From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Allport Leighton
Date:
25 Nov [1844-6]
Source of text:
Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (May 2013)
Summary:
Thanks for procuring cuttings of weeping yew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Date:
[27 Nov 1844?]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A9–10
Summary:
Sends thanks for money.
Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.
Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot)
Date:
28 Nov [1844]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:
Mentions his Plutonic view of earth history.
Cites Lyell’s opinions on loess.
CD doubts contemporaneousness of extinct great animals with ice period.
Cites applicability of Forbes’s theory of glacier structure to structure of volcanic obsidian.
CD is falling astern in the geological race for knowledge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Nov 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 28
Summary:
Would like to visit on the weekend of 7–8 December.
Differences in floras of St Helena and Ascension.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
[Dec? 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 17
Summary:
Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]
and sends queries on silkworms.
A bed is ready any time HF will come.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 21
Summary:
Instructions for JDH’s trip to Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 22
Summary:
Change in train times.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
6 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 114
Summary:
Asks WBC if he will examine a specimen of calcareous rock.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 35–40
Summary:
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[11 or 18] Dec 1844
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:
Thanks WBC for offer to examine specimen and for offer of slices of shells, but has no achromatic microscope.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 29–31
Summary:
Thanks for pleasant stay at Down.
Remarks on boulders found on southern islands.
Describes the alpine character of the Andes flora and relays information on other mountain floras.
Quotes instances of seeds that retained their vitality after being carried by ocean currents.
Sends notes on the comparative floras of New Zealand, Australia, and west coast of South America.
Encloses a copy of part of a letter from George Gardner in Ceylon concerning the European character of the mountain flora.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
16 [Dec 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 23
Summary:
Thanks for botanico-geographical remarks. CD greatly appreciates JDH’s valuable generalisations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
20 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 70)
Summary:
Tells of his father’s ill health.
Discusses mesmerism and Harriet Martineau’s recovery. If animals could be put into a stupor, he would be convinced. Suggests WDF have some mesmeriser attempt it with cats.
Contributor:
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From:
William Benjamin Carpenter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 39: 33–5
Summary:
Discusses microscopic examination of rock specimens taken from Pampas deposit and from Chilean tuff. Says he finds organic remains only in the tuff.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
25 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
Jeffrey D. Stillwell (private collection)
Summary:
Is obliged for the account of the structure of the Pampas specimen and its difference from specimens of the modern calcareous bed of Coquimbo in Chile. If he thinks that J. S. Bowerbank can make out the nature of the specimens, they should be shown to him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Dec [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 24
Summary:
Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. America; wishes to know botanical relations between other southern islands. Botanico-geographical discussions and comments on books sent by JDH.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1844
Source of text:
DAR 100: 32–4
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s comments on "sketch".
Lengthy discussion of geographical distribution and island floras.
Has been "delighted with" [Robert Chambers’] Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Galapagos flora work goes on well.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.34
- Denny, Henry8
- Ehrenberg, C. G.5
- Gardeners’ Chronicle5
- Carpenter, W. B.4
- Waterhouse, G. R.4
- Darwin, E. A.3
- Darwin, Emma3
- Dieffenbach, Ernst3
- Forbes, J. D.3
- Morlot, C. A.3
- Wedgwood, Emma3
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III3
- Blomefield, Leonard2
- Jenyns, Leonard2
- Kemp, William2
- Royal Geographical Society2
- Darwin, S. E.1
- Egerton, P. de M. G.-1
- Falconer, Hugh1
- Forbes, Edward1
- Fox, W. D.1
- Geological Society of London1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Horner, Leonard1
- Jackson, Julian1
- Leighton, W. A.1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Sowerby, G. B.1
- Unidentified1
- Wicksted, Charles1
- Wood, C. A.1