To Hugh Falconer [1845?–7 or 1857–64]
Summary
Arranges a time for visiting HF.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Falconer |
Date: | 1845-7 or 1857-64 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2305 |
To G. B. Sowerby [1845?]
Summary
Arranges to call on correspondent and bring some shells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
Date: | [1845?] |
Classmark: | Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-806 |
To David Thomas Ansted, assistant secretary, Geological Society of London [c. January 1845]
Summary
Asks about Fuegian specimens stored at the Geological Society. CD needs them soon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | David Thomas Ansted |
Date: | [c. Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (George P. Merrill photograph collection, Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2016-009765) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-811 |
To J. D. Hooker [7 January 1845]
Summary
Sends specimens of a Tertiary sandstone from Tierra del Fuego in which there are leaves; CD thought they were beech. What is JDH’s opinion?
Asks whether JDH can make sense of a note on silicified wood.
Has read Vestiges [of creation (1844)]; "his geology strikes me as bad, & his zoology far worse".
Would like to see lists [of plants] from Society and Sandwich Islands.
Doubts JDH’s information regarding imagination of mother affecting offspring.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [7 Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 25 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-814 |
To Charles Hamilton Smith 14 January [1845]
Summary
Has read CHS’s paper, "Original population of America" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 38 (1844–5): 1–20], and is eager to know reference for the account of a "ruined city in the Caroline Group", indicating that the land has subsided. Refers to his own subsidence hypothesis in his work [Coral reefs].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Hamilton Smith |
Date: | 14 Jan [1845] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-815 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 [January 1845]
Summary
Would like copy of "Galapagos flora" when published ["Plants of the Galapagos Archipelago", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233].
Will keep JDH’s Pacific island notes till his return.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 [Jan 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 26 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-817 |
To C. G. Ehrenberg 23 January [1845]
Summary
Would like sketch returned [see 775].
Would be particularly thankful for result of CGE’s observations on earth of Pampas.
Asks that Ernst Dieffenbach return copperplate and woodcuts.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Date: | 23 Jan [1845] |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-819 |
To C. H. Smith 26 January [1845]
Summary
Discusses extract sent by CHS dealing with island of Pouynipéte. Agrees account of island by Lloghtsky [Johann Lhotsky] is suspect.
Comments on view that former migration of animals, plants, and man was by continental extensions now submerged.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Hamilton Smith |
Date: | 26 Jan [1845] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-820 |
letter | (8) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Smith, C. H. (a) | (2) |
Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Smith, C. H. (a) | (2) |
Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
Falconer, Hugh | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (1) |