To J. D. Hooker 1 March [1854]
Summary
Thanks JDH for dedication of Himalayan journals. CD praises the work and suggests stylistic revisions.
Lyell’s remarks on lava beds in letter from Madeira are not original – they refer exclusively to Élie de Beaumont’s data.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1556 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 March [1854]
Summary
More praise for Himalayan journals.
How remote was glacial action in Himalayas?
Implies Himalayas were birthplace of many plants.
Final volume of Cirripedia to be printed in two or three months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 119 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1558 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. 25 March 1854]
Summary
JDH summarises letter from Humboldt.
JDH answers CD’s questions on glacial action in Himalayas.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [c. 25 Mar 1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 382 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1559 |
To John Higgins 18 March [1854]
Summary
Discusses price of a farm.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 18 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/75) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1560 |
To John Higgins 23 March [1854]
Summary
Discusses investments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/76) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1561 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 March [1854]
Summary
CD welcomes the prospect of the Philosophical Club of the Royal Society as means for seeing old acquaintances and making new ones. Will try to go up to London regularly.
Admits that the warning from JDH and Asa Gray (that more harm than good will come from combat over the species issue) makes him feel "deuced uncomfortable".
Reflects upon the complexity of Agassiz; how singular that a man of his eminence and immense knowledge "should write such wonderful stuff & bosh".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 26 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 120 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1562 |
To J. W. Lubbock 28 March [1854]
Summary
Distressed to find himself in conflict with JWL on appointment of a Guardian [for the parish].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D20) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1563 |
To J. E. Gray 28 March [1854]
Summary
Asks for parts of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror [1844–75].
Asks about the arrangement of cirripedes at the Museum; hopes JEG will keep CD’s names.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1854] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1564 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Gray, J. E. | (1) |
| Lubbock, J. W. (b) | (1) |
