CD’s notes arising from conversations with J. D. Hooker 8 December 1844
Summary
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 35–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-798 |
To Solicitor? 1 October 1844
Summary
CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Oct 1844 |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 977) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-779 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1844 – March 1882]
Summary
Discusses books returned
and invites him to Down for a few days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Jan 1844 - Mar 1882] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (14 and 28 May 1983) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13816A |
To G. R. Waterhouse 10 [June 1844 – March 1845]
Summary
Invites GRW and his family to visit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 10 [June 1844 - Mar 1845] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13852 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [May 1844]
Summary
Family financial matters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
Date: | [May 1844] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1028) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13855 |
To Hugh Falconer [December? 1844]
Summary
Returns notes on mule yaks [see Natural selection, p. 438]
and sends queries on silkworms.
A bed is ready any time HF will come.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | [Dec? 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1691 |
From George Robert Waterhouse [April 1844]
Summary
Regularly attends Owen’s lectures. Owen at pains to show groups are not linked. Thus makes Lepidosiren appear fish-like.
GRW thinks embryology will become chief guide to insect classification. But contradictions between classification based on embryological and adult characters do occur.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2026 |
To W. A. Leighton 25 November [1844?–6]
Summary
Thanks for procuring cuttings of weeping yew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | 25 Nov [1844-6] |
Classmark: | Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (May 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-653F |
To E. A. Darwin [before 1 October 1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Oct 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-678 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [May 1844 – 1 October 1846]
Summary
Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].
Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [May 1844 – 1 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 28–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-727 |
To Geological Society of London [3 January 1844]
Summary
Asks that A. d’Orbigny’s geological map of S. America be sent to him with a card of the Society’s evening meetings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Geological Society of London |
Date: | [3 Jan 1844] |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/8/92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-728 |
To J. D. Hooker [11 January 1844]
Summary
Queries on ratios of species to genera on southern islands. CD’s observations on distribution of Galapagos organisms, and on S. American fossils, and facts he has gathered since, lead him to conclusion that species are not immutable; "it is like confessing a murder".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [11 Jan 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-729 |
To Henry Denny 20 January [1844]
Summary
Discusses sending HD lice specimens. Asks him to check with G. R. Waterhouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 20 Jan [1844] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-731 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 25 January 1844
Summary
Delighted to be able to contribute Infusoria to ED’s "great countryman Ehrenberg". Includes a list of eight substances from his collection described in detail, which Ehrenberg might find useful in his researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 25 Jan 1844 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-732 |
To J. D. Hooker [27 January 1844]
Summary
C. G. Ehrenberg would like some earth from Galapagos, Tierra del Fuego, and the Falklands; wishes to hunt for Infusoria.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [27 Jan 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-733 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 January 1844
Summary
Remarks on geographical divisions of the flora of the Southern Hemisphere.
JDH beginning Galapagos plants. Value of studying insular floras with respect to inquiries about adaptation of species.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Jan 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 5–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-734 |
To Henry Denny 5 February [1844]
Summary
Dicussion of some specimens from the Beagle voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 5 Feb [1844] |
Classmark: | Jeremy and Helen Evans (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-734F |
To J. D. Hooker [3–17 February 1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3–17 Feb 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-735 |
To Charles Wicksted 13 February [1844?]
Summary
Inquires about the habits of a litter of foxhounds whose sire was particularly good at recovering the scent in paths or roads.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Wicksted |
Date: | 13 Feb [1844?] |
Classmark: | George Clive (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-735A |
To J. D. Hooker 23 February [1844]
Summary
Has just completed Volcanic islands.
Sends queries on Galapagos flora in particular and island floras in general; also on relationship of wide-ranging species to wide-ranging genera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Feb [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-736 |
Darwin, C. R. | (75) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (3) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (2) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Denny, Henry | (7) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
Denny, Henry | (8) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (5) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (4) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (4) |
Darwin, E. A. | (3) |
Darwin, Emma | (3) |
Dieffenbach, Ernst | (3) |
Forbes, J. D. | (3) |
Morlot, C. A. | (3) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (3) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (2) |
Royal Geographical Society | (2) |
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Egerton, P. de M. G.- | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Forbes, Edward | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Geological Society of London | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Horner, Leonard | (1) |
Jackson, Julian | (1) |
Kemp, William | (1) |
Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (1) |
Unidentified | (1) |
Wicksted, Charles | (1) |
Wood, C. A. | (1) |