:
Says AM’s letters on glacial action not publishable since they do not give facts. Suggests readings on the subject of glaciers. Expresses doubts about AM’s theory that Scandinavian glaciers brought the boulders he was studying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James David Forbes
Date:
11 Oct [1844]
Source of text:
University of St Andrews Special Collections (Papers of J. D. Forbes: msdep7 – Incoming letters 1844, no.57)
Summary:
Discusses a specimen of Mexican obsidian with an unusual laminated structure.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
12 Oct [1844]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Asks whether LJ can throw light on this subject: "What are the checks and what the periods of life by which the increase of any given species is limited?" CD has been driven to conclude that species are mutable; allied species are co-descendants from common stocks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[20 or 27] Oct 1844
Source of text:
Emma Darwin 2: 92
Summary:
Has been discussing wills and other legal matters with his father.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 16–23
Summary:
Discusses the connection between climate and vegetation. Believes that an equable climate is unfavourable to increase of species either by importation or modification of existing forms; illustrates his view with reference to particular floras. Hopes to acquire facts to support CD’s idea that isolation is important in producing new forms. Considers the floras of islands some of which do have distinctive species but others of which do not. Agrees that the wide ranges of cryptogams are a consequence of their means of dispersal. Asks for references to works on original creation and species mutability in order to get the best notions of "the (mad) theories of some men from Lamarck’s twaddle upwards".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Denny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1844
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 273
Summary:
Has never heard of species of same genus [of parasites] being found on both birds and mammals, or different genera and species being found on animals in the domestic and wild states. Implications of this for relationship of aperea and guinea-pig.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
