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 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [11 or 18 December 1844]
Summary
Thanks WBC for offer to examine specimen and for offer of slices of shells, but has no achromatic microscope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-753 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 December 1844]
Summary
Instructions for JDH’s trip to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [2 Dec 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 21 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-796 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 December 1844]
Summary
Change in train times.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [4 Dec 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-797 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 6 December [1844]
Summary
Asks WBC if he will examine a specimen of calcareous rock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 6 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-797F |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker 12 December 1844
Summary
Thanks for pleasant stay at Down.
Remarks on boulders found on southern islands.
Describes the alpine character of the Andes flora and relays information on other mountain floras.
Quotes instances of seeds that retained their vitality after being carried by ocean currents.
Sends notes on the comparative floras of New Zealand, Australia, and west coast of South America.
Encloses a copy of part of a letter from George Gardner in Ceylon concerning the European character of the mountain flora.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 29–31 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-799 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 [December 1844]
Summary
Thanks for botanico-geographical remarks. CD greatly appreciates JDH’s valuable generalisations.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 [Dec 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-800 |
To W. D. Fox 20 December [1844]
Summary
Tells of his father’s ill health.
Discusses mesmerism and Harriet Martineau’s recovery. If animals could be put into a stupor, he would be convinced. Suggests WDF have some mesmeriser attempt it with cats.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 20 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 70) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-801 |
From W. B. Carpenter 21 December 1844
Summary
Discusses microscopic examination of rock specimens taken from Pampas deposit and from Chilean tuff. Says he finds organic remains only in the tuff.
| Author: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 33–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-802 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 December [1844]
Summary
Questions on JDH’s sketch comparing floras of Australia, New Zealand, and western S. America; wishes to know botanical relations between other southern islands. Botanico-geographical discussions and comments on books sent by JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-803 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter 25 December [1844]
Summary
Is obliged for the account of the structure of the Pampas specimen and its difference from specimens of the modern calcareous bed of Coquimbo in Chile. If he thinks that J. S. Bowerbank can make out the nature of the specimens, they should be shown to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1844] |
| Classmark: | Jeffrey D. Stillwell (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-803A |
From J. D. Hooker 30 December 1844
Summary
Thanks for CD’s comments on "sketch".
Lengthy discussion of geographical distribution and island floras.
Has been "delighted with" [Robert Chambers’] Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Galapagos flora work goes on well.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Dec 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 32–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-804 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (4) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
