From J. L. Stokes 6 November 1846
Summary
Is upset by what has happened [see 1017], but does not know how CD’s note reached Grey.
Author: | John Lort Stokes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Nov 1846 |
Classmark: | Auckland Public Library (Grey collection GL D8 (1)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1019 |
From J. D. Hooker [24 November 1846]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [24 Nov 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 77–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1032 |
From J. E. Gray [1846–54]
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1846–54] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 216 (Letters) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13814 |
From Roderick Impey Murchison [1846?]
Summary
Gives CD page references [in The new statistical account of Scotland, vol. 14, pp 446, 507] for information regarding parallel roads.
Author: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1846?] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13830 |
From W. D. Fox [1 June 1846]
Author: | William Darwin Fox |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1 June 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.7: 280 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-588 |
From G. B. Sowerby [1846]
Summary
Note on editorial details concerning names of fossil shells [for South America, appendix]. The Latin for "Darwin" is "Darvinius".
Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-939 |
From G. B. Sowerby 17 January 1846
Summary
Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]
Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 1c–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-943 |
From A. C. V. D. d’Orbigny 31 January 1846
Summary
Sends identifications of CD’s Bahia Blanca fossil shells [see 830].
Author: | Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines (Alcide) d’Orbigny |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Jan 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 39.2: 128–9, DAR 43.1: 66–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-946 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 February 1846
Summary
Goes on the assumption that each species has one origin, is immutable, and migrates.
Disagrees with Gaudichaud[-Beaupré] that volcanic island species are polymorphous.
Some mundane genera vary, others do not (Senecio vs Gnaphalium).
John Lindley’s doctrine of longevity of trees is amazing.
Edward Forbes’s health is better.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 60–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-947 |
From G. B. Sowerby 7 February 1846
Summary
Gives his opinion on the tropical character of fossil shells listed by CD. The shells of Navidad [Chile] are not particularly tropical.
Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 3–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-949 |
From Edward Forbes [25 February 1846]
Summary
Answers CD’s objections with botanical and geological arguments supporting the existence of an ancient post-Miocene land extending over what is now the Mediterranean and past the Azores in the Atlantic [EF’s "Atlantis" theory in "On the connexion between the distribution of the existing fauna and flora of the British Isles and the geological changes which have affected their area", Mem. Geol. Surv. G. B. 1 (1846): 336–432].
Author: | Edward Forbes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Feb 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-956 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 [March] 1846
Summary
Thanks for Edward Forbes’s letter. Botanical evidence conflicts with parts of his theory but supports others. Is becoming more of a migrationist.
Bentham agrees with JDH on polymorphism.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 [Mar] 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 63–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-958 |
From C. G. Ehrenberg 11 March 1846
Summary
Describes Infusoria in Rio Gallegos samples.
"Fluthgebiete" means estuary deposit.
Discusses dust samples from Malta. Asks for further samples.
Author: | Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1846 |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 62–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-960 |
From J. D. Hooker [25 March 1846]
Summary
JDH recognises the existence of "altered states" of continental species in island floras. The botanists’ difficulty in determining a new species is no grounds for dismissing the important question of altered forms.
Will look for Ascension plants for Ehrenberg.
French Galapagos collections confirm JDH’s view that plants arrived from north.
Cannot agree with Forbes on North Atlantic flora.
Botanical definition of "highness" and "lowness" usually means complexity and simplicity.
Some plants, such as aquatic ones, are cleistogamous. Cannot see why they should not be.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [25 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 188–91 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-964 |
From J. D. Hooker [11–15 April 1846]
Summary
Hugh Falconer gives no specific objections to Forbes’s views.
Botanical contrast between Cape of Good Hope and the rest of Africa is as strong as that between Australia and India.
Wishes CD would leave off snuff.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [11–15 Apr 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-966 |
From J. D. Hooker 30 March 1846
Summary
Sends specimens of grasses from Ascension Island for CD to forward to Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.
Includes list of indigenous flowering plants of Ascension Island.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1846 |
Classmark: | Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 123 Bl. 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-967F |
From G. R. Waterhouse [30 March 1846]
Summary
Sends a list of mammalian remains found in the Buenos Aires district and purchased by the British Museum.
Author: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Mar 1846] |
Classmark: | DAR 39: 64–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-968 |
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 |
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 |
letter | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Forbes, Edward | (3) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
Hopkins, William | (2) |
Orbigny, Alcide d’ | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Forbes, Edward | (3) |
Sowerby, G. B. | (3) |
Hopkins, William | (2) |