From J. D. Hooker [23 February – 6 March 1844]
Summary
Island floras; relationships with mainland. Ranges of species in mundane genera.
Galapagos plants one-third done.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Feb – 6 Mar 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 10–11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-737 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 March 1844]
Summary
Affinity of Galapagos with nearest Pacific islands. Relationship between ranges of species in time and space. Comparison of Malden Island and Galapagos plants. Affinities of Oceania plants with continental floras.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [6 Mar 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-738 |
From J. D. Hooker 9 March 1844
Summary
Thanks for information on Malden Island. Comments on its plants and their relationship to the Galapagos flora. Discusses the flora of Oceania. Gives his opinion on the extent of the uniformity in species and forms amongst South Sea Islands. Large genera are more widely diffused and have a larger proportion of species with wide ranges.
Seeks advice on expense of preparing plates [for Flora Antarctica].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Mar 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 8–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-739 |
To J. D. Hooker 11 March [1844]
Summary
Advice to JDH on problems of printing and publishing.
Remarks on differences of species between islets of Galapagos group.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 11 Mar [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-740 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 14 March 1844
Summary
[With the notation "If not there to be forwarded by favour of Prof. Liebig" on the address.] "I am very glad to hear that you are going to edit a German Geological Journal".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 14 Mar 1844 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-741 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 March [1844]
Summary
Asks JDH to forward publishing information to J. E. Gray.
Has received JDH’s infusorial specimens for Ehrenberg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Mar [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-742 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [27 March 1844]
Summary
Writes to correct a statement made in his 1837 paper "On the formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53]. He should have said that marl was put on the field 30 years ago, not 80. Observations made on a visit to the field showed that worms had undermined the marl spread on the field at a faster rate than previously reported.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [27 Mar 1844] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 14, 6 April 1844, p. 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-743 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1844]
Summary
Thanks for JDH’s interesting details about the Galapagos.
Clarification of CD’s query about the relationship between the range of a genus and the ranges of its constituent species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Mar [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-744 |
From J. D. Hooker 5 April 1844
Summary
Answer to CD’s query on genera and species ranges.
Comments on typical forms.
Preparing first part of Galapagos plants for printing.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 12–13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-745 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1844]
Summary
Thanks for information on printing charges
and for clarifying "typical forms".
In a few days CD will go away for six weeks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-746 |
To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg 20 April [1844]
Summary
Sends samples likely to contain Infusoria and some that Hooker collected in Antarctic regions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 20 Apr [1844] |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-747 |
From George Robert Waterhouse 26 April 1844
Summary
Defines the term "typical species" and discusses its use among zoologists. Cites example of type of Carnivora. Comments on general law of development of parts in animals. Cites teeth of Carnivora.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-748 |
From G. R. Waterhouse [after 26 April 1844]
Summary
Is puzzled by CD’s question about the Viverridae; thinks if there were only one species he might regard it as an aberrant of some other group and not select it as a type of the Carnivora.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 26 Apr 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-749 |
From Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton 5 May [1844]
Summary
Sends Lord Enniskillen’s account of origin of the Irish yew: transplanted from the wild; propagated by cuttings thereafter. Offspring recently raised from seed are intermediate between common and Irish [weeping] yew.
Author: | Philip de Malpas Grey- Egerton, 10th baronet Egerton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-750 |
To Julian Jackson 23 May [1844]
Summary
Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 23 May [1844] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-751 |
From George Brettingham Sowerby and Edward Forbes 28 May 1844
Summary
[Recto is a list of Galapagos shells, by island, signed GBS. Verso is another list of shells in EF’s hand.]
Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby; Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 May 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: B1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-752 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [11 or 18 December 1844]
Summary
Thanks WBC for offer to examine specimen and for offer of slices of shells, but has no achromatic microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-753 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1844]
Summary
Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.
Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 June [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-754 |
To Henry Denny 1 June [1844]
Summary
Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 1 June [1844] |
Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-754F |
To Henry Denny 3 June [1844]
Summary
Discusses intestinal worms among humans.
Comments on origin of human races.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 3 June [1844] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-755 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (3) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (2) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
Denny, Henry | (7) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (95) |
Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
Denny, Henry | (8) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (5) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |