To Ernst Dieffenbach 14 March 1844
Summary
[With the notation "If not there to be forwarded by favour of Prof. Liebig" on the address.] "I am very glad to hear that you are going to edit a German Geological Journal".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
Date: | 14 Mar 1844 |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-741 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 March [1844]
Summary
Asks JDH to forward publishing information to J. E. Gray.
Has received JDH’s infusorial specimens for Ehrenberg.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 16 Mar [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-742 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette [27 March 1844]
Summary
Writes to correct a statement made in his 1837 paper "On the formation of mould" [Collected papers 1: 49–53]. He should have said that marl was put on the field 30 years ago, not 80. Observations made on a visit to the field showed that worms had undermined the marl spread on the field at a faster rate than previously reported.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [27 Mar 1844] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 14, 6 April 1844, p. 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-743 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1844]
Summary
Thanks for JDH’s interesting details about the Galapagos.
Clarification of CD’s query about the relationship between the range of a genus and the ranges of its constituent species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Mar [1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-744 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 April 1844]
Summary
Thanks for information on printing charges
and for clarifying "typical forms".
In a few days CD will go away for six weeks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Apr 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-746 |
To Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg 20 April [1844]
Summary
Sends samples likely to contain Infusoria and some that Hooker collected in Antarctic regions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 20 Apr [1844] |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-747 |
To William Benjamin Carpenter [11 or 18 December 1844]
Summary
Thanks WBC for offer to examine specimen and for offer of slices of shells, but has no achromatic microscope.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Benjamin Carpenter |
Date: | [11 or 18] Dec 1844 |
Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-753 |
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 29 [June 1844]
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 |
To J. D. Hooker [14 July 1844]
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 Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 31 July 1844 |
Classmark: | Alan Wedgwood (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-767F |
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