To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1844]
Summary
Asks if J. E. Gray has returned [printing] estimates for Zoology.
Henslow has some Galapagos plants which he forgot to forward to JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 June [1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-754 |
To Henry Denny 1 June [1844]
Summary
Sends HD a reference to human lice from Charles White 1799.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Denny |
| Date: | 1 June [1844] |
| Classmark: | 19th Century Shop (dealers) (April 2016) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-754F |
To Henry Denny 3 June [1844]
Summary
Discusses intestinal worms among humans.
Comments on origin of human races.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Denny |
| Date: | 3 June [1844] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-755 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [before 8 June 1844]
Summary
Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 8 June 1844] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 23, 8 June 1844, p. 380 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-756 |
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 |
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 J. D. Hooker 29 [June 1844]
Summary
Encloses letter from Ehrenberg [758] about Infusoria.
Intends to visit Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [June 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-759 |
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 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [14 July 1844]
Summary
Health and weather permitting, CD proposes to visit Kew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [14 July 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-763 |
To Henry Denny [27 July – 10 August 1844]
Summary
Sends four packets of lice and suggests writing to Dr A. Smith, "the S. African traveller", for assistance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Denny |
| Date: | [27 July – 10 Aug 1844] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-763F |
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 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 The Royal Geographical Society [30 July 1844 – 1 October 1846]
Summary
Urgently needs a Spanish map of the Cordilleras of central Chile near St Jago [Santiago].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Date: | [30 July 1844 – 1 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-767 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 31 July 1844
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of the order for £48 4s. 8d., and offers full indemnity for the £5,000 deposited without security.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 31 July 1844 |
| Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-767F |
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 Adolf von Morlot 9 August [1844]
Summary
Declines to undertake to have AM’s journal published but recommends possible publishers in England.
Expresses scepticism about AM’s glacier theory. Emphasises role of floating ice instead. Mentions article by William Hopkins on movement of glaciers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot) |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1844] |
| Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-769 |
To Henry Denny 12 August [1844]
Summary
Can hardly believe he made a mistake in specimens sent to HD. Recopies numbers in case he transposed them. [Has to do with lice taken from a specimen of aperea and put into spirits during Beagle voyage.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Denny |
| Date: | 12 Aug [1844] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-770 |
To Leonard Horner 29 August [1844]
Summary
Thanks Horner for his letter [about Volcanic islands].
Discusses craters of elevation with respect to the views of Leopold von Buch and Élie de Beaumont. Compares Lyell’s views to those of continental geologists. Mentions reading A. D. d’Orbigny [Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale (1835–47)].
Encloses note from Emma to Mrs Horner, inviting the Horners to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | 29 Aug [1844] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-771 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [August 1844]
Summary
Encloses pamphlet from Ehrenberg who asks about deep-sea soundings from JDH’s voyage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 [Aug 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-772 |
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| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (2) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Denny, Henry | (7) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (96) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
| Denny, Henry | (8) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (5) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (5) |
