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DCP-LETT-1086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 91
Summary:

CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.

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DCP-LETT-1087

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 92
Summary:

Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.

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DCP-LETT-1088

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 87
Summary:

CD would like to call on JDH.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1090F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Allen
Date:
25 May 1847
Source of text:
The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07)
Summary:

Thanks for JS’s note concerning a proposal [concerning some aspect of education of poor children?] which CD has to decline because of his poor health and his work in Natural History.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1090

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
25 May [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5)
Summary:

Discusses accounts.

Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1091

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 88
Summary:

Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1092

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 90
Summary:

Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.

Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.

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DCP-LETT-1094

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[2 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 93
Summary:

Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.

Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.

Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].

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DCP-LETT-1093

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[2 June 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.60)
Summary:

Comments on correspondence between CL and Whewell [concerning university reform].

Criticises S. G. Morton’s "Hybridity in animals" [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 3 (1847): 39–50, 203–12].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1095

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[10 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 94
Summary:

Gives further details on peculiar Laburnum.

Can JDH lend him a full treatise on grafting?

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DCP-LETT-1096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[12 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 95
Summary:

Encloses another specimen of the "bilateral" Laburnum flower.

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DCP-LETT-1098

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 96
Summary:

CD will take a room in Magdalen Hall at Oxford; thanks JDH’s aunt for trouble.

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DCP-LETT-1099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 June 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 97
Summary:

JDH’s books have arrived.

Glad to hear of new plants from Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1043

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[22 June – 10 Aug 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 13
Summary:

Wants JW’s permission to carry out certain investments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1100

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
[27 June 1847]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 385)
Summary:

Must decline invitation for dinner; he is unwell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1102

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bernhard Studer
Date:
4 July [1847]
Source of text:
Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary:

Glad BS intends to visit England. Fears there will be few geologists in London in August. Would be truly glad to see BS at Down, but cannot offer much geological information respecting England.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1080

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 [July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 101
Summary:

Must look after his wife, so is unable to come to visit.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1101

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[19 July 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 98
Summary:

Congratulations on JDH’s engagement.

Sorry JDH is so determined on an expedition.

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DCP-LETT-1103

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
21 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 383
Summary:

Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].

He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1104

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 99
Summary:

Cannot come to Hitcham as he is anticipating a visit from Bernhard Studer of Bern.

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