To J. D. Hooker [15 February 1846]
Summary
Has had to make a Post Office order to JDH payable at Charing Cross instead of Kew.
Does Sir William [Hooker] know the Dean of Manchester’s London address?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [15 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 54c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-953 |
To William Thompson 18 February [1846?]
Summary
Thanks for note on Atlantic dust.
Suggested in private to Edward Forbes that bird migration might follow lines of now sunken land.
Has admired WT’s work for years.
Will some day publish on variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thompson |
Date: | 18 Feb [1846?] |
Classmark: | Ulster Museum, Belfast |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-954 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 February 1846]
Summary
Glad to hear of JDH’s botanical appointment [with Geological Survey].
Edward Forbes has written about his subsidence doctrine; CD objects to its hypothetical base.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-955 |
From Edward Forbes [25 February 1846]
Summary
Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-956 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 February – 2 March 1846]
Summary
Sends enclosure for JDH to read [letter from E. Forbes, 956]. "I cannot see my way about his post-miocene land."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Feb – 2 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 56c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-957 |
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 |
To Richard Owen [21 April 1846]
Summary
Asks to visit RO to talk about mammifers of the [Rio] Plata.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [21 Apr 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.48) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-959 |
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 |
From J. D. Hooker [11–15 April 1846]
Summary
Hugh Falconer gives no specific objections to Forbes’s views.
Botanical contrast between Cape of Good Hope and the rest of Africa is as strong as that between Australia and India.
Wishes CD would leave off snuff.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11–15 Apr 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-966 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [May 1846]
Summary
Interested in sterility of alpine plants in lowland and sterility of some plants in cultivation.
Curious to see Galapagos paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [May 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-971 |
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) |