To J. D. Hooker [5 October 1847]
Summary
Mystified by the origin of coal-plants.
Milne’s Glen Roy theory is absurd but, oddly, it has staggered CD in favour of Agassiz’s ice-lake theory.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [5 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1123 |
To Joseph Beete Jukes 8 October [1847]
Summary
Flattered by JBJ’s discussion of coral reefs [in Voyage of H.M.S. "Fly" 1 (1847): 347–8]. CD has always thought his Coral reefs "too bold and speculative", so he is gratified "when anyone who has had opportunities of observation does not give his verdict against it".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Beete Jukes |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1847] |
| Classmark: | University of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1125 |
To Charles Lyell [11 October 1847]
Summary
Discusses enclosed figures on elevation of terraces in several Scottish glens as surveyed by William Kemp and David Stevenson. Comments on Robert Chambers’ view of the terraces. Mentions a letter on the terraces, originally written for publication, which he has asked Robert Jameson [editor of the Edinburgh New Philos. J.] to destroy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [11 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.64) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1126 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 or 13 October 1847]
Summary
Difficulty of scheduling visit before JDH departs on Himalayan expedition.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 or 13] Oct 1847 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 105 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1127 |
To M. A. T. Whitby 14 October [1847]
Summary
Thanks for a suite of male and female specimens of Lepidoptera. Lack of difference in size of wings surprises CD; the female’s being smaller than male’s in early growth is new to him. Will ask a friend in India for comparable facts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
| Date: | 14 Oct [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1128 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 October 1847]
Summary
On scheduling farewell meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [21 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1129 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 October 1847]
Summary
Continued problems in scheduling farewell meeting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [25 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 106 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1130 |
To J. D. Hooker [31 October 1847]
Summary
CD very ill; tries to arrange departure meeting with JDH.
CD’s guess at composition of Maldive flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1131 |
To Abraham Clapham [29 October 1847?]
Summary
Accepts AC’s offer to conduct hybridisation experiments, and offers suggestions.
Sends book [Journal of researches, 2d ed. (1845)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Clapham |
| Date: | [29 Oct 1847?] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.47) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1137 |
To William Baxter 2 October [1847?]
Summary
Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Baxter |
| Date: | 2 Oct [1847?] |
| Classmark: | Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13775 |
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847]
Summary
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
| Date: | [4 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1122 |
To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
| letter | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Baxter, William | (1) |
| Clapham, Abraham | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Horner, M. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (12) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
| Baxter, William | (1) |
| Clapham, Abraham | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
