From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 79
Summary:
Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.
Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
[3 Sept? 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 118
Summary:
Is slaving at South America – ¾ finished.
Has discovered geologists never read each other’s works – "the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness … Geology is at present very oral".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[3 Sept 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 64
Summary:
Has nearly finished South America.
Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.
CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1846
Source of text:
DAR 100: 69–72
Summary:
Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.
Plant distribution and soil nature.
Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.
JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[Oct–Dec 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks for address of the artist who drew the sections exhibited by WBC at BAAS meeting in September. CD needs drawings of minute corallines, Articulata, and Mollusca.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Gould
Date:
[c. Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library Add 4251: 329
Summary:
Recommends Ernst Dieffenbach for expedition to Guatemala.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
1 Oct 1846
Source of text:
DAR 144: 119
Summary:
Has just heard of RF’s return [from New Zealand]. Hopes to see him.
CD and family are well, but he is a different man in strength and energy from when he was "Flycatcher" in the Beagle.
Has just finished his book [South America].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Georgina Tollet
Date:
1 Oct [1846-71]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 140
Summary:
Describes results of experiments on cobwebs, "neither spider or anything else had caused a line to disappear". Apologises for having to draw this conclusion as she had cheered him so in his work on species.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 65
Summary:
Hopes to start looking over his species notes in about a year.
Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 107)
Summary:
The potato seeds were collected in 1835 from tubers in a remote area of the Cordilleras of Chile and were certainly wild. Refers him to Journal [of researches, p. 347].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50)
Summary:
Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[5 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A15–A16
Summary:
The third and last part of the Geology [South America] will be published in a few days. Apologises for not sending JSH the other volumes.
Has attended Southampton [BAAS] meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 66
Summary:
Sulivans are coming on Friday. Can JDH come?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 67
Summary:
Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?
CD intends writing paper on their propagation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
[c. 10 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 191)
Summary:
CD sends a copy [of South America] to Gardeners’ Chronicle and refers to a passage on Patagonian salt; asks for backing and specific information supplementing his suggestion that an added chloride would increase the salt’s preserving power.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
10 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:
Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].
Sends copy of South America.
Discusses action of the sea.
Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
17 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:
Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].
Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.
Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.
Mentions squirrels eating insects.
Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.
Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[18 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 69
Summary:
Will be in London tomorrow and will try to pop over to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:
[18 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:
Knows nothing about missing fossils collected by J. L. Stokes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
[19 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.51)
Summary:
Objects to the stupid way a plate is bound into South America.
Contributor:
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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