To G. R. Waterhouse [3 or 17 December 1843]
Summary
Comments on GRW’s paper [Rep. BAAS (1843): 65–7; Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 12 (1843): 399–412]. CD says by "link" between any two groups he never understood a half-way link, merely one in a long series. Observes that one cannot have a simple species intermediate between two great families. Criticises GRW’s use of circles to represent groups, which leads to thinking that groups are of equal value.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Date: | [3 or 17] Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-718 |
To Susan Darwin 2 December 1843
Summary
Thanks SD for some furniture. Describes arrangement of furnishing at Down and work carried out on the grounds. Children are "very full of their approaching lessons".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | DAR 154: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-719 |
From William Kemp 4 December 1843
Summary
Describes circumstances surrounding discovery of seed in sand-pit. Encloses certificates testifying to the good character of the men involved.
| Author: | William Kemp |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | DAR 50: A19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-720 |
To William Kemp 7 December [1843]
Summary
Has sent WK’s paper to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Kemp 1844).
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Kemp |
| Date: | 7 Dec [1843] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/25) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-720F |
From Francis Walker 10 December 1843
Summary
Chalcidites collected by CD are all similar to those of Europe. Mentions other specimens quite different from European forms.
| Author: | Francis Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 294 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-721 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 December 1843]
Summary
Thanks JDH for short sketch of botanical geography of Southern Hemisphere. Comments on his own S. American collections and observations; notes other Galapagos collections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-722 |
From J. D. Hooker [12 December 1843 – 11 January 1844]
Summary
Henslow has sent him CD’s Galapagos plants along with Macrae’s. JDH impressed by the island endemism, which "overturns all our preconceived notions" on centres of radiation. Describes the extent, and the sharp demarcation at longitude 60° W, of the American and European Northern Hemisphere floras. CD’s plants among those he is using to do Antarctic flora. Drimys winteri shows a graded series of states down the length of the South American continent.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [12 Dec 1843 – 11 Jan 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 206–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-723 |
To Charles Lyell [16 December 1843]
Summary
Description and defence of his view of the tosca in Banda Oriental, along the Rio Uruguay and at the Rio Negro, taking issue with A. D. d’Orbigny. Refers to the pumice in the Patagonian Territory. Two tables show the layered tosca formation along the Uruguay.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [16 Dec 1843] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.33) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-724 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 16 December 1843
Summary
"You will have been sorry to have seen in the newspapers, the disturbances & fightings with the New Zealanders. – I have lately been much interested in reading your chapters on the slow decrease in numbers … of these poor people. The case appears to me very curious, especially as the decrease has commenced or continued since the introduction of the potato – the relation between the amount of population & of food is hence inverted. It would have been a case for the great Malthus to have reflected on".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-725 |
To Edward Holland [after 12 July 1843]
Summary
Discusses fossil bones found in Australia by Mr Isaac. Suggests they be sent to Richard Owen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Holland |
| Date: | [after 12 July 1843] |
| Classmark: | John L. McDonald (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-970 |
To William Baxter or W. W. Baxter 21 March [1843–82]
Summary
Requests a mixture of verdigris, sal ammoniac, and lamp-black.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1843-82] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (Baxter Collection, 1136/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772 |
To William Baxter or W. W. Baxter 16 March [1843–82]
Summary
Asks for a bottle to be filled with spirits of wine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1843-82] |
| Classmark: | Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (144/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13772F |
To S. P. Woodward [14 January 1843]
Summary
Asks SPW to have obsidian specimens and book [Dieudonné de Gratet de Dolomieu, Voyage aux îles de Lipari (1783)] ready when he comes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward; Geological Society of London |
| Date: | [14 Jan 1843] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-652 |
To Emma Darwin [12–24 October 1843]
Summary
News of the Shrewsbury family. He cannot get his father to sympathise with the numbness in his finger ends or his fears of "ruin and extravagance".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [12–24 Oct 1843] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-704 |
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