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To J. D. Hooker   [28 April 1845]1

Down Bromley Kent

Monday

My dear Hooker

I return your specimens & elegant drawings with many thanks; I truly hope you did not think of making those drawings for my sake; for the information is more copious than I required & the name, which Berkeley has given will do instead of my poor description: I wish I knew the name of the double conical confervoid bodies, which I have figured.—2

I enclose Berkeley’s note, as I have copied all I want: wd you direct my note of thanks to him.

I have been vexed at my stupidity in having mentioned the Galapagos Plants to you at this time, for my Journal comes out in 3 numbers & the Galapagos will be in the last.3

If you have a scored copy of my Journal, with any corrections, I shd be much obliged for the loan of it; but I beg you not to give yourself any trouble; if you do, (as you have done about the confervæ) I must lose the advantage of asking you a few questions.

I am going tomorrow to see my Father at Shrewsbury for 10 days4 & on my return shall set to & finish my Journal.

Ever my dear Hooker | Yours most truly | C. Darwin

1
Dated on the basis of n. 4, below.
2
An illustration of a double Conferva in Journal of researches, p. 16, which remained unnamed in the second edition (Journal of researches 2d ed., p. 15). Miles Joseph Berkeley, however, named the other species as Trichodesmium erythræum.
3
The three parts of Journal of researches 2d ed. appeared on 28 June, c. 2 August, and c. 30 August (Freeman 1977, p. 35).
4
CD set out for Shrewsbury on 29 April 1845 (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 3, Appendix II).

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.4 double] after del ‘two’
1.5 confervoid] interl

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-861,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-861