To Solicitor? 1 October 1844
Summary
CD and Emma request transfer of some shares to E. A. Darwin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | 1 Oct 1844 |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 977) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-779 |
To E. A. Darwin [before 1 October 1844]
Summary
Writes about canal shares EAD holds as trustee.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
| Date: | [before 1 Oct 1844] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-678 |
To Adolf von Morlot 10 October [1844]
Summary
Says AM’s letters on glacial action not publishable since they do not give facts. Suggests readings on the subject of glaciers. Expresses doubts about AM’s theory that Scandinavian glaciers brought the boulders he was studying.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot) |
| Date: | 10 Oct [1844] |
| Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-780 |
To James David Forbes 11 October [1844]
Summary
Discusses a specimen of Mexican obsidian with an unusual laminated structure.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James David Forbes |
| Date: | 11 Oct [1844] |
| Classmark: | University of St Andrews Special Collections (Papers of J. D. Forbes: msdep7 – Incoming letters 1844, no.57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-781 |
From J. D. Hooker 28 October 1844
Summary
Discusses the connection between climate and vegetation. Believes that an equable climate is unfavourable to increase of species either by importation or modification of existing forms; illustrates his view with reference to particular floras. Hopes to acquire facts to support CD’s idea that isolation is important in producing new forms. Considers the floras of islands some of which do have distinctive species but others of which do not. Agrees that the wide ranges of cryptogams are a consequence of their means of dispersal. Asks for references to works on original creation and species mutability in order to get the best notions of "the (mad) theories of some men from Lamarck’s twaddle upwards".
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Oct 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 16–23 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-784 |
From Henry Denny 30 October 1844
Summary
Has never heard of species of same genus [of parasites] being found on both birds and mammals, or different genera and species being found on animals in the domestic and wild states. Implications of this for relationship of aperea and guinea-pig.
| Author: | Henry Denny |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Oct 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 273 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-785 |
To Leonard Jenyns 12 October [1844]
Summary
Asks whether LJ can throw light on this subject: "What are the checks and what the periods of life by which the increase of any given species is limited?" CD has been driven to conclude that species are mutable; allied species are co-descendants from common stocks.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 12 Oct [1844] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-782 |
To Emma Darwin [20 or 27 October 1844]
Summary
Has been discussing wills and other legal matters with his father.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20 or 27] Oct 1844 |
| Classmark: | Emma Darwin 2: 92 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-783 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Denny, Henry | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Forbes, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Denny, Henry | (1) |
| Forbes, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Morlot, C. A. | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (1) |
