From J. D. Hooker [before 7 March 1855]
Summary
CD’s tabulation of colonists curious but explicable.
Working on Tasmanian flora; contemplating general essay on Australian distribution: Tasmania and Australia same alpine species; Swan River flora very peculiar and quite distinct from New South Wales.
Trying to establish new journal at Linnean.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 7 Mar 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 216–17 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1638 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1855]
Summary
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.
T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 126 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1643 |
From G. R. Waterhouse [7 March 1855]
Summary
Comparison of skulls of Ichthyosaurus and Cetacea.
| Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Mar 1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1642 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
Summary
Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … that observed in the metamorphosis of Crustacea (DAR 31.2: 307). This observation was notable, for …
The Mount, Shrewsbury
Summary
Letters from home
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- … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …
The Voyage of the Beagle
Summary
It was a letter from his friend and former teacher, John Stevens Henslow, that brought the 22-year-old Charles Darwin news of the offer of a place on board the Admiralty surveying vessel HMS Beagle on a voyage to chart the coast of South America. During…
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- … Capt. F. wants a man (I understand) more as a companion than a mere collector & would not take …
