From Edward Forbes [after 14 February 1845]
Summary
Sends information on Gryphaea orientalis. [See South America, p. 212.]
| Author: | Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 14 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 47–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-809 |
To Edward William Brayley 7 February 1845
Summary
Discusses EWB’s application for a position and his qualifications.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward William Brayley |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1845 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-822 |
To Trenham Reeks [before 8 February 1845]
Summary
CD sends queries on chemical composition of various Beagle mineral specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Trenham Reeks |
| Date: | [before 8 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 51–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-823 |
To Charles Lyell [8 February 1845]
Summary
Remarks on fossils described in A. D. d’Orbigny’s Voyage dans l’Amérique méridionale.
Asks CL whether he has talked with John Murray concerning 2d ed. [of Journal of researches].
Mentions conversation with Hugh Cuming about South American shells. Has had G. B. Sowerby (elder) look at some specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [8 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.42) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-824 |
From Trenham Reeks 8 February 1845
Summary
Sends results of chemical tests on specimens [of salt, see South America, pp. 73–5].
Encloses abstract from Justus Liebig on composition of bones and their ability to withstand decay.
| Author: | Trenham Reeks |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Feb 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 43–4, 49–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-825 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 February 1845]
Summary
Congratulates JDH and condoles with him on possible position at Edinburgh. Although CD will miss him bitterly, he encourages JDH to view it as a good opportunity.
Sorry to hear that Humboldt is failing.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-826 |
To W. D. Fox [13 February 1845]
Summary
News of his family and his own health. He is able to work three hours a day on the geology of South America.
Harriet Martineau is greatly excited by mesmerism.
Tells of Sydney Smith’s dream.
Asks for some [S. American] potatoes to test "sporting".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [13 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 69a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-827 |
From Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines d’Orbigny 14 February 1845
Summary
Agrees that CD’s fossil shells do not differ from those ADd’O saw in South America. Apparent differences due to errors by G. B. Sowerby. Collection magnificent; recommends special publication. Enabled ADd’O to correct error in dating of sandstone of Concepción. Lists geological periods represented in collection from Jurassic to Diluvian. Collection includes unusual group of crepidules.
| Author: | Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 62–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-829 |
From A. C. V. D. d’Orbigny [14 February 1845?]
Summary
Identifications of CD’s fossil shells. New species marked; many described previously by ADd’O.
| Author: | Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Feb 1845?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 68–89 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-830 |
From Trenham Reeks 25 February 1845
Summary
Encloses analysis of salt from Patagonia. Cannot account for its inferiority.
| Author: | Trenham Reeks |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 45–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-831 |
From J. D. Hooker [late February 1845]
Summary
Previous letter [missing] on Edinburgh position was ill-tempered. Friends assure him that he ought to be thankful for opportunity to try for professorship.
Reports meeting with Humboldt in Paris.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [late Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 165–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-832 |
To Emma Darwin [7–8 February 1845]
Summary
Mainly news of the three children.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [7–8 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-810 |
To Emma Darwin [3–4 February 1845]
Summary
News of the children and books he is reading.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [3–4 Feb 1845] |
| Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-821 |
To Leonard Jenyns 14 February [1845]
Summary
Discusses checks on growth of species population; use of term "mutation" in his species theory. His belief in species mutability.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 14 Feb [1845] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-828 |
| letter | (14) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Orbigny, Alcide d’ | (2) |
| Reeks, Trenham | (2) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Brayley, E. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Reeks, Trenham | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Orbigny, Alcide d’ | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Brayley, E. W. | (1) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
