From Susan Elizabeth Darwin [1848?]
Summary
[Valediction only.] CD note on verso: Athenaeum/48/p. 839 "E. Forbes on genera being continuous in time––good––fact".
Author: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1848?] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.10: 96 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1145 |
From J. D. Hooker 20 February – 16 [March] 1848
Summary
Though correspondence has never ebbed so low, CD is constantly in his thoughts.
Observations on cheetahs used as domesticated hunting animals.
Finds geographical barriers sometimes separate species, but also finds species that remain separate where there are no barriers to migration.
Colour "individuates" isolated animal species.
Plains and alpine animal distribution show altitude not strictly analogous to latitude.
Impact of timber cutting on climate has led to extinction of crocodiles.
Will discuss coal formation in letter to Edward Forbes.
CD often asked whether isolated mountains in southern latitudes had closely allied representatives of Arctic and north temperate plants; JDH has found a representative barberry.
Making for Darjeeling via Calcutta.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb – 16 [Mar] 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 52–4 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1158 |
From John Higgins 1 March 1848
Summary
Agrees to pay Mr Mason as requested.
Author: | John Higgins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Mar 1848 |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1161 |
From William Buckland 15 July [1848]
Summary
Will forward recommendation of Edward Cresy to Edwin Chadwick, but thinks there will be no further need of engineers.
Author: | William Buckland |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1190 |
From J. D. Hooker 24 July [1848]
Summary
Brian Hodgson reading CD’s Journal of researches with delight.
Forwarding breeding pamphlets.
JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.
CD’s facts on sex in barnacles startling.
Hugh Falconer’s health.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 July [1848] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 94 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1193 |
From J. E. Gray 26 August 1848
Summary
Is sorry that any person has misunderstood his intentions. JEG read his papers on cirripedes at the Zoological Society without intending to interfere with CD’s work; he merely wished to record his old observations, made before CD commenced his study, and thought that by so doing he was helping CD. [See "Description of a new species of Anatifa" and "On Thaliella", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1848): 44.]
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1848 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/254-255) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1196 |
From William Thompson 29 September 1848
Summary
Concerning the measurements of Balanus specimens with respect to growth.
Author: | William Thompson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1848 |
Classmark: | Living Cirripedia (1854): 272–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200A |
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 |
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 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [12 November 1848]
Summary
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1206 |
From Catherine Darwin [13 November 1848]
Summary
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1207 |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |
Buckland, William | (1) |