From J. D. Hooker 28 September 1846
Summary
Cannot come to Down to meet B. J. Sulivan as W. H. Harvey is calling.
Plant distribution and soil nature.
Forbes’s modification of Watson’s types of vegetation.
JDH will write comparison of representative plant species of the N. and S. Hemispheres.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 69–72 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-998 |
To John Lindley [c. 10 October 1846]
Summary
CD sends a copy [of South America] to Gardeners’ Chronicle and refers to a passage on Patagonian salt; asks for backing and specific information supplementing his suggestion that an added chloride would increase the salt’s preserving power.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lindley |
| Date: | [c. 10 Oct 1846] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 191) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-999 |
To Annals and Magazine of Natural History [December 1846]
Summary
Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
| Date: | [Dec 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1000 |
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 Catherine Darwin [22 November 1846]
Summary
Concerned about Father’s health.
Forwards a letter from FitzRoy.
Dr Erasmus Darwin’s scientific prophecies are the talk of London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Date: | [22 Nov 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A1–A2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1029 |
To Emma Darwin [25 June 1846]
Summary
CD has been stomachy and sick, but not very uncomfortable.
Working on proofs [of South America] and cannot keep printer supplied with manuscript.
His thoughts of her, and news of the children who are at Down with him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [25 June 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-981 |
To Emma Darwin [24 June 1846]
Summary
News of progress in remodelling. He and Etty [Henrietta] miss the rest of the family.
Was sick, but "two pills of opium righted me".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [24 June 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-982 |
To Leonard Jenyns [14 or 21 August 1846]
Summary
Looks forward to LJ’s volume [Observations in natural history (1846)].
Observations on what the world would call trifling points in natural history are always very interesting to him. Deplores their absence in foreign periodicals.
Is slaving away to finish S. American geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | [14 or 21] Aug 1846 |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-987 |
| letter | (108) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (81) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Forbes, Edward | (3) |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
| Hopkins, William | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (3) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |
