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 |
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]
Summary
Delighted that JDH will come to visit him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [29 Nov 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-931 |
To G. B. Sowerby [1 December 1845]
Summary
Cannot find two specimens of S. American fossil shells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Date: | [1 Dec 1845] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-932 |
To G. B. Sowerby [3 December 1845]
Summary
Suggests location of lost shell specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Date: | [3 Dec 1845] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-933 |
To G. B. Sowerby [9? December 1845]
Summary
Discusses GBS’s completion of his descriptions of fossil shells for the appendix to South America.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Date: | [9? Dec 1845] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-934 |
To J. D. Hooker [10 December 1845]
Summary
CD’s enjoyment of JDH’s visit and "all our raging discussions".
Would like to compare insects from Kerguelen Islands with those from Tierra del Fuego.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [10 Dec 1845] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-935 |
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 |
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 |
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| Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
| Murray, John (b) | (20) |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (6) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Hooker, J. D. | (27) |
| Murray, John (b) | (20) |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (6) |
| Ehrenberg, C. G. | (5) |
| Lyell, Charles | (5) |
| Dieffenbach, Ernst | (3) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (3) |
| Hooker, W. J. | (3) |
| Darwin, Emma | (2) |
| Falconer, Hugh | (2) |
| Fox, W. D. | (2) |
| Smith, C. H. (a) | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (2) |
| Ansted, D. T. | (1) |
| Bell, Thomas | (1) |
| Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
| Brayley, E. W. | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Hitchcock, Edward | (1) |
| Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
| Reeks, Trenham | (1) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
| Stokes, J. L. | (1) |
| Strzelecki, P. E. de | (1) |
| Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
