To Robert Hutton [April 1846]
Summary
Returns copy [of J. Hortic. Soc. Lond.]. Mentions article by William Herbert ["Local habitation and wants of plants", J. Hortic. Soc. Lond. 1 (1846): 44–9].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Hutton |
| Date: | [Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-952 |
To Richard Owen [21 April 1846]
Summary
Asks to visit RO to talk about mammifers of the [Rio] Plata.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [21 Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.48) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-959 |
From J. D. Hooker [11–15 April 1846]
Summary
Hugh Falconer gives no specific objections to Forbes’s views.
Botanical contrast between Cape of Good Hope and the rest of Africa is as strong as that between Australia and India.
Wishes CD would leave off snuff.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [11–15 Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-966 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 6 April [1846]
Summary
On geological works of Tschudi and Buch.
"My health keeps indifferent & I do not suppose I shall ever be a strong man again: everything fatigues me, & I can work but little at my writing: this summer, however, I shall get out my geology of S. America".
"I found Bronn’s Geschichte, which you recommended me, very useful, for references to facts on variation".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 6 Apr [1846] |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-972 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1846]
Summary
Is pleased JDH will attend to polymorphism and also with the botanical relation, as stated by JDH, between Africa and Java.
Would welcome any information on impregnation in the bud.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Apr [1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-973 |
To J. D. Hooker [16 April 1846]
Summary
CD’s suggestions for improving a paragraph by JDH.
On distribution of certain species and their variation relative to a central, typical form.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [16 Apr 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-974 |
From William Hopkins 27 April 1846
Summary
Writes concerning CD’s "geometrico-geological problem". Attempts to square some of CD’s observations with certain geometrical theories concerning geological elevation.
| Author: | William Hopkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Apr 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 54–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-975 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hopkins, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (1) |
| Hutton, Robert | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Hopkins, William | (1) |
| Hutton, Robert | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
