From William Hopkins 27 April 1846
Summary
Writes concerning CD’s "geometrico-geological problem". Attempts to square some of CD’s observations with certain geometrical theories concerning geological elevation.
Author: | William Hopkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Apr 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 54–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-975 |
To J. D. Hooker [19 May 1846]
Summary
CD brought some plants in spirits from Tierra del Fuego. Did JDH see them?
Problems of explaining formation of coalfields. Comments on recent work on coal formation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [19 May 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 62 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-976 |
To Leonard Horner [23 December 1846 – January 1847]
Summary
Responds to LH’s comments on South America.
Thinks it unsound to designate a geological epoch after man. Doubts people’s confidence in date of man’s introduction.
Criticises A. D. d’Orbigny’s theory of elevation of the Cordillera.
Lists sections of South America of special interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | [23 Dec 1846 – Jan 1847] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-977 |
From William Hopkins 5 May 1846
Summary
Discussion of CD’s geological problem, relating to elevation of laminated beds around a rising granitic ridge.
Author: | William Hopkins |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 57–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-978 |
From George Grey 10 May 1846
Summary
Returns letter from CD to J. L. Stokes [see 940 and 1030].
Author: | George Grey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 May 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 121c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-979 |
To John Higgins 27 May [1846]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of draft. When does JH want the money for the new farmhouse? Bankers are Robarts, Curtis & Co. JH to pay them the rent directly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 27 May [1846] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-980 |
From A. C. V. D. d’Orbigny [June – July 1846]
Summary
ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.
Author: | Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June – July 1846] |
Classmark: | Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London (Part 2) 2 1846: 59 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-982A |
From Searles Valentine Wood 5 June 1846
Summary
Variation in Mollusca.
Author: | Searles Valentine Wood |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 June 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 143 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983 |
To Smith, Elder & Co. 6 June [1846]
Summary
Arrangements for publishing [South America].
Author: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June [1846] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-983F |
To Richard Owen 21 [June 1846]
Summary
B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 21 [June 1846] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-984 |
To William Crawford Williamson 23 June [1846]
Summary
Does not remember where specimens came from. CD picked fossils most likely to contain Infusoria. Discusses composition of Tertiary strata of South America from which they came. Questions WCW’s statement that they contained siliceous matter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Crawford Williamson |
Date: | 23 June [1846] |
Classmark: | Missouri Botanical Garden Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-985 |
To J. D. Hooker [8 or 15 July 1846]
Summary
Regrets he cannot visit JDH.
Has been talking with Lyell about coal, which he finds utterly perplexing.
Is delighted with the generalisations in latest numbers of Flora Antarctica.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [8 or 15] July 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-986 |
To John Maurice Herbert [3 September? 1846]
Summary
Is slaving at South America – ¾ finished.
Has discovered geologists never read each other’s works – "the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness … Geology is at present very oral".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Maurice Herbert |
Date: | [3 Sept? 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-988 |
From Edward Forbes [7 August 1846]
Summary
Has completed descriptions of S. American fossil shells [for South America]. Proposes to name a Nautilus after A. D. d’Orbigny.
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-989 |
To Charles Lyell [8 August 1846]
Summary
Comments on forthcoming edition [7th (1847)] of CL’s Principles. Mentions other books relevant to CL’s needs by Hooker, H. G. Bronn, Edward Forbes, and J. G. Kölreuter. Discusses his own books on volcanoes and the geology of S. America.
Mentions expected visit to Down by the Lyells.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Aug 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.49) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-990 |
To Robert Mallet 26 August [1846]
Summary
Thanks RM for "Dynamics of earthquakes" [Trans. R. Irish Acad. 21 (1848): 50–106]. It has cleared up his ideas on undulations. Now wishes he had said nothing about them in Journal of researches. Sends his paper ["Certain volcanic phenomena in S. America", Collected papers 1: 53–86]. Wishes RM would investigate Chile. Speculates whether earthquakes coincide with moon or tides.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Mallet |
Date: | 26 Aug [1846] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-992 |
To Leonard Horner [17 August – 7 September 1846]
Summary
Discusses proposed survey of Glen Roy. Mentions Glen Roy theories of Agassiz and William Buckland. Includes a memorandum calling for a careful survey of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. Mentions M. A. Bravais ["On the lines of ancient level of the sea in Finmark", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1 (1845): 534].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Leonard Horner |
Date: | [17 Aug – 7 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.53); DAR 145: 136–7 (enclosure) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-993 |
From J. D. Hooker [before 3 September 1846]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 79 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-994 |
From Edward Forbes [September 1846]
Summary
Returns corrected proof of his descriptions of S. American fossil shells [South America, appendix].
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-995 |
To J. D. Hooker [3 September 1846]
Summary
Has nearly finished South America.
Pleased to hear JDH has worked out identical and representative species of N. Temperate and Antarctic regions.
Geoffroy Saint Hilaire’s "loi du balancement" as applied to plants.
CD jaded by, but has nearly completed, South America.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [3 Sept 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 64 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-996 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (81) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Forbes, Edward | (3) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
Hopkins, William | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (29) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (4) |
Owen, Richard | (3) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (2) |