From J. D. Hooker [after 1 May 1847]
Summary
[Extract of letter to WJH from T. E. Cantor] on zoological distribution in the Malay Peninsula.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 1 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 277 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1084 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 May 1847]
Summary
Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.
Has acquired a new microscope.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [1 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1085 |
To J. D. Hooker [6 May 1847]
Summary
CD defends his position on submarine coal formation and coal-plants against JDH’s strong objections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [6 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1086 |
To J. D. Hooker [12 May 1847]
Summary
Thinks JDH should arrange his facts against the aquatic formation of coal.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [12 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1087 |
To J. D. Hooker [22 May 1847]
Summary
CD would like to call on JDH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [22 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 87 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1088 |
To John Higgins 25 May [1847]
Summary
Discusses accounts.
Cannot visit Alford [farm] this summer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 25 May [1847] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090 |
To John Allen 25 May 1847
Summary
Thanks for JS’s note concerning a proposal [concerning some aspect of education of poor children?] which CD has to decline because of his poor health and his work in Natural History.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Allen |
| Date: | 25 May 1847 |
| Classmark: | The National Library of Israel (Abraham Schwadron collection, Schwad 03 04 07) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1090F |
To J. D. Hooker [25 May 1847]
Summary
Will call on JDH on Thursday, if convenient.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [25 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 88 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1091 |
To J. D. Hooker [28 May 1847]
Summary
Has heard JDH does not return until tomorrow, so will not be able to see him at Kew but hopes to do so at Oxford meeting of BAAS.
Bunbury and Falconer strongly against idea of coal being submarine.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [28 May 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1092 |
To Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe 5 May [1847]
Summary
Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe |
| Date: | 5 May [1847] |
| Classmark: | Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1569 |
| letter | (10) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Allen, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Kolbe, A. W. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Allen, John | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Kolbe, A. W. H. | (1) |
