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 |
From Henry Allen Wedgwood 21 February 1847
Summary
Concerning the purchase of shares.
Author: | Henry Allen (Harry) Wedgwood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1847 |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1020) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1062 |
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 |
To Robert Chambers [28 February 1847]
Summary
Asks to call on RC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Chambers |
Date: | [28 Feb 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 265 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1065 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 4 March 1847]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 4 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1066 |
To Thomas Salt [March 1847]
Summary
Maer purchase-money; London and Birmingham Railway Company shares.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | [Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1066F |
From J. D. Hooker [1 March 1847]
Summary
Will come to 7 Park St. on Wednesday for a palaver on distribution, species mutability, migration, etc.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1067 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 March 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 81 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1068 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [before 6 March 1847]
Summary
Corrects a misunderstanding of his description of salt deposits [in South America, pp. 74–5]. The salt referred to was from Rio Negro, and was coarsely crystallised and free of other saline substances found in sea-salt. CD believes its lesser value in curing meat is owing to the absence of muriates of lime and magnesia and suggests that it might be worth while to add them to the Rio Negro salt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 6 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 10, 6 March 1847, pp. 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1069 |
To Charles Lyell [7 March 1847]
Summary
Has received copy of CL’s Principles [7th ed.].
Comments on reading Annales des sciences naturelles.
David Milne’s and Robert Chambers’ views on Glen Roy.
Mentions sales of South America.
Describes visit to his father at Shrewsbury.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [7 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.59) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1070 |
To John Russell [10 March 1847]
Summary
Memorial presented by members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and other scientific societies, submitting that natural history is inadequately provided for by the present constitution of the Board of Trustees of the British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
Date: | [10 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | House of Commons Parliamentary Papers: 1847 XXXIV.253–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1070F |
To J. D. Hooker [14 March 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [14 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1071 |
To Gustav von Leonhard 20 March [1847]
Summary
Honoured by GL’s review of Volcanic islands.
Sends copy [of South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gustav von Leonhard |
Date: | 20 Mar [1847] |
Classmark: | Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremburg (Historisches Archiv Signatur V) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1072 |
To Bernhard Studer 21 March [1847]
Summary
Sends copy of South America.
Will consult BS’s article in the Bulletin.
Recommends article by Daniel Sharpe ["On slaty cleavage", J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 74–105].
Cites his description of thin laminae in volcanic rocks in Volcanic islands. Suggests similar process may have affected metamorphic schists.
Thanks him for offer of his book [Lehrbuch der physikalischen Geographie und Geologie (1844–7)]. Since he reads German poorly, BS should send book only if short and inexpensive.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
Date: | 21 Mar [1847] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1073 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 March 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1074 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 March 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Mar 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 85 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1076 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 April [1847]
Summary
JDH’s proposed India trip.
Will sorely miss discussions with JDH on species theory.
CD is getting on wretchedly with cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Apr [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 84 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1077 |
To William Henry Harvey [7 April 1847]
Summary
Descriptions of the algae specimens found on the Beagle voyage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Harvey |
Date: | [7 Apr 1847] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Dublin, Department of Botany, Herbarium |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1078 |
From H. C. Watson to J. D. Hooker 12 April 1847
Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 12 Apr 1847 |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 156–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1079 |
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