To J. D. Hooker [November–December 1854]
Summary
[Recto:] CD defines "aberrant genus".
[Verso:] JDH’s list of families, [presumably] with aberrant genera, and [presumably] the number of species in each genus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [Nov–Dec 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 222a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1596 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 November [1854]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on receipt of Royal Medal.
CD gathering facts on aberrant genera of insects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 152 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1597 |
From G. R. Waterhouse 11 November 1854
Summary
Sends list of aberrant forms of Curculionidae.
Discusses in detail the artificiality of Carl Johan Schönherr’s classification. Sound generalisations about geographical distribution depend on sound classifications. Warns against putting too much faith in current catalogues.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1854 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 401 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1598 |
To Daniel Sharpe 12 November [1854]
Summary
Regrets he cannot come to hear DS’s paper ["On the structure of Mont Blanc", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 11 (1855): 11–27]. Has a lively interest in the subject.
Edward Forbes has misrepresented his view on foliation and cleavage [Athenæum 30 Sept 1854].
CD is convinced DS’s view will replace Huttonian and Lyellian view of metamorphic schists.
Recommends H. C. Sorby’s paper [probably "On the origin of slaty cleavage", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 55 (1853): 137–50].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1599 |
From J. D. Hooker [6 November 1854]
Summary
Fossil leaves from Disko Island.
JDH to begin working out the botanical geography of the polar sea.
Has not forgotten CD’s request on aberrant species.
Has taken a house on Richmond Hill.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [6 Nov 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 385 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1600 |
To J. D. Hooker 15 November [1854]
Summary
Calculating small number of species in aberrant genera of insects and plants.
Joachim Barrande’s "Colonies", Élie de Beaumont’s "lines of Elevation", Forbes’s "Polarity" make CD despair, as these theories lead to conclusions opposite to CD’s from the same classes of facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 156 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1601 |
To J. S. Henslow 17 November [1854]
Summary
Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.
Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 17 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1602 |
To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell 17 November 1854
Summary
Requests authoritative information on erratic boulders and marks of glaciers in New Zealand, and especially in southern islands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell |
| Date: | 17 Nov 1854 |
| Classmark: | Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1603 |
From H. C. Watson [19 November 1854]
Summary
In response to CD’s query, HCW says he cannot supply "any list of species as the flora of a single and sterile soil". Suggests a possible source of information, and provides some figures for Britain, but these apply to diverse soils.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Nov 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 402 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1604 |
From H. C. Watson 20 November [1854]
Summary
Sends a count of the number of species of flowering plants and ferns on the islands of Fayal and Flores in the Azores.
| Author: | Hewett Cottrell Watson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.4: 101 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1605 |
To A. C. Ramsay 22 November [1854]
Summary
Grief at the death of Edward Forbes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 22 Nov [1854] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1606 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 November 1854]
Summary
George Bentham’s list of aberrant plant genera. JDH appended the number of species in each genus according to E. G. Steudel’s catalogue [Nomenclator botanicus (1840–1)] and according to JDH and Bentham.
JDH speculates on effect of splitting Australia longitudinally on distribution; it becomes an argument for new creations.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Nov 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 386 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1607 |
From J. D. Hooker [3 November 1854]
Summary
JDH’s contempt for R. I. Murchison.
There is a Cyperus species and a Pteris species endemic to hot volcanoes of Ischia. Why are there no other migrators?
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [3 Nov 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 214–15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1629 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Mantell, W. B. D. | (1) |
| Ramsay, A. C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Watson, H. C. | (2) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Mantell, W. B. D. | (1) |
