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DCP-LETT-743

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[27 Mar 1844]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 14, 6 April 1844, p. 218
Summary:

Writes to correct a statement made in his 1837 paper "On the formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53]. He should have said that marl was put on the field 30 years ago, not 80. Observations made on a visit to the field showed that worms had undermined the marl spread on the field at a faster rate than previously reported.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-744

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 Mar [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 10
Summary:

Thanks for JDH’s interesting details about the Galapagos.

Clarification of CD’s query about the relationship between the range of a genus and the ranges of its constituent species.

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DCP-LETT-2026

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Apr 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 48: 79
Summary:

Regularly attends Owen’s lectures. Owen at pains to show groups are not linked. Thus makes Lepidosiren appear fish-like.

GRW thinks embryology will become chief guide to insect classification. But contradictions between classification based on embryological and adult characters do occur.

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DCP-LETT-745

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 12–13
Summary:

Answer to CD’s query on genera and species ranges.

Comments on typical forms.

Preparing first part of Galapagos plants for printing.

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DCP-LETT-746

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Apr 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 18
Summary:

Thanks for information on printing charges

and for clarifying "typical forms".

In a few days CD will go away for six weeks.

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DCP-LETT-747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
20 Apr [1844]
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43)
Summary:

Sends samples likely to contain Infusoria and some that Hooker collected in Antarctic regions.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-748

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1844
Source of text:
DAR 181: 14
Summary:

Defines the term "typical species" and discusses its use among zoologists. Cites example of type of Carnivora. Comments on general law of development of parts in animals. Cites teeth of Carnivora.

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DCP-LETT-749

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 26 Apr 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 15
Summary:

Is puzzled by CD’s question about the Viverridae; thinks if there were only one species he might regard it as an aberrant of some other group and not select it as a type of the Carnivora.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-727

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May 1844 – 1 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 39: 28–30
Summary:

Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].

Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13855

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[May 1844]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:

Family financial matters.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-750

From:
Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 May [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 6
Summary:

Sends Lord Enniskillen’s account of origin of the Irish yew: transplanted from the wild; propagated by cuttings thereafter. Offspring recently raised from seed are intermediate between common and Irish [weeping] yew.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-751

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
23 May [1844]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-752

From:
George Brettingham Sowerby; Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 May 1844
Source of text:
DAR 46.2: B1–2
Summary:

[Recto is a list of Galapagos shells, by island, signed GBS. Verso is another list of shells in EF’s hand.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-754F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
1 June [1844]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016)
Summary:

Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 11
Summary:

Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.

Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.

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DCP-LETT-726

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 23
Summary:

Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.

CD has been "wonderfully strong".

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DCP-LETT-755

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
3 June [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.35)
Summary:

Discusses intestinal worms among humans.

Comments on origin of human races.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-756

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 June 1844]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 23, 8 June 1844, p. 380
Summary:

Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13852

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Invites GRW and his family to visit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
11 June [1844]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".

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