To G. R. Waterhouse 4 March [1855]
Summary
A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.
CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"
Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | 4 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1641 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … when looking at the maps & text in the Athenæum Club; & I was then surprised at it. — I …
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1855]
Summary
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.
T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1643 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Flora Cestrica, & anytime leave it at Athenæum?? — At present I go from subject in the …
Author
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |