From A. C. V. D. d’Orbigny [June – July 1846]
Summary
ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.
| Author: | Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [June – July 1846] |
| Classmark: | Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Part 2) 2 1846: 59 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-982A |
From Searles Valentine Wood 5 June 1846
Summary
Variation in Mollusca.
| Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 June 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 143 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1846]
Summary
Arrangements for publishing [South America].
| Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June [1846] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983F |
From Edward Forbes [7 August 1846]
Summary
Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.
| Author: | Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Aug 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-989 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 3 September 1846]
Summary
Has done Edmondston’s Galapagos plants.
Dispute between Edward Forbes and H. C. Watson.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 3 Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-994 |
From Edward Forbes [September 1846]
Summary
Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].
| Author: | Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-995 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1846
Summary
Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.
Plant distribution and soil nature.
Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.
JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 69–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-998 |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Forbes, Edward | (3) |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
| Hopkins, William | (2) |
| Orbigny, Alcide d’ | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
| Forbes, Edward | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Grey, George | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Hopkins, William | (2) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
| Orbigny, Alcide d’ | (2) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
| Stokes, J. L. | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
| Wood, S. V. | (1) |
