From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[24 June 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 143
Summary:
Declines to canvass for Richard King.
Water-cure has benefited health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 187–8 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
Pleasure at receiving CD’s scientific letters to JDH and Hodgson.
The H. Wedgwoods’ pecuniary loss.
Condolences at CD’s father’s death.
Rajah harasses JDH’s work. Lack of supplies, rain, malarial valleys, and landslips make going difficult. Cannot get into Tibet.
"Twenty species [of plants] here [Camp Sikkim] to one there [Tierra del Fuego?] always are asking me the vexed question, ""where do we come from?""."
From observation of terraces descending to steppes and plains of India, he thinks that the Himalayas were once a grand fiord coast.
Has information CD requested on Yangsma valley. JDH’s detailed hypothesis of origin of dam there. Does not agree with CD’s interpretation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 June 1849
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.187-188, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to [Charles] Darwin [CD], having read his letter & the one to Hodgson with interest. He expresses his sympathy for CD’s bereavement & H. Wedgewood’s pecuniary loss. JDH discusses CD’s health. The Rajah is being difficult but JDH refers all his grievances to [Archibald] Campbell at Darjeeling. He has reached the Tibetan borders north east of Darjeeling but his Lepchas are afraid. JDH discusses food & provisions; he is clear of the 'malarious' valleys. He wishes to compare the cis & trans slopes but cannot go into Tibet. He compares the landscape to Salvator Rosa’s paintings. The vegetation is rhododendron scrub with pines below. JDH describes exploring the Terai plains & discusses the geology & history of the Himalayas. JDH discusses the particulars & possible glacial formation of the Yangma Valley lake beds & terraces & includes small sketches. He refers to CD’s remarks on the granite construct of the Cordillera [Letter appears incomplete]
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
3 July [1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.79)
Summary:
Discusses CL’s Second visit to the United States [1849]. Corrects CL’s error regarding location of Megatherium finds.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 [July 1849]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 74)
Summary:
Continues water-cure treatment at home and must do so for a year. Considers himself absolutely cured.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
27 July [1849]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:
Returns the enclosed from his brother [Erasmus Alvey Darwin]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emily Harriet Kerrison, Lady Mahon, Countess Stanhope, Lady Stanhope; Emily Harriet Stanhope, Lady Mahon, Countess Stanhope, Lady Stanhope
Date:
9 Aug [1849]
Source of text:
Kent History and Library Centre (U1590 C481/18)
Summary:
Accepts EHS’s invitation for Thursday.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
12 Aug [1849]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Describes his research on cirripedes: an "anatomical and systematic catalogue". Asks to borrow specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby
Date:
12 Aug [1849]
Source of text:
New York Academy of Medicine (MS 15)
Summary:
Thanks MATW for the results of her experiments on the inheritance of caterpillar peculiarities and would be grateful for any further observations on differences in structure or habits between silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
20 Aug [1849]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 229)
Summary:
Thanks J. D. Dana for cirripede specimens. Describes his work. Comments on Ibla. Would like to see AAG’s notes and figures on Anatifa. Asks for references to cirripede descriptions by T. A. Conrad.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Ransome
Date:
27 [Aug 1849]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Regrets that state of his health prevents acceptance of invitation [to be present at inauguration of J. S. Henslow as President of Ipswich Museum in Dec 1850].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[2 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.80)
Summary:
Discusses effect of subsidence and elevation on deposits. Cites examples along coasts of South America and Wales. Proposes theory to explain thickness of deposits in south Wales.
Asks CL’s opinion of his theory of "craters of elevation" described in Volcanic islands.
Mentions CL’s comparison of Mississippi beds to the Pampas.
Comments on Poulett Scrope’s views on the separation of basalt and trachyte.
Describes his cirripede work.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[21 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Describes his research on cirripedes.
Comments on paper by AH ["Notice of a burrowing barnacle", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14]. Asks to borrow specimens.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johan Georg Forchhammer
Date:
25 Sept [1849]
Source of text:
University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives
Summary:
Asks to borrow cirripede specimens. Describes his research.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A92–A95
Summary:
Describes the Birmingham meeting [1849] of BAAS.
His health is poor. Continues with water-cure with considerable benefit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
29 Sept [1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks AH for specimens of Alcippe.
Discusses capacity of Lithotrya to bore its own hole. Believes Arthrobalanus also makes cavities this way.
Asks to see paper on cirripedes by Sven Lovén.
Comments on paper by AH [see 1253].
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1849
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 217–18 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
CD partly right. JDH was calling "stratification" what CD calls "foliation". Answers CD’s question on cleavage foliation in Himalayas. Glacial action.
Charmed by CD’s Admiralty instructions on geology [in Manual of scientific enquiry (1849), Collected papers 1: 227–50], but complains he does not give prices of books and instruments he recommends.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 September 1849
Source of text:
JDH/1/10 f.217-218, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Cuming
Date:
[Oct? 1849]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.82)
Summary:
Discusses cirripede specimens borrowed from HC.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[7 Oct 1849]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A89–A90
Summary:
Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,
and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.11
- Lyell, Charles7
- Strickland, H. E.7
- Henslow, J. S.5
- Forchhammer, J. G.4
- Fox, W. D.4
- Hancock, Albany4
- Dana, J. D.3
- Salt, Thomas3
- Cuming, Hugh2
- Herschel, John2
- Higgins, John2
- Murray, John (b)2
- Owen, Richard2
- Ransome, George2
- Bowerbank, J. S.1
- Clapham, Abraham1
- Covington, Syms1
- Cresy, Edward, Jr1
- Darwin, S. E.1
- Daubrée, Auguste1
- Dixon, E. S.1
- Fitch, Robert1
- Gould, A. A.1
- Hooker, W. J.1
- Horner, M. E.1
- Kerrison, E. H.1
- Lovén, Sven1
- Lyell, M. E.1
- Milne-Edwards, Henri1
- Murchison, R. I.1
- Müller, Johannes1
- Reeve, L. A.1
- Simmonds, P. L.1
- Smith, Elder & Co1
- Stanhope, E. H.1
- Steenstrup, Japetus1
- Swale and Wilson1
- Thompson, William (a)1
- Unidentified1
- Weld, C. R.1
- Whitby, M. A. T.1