From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[May 1844]
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028)
Summary:
Family financial matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
23 May [1844]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:
Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
1 June [1844]
Source of text:
19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016)
Summary:
Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 June [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 11
Summary:
Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.
Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[3 June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 23
Summary:
Arrangements for Emma’s return to Down.
CD has been "wonderfully strong".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
3 June [1844]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.35)
Summary:
Discusses intestinal worms among humans.
Comments on origin of human races.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 June 1844]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 23, 8 June 1844, p. 380
Summary:
Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
11 June [1844]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:
About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 [June 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 12
Summary:
Encloses letter from Ehrenberg [758] about Infusoria.
Intends to visit Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
31 July 1844
Source of text:
Alan Wedgwood (private collection)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of the order for £48 4s. 8d., and offers full indemnity for the £5,000 deposited without security.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
4 July [1844]
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43)
Summary:
Astonished that dust sample contains Infusoria. Thinks dust is volcanic. Will write account of falling dust [see 775]. Offers further samples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
5 July 1844
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A4)
Summary:
Asks that in the event of his death, Emma should have the sketch of his species theory edited and published. Suggests possible editors, among them Lyell, Edward Forbes, and J. D. Hooker. [CD annotation on cover: "Hooker by far best man to edit my species volume Aug 1854".]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[14 July 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 13
Summary:
Health and weather permitting, CD proposes to visit Kew.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 14
Summary:
Encloses letter from Ehrenberg [762], who wants information on deep-sea soundings from JDH’s voyage, and on isolated islands.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[25 July 1844]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:
Sends a specimen of rusty wheat from the banks of the Plata.
Asks for bits of peat he collected
and a bit of the paint used by Fuegians to colour themselves.
He will send these to C. G. Ehrenberg for analysis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III; Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
25 July 1844
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1012)
Summary:
Requests to JW III and EAD as trustees of the marriage-settlement, to make some funds available.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
[27 July – 10 Aug 1844]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS)
Summary:
Sends four packets of lice and suggests writing to Dr A. Smith, "the S. African traveller", for assistance.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[30 July 1844 – 1 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/5)
Summary:
Urgently needs a Spanish map of the Cordilleras of central Chile near St Jago [Santiago].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1–29 Aug 1844]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 15
Summary:
Encloses Ehrenberg letter, Galapagos seaweed, and specimens of Conferva.
H. Denny would like specimens of Antarctic Pediculi.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
