To Robert Hutton [1847 – 12 November 1848]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Hutton |
Date: | [1847 – 12 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.67) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1040 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [20? August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
Date: | [20? Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1042 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [22 June – 10 August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
Date: | [22 June – 10 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1043 |
To Richard Owen [1847?]
Summary
Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [1847?] |
Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1044 |
To J. F. Royle [16 April – 21 May 1847]
Summary
CD understands that JFR cannot lend him the volumes [of Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India] at present. Thanks for offer to inform him of other works on the breeds of animals in India.
CD fears his belonging to the new club [Philosophical Club of the Royal Society] would be useless, since he is seldom able to dine out.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
Date: | [16 Apr – 21 May 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 400 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1047 |
To Leonard Horner [January 1847]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | [Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1048 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [January? 1847]
Summary
Arranges to meet with WBC to get his advice about buying a microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [Jan? 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.55) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050 |
To J. L. Stokes 2 January [1847]
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.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | 2 Jan [1847] |
Classmark: | University of Akron (Herman Muehlstein Rare Book Collection: tipped into a copy of Origin 1st ed. (QH365 .O2 1859)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1050A |
To Charles Lyell [23 January 1847]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [23 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1051 |
To Daniel Sharpe [19 January 1847]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | [19 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42240: 21–2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1052 |
To Charles Lyell [on or before 20 January 1847]
Summary
Quotes from South America [p. 167] on the foliation of metamorphic rocks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [on or before 20 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1053 |
To Bernhard Studer 20 January [1847]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
Date: | 20 Jan [1847] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1054 |
To Charles Lyell [24 January 1847]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [24 Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1056 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 February 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Feb 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1057 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 [February 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [Feb 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1058 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 9 February [1847]
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."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 9 Feb [1847] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1059 |
To Charles Nichols, Geological Society 10 February [1847]
Summary
Encloses 12s for the year.
Anxious for February number of the Journal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Nichols |
Date: | 10 Feb [1847] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/10/36) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1060 |
To Richard Owen 12 February [1847]
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 12 Feb [1847] |
Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS-MUS/3/3/9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1061 |
To Francisco Javier Muñiz 26 February 1847
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.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francisco Javier Muñiz |
Date: | 26 Feb 1847 |
Classmark: | Nature 99 (1917): 305–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1063 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 February 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 Feb 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 80 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1064 |
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