To William Hellier Baily 5 October 1848
Summary
Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
Date: | 5 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1201 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1848]
Summary
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1202 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1848
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1203 |
To Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 22 October 1848
Summary
Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 22 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1205 |
To J. W. Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Obliged for drawings and coins. Cannot tell what the stone is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1210 |
To John Higgins 6 December [1848]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions death of his father and his own inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 6 Dec [1848] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1211 |
To J. W. Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Thanks JWL for the use of a schoolroom.
Arranges to meet JWL’s son [John] to discuss use of microscope.
Mentions illness.
Thanks JWL for his paper ["Shooting stars", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 32 (1848): 81–8, 170–2; 35 (1849): 356–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1212 |
To B. W. Hawkins [1848–51]
Summary
Testimonial recommending B. Waterhouse Hawkins [for a teaching post].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins |
Date: | [1848–51] |
Classmark: | Library of Congress Manuscript Division (George P. Merrill collection, box 4, file H) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13869 |
To Edward Cresy [before May 1848?]
Summary
Obliged for account of change in quality of wool. "Some authors will not admit that climate has any perceptible action."
Hopes his health is re-established.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [before May 1848?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1545 |
From Edmund Saul Dixon [September–October 1848]
Summary
He can distinguish varieties of guinea-fowl as soon as birds are hatched.
Behaviour of Malay hens.
Author: | Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept–Oct 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1621 |
To Edward Cresy [before May 1848?]
Summary
Agrees that naval expeditions to the Arctic are a waste of money. Believes Sir J. Barrow responsible. "Dr [Richard?] King is quite right in the advantage of Land Expeditions".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | [before May 1848?] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-805 |
To Daniel Sharpe 23 August [1848?]
Summary
Thanks for note.
Glad DS sticks to cleavage and foliation question. Bernhard Studer one of few to take correct view on subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
Date: | 23 Aug [1848?] |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-991 |
To Richard Owen [April? 1848]
Summary
Pleased at RO’s praise of Coral reefs.
Has read with very great interest RO’s "Report on the archetype" [Rep. BAAS 16 (1846): 169–340]. RO should give name to every letter or number in his woodcuts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Apr? 1848] |
Classmark: | R. S. Owen 1894, 1: 209 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-997 |
To Harriet Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Belittles the loss of a book borrowed from CD.
Acknowledges cheque in payment for purchase of microscope for John Lubbock.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock |
Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.70) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1041 |
To John Thomas Quekett 7 September [1848]
Summary
Asks about collection of mollusc specimens he had lent to Richard Owen.
Asks about seeing cirripede collection of the College.
Comments on larva of Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Thomas Quekett; Royal College of Surgeons of England |
Date: | 7 Sept [1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1114 |
To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
To Emma Darwin [22 May 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [22 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1177 |
To Emma Darwin [23 May 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [23 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 29 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1178 |
To Emma Darwin [25 May 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [25 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 30 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1179 |
To Emma Darwin [27–8 May 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [27–8 May 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1180 |
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Darwin, Emma | (6) |
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Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
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Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
Gray, J. E. | (5) |