From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Admiralty
Date:
9 [May 1846]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Encloses letter and paper to be forwarded to B. J. Sulivan.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Grey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1846
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121c
Summary:
Returns letter from CD to J. L. Stokes [see 940 and 1030].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 May 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 62
Summary:
CD brought some plants in spirits from Tierra del Fuego. Did JDH see them?
Problems of explaining formation of coalfields. Comments on recent work on coal formation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
27 May [1846]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/1)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of draft. When does JH want the money for the new farmhouse? Bankers are Robarts, Curtis & Co. JH to pay them the rent directly.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[June – July 1846]
Source of text:
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Part 2) 2 1846: 59
Summary:
ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 280
Summary:
Hybrid geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Searles Valentine Wood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1846
Source of text:
DAR 181: 143
Summary:
Variation in Mollusca.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Smith, Elder & Co
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June [1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/3)
Summary:
Arrangements for publishing [South America].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
21 [June 1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204)
Summary:
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
23 June [1846]
Source of text:
Missouri Botanical Garden Library
Summary:
Does not remember where specimens came from. CD picked fossils most likely to contain Infusoria. Discusses composition of Tertiary strata of South America from which they came. Questions WCW’s statement that they contained siliceous matter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[24 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 24
Summary:
News of progress in remodelling. He and Etty [Henrietta] miss the rest of the family.
Was sick, but "two pills of opium righted me".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[25 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 25
Summary:
CD has been stomachy and sick, but not very uncomfortable.
Working on proofs [of South America] and cannot keep printer supplied with manuscript.
His thoughts of her, and news of the children who are at Down with him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 or 15] July 1846
Source of text:
DAR 114: 63
Summary:
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reeve Brothers.
Date:
[Aug 1846]
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:
Discusses printing of a plate [for South America (1846)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Aug 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 49
Summary:
Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Aug 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.49)
Summary:
Comments on forthcoming edition [7th (1847)] of CL’s Principles. Mentions other books relevant to CL’s needs by Hooker, H. G. Bronn, Edward Forbes, and J. G. Kölreuter. Discusses his own books on volcanoes and the geology of S. America.
Mentions expected visit to Down by the Lyells.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[14 or 21] Aug 1846
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].
Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.
Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure)
Summary:
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Mallet
Date:
26 Aug [1846]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 43.1: 46
Summary:
Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.37
- FitzRoy, Robert3
- Forbes, Edward3
- Owen, Richard3
- Smith, Elder & Co3
- Sowerby, G. B.3
- Stokes, J. L.3
- Blomefield, Leonard2
- Darwin, Emma2
- Ehrenberg, C. G.2
- Fox, W. D.2
- Grey, George2
- Higgins, John2
- Hopkins, William2
- Horner, Leonard2
- Jenyns, Leonard2
- Lyell, Charles2
- Orbigny, Alcide d’2
- Ramsay, A. C.2
- Sharpe, Daniel2
- Wedgwood, Emma2
- Admiralty1
- Annals and Magazine of Natural History1
- Ansted, D. T.1
- Appleton, T. G.1
- Carpenter, W. B.1
- Darwin, Catherine1
- Dieffenbach, Ernst1
- Gould, John1
- Gray, J. E.1
- Henslow, J. S.1
- Herbert, J. M.1
- Hutton, Robert1
- Jackson, Julian1
- Jukes, J. B.1
- Langton, Catherine1
- Lindley, John1
- London Library1
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)1
- Mallet, Robert1
- Murchison, R. I.1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Reeve Brothers.1
- Sowerby, G. B., Jr1
- Thompson, William (a)1
- Tollet, Georgina1
- Waterhouse, G. R.1
- Wedgwood, Francis1
- Williamson, W. C.1
- Wood, S. V.1