To Smith, Elder & Co. 13 November [1845]
Summary
Sends corrections and suggestions for an advertisement for Zoology and Geology of "Beagle".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | 13 Nov [1845] |
Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1023 |
To J. D. Hooker [5 or 12 November 1845]
Summary
Thanks for Antarctic flora [Flora Antarctica (1844–7)].
Agrees geographical distribution will be "the key which will unlock the mystery of species".
Could JDH look over a rough sketch on species?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [5 or 12] Nov 1845 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-924 |
To Edward Hitchcock 6 November [1845]
Summary
Thanks EH for his Final report on the geology of Massachusetts [1841]. Comments on EH’s discovery of fossil footprints.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Hitchcock |
Date: | 6 Nov [1845] |
Classmark: | Amherst College Archives (Edward and Orra White Hitchcock papers: 2 Edward Hitchcock: Correspondence, Box 3, Folder 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-925 |
To G. B. Sowerby 12 [November 1845]
Summary
Asks for a meeting in order to go over the shells [which GBS was to describe in the appendix on Tertiary fossil shells in South America].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
Date: | 12 [Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-926 |
To J. D. Hooker [17 November 1845]
Summary
Comments on JDH’s Flora Antarctica. CD is delighted with it.
"I can never cease marvelling at the similarity of the Antarctic floras: it is wonderful."
Questions JDH on points raised by the work: absence of alpine flora on southern islands; comparison of climate and floras of Tasmania and New Zealand.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [17 Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-927 |
From J. D. Hooker [19 November 1845]
Summary
Answers CD’s queries arising from Flora Antarctica.
Would like CD to come to town and go over Galapagos plants with him.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-928 |
To J. D. Hooker [21 November 1845]
Summary
Is busy with shell work and cannot make it to Kew. Invites JDH to Down. Intends asking Edward Forbes and Hugh Falconer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-929 |
To J. D. Hooker [25 November 1845]
Summary
Can JDH come to Down on 6 December? If this is convenient, CD will ask Forbes, Falconer, and perhaps Waterhouse.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [25 Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-930 |
To J. D. Hooker [29 November 1845]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [29 Nov 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-931 |
To John Lort Stokes [November–December 1845]
Summary
Comments on book by George Grey [Journals of two expeditions of discovery in north-west and Western Australia (1841)]. "The whole expedition was that of a set of School Boys".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lort Stokes |
Date: | [Nov–Dec 1845] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 121b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-940 |
letter | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Hitchcock, Edward | (1) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Hitchcock, Edward | (1) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (1) |
Stokes, J. L. | (1) |