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DCP-LETT-870

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
21 May [1845]
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43)
Summary:

CGE’s account of Pampas mud confirms CD’s view of its origin. Will send Patagonian specimens. Discusses dust-carrying winds in the Atlantic.

Was not referring to F. J. F. Meyen’s voyage.

Corrects error concerning samples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-864A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[after 22 May 1845]
Source of text:
Bloomsbury Auctions (dealers) (1990)
Summary:

Thanks him for describing the niata ox.

He is delighted that GRW is grappling with Galápagos insects. Needs to know immediately whether any entomologists beside GRW, Walker and A. White have described his insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-871

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paul Edmund de Strzelecki
Date:
[25 May 1845]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (GEN MSS MISC Group 1559 F-3)
Summary:

Thanks PEdeS for gift of his book [Physical description of New South Wales and Van Diemen’s Land (1845)].

Asks how much engravings of shells cost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[31 May 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.24–25)
Summary:

Will send MS of first part [of Journal of researches] on Thursday morning, enclosing suggested title and dedication. Urges inclusion of map. Requests another £50 for copyright, as offer of £100 was made when only two parts were planned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-864

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 June 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 34
Summary:

JDH’s books have arrived safely.

Is sending him corrected MS of first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.].

Lyells have just visited.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[4 June 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f.26)
Summary:

Obliged to JM for acceding to request for an additional £50 [for Journal of researches, 2d ed.]. Will reconsider title when type is set up. Gives up the map. Writes about other details of publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-876

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[6 June 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 29–30)
Summary:

Has sent off MS of first part [of Journal of researches, 2d ed.]. Has so much to add about Fuegians [at beginning of second part] and so much to condense and rewrite in scientific part that he may not have second part ready at end of month; it depends on his health, which is good lately.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-877

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 [June 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 33–34)
Summary:

Writes to report progress on MS of second part [of Journal of researches].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-878

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[23 June 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.21–22)
Summary:

Asks JM to look at William Clowes’s arrangement of the title. CD had intended Journal to stand alone, so scientific part would be less prominent. His health is poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-879

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[26 June 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.17–18)
Summary:

Agrees with JM’s criticism of preface [of Journal of researches, 2d ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-880

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[27 June 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 35
Summary:

Busy correcting proofs. Thanks for JDH’s remarks; asks him to send any other corrections soon; goes to press with second part of Journal of researches in less than a week.

Urges collections of all kinds on any isolated islands.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-881

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[28 June 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.19–20)
Summary:

If copies [of part one of Journal of researches] are to be sent to periodicals for review, suggests Gardeners’ Chronicle.

MS for second part will be ready in four to five days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[3 July 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 27–28)
Summary:

Thanks JM for present of 12 copies [of first part of Journal of researches, 2d ed.]. MS [of second part] will be sent to printer Monday or Tuesday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-882

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[5 July 1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.43)
Summary:

Sends the first part of Journal of researches [2d ed.]. Explains his dedication of book to CL. Describes revisions.

Has received CL’s book [Travels in North America, 2 vols. (1845)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-888

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
[before 9 July 1845]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

"It is evident that you have not time now to pay me a visit, & indeed as Mrs Darwin is in daily expectation of her confinement I could hardly have asked you … When I saw your name & that of many other naturalists at Cambridge, I wished much to have been there; but my strength so often fails me, that I expected more mortification than pleasure …

I should have liked to have heard the Crater-of-Elevation discussion; after having read both sides, I cannot subscribe to that view; but I think there remains something unexplained about those many vast circular volcanic ruins …

I presume it is very unprobable [sic] that there will ever be a second German Edition of my Journal … I have largely condensed, corrected & added to the Second English Edition, & I am sure have considerably improved & popularised it".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-889

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[11–12 July 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 36, 100: 43–7
Summary:

A son [George Howard Darwin] was born on Wednesday.

Sends queries on Galapagos flora.

Discusses JDH’s comments on [Journal of researches].

CD feels that with his views on descent "really Nat. Hist. becomes a sublimely grand result-giving subject".

"How differently people view the same subject, for I look at insular Floras … as leading to an opposite view to yours."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-891

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
16 [July 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.13–14)
Summary:

Sent MS [of second part of Journal of researches] to William Clowes [printer] on the 7th and has had only three sheets for correction. Asks JM to see to it that Messrs Clowes send a sheet a day, as CD’s health is uncertain, and he cannot do more at last moment if sheets accumulate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 July – 19 Aug 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 37
Summary:

Thanks for facts on solitary islands having several species of peculiar genera; "it knocks on the head some analogies of mine".

Has long been trying to discover in how many flowers crossing is probable, but finds it difficult to show "even a vague probability of this".

Will JDH proof-read Galapagos chapter of Journal of researches?

Gives information on his Galapagos collection; explains why it differs from others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
25 July 1845
Source of text:
DAR 145: 59
Summary:

CD has bought a farm in Lincolnshire. Criticises primogeniture and stamp laws on land purchase.

Announces birth of G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
[27 July 1845]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.15–16)
Summary:

Sent last sheet [of second part of Journal of researches] to printer yesterday. Will send half of MS for next part in four or five days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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