CD’s notes arising from conversations with J. D. Hooker 8 December 1844
Summary
[Notes on conversations with J. D. Hooker.] Geographical distribution; diffusion and distribution of species. Island and mountain floras; means of migration (high-roads, icebergs).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 35–40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-798 |
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 |
To E. A. Darwin [before 1 October 1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | [before 1 Oct 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-678 |
From Erasmus Alvey Darwin [May 1844 – 1 October 1846]
Summary
Sends calculations of angles of elevation [of sea-bottom, for South America?].
Swale has sent Lady Willoughby’s diary, which EAD will forward to CD.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [May 1844 – 1 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 28–30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-727 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 23 November 1844]
Summary
Considers the transmutation of corn is well worth investigation ‘even if it should prove to be only a history of error’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 23 Nov 1844] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 23 November 1844, p. 779 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-791F |
To Solicitor? 1 October 1844
Summary
CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 1 Oct 1844 |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 977) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-779 |
To Emma Darwin [20 or 27 October 1844]
Summary
Has been discussing wills and other legal matters with his father.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [20 or 27] Oct 1844 |
Classmark: | Emma Darwin 2: 92 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-783 |
To William Kemp 23 February [1844]
Summary
Regrets the delay in sending copies of his paper.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Kemp |
Date: | 23 Feb [1844] |
Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/34) (gift of Ruth Cramond and David Cramond) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-736F |
To Susan Darwin [27 November 1844?]
Summary
Sends thanks for money.
Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.
Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [27 Nov 1844?] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A9–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-833 |
To Emma Darwin [3 June 1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [3 June 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 23 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-726 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 25 January 1844
Summary
Delighted to be able to contribute Infusoria to ED’s "great countryman Ehrenberg". Includes a list of eight substances from his collection described in detail, which Ehrenberg might find useful in his researches.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 25 Jan 1844 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-732 |
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 Ernst Dieffenbach 11 June [1844]
Summary
About the researches of Ehrenberg. "I have … sent him several packets of objects from my voyage & that of Dr. Hooker".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 11 June [1844] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-757 |
To Henry Denny 7 November [1844]
Summary
Discusses HD’s information that same species of birds at remote stations have identical parasites. Urges him to investigate N. American land-bird parasites.
Is deeply interested in everything connected with geographical distribution, and the differences between species and varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 7 Nov [1844] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-787 |
From George Robert Waterhouse [April 1844]
Summary
Regularly attends Owen’s lectures. Owen at pains to show groups are not linked. Thus makes Lepidosiren appear fish-like.
GRW thinks embryology will become chief guide to insect classification. But contradictions between classification based on embryological and adult characters do occur.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Apr 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 48: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2026 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 December 1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Dec 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-797 |
To Henry Denny 20 January [1844]
Summary
Discusses sending HD lice specimens. Asks him to check with G. R. Waterhouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 20 Jan [1844] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-731 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Denny, Henry …
- … r . Waterhouse, I think he can tell you (if the specimens came from me) at least what country, & I sh d think the specimens w d have had a separate number, which w d tell the bird, by reference to me. — With my best wishes for your success. — Believe me | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin …
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 |
From Henry Denny 30 October 1844
Summary
Has never heard of species of same genus [of parasites] being found on both birds and mammals, or different genera and species being found on animals in the domestic and wild states. Implications of this for relationship of aperea and guinea-pig.
Author: | Henry Denny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Oct 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 273 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-785 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [before 14 September 1844]
Summary
Referring to a correspondent who had written about Pelargonium plants whose leaves had become regularly edged with white, CD reports that nearly all the young leaves of box-trees he had planted have become symmetrically tipped with white. Though these facts seem trivial, CD believes the first appearance of any peculiarity which tends to become hereditary deserves being recorded.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 14 Sept 1844] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 37, 14 September 1844, pp. 621 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-777 |
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) |