From Edward Forbes [7 August 1846]
Summary
Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-989 |
To Charles Lyell [8 August 1846]
Summary
Comments on forthcoming edition [7th (1847)] of CL’s Principles. Mentions other books relevant to CL’s needs by Hooker, H. G. Bronn, Edward Forbes, and J. G. Kölreuter. Discusses his own books on volcanoes and the geology of S. America.
Mentions expected visit to Down by the Lyells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-990 |
To Robert Mallet 26 August [1846]
Summary
Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Mallet |
Date: | 26 Aug [1846] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-992 |
To Leonard Horner [17 August – 7 September 1846]
Summary
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | [17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-993 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 3 September 1846]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-994 |
From Edward Forbes [September 1846]
Summary
Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-995 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 September 1846]
Summary
Has nearly finished South America.
Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.
CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-996 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1846
Summary
Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.
Plant distribution and soil nature.
Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.
JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 69–72 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-998 |
To John Lindley [c. 10 October 1846]
Summary
CD sends a copy [of South America] to Gardeners’ Chronicle and refers to a passage on Patagonian salt; asks for backing and specific information supplementing his suggestion that an added chloride would increase the salt’s preserving power.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lindley |
Date: | [c. 10 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-999 |
Darwin, C. R. | (81) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Forbes, Edward | (3) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
Hopkins, William | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Owen, Richard | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (108) |
Hooker, J. D. | (37) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Forbes, Edward | (3) |
Owen, Richard | (3) |