From Edward Forbes [March? 1845]
Summary
Comments on G. B. Sowerby’s identifications of South American fossil shells [812]. [Notes from more than one original memorandum].
| Author: | Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Mar? 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 53–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-834 |
From William Hopkins 3 March 1845
Summary
Comments on a compass diagram designed to show the dip, strike, and anticlinal lines of a geological formation.
| Author: | William Hopkins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Mar 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-835 |
From W. H. Miller 8 March [1845]
Summary
Discusses cleavage planes of mineralogical specimens.
| Author: | William Hallowes Miller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar [1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-836 |
From C. G. Ehrenberg 13 March 1845
Summary
Regrets J. D. Hooker did not visit Berlin.
Describes legal difficulties of Ernst Dieffenbach.
Lists species of Infusoria found in dust samples. Discusses origin of Atlantic dust. Discusses Infusoria in cosmetic paint from Tierra del Fuego and Patagonian earth. Thanks CD for samples. Would like samples from sea-bed.
| Author: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Mar 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 59a–c |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-837 |
From Trenham Reeks 14 March 1845
Summary
Discusses chemical reaction involving common salt and carbonate of lime.
| Author: | Trenham Reeks |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 39: 47–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-838 |
From John Higgins 15 March 1845
Summary
Reports that he has an offer of an estate of about 325 acres that CD may find suitable.
| Author: | John Higgins |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Mar 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-839 |
From J. D. Hooker [23] March 1845
Summary
JDH recommends Augustin de Saint-Hilaire’s Leçons de botanique [1841]. Relates opinions of European botanists on migration and plant distribution.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [23] Mar 1845 |
| Classmark: | DAR 100: 41–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-844 |
| letter | (7) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hopkins, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (1) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hopkins, William | (1) |
| Miller, W. H. | (1) |
| Reeks, Trenham | (1) |
