From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[26 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 68
Summary:
Many thanks for JDH’s beautiful cirripede drawing. Questions on JDH’s observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
28 Oct [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 120
Summary:
Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[1 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5)
Summary:
Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
3 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:
CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[4 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010)
Summary:
Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 70
Summary:
Observations on barnacles.
Would like to meet JDH in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lort Stokes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:
Is upset by what has happened [see 1017], but does not know how CD’s note reached Grey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grey
Date:
10 Nov 1846
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1))
Summary:
CD apologises for his note to J. L. Stokes [see 940], which somehow found its way into GG’s hands.
Praises GG’s work on Australia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 71
Summary:
Will JDH be in London?
Cirripede observations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 72
Summary:
Proposes to visit Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[15 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 73
Summary:
Will come to Kew on Friday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 74
Summary:
CD’s visit to Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
Date:
[22 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A1–A2
Summary:
Concerned about Father’s health.
Forwards a letter from FitzRoy.
Dr Erasmus Darwin’s scientific prophecies are the talk of London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
23 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 121a
Summary:
J. D. Hooker has described Capt. King’s Tierra del Fuego plants and CD’s Galapagos plants [in Flora Antarctica, pt 2 (1847)] which have extraordinary interest and novelty.
A malicious person has sent George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, a letter CD had written to J. L. Stokes, containing a derogatory statement likening Grey’s expedition to "a set of school boys".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 75
Summary:
Has read JDH’s paper ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 116–233] and thinks it the best essay on geographical distribution he has ever met with. Comments on the paper.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 77–8
Summary:
Thanks for reading paper. Accepts CD’s criticisms; discussion of some points.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
25 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
Hans A. O. Baumann (private collection)
Summary:
Encloses a set of proof sheets of the fossil shells in South America.
Also encloses some specimen sheets by G. B. Sowerby to disseminate as an advertisement.
Asks that E. A. Darwin’s name be added to the lists of subscribers to John Price’s work on the Invertebrata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
25 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/201)
Summary:
Asks to borrow specimens of sessile cirripedes from Museum of Royal College of Surgeons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
[c. 26 Nov 1846]
Source of text:
Sir Tom Ramsay (private collection)
Summary:
Discusses CD’s unintended insult to George Grey.
Compliments JLS on his book [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
Date:
27 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 26783–35)
Summary:
Instructs FW to send off a bundle of deeds which he holds for their trust.
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