From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 or 13] Oct 1847
Source of text:
DAR 114: 105
Summary:
Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Beete Jukes
Date:
8 Oct [1847]
Source of text:
University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections
Summary:
Flattered by JBJ’s discussion of coral reefs [in Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" 1 (1847): 347–8]. CD has always thought his Coral reefs "too bold and speculative", so he is gratified "when anyone who has had opportunities of observation does not give his verdict against it".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[11 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64)
Summary:
Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby
Date:
14 Oct [1847]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:
Thanks for a suite of male and female specimens of Lepidoptera. Lack of difference in size of wings surprises CD; the female’s being smaller than male’s in early growth is new to him. Will ask a friend in India for comparable facts.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[21 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 107
Summary:
On scheduling farewell meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 106
Summary:
Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Abraham Clapham
Date:
[29 Oct 1847?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.47)
Summary:
Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.
Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[31 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 26
Summary:
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Oct 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 111
Summary:
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Nov 1847–51]
Source of text:
John K. Lattimer (private collection)
Summary:
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[6 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 109
Summary:
Now plans to come to Kew for an hour’s farewell if his stomach permits.
Congratulations on JDH’s Flora Antarctica [1847].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Nov 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 110
Summary:
CD too unwell to see JDH. Encloses Emma’s farewell note.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Grey
Date:
13 Nov 1847
Source of text:
Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (2))
Summary:
Responding to GG’s offer to aid CD’s natural history researches on New Zealand, CD suggests that limestone caverns should be examined for fossils and that observations on the presence and range of erratic boulders in New Zealand would be very valuable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
18 Nov [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.66)
Summary:
Offers HM-E some specimens of Lernaea, a crustacean parasite on Balanus elongatus.
Mentions opinion of Harry Goodsir about a form CD believes to be the larva of Lernaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
11 Dec [1847]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/7)
Summary:
Discusses account. Glad that all is prosperous.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
18 Dec 1847
Source of text:
British Museum (Central Archive ‘Original Papers’, vol. XXXVIII)
Summary:
Seeks permission from the Trustees of the British Museum to borrow the cirripede specimens in the public collection. Explains his intention to produce a monograph of the Cirripedia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[18 Dec 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71)
Summary:
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
23 Dec [1847-54]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
31 Dec 1847
Source of text:
The Royal Society (Sa: 384)
Summary:
Asks JCR to collect cirripedes for him on forthcoming expedition [to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project