To Annals and Magazine of Natural History [December 1846]
Summary
Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
Date: | [Dec 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1000 |
To W. B. Carpenter [October–December 1846]
Summary
Asks for address of the artist who drew the sections exhibited by WBC at BAAS meeting in September. CD needs drawings of minute corallines, Articulata, and Mollusca.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [Oct–Dec 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1001 |
To Robert FitzRoy 1 October 1846
Summary
Has just heard of RF’s return [from New Zealand]. Hopes to see him.
CD and family are well, but he is a different man in strength and energy from when he was "Flycatcher" in the Beagle.
Has just finished his book [South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 1 Oct 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1002 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 October 1846]
Summary
Hopes to start looking over his species notes in about a year.
Very much enjoyed Southampton [meeting of BAAS, 9–12 Sept].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 65 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1003 |
To Charles Lyell [3 October 1846]
Summary
Discusses A. C. Ramsay’s article ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846)]. Mentions his own paper ["Volcanic phenomena in South America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Emphasises that sedimentary deposits are not ordinarily preserved.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1004 |
To J. S. Henslow [5 October 1846]
Summary
The third and last part of the Geology [South America] will be published in a few days. Apologises for not sending JSH the other volumes.
Has attended Southampton [BAAS] meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [5 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A15–A16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1005 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 October 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 66 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1006 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 October 1846]
Summary
Can JDH bring a good book on Corallina or Nullipora of Lamarck?
CD intends writing paper on their propagation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 67 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1007 |
To A. C. Ramsay 10 October [1846]
Summary
Thanks ACR for paper and comments on it ["On the denudation of South Wales", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 297–335].
Sends copy of South America.
Discusses action of the sea.
Criticises ACR’s views on sudden elevation of mountain chains.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 10 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1008 |
To Leonard Jenyns 17 October [1846]
Summary
Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].
Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.
Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.
Mentions squirrels eating insects.
Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.
Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 17 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1009 |
To Joseph Beete Jukes [18 October 1846]
Summary
Knows nothing about missing fossils collected by J. L. Stokes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
Date: | [18 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1010 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. [19 October 1846]
Summary
Objects to the stupid way a plate is bound into South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [19 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.51) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1011 |
To J. D. Hooker [26 October 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [26 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1012 |
To Robert FitzRoy 28 October [1846]
Summary
Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | 28 Oct [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1014 |
To J. D. Hooker [18 October 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 69 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1015 |
To Daniel Sharpe [1 November 1846]
Summary
Discusses foliation and cleavage. Comments on dip of cleavage laminae in mountains. Mentions views of Sedgwick and Studer. Suggests reading C. L. von Buch [Travels through Norway and Lapland (1813)] "as an amusement". Praises views of William Hopkins. Suggests reading paper by H. D. Rogers ["On cleavage of slate-strata", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 41 (1846): 422–3)]. Comments on the paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | [1 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37725: ff. 4–5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1016 |
To J. L. Stokes 3 November 1846
Summary
CD’s note to Stokes [see 940] has been forwarded to George Grey; CD fears he may be offended. Asks how it could have happened.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | 3 Nov 1846 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1017 |
To Daniel Sharpe [4 November 1846]
Summary
Supposes Sharpe does not want Von Buch’s tract, so sent Hopkins. Asks it be returned to CD at the Athenaeum Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | [4 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (December 2010) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1017F |
To J. D. Hooker [6 November 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1018 |
From J. L. Stokes 6 November 1846
Summary
Is upset by what has happened [see 1017], but does not know how CD’s note reached Grey.
Author: | John Lort Stokes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1846 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1019 |
Darwin, C. R. | (81) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Forbes, Edward | (3) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
Hopkins, William | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Owen, Richard | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (108) |
Hooker, J. D. | (37) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Forbes, Edward | (3) |
Owen, Richard | (3) |