To Robert FitzRoy 28 October [1846]
Summary
Has read RF’s pamphlet on New Zealand [Remarks on New Zealand (1846)]. Sympathises with his difficulties as Governor.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 144: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1014 |
To Francis Wedgwood 27 November [1846]
Summary
Instructs FW to send off a bundle of deeds which he holds for their trust.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis (Frank) Wedgwood |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1846] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 26783–35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1034 |
To Leonard Jenyns 17 October [1846]
Summary
Comments on LJ’s Observations [in natural history (1846)].
Discusses variation among British birds, and the conflicting treatment of bird species by C. W. L. Gloger and C. L. Brehm.
Describes collecting incident of his student days involving Carabus.
Mentions squirrels eating insects.
Astonished to hear of terrestrial Planaria.
Comments on BAAS meeting in Southampton.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 17 Oct [1846] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1009 |
To Leonard Horner [17 August – 7 September 1846]
Summary
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
| Date: | [17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-993 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
