To W. A. Leighton 25 November [1844?–6]
Summary
Thanks for procuring cuttings of weeping yew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Allport Leighton |
Date: | 25 Nov [1844-6] |
Classmark: | Fraser’s Autographs (dealer) (May 2013) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-653F |
To J. D. Forbes [November? 1844]
Summary
Believes JDF’s discoveries in the structure of glacier ice will explain the structure of many volcanic masses. Will JDF’s views throw any light on the primary laminated rocks?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James David Forbes |
Date: | [Nov? 1844] |
Classmark: | Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2 1845: 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-786 |
To Henry Denny 7 November [1844]
Summary
Discusses HD’s information that same species of birds at remote stations have identical parasites. Urges him to investigate N. American land-bird parasites.
Is deeply interested in everything connected with geographical distribution, and the differences between species and varieties.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Denny |
Date: | 7 Nov [1844] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-787 |
From J. D. Hooker 8 November 1844
Summary
Sends notes on Infusoria for Ehrenberg.
Comments on distribution of species in natural orders that have local distributions. Intermediate forms between species of Lycopodium.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Nov 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 24–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-788 |
To J. D. Hooker [10–11 November 1844]
Summary
Origin of Antarctic brash ice.
Further on case of Lycopodium: does JDH know any genera of plants whose species are variable in one continent but not in another? Discussion on variations between floras as regards species richness, and factors affecting geographical distribution. On species, CD expects "that I shall be able to show even to sound naturalists that there are two sides to the question of the immutability of species; – that facts can be viewed and grouped under the notion of allied species having descended from common stocks". Mentions books and papers for and against species mutability. CD believes past absurd ideas arose from no one’s having approached subject on side of variation under domestication.
Would like to see Clarke’s paper
and would welcome visit from JDH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [10–11 Nov 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-789 |
To J. D. Forbes 13 [November 1844]
Summary
Mexican specimen of laminated obsidian.
Comments on Forbes’s publication comparing lava streams and glaciers. Mentions ice-action theories of a young German.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James David Forbes |
Date: | 13 [Nov 1844] |
Classmark: | University of St Andrews Special Collections (Papers of J. D. Forbes: msdep7 – Incoming letters 1844, no.65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-790 |
From J. D. Hooker 14 November 1844
Summary
Differences in variability of species within a single genus. Further observations on Lycopodium.
Interested in Humboldt’s river with different floras on opposite banks, and other unexplained cases of very local distributions.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Nov 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-791 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 23 November 1844]
Summary
Considers the transmutation of corn is well worth investigation ‘even if it should prove to be only a history of error’.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [before 23 Nov 1844] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle, 23 November 1844, p. 779 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-791F |
To J. D. Hooker [18 November 1844]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [18 Nov 1844] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-792 |
To Adolf von Morlot 28 November [1844]
Summary
Mentions his Plutonic view of earth history.
Cites Lyell’s opinions on loess.
CD doubts contemporaneousness of extinct great animals with ice period.
Cites applicability of Forbes’s theory of glacier structure to structure of volcanic obsidian.
CD is falling astern in the geological race for knowledge.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Adolphe Morlot (Adolph von Morlot) |
Date: | 28 Nov [1844] |
Classmark: | Burgerbibliothek Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-794 |
From J. D. Hooker 29 November 1844
Summary
Would like to visit on the weekend of 7–8 December.
Differences in floras of St Helena and Ascension.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Nov 1844 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-795 |
To Susan Darwin [27 November 1844?]
Summary
Sends thanks for money.
Comments on treatment prescribed by his father.
Encloses notes by John Higgins with investment advice. Discusses advisability of investing in farmland in Lincolnshire. Cites advice of Sir John Lubbock concerning purchase of land.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [27 Nov 1844?] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A9–10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-833 |
To Leonard Jenyns 25 [November 1844]
Summary
On checks to increase of species and the observations which led him to regard species as mutable in form. Would welcome "at some future time" LJ’s criticism of the "sketch" of his conclusions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Date: | 25 [Nov 1844] |
Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-793 |
letter | (13) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Forbes, J. D. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Forbes, J. D. | (2) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Denny, Henry | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Leighton, W. A. | (1) |
Morlot, C. A. | (1) |