From John Higgins 2 October 1845
Summary
Sends a list of the work he feels should be done at Beesby [Lincolnshire] to put the farm in order. Hopes to get purchase deeds completed by 10 October.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Oct 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-918 |
To Charles Lyell 8 October [1845]
Summary
Discusses American Negroes and their parasitic lice. Henry Denny’s need for lice specimens.
Discusses effects of racial crosses in man.
Describes his trip to Yorkshire.
Comments on Sedgwick’s review [of Vestiges of creation].
Mentions Humboldt’s Kosmos. Criticises Humboldt’s geology.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 8 Oct [1845] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.46) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-919 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 October 1845]
Summary
Sorry to hear JDH did not get Edinburgh chair. Invites him to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [8 Oct 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-920 |
To J. S. Henslow 28 October [1845]
Summary
Comments on potato disease and its effects on the poor.
Describes visit to his Lincolnshire farm,
to York where he discussed hybrids with the Dean of Manchester [William Herbert],
his meeting with Charles Waterton, and his delight with Chatsworth.
Disappointed at Hooker’s failure to receive the Edinburgh chair; believes JDH will make a great botanist.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1845] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-921 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 October [1845]
Summary
Would like to see JDH’s testimonials.
Disappointed with Kosmos.
Has visited Dean of Manchester, who is very heterodox on species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Oct [1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-922 |
To C. G. Ehrenberg 29 October [1845]
Summary
Sends specimens. Asks for information about specimens from Rio Gallegos.
What does CGE mean by the term "Fluthgebiete"?
French translation gives impression that Ehrenberg attributes Pampas deposit to debacle.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
| Date: | 29 Oct [1845] |
| Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-923 |
| letter | (6) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
