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* direct »Letter 1018 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., [6 Nov 1846]
Observations on barnacles.Would like to meet JDH in London.
* direct »Letter 1122 — Darwin, C. R. to Lyell, M. E., [4 Oct 1847]
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.Mentions Agassiz's classification of saurians. Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens. Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
* direct »Letter 1171 — Darwin, C. R. to Cresy, Edward, Jr, [May? 1848]
May go to Paris next summer about barnacles. Unable to appreciate second volume of Alexander von Humboldt's Cosmos [1848]. Recommends review by Sir John Herschel [Edinburgh Rev. 87 (1848): 170–229]. Recommends book by Mary Somerville [Physical geography (1848)]. Mentions article [on species] by M. E. Chevreul [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 3d ser. 6 (1846): 142–214].
* direct »Letter 1193 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 24 July [1848]
Brian Hodgson reading CD's Journal of researches with delight. Forwarding breeding pamphlets.JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.CD's facts on sex in barnacles startling.Hugh Falconer's health.
* direct »Letter 1201 — Darwin, C. R. to Baily, W. H., 5 Oct 1848
Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.
* direct »Letter 1202 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 6 Oct [1848]
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically. CD opposes appending first describer's name to specific name.
* direct »Letter 1220 — Hooker, J. D. to Darwin, C. R., 3 Feb 1849
Continues prior letter of this date. Has received CD's [1202]. Thanks CD for saving his correspondence. Sent "a yarn about species" in October mail. Some "puerile" JDH letters printed in Athenæum. Requests CD extract anything valuable from his letters to CD and Lyell for Athenæum. CD's complemental males in barnacles wonderful. Warns CD to drop his battle about perpetuity of names in species descriptions.
* direct »Letter 1239 — Darwin, C. R. to Hooker, J. D., 9 Apr 1849
Does not recommend that JDH publish extracts of his letters from India in the Athenæum. CD criticises JDH's observations on glacial deposits in Himalayas as insufficiently clear and detailed. CD will live to finish barnacles and make a fool of himself over species.
* direct »Letter 1253 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, Albany, [21 Sept 1849]
Describes his research on cirripedes. Comments on paper by AH ["Notice of a burrowing barnacle", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14]. Asks to borrow specimens.
* direct »Letter 1256 — Darwin, C. R. to Hancock, Albany, 29 Sept [1849]
Thanks AH for specimens of Alcippe. Discusses capacity of Lithotrya to bore its own hole. Believes Arthrobalanus also makes cavities this way. Asks to see paper on cirripedes by Sven Lovén.Comments on paper by AH [see 1253].