To J. D. Hooker [1–29 August 1844]
Summary
Encloses Ehrenberg letter, Galapagos seaweed, and specimens of Conferva.
H. Denny would like specimens of Antarctic Pediculi.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1–29 Aug 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-768 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [June 1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [June 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-759 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [August 1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 [Aug 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-772 |
From C. G. Ehrenberg 11 July 1844
Summary
Thanks for shipments of earth samples. Sends copy of article describing Infusoria in samples ["Einige vorläufige Resultate … über das Verhalten des kleinsten Lebens in den Oceanen", Ber. k. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1844): 182–207]. Asks for more information and samples, especially from the soundings of Ross’s expedition.
Author: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 July 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-762 |
From C. G. Ehrenberg 15 June 1844
Summary
Thanks for earth samples. Discusses Infusoria in samples from Galapagos and Cape Verde Islands. Would like samples from other sites. Will send further results of investigations.
Author: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-758 |
To C. G. Ehrenberg 5 September [1844]
Summary
Has at last received first letter CGE wrote.
More specimens being sent.
Sends his sketch of paper ["Fine dust in the Atlantic Ocean" (1846), Collected papers 1: 199–203].
D’Orbigny considers Pampas clay deposit result of debacle. CD cannot doubt it is slow, estuary deposit. Would be grateful for information on this point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 5 Sept [1844] |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-775 |
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 C. G. Ehrenberg 23 January [1845]
Summary
Would like sketch returned [see 775].
Would be particularly thankful for result of CGE’s observations on earth of Pampas.
Asks that Ernst Dieffenbach return copperplate and woodcuts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 23 Jan [1845] |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-819 |
To C. G. Ehrenberg 4 July [1844]
Summary
Astonished that dust sample contains Infusoria. Thinks dust is volcanic. Will write account of falling dust [see 775]. Offers further samples.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 4 July [1844] |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-760 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 September 1844]
Summary
Acknowledges note and parcel for Ehrenberg.
Considers why different areas have different numbers of species. Gives an example opposing JDH’s view that paucity of species results from vicissitudes of climate. CD has concluded that species are most numerous in areas that have most often been divided, isolated from, and then reunited with, other areas. Cannot give detailed reasons but believes that "isolation is the chief concomitant or cause of the appearance of new forms".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 Sept 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-776 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1844]
Summary
Encloses letter from Ehrenberg [762], who wants information on deep-sea soundings from JDH’s voyage, and on isolated islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 July [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-764 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1844]
Summary
Thanks for information on printing charges
and for clarifying "typical forms".
In a few days CD will go away for six weeks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-746 |
To John Stevens Henslow [25 July 1844]
Summary
Sends a specimen of rusty wheat from the banks of the Plata.
Asks for bits of peat he collected
and a bit of the paint used by Fuegians to colour themselves.
He will send these to C. G. Ehrenberg for analysis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [25 July 1844] |
Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-765 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1845]
Summary
Would like copy of "Galapagos flora" when published ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233].
Will keep JDH’s Pacific island notes till his return.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-817 |
To John Murray 17 March [1845]
Summary
CD has heard from Lyell that JM is inclined to publish a second edition of Journal of researches. His agreement with Henry Colburn leaves CD free to publish with anyone. Will have no further relations with Colburn. Discusses details of proposed revisions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 17 Mar [1845] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.354–355) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-841 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 March 1846
Summary
Sends specimens of grasses from Ascension Island for CD to forward to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.
Includes list of indigenous flowering plants of Ascension Island.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1846 |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 123 Bl. 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-967F |
From J. D. Hooker [late February 1845]
Summary
Previous letter [missing] on Edinburgh position was ill-tempered. Friends assure him that he ought to be thankful for opportunity to try for professorship.
Reports meeting with Humboldt in Paris.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [late Feb 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 165–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-832 |
From C. G. Ehrenberg 20 October 1873
Summary
Sends an essay ["Mikrogeologische Studien über das kleinste Leben der Meeres-Tiefgründe aller Zonen und dessen geologischen Einfluss", Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1873): 131-98.]
with expressions of admiration. CGE is confident their differences will not estrange them.
Remembers with gratitude the [Atlantic] dust that CD made available to him in 1844 [see 747].
Author: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 163: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9103 |
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- … 1844 zuführte. Möchte doch mein zuweilen abweichendes Urtheil keinen Schatten auf die freudige Anerkennung Ihrer grossen Verdienste werfen, vielmehr einen dankbaren Ernst für Verwerthung der von Ihnen gereichten Materialien an den Tag legen. Mit dieser Anerkennung empfangen Sie verehrter Herr College die neueste kleine Summe meiner Erfahrungen und beglücken Sie mich mit einer freimüthigen freundlichen Beachtung derselben. Grosse schöne Gemälde werden durch kleinen Tadel einzelner Stellen, der vielleicht nicht einmal ganz berechtigt ist, nicht herabgezogen und wohlwollende Forscher reichen sich darüber hin die freundliche Hand. Mit freudiger Bewunderung und Dankbarkeit verbleibe ich | Ihr | ganz ergebenster | C G Ehrenberg …
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