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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Benjamin Carpenter
Date:
[Jan? 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.55)
Summary:

Arranges to meet with WBC to get his advice about buying a microscope.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[Jan 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 139
Summary:

Responds to LH’s comments on South America.

Discusses inclination of lava stream.

Sketches in second edition of Journal of researches more accurate than in first.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hutton
Date:
[1847 – 12 Nov 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.67)
Summary:

Tells RH that he has secured an introduction to Lady Elizabeth Finch through a friend of his father’s. Thanks RH for his efforts.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1847 or 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 329
Summary:

Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[1847?]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS)
Summary:

Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lort Stokes
Date:
2 Jan [1847]
Source of text:
University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859))
Summary:

Thanks for sending his "magnificent book" [Discoveries in Australia (1846)].

Asks JLS to visit Down on "Saturday the 16th" and Sunday. He has also invited Forbes, Falconer, Hooker and Waterhouse. [See 1036.]

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[19 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2)
Summary:

Comments on letter by Bernhard Studer ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1846–7): 186] and on article by DS ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105]. Discusses geological cleavage and foliation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[on or before 20 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.57)
Summary:

Quotes from South America [p. 167] on the foliation of metamorphic rocks.

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

Much interested in BS’s letter on gneiss ["Remarks on the geological relations of the gneiss of the Alps", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 186–7].

Sends copy of South America.

Has shown that lamination of metamorphic schists closely allied with cleavage.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
21 [Jan 1847]
Source of text:
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[23 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65)
Summary:

Asks CL to address a letter to Charles Maclaren.

Discusses recent publication by David Milne on erratic boulders [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 42 (1847): 154–172].

Views of Bernhard Studer on foliation of gneiss in the Alps. Asks CL to tell Leonard Horner of Studer’s views.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
[23 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (PEARSON/10/1)
Summary:

Comments on manuscript [? "On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 5 (1849): 111–29]. Discusses phenomenon of cleavage. Will write to J. D. Forbes about DS’s paper.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[24 Jan 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58)
Summary:

Comments on investigation of coral reefs by A. A. Gould, particularly the reefs around Tahiti. Mentions description of reefs of Tahiti by W. Forbes.

Hooker’s view of work by C. J. F. Bunbury.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 79
Summary:

Cirripede observations.

Would like to hear what JDH has to say about his species sketch.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Dieffenbach
Date:
9 Feb [1847]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965)
Summary:

On the results of Robert Bunsen’s journey to Iceland, which he compares in detail with his own research.

"I have for the present given up Geology, & am hard at work at pure Zoology & am dissecting various genera of cirripedes, & am extremely interested in the subject." "I always, however, keep on reading & observing on my favourite work on Variation or on Species, & shall in a year’s time or so, commence & get my notes in order."

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Nichols
Date:
10 Feb [1847]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/10/36)
Summary:

Encloses 12s for the year.

Anxious for February number of the Journal.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
12 Feb [1847]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS-MUS/3/3/9)
Summary:

F. J. Muñiz has offered fossil bones collected around Buenos Aires to the Royal College of Surgeons. He believes he can complete their Megatherium skeleton and provide other specimens. CD feels he should be encouraged in his work.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[17 Feb 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 78
Summary:

Asks JDH not to think of looking at his species sketch until he has leisure.

Contributor:
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From:
Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1847
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1020)
Summary:

Concerning the purchase of shares.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francisco Javier Muñiz
Date:
26 Feb 1847
Source of text:
Nature 99 (1917): 305–6
Summary:

If FJM wishes to sell the fossils he has discovered, CD suggests he appoint some agent to dispose of them.

Is surprised at the account of the earthquake in the pampas.

Offers to send his South America.

Greatly admires FJM’s zeal

and would welcome any information on the domestic animals of La Plata.

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