To J. D. Hooker [22 May 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22 May 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 87 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1088 |
To John Higgins 25 May [1847]
Summary
Discusses accounts.
Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 25 May [1847] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090 |
To John Allen 25 May 1847
Summary
Thanks for JS’s note concerning a proposal [concerning some aspect of education of poor children?] which CD has to decline because of his poor health and his work in Natural History.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Allen |
Date: | 25 May 1847 |
Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090F |
To J. D. Hooker [25 May 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 May 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1091 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 May 1847]
Summary
Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [28 May 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 90 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1092 |
To Charles Lyell [2 June 1847]
Summary
Comments on correspondence between CL and Whewell [concerning university reform].
Criticises S. G. Morton’s "Hybridity in animals" [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 3 (1847): 39–50, 203–12].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [2 June 1847] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1093 |
To J. D. Hooker [2 June 1847]
Summary
Encloses quasi-hybrid Laburnum.
Suggests a new view of symmetry of flowers.
Will discuss coal and species sketch at Oxford [BAAS meeting (1847)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [2 June 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1094 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 June 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10 June 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 94 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1095 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 June 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 June 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1096 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 June 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 June 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1098 |
To J. D. Hooker [19 June 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [19 June 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1099 |
To James Clark Ross [27 June 1847]
Summary
Must decline invitation for dinner; he is unwell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Clark Ross |
Date: | [27 June 1847] |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (Sa: 385) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1100 |
To J. D. Hooker [19 July 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [19 July 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1101 |
To Bernhard Studer 4 July [1847]
Summary
Glad BS intends to visit England. Fears there will be few geologists in London in August. Would be truly glad to see BS at Down, but cannot offer much geological information respecting England.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
Date: | 4 July [1847] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1102 |
To Henry Denny 21 July [1847]
Summary
Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].
He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 21 July [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 383 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1103 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 July [1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 July [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 99 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1104 |
To J. D. Hooker [4 August 1847]
Summary
Wants to go over remainder of species sketch when he sees JDH.
Urges JDH to go to Scotland.
Pleased JDH works on geographical distribution of Van Diemen’s Land flora.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [4 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 100 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1105 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 August 1847]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [12 Aug 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 104 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1106 |
To Bernhard Studer 13 August [1847]
Summary
Invites BS to visit Down. Advises him to call on Daniel Sharpe. Suggests he see the work of the Ordnance Survey in Wales.
Offers to lend him Murchison’s The Silurian system [3 vols. (1839)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Bernhard Studer |
Date: | 13 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1107 |
To J. F. Royle 14 August [1847]
Summary
CD thanks JFR for remembering about the work he wanted to borrow [Trans. Agric. & Hortic. Soc. India].
Does JFR have Ambrose Blacklock, Treatise on sheep [1838]?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Forbes Royle |
Date: | 14 Aug [1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 401 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1108 |
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Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Owen, Richard | (5) |
Royle, J. F. | (4) |
Studer, Bernhard | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (99) |
Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Owen, Richard | (5) |
Royle, J. F. | (4) |