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 Richard Owen [26 March 1848]
Summary
Describes his new microscope and its advantages for dissecting. Suggests RO might discuss topic [in his contribution to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [26 Mar 1848] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1166 |
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To John Stevens Henslow [1 April 1848]
Summary
Thanks JSH for his address [Address delivered in the Ipswich Museum on 9th March 1848]. Questions a sentence which implies that only the practical use of a scientific discovery makes it worth while. The instinct for truth justifies science without any practical results. Cites his work on cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | [1 Apr 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1167 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 May 1848
Summary
Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.
CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 May 1848 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1174 |
To J. S. Henslow 2 July [1848]
Summary
Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.
Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".
Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 2 July [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A18–A20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189 |
To Richard Owen [2 April 1848]
Summary
Apologises for length of notes of advice for microscopic work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [2 Apr 1848] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Hyde 77: 2. 82. 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1167F |
To George Grey 10 November 1846
Summary
CD apologises for his note to J. L. Stokes [see 940], which somehow found its way into GG’s hands.
Praises GG’s work on Australia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Grey |
Date: | 10 Nov 1846 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1021 |
From Emma Darwin [22–3 April 1851]
Author: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22–3 Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.13: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1410 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 April [1858]
Summary
Asa Gray’s criticism of Buckle and his comments on large and small genera.
CD suspects glacial epoch immensely long. Rates of organic change too variable to make them a good measure of geological time.
Bees’ cells are a difficulty for theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 Apr [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 231 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2254 |
To Albany Hancock [29 or 30 October 1849]
Summary
Thanks him for specimens of Alcippe.
Comments on sketches by AH and on cirripede paper by Lovén.
Discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | [29 or 30] Oct 1849 |
Classmark: | Maine Historical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1262 |
From Frederick Ransome 7 March 1864
Summary
Acknowledges cancelled bond and thanks CD for declining to accept interest. Suggests 4 Mar 1865 as date for payment of the bill CD holds.
Author: | Frederick Ransome |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4421 |
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 |
To Hugh Falconer [1845?–7 or 1857–64]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 1845-7 or 1857-64 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2305 |
To J. S. Henslow 20 February [1854]
Summary
Honoured and gratified by the dedication [to CD] of Hooker’s book [Himalayan journals].
News of Lyell from Madeira.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 20 Feb [1854] |
Classmark: | California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1554 |
From J. D. Hooker 3 February 1849
Summary
Physical description of Sikkim mountains.
Travelling through Kinchin snows.
Transported boulders.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Feb 1849 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 131–5 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1219 |
To J. D. Hooker 21 [December 1859]
Summary
Delighted JDH coming to Down. They will discuss Origin. JDH’s remarks that theory explains too much are excellent, yet CD cannot see his error.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 21 [Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2591 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 14 December [1859] ). William Henslow Hooker was the Hookers’ oldest son. CD refers to Hooker 1859 , which was due to be published in December 1859. Samuel Stevens was a natural history dealer who lived in Kennington in south London. He had acted as Alfred Russel Wallace’s agent since 1848 ( …
From J. D. Hooker 26 August 1863
Summary
JDH working on the New Zealand flora.
Jules Planchon excited about CD’s Linum experiments.
T. F. Jamieson’s paper on glaciers gives great pleasure.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4275 |
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- … Henslow died in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, in September 1863 (see letter from J. D. Hooker, 15 September 1863 ). Hooker had borrowed a Wedgwood portrait medallion of Erasmus Darwin (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 12–13 August [1863] ). Thomas Woolner was a sculptor ( DNB ). Jules Emile Planchon was professor of botany at the University of Montpellier; he had been an assistant in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, between 1844 and 1848 ( …
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 May [1861]
Summary
CD’s doubts on biography of Henslow. Writing recollections of Cambridge days at JDH’s request.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 24–5 May [1861] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 101 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3155 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Henslow as professor of botany at Cambridge University . See letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [May 1861] and n. 8. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 18 [May 1861] . The London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Science , edited by Charles Mackay , began publication in July 1860. Hooker had collected many species of Rhododendron during his expedition to the Himalayas, 1848– …
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Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Ransome, Frederick | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Owen, Richard | (2) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
Darwin, Emma | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Grey, George | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Owen, Richard | (2) |
Ransome, Frederick | (1) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |