To J. D. Hooker [December 1846]
Summary
Hopes JDH can come to stay in January.
Thanks for the corallines.
Mention of JDH’s capital speech.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [Dec 1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 76 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1035 |
To J. D. Hooker [December 1846 – January 1847]
Summary
Can JDH come on 16 Jan? CD will ask the "old set" to come and also the Lyells.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | [Dec 1846 – Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 77 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1036 |
To John Higgins 12 December [1846]
Summary
Thanks JH for draft. Glad to hear account of farmhouse.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 12 Dec [1846] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1037 |
To A. C. Ramsay 21 December [1846]
Summary
Discusses the geological origin of terraces.
Mentions R. I. Murchison’s paper ["On the superficial detritus of Sweden", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 2 (1846) pt 1: 349–81].
Comments on Tertiary beds of South America. Doubts that durable formations are now accumulating. Discusses formation of trap-rock. Notes effect of decomposition of lava; discusses action of submerged gravel on underlying rock.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.52) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1038 |
To John Murray 30 December [1846]
Summary
Asks JM for information on sales of his Journal of researches and to procure for him a copy of the American edition. He is curious to see if the part on slavery has been altered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Murray |
| Date: | 30 Dec [1846] |
| Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42153 ff.10–11) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1039 |
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 |
To Annals and Magazine of Natural History [December 1846]
Summary
Discusses enclosed MS of CD’s review [of G. R. Waterhouse, A natural history of the Mammalia, vol. 1 (1846); Collected papers 1: 214–17].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Annals and Magazine of Natural History |
| Date: | [Dec 1846] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1000 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Annals and Magazine of Natural History | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Annals and Magazine of Natural History | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Horner, Leonard | (1) |
