From J. D. Hooker 2 [March] 1846
Summary
Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.
Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Mar] 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 63–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-958 |
From C. G. Ehrenberg 11 March 1846
Summary
Describes Infusoria in Rio Gallegos samples.
"Fluthgebiete" means estuary deposit.
Discusses dust samples from Malta. Asks for further samples.
Author: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 62–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-960 |
To J. D. Hooker [13 March 1846]
Summary
Agrees with JDH about Forbes’s views.
Discusses A. Saint-Hilaire’s lectures and asks on what grounds botanists judge the relative "highness" of plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [13 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 56 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-961 |
To J. D. Hooker [24 March 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [24 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-962 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 March or 5 April 1846]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Mar or 5 Apr] 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-963 |
From J. D. Hooker [25 March 1846]
Summary
JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.
Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.
French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.
Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.
Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.
Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 188–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-964 |
To C. G. Ehrenberg 25[–31?] March [1846]
Summary
Sends copy [of "Fine dust in the Atlantic Ocean", Collected papers 1: 199–202]. Attempting to obtain further samples for CGE.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 25[–31?] Mar [1846] |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43 Bl. 15–17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-965 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 30 March [1846]
Summary
Discusses publication of his book [South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 30 Mar [1846] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-967 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 March 1846
Summary
Sends specimens of grasses from Ascension Island for CD to forward to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.
Includes list of indigenous flowering plants of Ascension Island.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1846 |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 123 Bl. 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-967F |
From G. R. Waterhouse [30 March 1846]
Summary
Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 64–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-968 |
To Thomas Gold Appleton 31 March [1846]
Summary
Thanks for the gift of Frémont 1845. Has had a visit from R. J. Mackintosh and his wife Mary, Appleton’s sister.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Gold Appleton |
Date: | 31 Mar [1846] |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-968F |
To George Brettingham Sowerby Jr 31 [March 1846]
Summary
Thanks for his note; as soon as CD knows how many Cordillera Tertiary fossil shells require illustration he will make arrangements for GBS jr to begin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr |
Date: | 31 [Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-969 |
Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Appleton, T. G. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |